In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

Even Shaq Surprised To Learn He’s The New Spokesman For DivaCup https://bit.ly/4ftZis4

Coping with the violent death of one of the chipmunks after it left the snack bowl this morning by sharing this very cute baby bunny who was using one of the gardens as an obstacle course this morning.

also by shitting on reagan - for some reason a bunch of dems love to big up this racist homophobic turd

The word ‘your’ is doing a lot of work here fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Crop burning season in Thailand has become a trap for leopard cat cubs shelter in sugarcane fields. Leopard cat cub admissions at a rescue center have surged from 10 a year to up to 65 since 2023. Experts warn that habitat fragmentation are forcing these wild cats into agricultural landscapes.

Will I have to sell plasma and/or feet pics to afford a ticket to this

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

unfurling a "white replacement" banner should get you permabanned from MLB stadiums

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

I guess it's on me for thinking the parts of the internet where I wouldn't have to worry about unsolicited sexy emails (PLURAL) as a woman on the internet using my real picture is Ancestry.com/23&me Men be like, "I see we're fam, whats good?"

Guy with visible stink lines: the birth rate,

Almost had to buy this Boys II Men themed fireworks set at Phantom

Oh my god

The Raqib Shaw piece at the Art Institute requires and deserves multiple hours of viewing

So we're ~$300 in the hole after taking him back to the vet. We can manage, we signed up for this and knew what it would take, but it is a tiny bit stressful as I'm about to head into 7 weeks of little work in June-July If you're able to help/share it would mean the world Paypal/Venmo: kfoleyfl

wow this is really poignant www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/s...

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

Absolutely devastating read. www.them.us/story/slain-...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I can say this for Alito his ability to be pissy little bitch is unrivaled peerless in the little bitch field

If someone put Nico in one of these boxes I might … well, I might be denied bail after. The idea makes me hurt. If you live in NY, you better call your representatives, or I don’t even know you. www.npr.org/2026/05/14/n...

32 House Democrats joined the GOP to vote to criminalize bail funds. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026169

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The victim was a 19 year old transgender woman. She was stabbed to death in the laundry room of her student apartment complex. Seattle police just released these pictures of the suspect. If you know who he is, you can call the tip line at 206-233-5000.

a hint of which way the wind is blowing

“Bluesky is dying” No man. You’re dying. Bluesky is a website

found a new NOAA gallery that has terrible metadata but also this guy

I have been teaching gender studies at a public university for over 20 years & all I can say is my students are neither coddled nor cocooned. The persistence of this mischaracterization of college students in the US says more about the people writing these stories than the typical college student.

Lead Sandwich Artist at Subway (951 W Addison)

The Make It Make Sense videos are particularly sad considering the huge swaths of editorial staff the paper recently laid off, including Lizzie Johnson, the paper's Ukraine correspondent who was working in a war zone "without power, heat or running water": www.the-express.com/news/world-n...

I hate Trump but hate bike lanes wayyyyyy more.

Letter with 300 signatures describes 'torture' ICE detainees face in Newark gothamist.com/news/letter-...

I heard this was really bad but Jesus christ man

let me see if i've got this correct: nepo baby gets his dad's city council job and for his first act he tosses a bone to rich business owners who guffawed at the suggestion they should pay their employees *checks notes* minimum wage? seems about right for chicago.

After he was tortured in El Salvador and a family member was killed, M.G. sought refuge in the United States. The Convention Against Torture was supposed to make sure he didn’t go back. But he was deported — and no one has heard from him since. blockclubchi.co/4trbltx

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"an astonishing effort by an investment shop to bend politics to its will." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/t...

I wrote about the campaign to criminalize “organized retail theft” in this piece. It’s the only time I’ve written something where I felt like I was going crazy. Theft is already a crime! But retailers lied about the stats, the law, and the causes—they claim that MS-13 and Hezbollah are behind it.

The Reddit birding community has morphed into the CDC after learning patient zero was an ornithologist contributing his visits to a secluded dump on Merlin

The mayor of Belleville, in NJ's Essex County, is an independent leading a blue city who endorsed the GOP candidate for governor last fall. He was endorsed this spring by both the local Dem & GOP parties. Today, he lost reelection to a 24-year old progressive councilmember:

Fighting over Bluesky and X is so funny. It's like two rival opera companies screaming at each other. Persuasion is done via short form video now, we're both retirement homes for uggos.

honestly love this guy wasn't antiabortion enough for the true believers and was too antivaxx for the normies but what got him fired was refusing to endorse flavored vapes. everything is so incredibly stupid now but sometimes it is funny www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...