After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The U.S. government handed a 3-year-old to an abuser to torture him to death, and then his mother was allotted one hour for his funeral.

Sarah’s book is jaw-dropping, and Meta has been pulling this clown shit for over a year. As the article points out, it’s clearly a personal vendetta rather than good crisis comms. Too bad the Streisand Effect exists!

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

holy shit nobody has ever answered a question worse

A network of research centers that was well-positioned to respond to the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo had its funding canceled last year by the Trump administration. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/us-res...

Good. flowingdata.com/2026/05/29/v...

There should be a word for the inability to maintain a grasp on just how stupid things are right now.

I've always loved an Earl Grey, but my hot tea consumption drops in the Summer. Now I've discovered an iced London fog and I'm in trouble...

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

We lost one of the great ones today. RIP to the saxophone colossus, Sonny Rollins. #SonnyRollins #Jazz #Musicsky

This hurts so many incredible folks

Dumbass

Isn't the stock market one big prediction market? www.npr.org/2026/05/19/n...

felt like there was not much reporting on Trump's investigation of Yale Med School, and the reporting that did exist undersold how batshit the investigation is I have attempted to remedy these errors ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Republicans are still a cultural minority. This is why they had to build their own media ecosystem, then destroy the traditional one. It's why they have to legislate their morality rather than just letting folks make their own decisions.

Shout out to all my "fiscal conservatives" out there flowingdata.com/2026/05/12/r...

I need the sun to effing set already. Summer is the worst. Kids are like, "it's still light out, why should we go to sleep?"

Trump: "We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail."

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning. @alaskawx.bsky.social

This hit me so hard this week.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Bravo to LeavingMAGA for this billboard in Idaho. More of these in please! 🍿

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

Someone asked if I could tell them where to buy a pair of good chinos. In this thread, I will tell you, but my answer is not simple. On the upside, I think this is a better approach when shopping for clothes and you can apply it to any kind of item. 🧵

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

Chicago made it so every public school student can use their school ID as a #LibraryCard 📚. No forms, no extra steps. It gives over 300k students instant access to #books, #tutoring, and online resources 🙌

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

It really feels like the fire has gone out of the "classical liberal", "free speech" crowd. Why? The oligarchs enjoy beating up on college students and will endlessly publish you when that's your schtick. Not so much when it's the oligarchs themselves who are actually the problem.

once again, i will point out that there is a *reason* i do not use these things as a pharnacometric consultant working in drug development. tech companies are far too cavalier about these kinds of risks. i don't want these agents anywhere near my work machine www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Imagine Barnes and Noble coming out with an insane screed like this... These tech companies that fancy themselves the ruling class need to be demolished.

[shocked pikachu.jpeg]

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

of seeing other powerful white men who attacked our democracy for the threat they truly are and were. The country club members aren’t able to see each other as a threat because they are in the country club. They will always see the people not in the club as the greater danger.

Do Americans know that their Vice President was in Hungary campaigning for a Putin ally to be reelected, instead of in DC during a war in which Putin is helping Iran target Americans?

Here you go, America. You were looking for a new model of masculinity I think.

Take a moment and enjoy what curious humans can accomplish. youtu.be/oaXRREHVkHo?...

Super weird that broad bipartisan support for violently crushing student protest was effective. Really makes you think

A lot of big words to say, "I took notes" This abstract is WILD journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Amazing comic www.butajape.com/comic/what-i...

Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office. Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal