The Supreme Court is trying to *fast track* the elimination of Black Congresspeople in the upcoming midterms. Its destruction of the Voting Rights Act has devolved into a pure political power play for Republicans BY the Republicans on the Court. I explain in @thenation.com

FDA: We think the vaccine killed 10 children, but we have no data or evidence to back it up nor will we ever elaborate FDA: [blocks large scale studies with evidence showing safety]

🚨 Anti-Vaxxer Nation! 👇 F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u... "The withdrawal of the studies is the latest step by the administration to try to limit access to vaccines."

See if you can identify anything wrong with the map Gemini generated of my current research subject's 1896 tour across the country.

Another reason to love old newspapers: strange ink drawings. While it's no rabbit beheading a knight, nor a man riding a snail, nor even a woman gathering the fruit of a dick-tree, it still feels weirdly like medieval marginalia. This is from a Duluth paper in 1895.

Well it won't count if he doesn't drink the blood of the forsaken.

BREAKING: We're suing Louisiana officials for suspending the state's primary election after voting has already begun. On the heels of a Supreme Court decision that eviscerated protections for voters of color, elected officials jumped at the chance to disenfranchise people — we won't allow it.

I've been teaching WWII for nearly 2 decades. I only realized today that Hitler did not have a middle name.

🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

the open corruption is making me a little crazy

What an evil piece of shit. I cannot wait to take over.

For a wider perspective and dive deep into skepticism's pre-1976 history, see my (verrrry lengthy) exploration, Why Is There a Skeptical Movement? (2013) web.archive.org/web/20160323...

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

Our clothing items have all the correct holes marked for easy application. https://store.theonion.com/products/right-v-wrong-headline-t-shirt?variant=40156760801349

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

A slow month for next generation Covid vax results, but a big month for clinical trial news. New clinical trial for intranasal vax starting in the US, & another expanding to another 2 cities. A "variant-proof" vax going into phase 2a trial in Germany: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/04/30/a...

I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead. Signed, A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Prediction: John Roberts will never have another not-spit-in restaurant meal for the rest of his life.

It may or may not surprise you to know that “it would not surprise me if x is true” is not the standard federal prosecutors are supposed to use in deciding whether to charge X.

He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.

Today’s Supreme Court decision was a blow to the Voting Rights Act and decades of Black progress.  I joined the @cbc.house.gov to demand a vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act immediately. We will keep fighting to defend our rights and representation in Congress.

This timeline means any crime more complex than laying some shells out on a beach will literally never get solved.

Not to "Actually...." here, but actually, it was the current Vice President that compared Trump to Hitler.

John Fetterman is completely fucked in the head. Jesus. He has to be the biggest disappointment in the modern Senate. Just incapable of good judgment.

Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.

Actually he ranted about democrats opposing his stupid ballroom, so fuck you.

Be nice. It’s PBS News’s first day.

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

There is no nerd prom all the nerds doing useful shit like cancer research got defunded.

Remember not to say anything online that you wouldn't want read back to you at your show trial.

For many years, Stephanie Nolen was one of the best reporters covering the HIV/AIDS in Africa health crisis. Now, finally, the #NYTimes has unleashed her again -- and here's her valuable first-hand report from #Zambia. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

night of the long island iced teas

Texas Tech just instituted “one of the most extreme anti-speech policies ever imposed at a public university.” The policy bans professors from discussing LGBTQ+ topics in core & lower-level courses and eliminates entire fields of study across the five-university system. #AcademicSky

Not to brag but I attended phone-free parties throughout my youth!

The Access of Evil

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

I see no way that reinstating firing squads in federal executions could in any way come back to haunt members of this lawless, war crime-addicted administration. None at all.

In really early today. No reason.

This is important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…its members “believe deeply in the principles that have propelled our nation for 250 years,” such as the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power.”

These people demand the right to appoint faculty and prescribe the content of the curriculum at American universities.

Holy crap, guys. His approval rating is down 300%.

This girl teaching her new puppy how to go down stairs . 😍

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

Sledgehammer was released 40 years ago today!

Release of the new Michael Jackson biopic reminds me that when he died, I was working at the TV Guide channel. This was a huge entertainment news story, so everybody there had to work late. On the other hand, Child Protective Services workers got to go home early.

Imagine a president who vows revenge on companies that request reimbursement of the billions that he illegally stole from them. newrepublic.com/post/209324/...

NEW: In a scathing ruling describing RFK Jr. as an “unserious” and “unsafe” leader, a federal judge in Oregon issued an order that will protect doctors and hospitals, and the transgender kids they treat.