KAT WON. FUCK ICE.

there's clearly a massive scandal in these GJ transcripts. And the public deserves to know what it is.

we are going to win!

The idea that (white) American farmers and ranchers are the "true volk" while cities are a sore on the body politic, filled with greedy merchants and mobs of laborers, is the foundational, racist blood-and-soil myth of America that still pervades all of society including mainstream media.

It’s important to make friends with your neighbors

For the millionth time: No method for reliably forecasting ROI for stadium projects exists. They're just going to make up numbers that say it will work. www.tampabay.com/news/2026/05...

The mythology of the "lost" American West is such a pervasive, harmful part of our culture

I’m proud of the work I did as an AUSA, and I say this with complete sincerity: if you’re an AUSA, and a decent person, who cares about your oath, get out. Get out now without destroying your reputation. A DoJ run to Trumpist specifications is corrupt and incompetent. The stink will stick on you.

Today @victoriascott.bsky.social writes about Juniper Blessing, a University of Washington student who was murdered last week, and worries about the potential loss of a better future for young trans people she had always hoped was coming. www.welcometohellworld.com/this-pain-ha...

lol of course this isn’t a real cattle ranch but a super elite feeder junior college for Ivy League schools that takes 26 students a year

one of my first post-collegiate jobs was at a firm that hired a lot of Yale grads, and as a graduate of a state school with a robust co-op program, I had an immediate leg up on them in terms of actual utility the problem isn't "college campuses", it's people who think there's only eight colleges

So basically what I'm taking from this was that they didn't even half-ass their autopsy????? Like, this is maximally a sixteenth of an ass.

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Independence requires daylight. @aaas.org is right to demand a public hearing for the nomination of a Thiel "protégé", Jim O'Neill, as NSF Director. In welcoming his nomination, O'Neill claimed that "entropy is on the march". True, but the chaos is coming from inside. www.aaas.org/news/aaas-le...

One of the best things you can do as an adult is realize that you didn’t actually have to stop drawing, coloring, painting, playing with clay, doing whatever else you loved as a kid. Even if you’re bad at it. Maybe especially if you’re bad at it

Over the past three weeks, DOJ has significantly escalated its attack on gender-affirming care for trans minors. Here’s the story of what’s happened — and where things could be headed next. Read my in-depth report now at Law Dork and subscribe today:

Day 21 of #Coverbirds! Today’s coverbird is the Common Yellowthroat, a.k.a. the Marsh Bandit. The word “common” has so many meanings - from 'lacking refinement' to ‘abundant’. Somehow it never seems quite right when it comes to birds so here’s a book about the uncommonly 'common'! #birds (1/4)

This report is certainly a worthwhile read by Amnesty. It does some digging on how much anti-trans propaganda we see in the UK and the numbers it find are shocking. On average 9 articles PER DAY on trans people in the last 5 years. Does that seem proportional? media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...

Every accusation conservatives make about higher education — every single one — is really a confession about how they WANT to run higher education, even when it’s clear that no one, not even the students, want it.

No one will be surprised by what I think about the whole Polis clemency thing. He's the chief executive of the state and he can commute any sentence he wants. The "scandal" is that he hasn't commuted hundreds of people's sentences not that he commuted hers. Talk to your mother not me, lol

"don't vote for cops" is some of the best and most broadly applicable electoral advice you'll ever get

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

Congratulations to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social on somehow making Theresa May’s Conservative Party the most socially progressive government of the last decade, I suppose. Really impressive to be that fucking ghoulish a person.

Trump admin didn't want Ebola-exposed Americans, sent them to Berlin, Prague arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Sleeping: 7 hours Working: 8 hours Cooking: 0 hours Posting: 9 hours someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

I've gotten some really lovely stories about encounters folks have had with other people as a result of displaying merch they got from me, but this immediately jumped to the top of the list of my favorite ones.

Recently, one of my closest friends, the funny, talented and kind @ettin.itch.io, lost his mother, after acting as his family's primary care support for a decade. She's why he has a career as a writer. He is trying to cover the costs of her cremation, and needs our support: gofund.me/40f37091a

David Anderson, who played a major role in getting Canada’s Species at Risk Act passed in 2002, is the third former Liberal environment minister to criticize Mark Carney’s proposed changes. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

I was trying to draw a cityscape a few days ago and it was really slow going and frustrating. Then I spilled ink on it so I put it aside. Today I noticed that the splotch looked slightly like a dragon

“The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” - US Constitution Article 2, Section 4

Tomorrow Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, RFK Jr., Dr. Oz and other federal government officials are coming to Minnesota to supposedly announce a “major law enforcement action involving fraud”. We aren’t sure what this means but want to make our community is aware of this so you can prepare.

I've been posting ducklings and goslings almost exclusively to IG since the start of the Iran war to juice my algo, and I've seen PLENTY of bins of ducklings footage, but the formation by the ducklings here is exquisite. www.instagram.com/p/DYhooA4jkGO/

Still thinking about how the US President had a guy accompany him as a special guest to a football game solely and specifically because he strangled a homeless black man to death, and how quickly we all moved on from that.

And then the most powerful and influential venture capital firm in the country hired the murderer who killed my neighbor solely and specifically because he was a Black man, which means every person in tech who wants to work in the startup ecosystem has to be complicit with this kind of depravity.

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

Hanging out with a few friends tonight.

Wow, today's news has been SO FUCKED, but I learned object tracking so I could PUT A TOPHAT ON A KILLDEER!!!! Full resolution: youtu.be/UkAOMVccO5k 🪶 🐣

Yes, I'm suing Matt Taibbi.

We need every state to have a strong anti-SLAPP law and for there to be a federal anti-SLAPP law.

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

The Colorado Democratic Party censured Gov. Jared Polis for his commutation of Tina Peters in a vote of ~200 state committee members tonight. A resolution declaring Polis "materially harmed" the party and barring him from formal participation in party events was adopted with 89.8% support.

none of the occupations are over

There is only One Black Cat but this particular manifestation is mine.

this is my friend fishtopher, there are many like him but this one is mine

listen up graduates

Seriously -- wear a robe and draw pictures and do meditative contemplation and sing with buddies and make beer sounds like a seriously great life

C’mon man. No one can live like this.

Fresh new American dystopia headline just dropped www.thegamer.com/grammacracke...

it’s weird how often nominally liberal white cis americans seem to think “access to bathrooms outside of home” is a hilariously abstruse and low stakes problem, having forgotten that a whole part of jim crow was “if you use the wrong bathroom, we can basically justify doing anything we want to you.”