President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

“[Colbert] went on to quote Robert Hayden's famous poem: ‘We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstraction police and threaten us.’” www.editorialboard.com/take-comfort...

Thomas Massie: “Today is the six month anniversary of the Epstein Transparency Act. We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture, that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress.” video courtesy @acyn.bsky.social

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Good morning ☕️

Tierney Thys, marine biologist and interpreter of the sunfish news.mongabay.com/2026/05/tier... “Tierney M. Thys, who died in March at 59, spent much of her life asking those questions, and then finding ways to share them” 🦑🌎🧪

Without grants, America's basic research--the risky stuff that lets us understand how things work and lay the groundwork for research that mission-oriented government agencies or for-profit companies pursue--ends. So does its ability to train new scientists.

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

April 8, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

First rule of darter fight club is... nah, we're totally going to talk about darter fight club right here in our new paper!! I'm pleased to share the latest from myself, @izziehb.bsky.social , @tamramendelson.bsky.social, and two brilliant undergraduate co-authors! #FishSci #FishSky 🐟❤️ 1/

🚨This plane landed in Portsmouth, NH, to refuel but sat there for 8 hours and is now headed back to Alexandria. This is how the 75-hour shackling in Oct. and the 82-hour shackling in Dec. began, w false starts. Migrants will likely be shackled in a holding area near tarmac until they try again. 1/

Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."

Every American needs to watch this:

America’s Best Idea — Sabotaged open.substack.com/pub/roncharl...

This is amazing. Read all the way to the end In Under 500 Words, a Judge Weaponized Wit to Free the Child Detained by ICE www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Forgot to do a year-end retrospective, but other than finding new purpose reporting on ICE flights, it’s just this. I’ll never achieve my fantasy of being one of Leonard Cohen’s backup singers, but singing “Who by Fire?” with neighbors was just as meaningful, and real. 🖤

As I explained in my newsletter, this is because Trump's team has reinvented millennia of math to invert what "percentage of change" means. www.howtoreadthisch.art/its-beginnin...

Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest. Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...

Gemma Correll, contemporary British cartoonist who currently lives and works in the US #WomensArt #Tuesday

Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

Between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=i...

I am just so fucking proud of her.

The Roadless Rule protects some of New Mexico’s last truly wild public lands. These are the places where you chase elk, fish for Rio Grande cutthroat trout, or call in a coveted Gould’s turkey. Repealing the Roadless Rule is an attack on our hunting and fishing heritage.

When you go to work, you should receive a livable wage. You should have health care and workplace protections. You should be able to join a union without fear of retaliation. These are the common sense demands of the labor movement. It is essential. Happy Labor Day!

We've launched a new D.C. campaign demanding that federal agents take off their masks — because public servants should face the public. Our posters and mobile billboard will be blanketing the District, demanding accountability.

Sen. Bernie Sanders held another “Fighting Oligarchy” event in Chicago last night. There was a massive turnout. Sanders also rallied large crowds in Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin this weekend. His tour’s now been to seventeen states. More here:

What is it called when government owns the means of production again?

From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

“Every day, at eight o’clock, until these terrorists get out of our streets, we want people to go outside your door… just stop and for five minutes, just make noise." “Making noise is resistance." "Making noise is freedom." www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-pro...

Missouri Democratic lawmakers are in such a superminority that they don’t even need to show up for laws to be passed in this state. An even sadder statement? A piece of legislation can go from the House to the Senate to becoming a law on the Governor’s desk while never being signed by a woman.

It’s been a tough few months in DC, but there is one huge win we can all celebrate: we kept public lands in public hands. We came together–across the aisle and across the conservation world–to protect our public lands. I’m grateful to everyone who joined the fight with us.

There is no master plan, our economic is just whatever Donald Trump and JD Vance made up.

Trump threatened to arrest us. Abbott threatened to remove us from office. Paxton threatened to “hunt” us down. Yesterday, we received a bomb threat. But we will not back down.

After nearly 100 years, adult winter-run Chinook salmon seen in California river

I just need one member of the media to ask Trump how much a $500 drug would cost after a 1500% discount.

This simple yet utterly meaningless combination of two words is a red flag for any “wellness” product: Clinically proven.

Russell Vought has unilaterally decided today that he simply won’t allow anyone outside of NIH to receive research funding. $15 billion in NIH funding is now locked down. If not reversed, it will also take down many Universities in the United States. Forget new cancer treatments or vaccines.

60 years ago today, President Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. 60 years later, Congressional Republicans helped pass the largest cut to Medicaid in the program’s history. All to give millionaires and billionaires a tax cut.

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

93% of guns recovered at crime scenes in NYC are from out of state. Strong state laws can’t stop weapons of war from flowing across borders. As long as states allow access to assault weapons, tragedies like yesterday’s Midtown Manhattan shooting will happen. We need federal gun safety legislation.