BIG NEWS: Senate Judiciary today advanced bills that would: — Require #SCOTUS videostream oral args + opinion announcements (Cameras in the Ctrm) — Permit district & appeals courts to videostream proceedings (Sunshine in the Ctrm) Both passed by voice vote; will add text once Congress.gov is fixed.

The South Side shone as the Obama Center opened today: "This center could not be anyplace else." blockclubchi.co/4uV6mCs

An “anti-universal suffrage” conservative influencer is now an election clerk in Utah, KSL dot com reports:

This is a really good read on the status of the ICE warehouses and how they are being stopped.

Been trying to figure out why I'm so obsessed with this story. I think it's because it symbolizes how this administration disregards expertise, whether that's scientists, historians, engineers, public health officials, electricians, plumbers, everybody. It's all about the grift.

I stood for hours in bitter cold to hear him say, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Today, not 6 months later, in the heat, in the same spot, millions made that manifest: “What a gift it is to be brought together by pure, unfiltered joy.”

I hope all the Black folks here and everywhere are gearing up for an absolutely dialed-up Juneteenth this year. All of us who are non-Black, especially those of us who are white, it's a great time to honor and observe by tripling down with learning and action. One book list:

NEWSLETTER TODAY! @sohopress.bsky.social @poisonedpen.bsky.social @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social @sincworldwide.bsky.social @jennifermoritakerr.bsky.social CLICK TO READ: mailchi.mp/af87e4550f0d...

Jae: Where have you eaten a meal so delicious that you still think about it? @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social: Perfect question! In Seoul near Namdaemun, I had the best jjajangmyeon. I don’t know if it’s still there. Be sure to read Jimin's novel DREAMT I FOUND YOU, which is fantastic!

I'm going to this! Come join us on June 3, NYC!

🚨BREAKING: Several prisoners released from Delaney Hall ICE prison in NJ overnight after hundreds of prisoners launch hunger/labor strike. Prisoners have been fed worms in food, black mold inside, Covid/flu spreading. Our @jordanchariton.bsky.social will be live from DH soon. LIVE link below🔽

In a Turing Test of sorts, it looks like a 100% AI generated story just won the Commonwealth Prize for the Caribbean region "for its lyrical precision and haunting atmosphere, the story stood out for the confidence and restraint of its voice." Published in Granta: granta.com/the-serpent-...

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

We have a draft dodger as president and a truth dodger as vice president.

🧵(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: 21 May 2026 Week ending 16 May 2026: 🔸COVID positivity rate: 4.1% (+0.1%) 🔸Number of laboratories reporting COVID: 3 out of 4 🔹COVID: 1,092 (+20.4%) 🔹Influenza: 435 (+28.7%) 🔹RSV: 1,815 (+15.0%) Source: health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/c...

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The message shouldn't be "taxes are bad," it should be that you should get something for them, it's your money, it shouldn't be going to some rich dipshit's Dr. Claw-ass ballroom or into the pockets of J6 child molesters

none of the occupations are over

“Some inmates who served with Ghislaine Maxwell say they were punished by prison staff for talking about her alleged special treatment. One woman says after speaking to a reporter, she was punished.” Totally normal and not suspicious at all.

when we say we’re living under fascism we mean we’re living under fascism

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babe are you ok you haven’t listened to the same old song on a loop while drinking your morning coffee and looking pensively out the window yet

I mean, my kid actually works with me developing ideas and concepts into projects we can sell to film/tv/other media, and is developing stuff on her own, some of which might become novels. It's not nepotism, writing is the family business around here. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

How did a #NewYorker become a #haenyeo, diving for conch and shouting with joy over octopus off #Jeju Island? Read on to find out. koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-05...

"Under Trump II, corruption runs rampant. Success in business depends not on what you know but on who you know, and there are no rules beyond having — and, obviously, buying — the right connections." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/grand-thef...

Incredibly proud of my @bloomberg.com colleagues, who won a Pulitzer today for illustrated reporting for the graphic novel version of an incredible, harrowing story about “digital arrest” scams in India. Gift link to the graphic novel, will thread the feature below: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

These viruses have been known problems in Korea for so long that there’s literally a M*A*S*H episode about them. People work their whole careers on viruses most people have never heard of…so that you never have to hear about them.

The outbreak began in early April on a cruise ship. Now health authorities around the world are working to contain it. Here's what infectious disease experts have to say. n.pr/3QSY53y

We’re deeply grateful to all of the Tennessee Indivisibles and everyone else across the state who showed up in defense of democracy. We the People — especially Black and Brown Americans — have opposed tyranny in the past. The road may be longer than we hoped, but we will win. Again.

SCOOP: Deported Dreamer released from Texas detention after ICE brought him back to U.S. Last week ICE flew Jose Contreras Diaz back to TX and then detained him. DHS said “he will not be able to remain in the U.S.” Today he was released and met his newborn son www.ms.now/news/deporte...

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

“We were at my cousin Channing’s house, in the woods of a New England town, when our grandfather told us the Korean story of Chunhyang and Mongryong.” Read from @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social’s new novel, Dreamt I Found You.

Honored to launch my new novel Dreamt I Found You in Brooklyn, April 29, 7 pm, with the brilliant Marie Myung-Ok Lee. Please come out!

Just in case anyone in #NEISvoid isn’t already familiar, I wanted to reshare Lily Silver’s Sleepy Girl Guide to Social Security Disability. It’s really an extraordinary resource. Lily’s memory is truly a blessing.

Would love to see you at Yu & Me Books, co-sponsored by The Korea Society, in convo with Kathleen Kim of Sesame Street and other great performances.

I’d love to see you at one of these events for my new novel Dreamt I Found You. www.jiminhan.net/events

A former Prince William County school board chair made this over on Facebook and I wanted to drop it here because the voters in Fairfax matter just as much as the voters in Wise -- there are just a lot more of them, and more votes is how you win elections

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We’d Like to Recommend Some April 2026 Books www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/11/w...

Hello, your local sociologist here with a reminder that laws are written by the powerful. Some are good ideas, that are sometimes poorly applied. Others— like those addressing immigrants, trans folks, abortion today — are tools of oppression. Legal or criminal =\= morality.

I feel like many of us remember the exact moment we learned that they weren’t already and were shaken to our cores. you mean the part of the process where people are the rudest and they deserve hazard pay?????

Senate agrees to fund DHS, except ICE and Border Patrol, in bid to end 40-day shutdown

An unprecedented look at the birth of a sperm whale found that mother and calf were supported by other whales throughout the process. n.pr/40THi23

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Okay fine, in this one instance you do have to hand it to Fox News

This is a win for EVERY family, provider, state leader and advocate who refused to back down to this unlawful administration. Politicians have no place in our doctor’s offices.

It's going to be a very hard summer for so many people and so many species. We can already feel here in BC, with the weak snowpack currently washing down mountains because of an unseasonable atmospheric river. The only ones doing well are the oil companies, with their record war profits.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

Hegseth is proudly proclaiming the intention to commit war crimes.