Life comes at you pretty fast

"The Imperial need for authority is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear"

Whoaaaaaa

Wait...I love how after a seriously threatening response, AI throws up Bible Gateway as the first google result.

This is why Jerry gets in trouble....and is the goat

"no follow-up" tells you Bessent also thinks it's indefensible

a lot is going on in this article but my most gringo preoccupation: I can't get over the fact that if you say overtly racist things in Brazil they straight up put you in prison

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

BREAKING 🚨 : The Supreme Court ruled that Terry Pitchford, a Black man who was sentenced to death, was denied a fair jury selection process. Pitchford’s life was fortunately spared, but this is why we must root out all racial discrimination from the jury selection process! https://bit.ly/4xbswTg

Don’s too nice to say it. But “viewpoint diversity” is a jobs program for right-wing crackpots with anti-science views. The article even hints at this, noting that the biology department isn’t about to hire a creationist.

Republicans say this stuff all the time. Robin Vos says things like this in WI. But now it's not just "Democrats' votes shouldn't count." It's also "Democrats shouldn't even get to vote." And yet, somehow, our entire National Conversation™️ is always about how Democrats don't reach out to Real Folkz.

The only political appointee at NSF is the Director. This person will have extraordinary power. The current nominee is not a scientist and has never done research. He would effectively control ~$9 billion in scientific funding. Very definition of undemocratic www.science.org/content/arti...

Hero shit right here.

no man the stash isn't mine i'm just keeping it for a friend

This is Cooper. He didn't realize anyone was home. Loves singing a cappella. Just not in front of an audience. 14/10 (TT: amber023 via Storyful)

This is Edward. He was given 6 months to live after being found as a stray. His family was determined to give him the best few months possible, so they introduced him to the ice cream truck. That was 27 months ago. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: magnificent_foster_dogs)

This is awful. Libraries are at the very heart of what universities do; we can’t fulfill our mission without them.

"We did nothing wrong by firing chemical irritants at a duly-elected senator" says a lot about where we are at as a country And none of what it says is good

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

just remembered the time, back when I was on twitter, that I said 'originalism is astrology for people who feel bullied by the Civil Rights Movement' and a bunch of people into astrology were like 'how dare you' 😭

This is one of the reasons why you will find me talking about the evils of civility culture until the day I die.

of course I was never taught this in school. of course. but today is the day I learned this most essential bit of history: time.com/5836444/blac...

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

Cruelty towards the poorest and most vulnerable among us seems to be how they get their kicks.

A US-born woman born was confronted by sheriff deputies in Louisiana who were convinced her ID and social security card were fakes. They turned her over to ICE, who shackled her & took her an hour away. Even after a lawyer convinced ICE of the woman's citizenship the sheriff says they did no wrong

Tillis was quite literally the pivotal vote for Hegseth

Hello I am the president of a country whose economy depends on consumer spending. My two major initiatives so far have been a sales tax on everything and then a war that sent all prices skyrocketing

"Today’s Supreme Court has thrown open the door for this, using the same logic as before—that efforts to ensure Black political representation illegally discriminate against white Americans."

They don’t care that the cast isn’t Greek. They don’t care that the armour is all wrong. They don’t care that Tom Holland in an American accent refers to Odysseus as Dad. They only care about Helen being played by Lupita Nyong'o. I WONDER WHY.

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"

The reason certain people are still on Twitter or complain how this place isn’t Twitter is because for a brief amount of time Twitter allowed specialty journalists, opinion writers, pundits, etc a chance to feel somewhat famous, or that they actually had influence, and they miss that like heroin.

Graduates at Grand Valley State University applauded Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak after he emphasized the importance of their own human intelligence, rather than artificial intelligence, in his commencement speech.

Narrator: Tillis voted to confirm Hegseth and Noem.

CORDES: How are you explaining to your constituents this new settlement that prevents the IRS from auditing any Trump family documents? REP. MIKE LAWLER: Well, I think when it comes to any agreements that the president has made with the IRS, I think looking back at Biden ....

👏 Americans are finding creative ways to replace fossil fuels with clean energy, even as their own government blocks progress at every turn. www.npr.org/2026/05/19/n...

HASSETT: The president is using his own money and the money of donors to make it so taxpayers don't have to pay for the ballroom CORDES: Well, taxpayer would have to pay a billion dollars, correct? HASSETT: No. That's not for the ballroom, that's for securing the entire White House

I am struck that the one time I wrote for The Atlantic, they had a fact-checker who demanded I include links for even quite minor claims in the piece or at least substantiate those claims to him, whereas when TCW writes for them, there isn't a single link or example to be found.

The problem with Bluesky is lack of ability to say ‘whatever dude’ to echo chamber and bluesky is dying guys

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. (Or. Online.)

Post-conviction work is seeing the stark gulf between aspiration and reality. It's also an area I'd really like to see analyzed alongside attorney discipline. I guess I've never understood how ineffective assistance of counsel isn't also an ethical issue. Topped off with neglect and underfunding.

The far right authoritarian party, which pretends to care about winning the supposed geopolitical competition against rising China & everyone else, continues to do everything possible to destroy our most competitive global industry & a core pillar of American power. Utter, insane madness.

New piece @us.theconversation.com We look at a landmark case of 2 young black girls involuntarily sterilized & the impact on 50 yrs of US sterilization rates. We found repayment policies have greater effectson rates than public litigation or censure. theconversation.com/reduced-heal...

If you are curious how often Trump has managed to travel on other weekends since the Iran war started (Feb. 28), every colored block is a trip to one of his properties. Every red dot is a round of golf. pbump.com/projects/gol...

I am not a lawyer, but the conduct described here seems very bad to me! For example, presenting a case to a grand jury which refused to indict, then *kicking out the jurors who voted against the charges and trying again.*

The ads now explicitly say you have to outperform the plagiarism machines in order to deserve a job. Further down, there’s another ad that says “We find out what AI can’t do, then we teach it”. You have to be better than the system so you can teach it to replace you. Dystopian nightmare mask off

I’m old enough to remember when Trump was accusing Democrats of being socialists. What do you call this? Government ownership of the means of production. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

The White House has undertaken mass exclusion of international students. It has slashed new F-1 visas circa 32% in the latest available State Dept. data. That stunning, destructive act says a thousand times more than any empty words uttered at a press conference.

An interesting thing about NASA is that they’ve never had to worry whether scrubbing a launch for safety reasons would impact their IPO

I been saying abcnews.com/US/army-cuts...