These incidents while governments are increasingly rolling out age verification laws and private businesses are using “know your customer” checks to verify a person’s identity. Both rely on adults uploading sensitive documents for verification despite criticisms from cybersecurity experts.

Louisiana parish president sparks free speech fight after shutting down ‘Cancer Alley’ film screening veritenews.org/2026/05/14/d...

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Cops have aimed lights at phones and cameras to try to obscure public filming, taunted observers by name when they arrived at the scene of traffic stops and other public enforcement, the lawsuit alleges, and snapped photos of observers’ faces and license plates. tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/14/a...

Again, I simply can't imagine choosing to dedicate my entire academic career to making bad faith, historically illiterate arguments that people born in America are not citizens

Trump’s Border Patrol chief abruptly resigned amid allegations he traveled abroad to solicit sex workers

The fact that Trump's DOJ has obsessively been trying to get lists of trans kids from hospitals for the past year should be a much, much bigger story

Patel "boasted of the bureau almost doubling its number of arrests under his tenure, and of capturing the world’s 'Ten Most Wanted' villains at a record clip." "But Patel’s FBI has imposed new policies that inflate these numbers," report @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social and @carolleonnig.bsky.social:

The Bank of England will hold borrowing costs at 3.75% this year, a Reuters poll of economists found, though over a third expect at least one ​rate hike as the Iran war fuels an energy price surge that drove up inflation forecasts. www.reuters.com/business/boe...

The European Central Bank will hike its deposit rate next month and at least once more this year to try to stop the energy price shock from the Middle East war feeding into core ​inflation, according to a majority of economists polled by Reuters. www.reuters.com/business/ecb...

"This is the same pattern of racial discrimination and authoritarian abuse we have ​come to expect," Representative Justin Jones, who is Black and represents Nashville, said on ​social media. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

He also served at the private prison company GEO Group as a senior vice president of client relations until 2023. GEO Group has over $1 billion worth of contracts with ICE, according to public records. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Omg!!! New John Sayles!!!

The ideological cousin of “the media isn’t telling us about this” which may actually drive me mad one day, bc it’s usually said about something reported on by multiple huge media outlets and means “no one delivered this to my social media feeds in way that captured my severely diminished attention.”

I think that book banning in schools contributes to declining literacy. Kids hear you when you say that they’re incapable of handling certain books. That they’re unable to read something and engage with it critically. Kids are sponges, and they also tend rise to the level of your belief in them.

A third of Republicans and almost all ‌Democrats - ⁠said Trump has not "clearly explained the goals of US military involvement in Iran." www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...

Went thru the entire site and not a single mention of paid family leave, childcare, or vaccines.

“I don’t want to be an innocent victim killed,” said a witness talking to the masked man. “You won’t be unless you do something stupid,” the agent responds. villagegreennj.com/police-and-f...

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

This is particularly maddening because the court allowed the election to go ahead when all the legal facts were exactly the same. The only real new information they have now is what the result was.

It was a political hire. We know this because Bari Weiss has almost no qualifications as a broadcast news executive— and her work so far shows that. Now that action is drawing scrutiny from press freedom groups who are also shareholders. @status.news reports: www.status.news/p/paramount-...

Tennessee's legislature just purposefully ended a black majority district to target Democrats because the Supreme Court gave the green light, meanwhile Virginia's voters vote for redistricting and a court just tosses it.

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

God damn it I just want a normal search

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

NEW, for @nysfocus.com: Last month, we obtained hours of body-cam from Oswego County. It showed sheriff's deputies pulling over drivers — and if the drivers didn't speak English, the deputies called Border Patrol. Some drivers were held for 30+ min while BP responded. nysfocus.com/2026/05/07/o...

For decades, the US federal government has been one of the foremost producers of information in the world. But over the past year, the Trump administration has been altering and removing decades’ worth of datasets, with enormous impact on all aspects of life. 🧵

NEW: The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents hobbled federal efforts to pursue serious crimes. By April, prosecutors had brought charged just eight people with drug or gun crimes, the fewest in more than two decades. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Kash Patel is so mad about that Atlantic story about him that he's using the FBI to retaliate against the reporter, according to MS NOW. www.ms.now/news/fbi-inv...

Office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tem Louise Lucas (D) raided in FBI probe fox5dc.com/news/virgini...

Trump's war on Iran, which began on February 28, has delivered what the International Energy Agency called the worst-ever energy crisis, with Brent crude oil nearly 40% above pre-war levels, keeping inflation risks alive and lending the dollar some support. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Normal country

The Art of Pretending there’s a Deal

Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe.

ICE is in Maplewood NJ today villagegreennj.com/police-and-f...

What the fuck, man? www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/u...

To give the losing side of a decision the chance to ask for a rehearing, the court typically waits 32 days before its formal judgment is issued. But the prevailing party can ask it to issue its judgment more quickly, as the "non-African American" ​voters did here. www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

The national reporting award, shared by Ned Parker, Linda So, Peter Eisler ​and Mike Spector, detailed Trump's efforts to punish his political enemies. www.reuters.com/world/reuter...

BREAKING: Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for a series of stories revealing how social-media behemoth Meta knowingly exposed users, including children, to harmful AI chatbots and made billions of dollars from fraudulent ads reut.rs/48GOvXD

The wolves have for millennia roamed the Bootheel's grasslands, desert and wooded mountains, traversing the ​migration corridor in search of prey and mates in what is now Mexico and the U.S. www.reuters.com/business/env...

The FBI sent a plane to Cuba to rescue a child, after learning, as Kash Patel posted, "the alleged kidnapper parent [hoped] to transition the child." Yet DOJ's own docs show, claims of a 10-year-old forced into "gender reassignment surgery" may be based on one possibly overheard statement. My story:

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

Quite a lot of people had in their head that “mass deportation” meant that they were going to arrest a bunch of bad people and that nobody good would be impacted. Seriously. They never thought further than that, and “get the bad people out” felt like a good idea to them.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

The USDA's actions reduced the number of women on the 77-member board to five, the lowest level in at least a decade. Women make up more than a third of U.S. farmers but have historically held a smaller share of leadership roles in commodity groups. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

“C.W.D. is one of a small group of known diseases caused not by bacteria, a virus or a fungus, but by a prion, an abnormal cell protein that causes healthy cells to misfold. It has never been diagnosed in a human, but experts worry that it will become zoonotic, jumping the species barrier”

Thinking again about how Mackenzie Scott has given away $19 billion of her $38b and still seen her net worth increase, these are some weird little pissbabies

The administration has also created a new “Election Integrity” office within DHS and appointed Heather Honey, a prominent promoter of debunked election fraud claims, to lead it. She is a former corporate investigator with no experience in administering elections. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

EXCLUSIVE: The State Department is close to finalizing a radical redesign of the U.S. Passport to include a picture of President Donald Trump

Trump approval sinks to new low as war with Iran drives cost-of-living concerns www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...