In total, 25 people were exposed to the drugs; 20 have been released, two more are still hospitalized, and three are dead. Two of those killed in the incident have been identified as 51-year-old Micah Rascon and 49-year-old Georgia Rascon. 1/4

In his last episode, Stephen Colbert had his band play copyrighted music so that CBS would be sued for millions. Stephen, we look forward to your next adventure. In the meanwhile, rest up and smell the roses.

"Having compassion for other human beings is not a crime."

As if there wasn't enough to worry about in Hormuz: Ships trapped in the Gulf are accumulating barnacles, algae and jellyfish as the Middle East conflict drags on and temperatures begin to rise, impeding their ability to eventually exit the region. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

We have no idea what will happen today with the Broadview 6 case. The hearing is currently under seal and this entire process has been a rollercoaster. But what I can say unequivocally is I am so proud to know @brianstraw.bsky.social and @shannonstraw.bsky.social. Their courage shows us how to be.

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

Today the Senate is expected to pass a slush fund for ICE. This is why it matters: Women detained in inhumane conditions. People denied medical care. Families separated. Children taken from their parents. Human suffering treated as policy. Congress cannot look away. We are fighting back!

"We're dealing with a Jim Crow legislature... Tennessee is is a state autocracy... if this was happening anywhere else we'd call it authoritarianism." @timmiller.bsky.social & @brotherjones.bsky.social on the TN GOP supermajority racially gerrymandering Memphis, kicking Dems off committees, etc.

"The husk of the Sports Illustrated brand is stealing entire stories from people without credit, seemingly using AI. This becomes very obvious when it's stealing data only you've reported!" futurism.com/artificial-i...

Three Torrance County residents are dead and 18 first responders were sent to UNMH after exposure to an unidentified substance.

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

California friends, if you haven’t voted, I urge you to watch Jasmine Crockett’s endorsement of Xavier Becerra. It’s everything. And check back later. I was able to ask both Becerra and Crockett additional questions that I think matter. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @xavierbecerra.bsky.social

Juniper Blessing left her mark on this world. Cruelly slain at 19, the Santa Fe teen loved to sing, became obsessed with the weather and kept her friends close even after high school graduation. sfnm.co/4dAzLeq

Belgian MP asking US Ambassador a question, while pointing out the international rules violated in the past year.

Of course: let’s go for the criminal! Let’s go! Bigly! I have bigly hate for all three death cultists named below btw and hope Talarico eats somebody’s lunch. I know the odds: but I’m gonna hope.

As bad as you may think Texas statewide GOP officials are now, Bo French's explicit and detailed fascism actually does remain an outlier: www.texasobserver.org/bo-french-bl...

First, they taxed the private jets And I did not speak out. fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...

When the world gets you down, just remember the wonderful variety of dumplings out there...

The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act like it would go away,” the family says. www.propublica.org/article/okla...

June Jordan's apology poem to Lebanon except now it's an apology to the entire Global South

This is Unwise.

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

Once more before Sunday ends, here is today’s thread of phenomenal public scholarly work from the past week. Please share widely if you see this and are able, thanks! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

I respect and admire mountain dew’s commitment to creating ever more horrifying abominations of science and nature (which I will inevitably try)

This happened 11 days after Kent State.

The right wing freakout about The Odyssey is kind of amazing. Now they're all mad that Odysseus doesn't go snorkeling off a yacht.

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

“We’re families, we have small animals and pets, got kids getting on the bus in the morning and it just doesn’t feel safe to have that traffic.”

It can’t be said enough how infuriating it is that Comstock continues to haunt us from the 1870s

Tapping the sign

“In Germany, for example, the Nazi party championed clean energy, created nature reserves and institutionalized organic farming — not out of genuine concern for the people or the land, but rather to recruit conservationists and establish an ideological link between racial and environmental purity.”

It would emit more CO2 than the entire nation of Jamaica.

amen

I wonder if Xi called up Putin and said, "Remind me how you made Trump look like a beaten pup in that Helsinki appearance"?

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI"; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/05/14/w... #Pluralistic 1/

In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.

I wrote about a phenomenon in literary adaptations that I refer to as hot-washing. lithub.com/hollywood-ne...

"When totalitarian dictatorship triumphs in the modern world, truly 'liberal' education is the first object of attack, since it is one of the most obvious bulwarks against the brutalization and atomization of the individual." Gen Ed in School and College, a report that led to AP, 1953

This is a long piece that begins by acknowledging the awful economic conditions that writers and other creatives face today. It's why we spoke to three writers who don't have traditional day jobs about their experiences leaving Substack. The struggle is real. www.talkscratch.com/why-cant-wri...

great article "There is this sense, I offered, among people in AI—and people adjacent to it, and people who are pretty sure it’s coming for them—that this is their last chance. They’ve tried everything else, these men, from writing screenplays to investing in crypto. It’s AI or bust." Alessandra Ram

One of the ‘reforms’ has been to increasingly centralize the review process so that individual institutes play no role in the review process. The central office is down staff and has more work—and they don’t always have so sufficient expertise to understand who are appropriate reviewers.

New: @ejdickson.bsky.social breaks down the Trump administration's ongoing weirdness around pronatalism—from bemoaning teen sperm counts and "underbabied" Americans, to Trump declaring himself the "father of fertility." www.wired.com/story/maha-i...

"political violence requires people with a relatively rare set of traits—the willingness and ability to kill among them—that limit participation. Nonviolent campaigns, by contrast, can draw from all sectors of society: Think of the protesters in Minneapolis . . ."

It’s very simple: the 6 republican Supreme Court justices are functionally no different than klansmen

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure inside it

Every time I hear someone ask what writers are supposed to do instead of starting a Substack, all I can think is, my god, literally anything else. Go create something! Start a blog with your friends! Make weird stuff! Let some of it fail/succeed unexpectedly! It's 2026—you've got dozens of options!

Who are these ghouls talking to?