Late to this (traveling), but re the AJC publisher leaving: Most stories frame this as "guy aimed high and missed." Better frame: Yet another case of billionaire owners refusing to invest what their media properties need when doing so would be sofa change for them. www.npr.org/2026/05/11/n...

Data centers need so much water that companies are flat out stealing it. You will be shocked to hear that they are engineering unpermitted illegal hookups from low-income areas. SHOCKED I SAY.

Rubio doesn’t come across as the biggest monster in this administration, but there’s a valid argument that he is. Demolishing USAID was a slow moving atrocity. He must never be freed of responsibility for it.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.

Is it an October Surprise if it happens in the spring?

In Wales, initial Shingles vaccine eligibility was based on birth date. People born on or after Sept 2, 1933 were eligible to receive the vaccine. People born before then were ineligible. Comparing people born just a few weeks apart, those vaccinated were less likely to develop dementia over 7 years

When we talk about syndromic surveillance, this is not what we mean. And yet.

A really excellent decision by the Pulitzer Prizes board to award a special citation to Julie K. Brown for her reporting in 2018-19 that accomplished the first exposure both of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and of the powerful people who protected him. The citation text is copied from Poynter.org.

All the good puns have been taken, so I'm just going to point out that the reason you can see the bus is because France did such a good job cleaning up the Seine for the Olympics.

I'd like to thank the robots for those extremely long, excessively gerunded, short-paragraphed ads on Facebook. They are doing an superb job of teaching us the structure and sound of genAI writing. (Must admit though that I love the ones where a disregarded MIL triumphs thanks to better luggage.)

Skidded past irony, made a two-wheel u-turn, raced back, smashed through it on the return trip too

Is it possible the NYT's headline writers don't read their own articles? The hed here is: Indulgent expats overspent working abroad, can't come back! The text is every expat saying: Have you seen US healthcare prices? Why would I? (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/b...

Not at all embarrassed to boast that I saw the first version of this show at the Fringe ?8 years ago and have been a huge supporter since.

The White House Correspondents Dinner, where Beltway media compete to invite better-dressed and better-known celebrities and politicos, used to be known as Nerd Prom. With the WCHD's embracing "honoree" Trump and courting anti-media Cabinet members, it's now being called MAGA Prom. @puck.news :

Forget the Gilded Age, we’re speedrunning the Reformation now.

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The first epidemic of the 1918 flu in the United States occurred at the military’s Camp Funston, Kansas (later Fort Riley). Infected soldiers headed to WWI battlefields carried the flu to Europe. Millions died It’s not *vaccination* that weakens force readiness.

You thought you heard a roll of thunder, but it was actually thousands of medical historians cracking their knuckles and rolling up their sleeves to revisit centuries of “dirty immigrant” canards.

Happy book birthday to @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social and BEYOND INHERITANCE, a book I was thrilled to blurb!

This is the correct take.

Can't stress enough how important it is right now to listen to media voices who were actually in the room in past hostile engagements of the US and Iran. The current administration is defiantly rejecting historical knowledge and it's mind boggling. fallows.substack.com/p/what-we-do...

Just astonishingly ugly.

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Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

A pretty comprehensive takedown of JD Vance by a Catholic priest, Msgr. Arthur Holquin open.substack.com/pub/liturgya...

I'm working on a story for @thesicktimes.org about RECOVER clinical trial results that have been shared so far (from the VITAL, NEURO, and AUTONOMIC studies), and am looking for people in the #LongCOVID and IACC communities to share what they think of the findings. DM or email me!

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It is so exasperating to see the US media willfully make the same misframings around Trump as always: Unprovoked he attacks someone verbally and suddenly there is a “feud,” a “dispute,” a “battle” — that he has to win. Colleagues: Come on. Be accurate about how one-sided these maneuvers are.

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

Resurfacing due to the JD Vance-knows-more-theology-than-the-Popesplaining: Vance's book about his adult conversion to Catholicism features a picture of a church. Which happens to be a United Methodist Church. It's a stock photo. Sincere beliefs! www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

The Gen Z Italian girls next to me in this caff are singing along to An Eternal Flame, which almost certainly came out before any of them were born.

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I wrote about the end of the U.S. Forest Service and the arrogance of trying to kill something like a forest: defector.com/the-trump-ad...

I've been alive long enough and have enough Persian friends to understand that US history with Iran goes back further and more bitterly than most Americans know. The original sin is on our side, not theirs. James Fallows untangles the complexity here: fallows.substack.com/p/what-we-do...

Really important paper klaxon!

Petition to change "high on their own supply" to "drinking Châteauneuf-du-Pape" for now. Seems to fit.

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The least godly president in my lifetime to attack the most devout president in my lifetime for being anti-religious.

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Brutal.

BEIRUT (AP) - Israeli strikes hit several dense commercial and residential areas in central Beirut Wednesday afternoon without warning, hours after a ceasefire was announced in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. @apnews.com

Read Elia’s thread. There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. There never has been a ceasefire in Lebanon, for now years

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

This is already an indelible stain on our national history, culture, consciousness, influence, standing And EVERY SINGLE member of the group that could STOP THIS immediately—the Republican members of the House and Senate—stands there in the dock of history's judgment, like quislings of other eras

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

Lifting this back up because I just found it, and the linked article is *fascinating*: a devastating critique of private equity through the lens of the loss of pubs in Britain, proven through impressive data analyses several different ways.