Over the weekend the university president published a statement apologizing for the faculty commencement speaker's remarks. Every line of Derek Peterson's reply is worth a read:

Barney Frank is the poster child for the moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy of neo/liberalism, and may he burn in hell.

Increasingly coming to the conclusion that Carlson's beat down of both the Economist and NYT interviewers is less because of any independent skillset he possess and more because these interviewers make themselves look ridiculous on first principles by refusing to condemn the murder of Palestinians

I bet even Nicki looks at MIA and thinks “wow, have some dignity”

This ghoul cannot die fast and painfully enough

@repmcgovern.bsky.social can you explain this vote!?!?!

So good. How you treated trans people when every bastard was trying to tear them apart should stick with you for the rest of your life, like a credit score on your soul.

this is the precise sense in which "technology is political"

Five minutes reading about Reconstruction will have you convinced we need B52s over Mississippi

Christians read the Christmas story on Christmas Eve. I read the May Day story on May Day. This retelling by @margaret.bsky.social www.tangledwilderness.org/features/hur...

That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

Some great reporting here

This is an extremely, violently racist policy. I have a little trouble communicating clearly about it.

This is why I work for myself, though my boss is a prick to me.

Scanlon is one of the only members Congress consistently trying to draw attention to NSPM-7

A local hero here in Western Massachusetts. Fascism takes different forms. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

On this day 80 years ago, Benito Mussolini was executed by an Italian partisan in Giulino di Mezzegra, then hung from the Piazzale Loreto in Milan the following day. Happy Mussolini Execution Day to all who celebrate.

These Democrats are fascist enablers.

It has the same vibe as Mangione’s: no one else is doing anything, and someone has to. He has well thought out moral underpinnings for why he’s doing it even if his conclusion about *what* he must do is wrong.

The DOJ violates the Epstein Files Transparency Act on the daily. So I'm suing Todd Blanche. As a journalist, I cannot report accurately on the Epstein Files if I cannot even read them. I am represented by @brendanballou.bsky.social & we seek to hold the DOJ accountable for its noncompliance.

You guys keep accusing Platner of being a potential Fetterman and meanwhile Mills is like hold my beer

You ever think about how the Mafia boss in The Rocketeer has higher ethical standards than everyone who attended the WHCD

She was the first to speak out against Andrew Cuomo. Now some of his biggest donors are flooding Tuesday's special election with money to stop her. That tells you everything about who the progressive choice is: @lindseyboylan.bsky.social nysfocus.com/2026/04/27/c...

If someone under the age of 18 I was responsible for needed gender affirming care, and leaving the united states was not an option. we would be in the commonwealth and the center for gender health at boston children's hospital would be the clinic we'd use.

representation is not liberation

It’s wild to see after the White House Correspondents shooting to see Democrats still doing the whole “political violence doesn’t have a place in our democracy.” It was bs before, so much of US politics is systemic violence, but shit like ICE in Minneapolis has made this so blatantly obvious.

In only two weeks, these are just a few of the Black women killed by their domestic partners. Rest In Peace: Dr. Cerina Fairfax Pastor Tammy McCollum Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Ashly Robinson (aka Ashlee Jenae) Qualeshia “Saditty” Barnes Davonta Curtis Barbara Deer Ashanti Allen Tynice Friday

The people who force us to live in a violent country really thought they wouldn't have to live in a violent country along with us. They thought other people would do the dying for them. When one of them catches one of the strays they put in the air to catch us, what are we supposed to do but shrug.

Read to the end for the part where Pope Leo says the Vatican has been targeted by foreign intelligence blackmail operations

While we have your attention about the safety of journalists in harm’s way… Say her name: Amal Khalii. She was killed by US-Israel this week. She is one of 14 Lebanese journalists killed, and among nearly 300 killed in the Middle East since 2024.

“The status quo is allowing & enabling hundreds & hundreds of people in Massachusetts to be arrested & detained directly by ICE —directly from police departments, & our courts,” said Joshua Dankoff, report author. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Breaking: Science backs up about 40% of Katelyn Burns work

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

I thought this was a reference to the WHCD event then realised I was confused because I couldn’t work out which of the multiple nazi parties attended by journalists I am being told to sympathise with this happened at

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

It is a testament to the sheer extent to which these simpering fucking sycophants are not even REMOTELY journalists that someone allegedly fired a shot in a room containing the president and the press pool and WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

fascists favorite thing to do is stage a fake attack against them and use it to justify the violence they're already perpetrating against everyone else

Ahem. Please shut the fuck up. He’s a fascist, his administration is a bunch of fascists, and this isn’t a journalistic event, so those “journalists” are fascist bootlickers.

Pope Leo's right hand is Cardinal Czerny. I knew him in Riverdale. He used to come to our punk shows to discuss grassroots activism. We met in a biker bar. He married my wife and I and was sent to El Salvador to defy the death squads after they murdered the Jesuit leaders. He is the real deal.

This is all accurate but I do want to note it was two Nazi salutes, plural. Everyone always forgets Musk did a Nazi salute to the crowd behind him too.

For the estate to produce Michael Jackson biopic is a show of greed and arrogance, and hopefully stories like one will make them regret it: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/a...

Favorite scene in All The President’s Men: Woodward & Bernstein attend White House Correspondents Dinner, hobnob with Nixon Administration officials, have such a swell time that they back off Watergate investigation so they don’t lose their access.

Israel targeted Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil repeatedly and eventually murdered her. 🧵 #AmalKhalil

A reader who was at the scene this morning sent me these videos of an ICE street rip at the courthouse parking lot (note the Nissans, that’s.. new)