Family reunion, elephant style. Three ex-orphans came home to our Voi stockades in January, each with a wild-born calf alongside her. Edie. Mweya. Arruba. All rescued from Tsavo years ago, all now mothers in the wild. But like kids who've flown the nest, they still pop round to raid the fridge.

Week One in 250 to 250 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Speaking of the Trump 250 dollar bill... open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

ICE eyes selling mega-warehouses purchased for mass detention www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Google had perfected something to the point that its brand name became a common verb and then they decided, wait, let's fuck that up completely.

Pablo makes a really important point here -- the people who are the real "threats to capitalism" are the billionaires who are showing everyone that the game is rigged.

That's not how history works. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

Now that America’s 250th is officially a Trump rally, someone should sue to stop it. He’s spending public money on this spectacle and the only fig leaf was that it was non political.

Wrote a bit about the data center backlash, and why it is Good, Actually. The Data Center Bankshot davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

This is an actual Thirteenth Amendment violation, because they have not been convicted of any crime.

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

BREAKING: the banjo player from Deliverance has withdrawn from President Trump's America 250 Celebration

Their new girlfriend is women

I love watching this asshole roll down stairs

my favorite erick erickson moment is when he said that his family refused to eat asian food on the anniversary of pearl harbor to honor the tragedy. a reporter reached out to his mom to confirm whether this was true and she was like “i don’t know what the fuck he is talking about”

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

Moving vital institutions -- like the DOJ -- out of the control of the executive is an intriguing proposition. Whatever the merits of that idea, it's absolutely time to Go Big.

Judge Mehta doesn’t want to quietly dismiss the seditious conspiracy conviction of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. He’s asking the Trump administration to justify its decision to try to erase the case.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

This is a really interesting idea. And we should 100% think big going forward.

The Justice Department removed information about the January 6 insurrectionists from its website. @lawfaremedia.org has preserved and posted it www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

With Friday strike, over 200 people killed by US military in alleged drug boat strikes. Overwhelming consensus of experts, myself included, assess these to be murder because no armed conflict (and war crime if it were armed conflict). 200 killed also raises serious question: crime against humanity

These 1 min. snippets of our nation’s history are so interesting and yes, truly delightful, especially considering the concerted effort to rewrite it. Thank you, @hcrichardson.bsky.social and everyone involved in making them!

LOL. Trump says artists are dropping out of his Freedom 250 concert because they have the “yips”, and instead, TRUMP - who draws bigger crowds than Elvis - will “perform”.

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Well, well, well. It looks like the judge in the case agreed there was a real prospect of fraud on the court, and a proper inquiry into the crooked slush fund will begin! Bring it on. Good news.

It is very easy to manipulate modern recommendation algorithms to boost certain kinds of content (see: Musk and X). It’s probably Not Good that the thoughts, worldviews, and behaviors of hundreds of millions of people are downstream of those biases, which can be set by a handful of people

LLMs are actually very authoritarian when viewed in this way (as centralized mechanisms for distributing/discovering information). Of course this is part and parcel of big tech’s move away from classically democratic and Liberal values

What Rep. Dan Goldmen describes is not “detention.” It’s state-sanctioned abuse, and it’s what happens when human beings are disappeared into systems with no accountability.

Folks, these are the rantings of a crazy person. Note how Trump resorts to attacking the wives of men he doesn’t like. The president is a lunatic.

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Yes, good. More like this.

Trump: "He's a dumb person! D-U-M. Not the B. Most people don't know it has a B."

CNN reports that Jasmine Crockett's spokesperson says the Dems shouldn't bother investing in the Tx Senate race. And she hasn't endorsed either. I really like her but this is bad politics. The Dems can't afford to write off anyone. I guess she doesn't owe anyone anything but the stakes are so high

This is an absolutely terrifying escalation by the regime. They have now criminalized our freedom to fight the crimes they commit against us and our neighbors. These protesters acted with extraordinary courage and moral clarity.

Trump: “I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, DONALD J. TRUMP”

Absolutely. A key project of the COVID Amnesia Project is to erase who ordered lockdowns.

NEW: Colorado Republicans are meeting now to select a new chairperson after infighting led the resignation of the previous chair. A leading candidate is MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann, who has called for the execution of the "Synagogue of Satan Jews" running Colorado.

Civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit over alleged human rights abuses at the United States' largest immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, where three people have died in the nine months since it opened.

Hands up anyone who's a grandparent? So are we. To 92 elephant calves. We've pioneered the rescue and reintegration of orphaned elephants – so successfully, they've been fully accepted by wild herds. Since the door home is always left open, we get to witness playtimes like this all the time.

In the wild, grooming is an important bonding ritual among zebras. Little Notty lost her natal family – but the instinct remains. Here, she directs it towards her best friend: Tytan, an orphaned black rhino. Discover their unlikely friendship: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans/tytan

While Americans struggle to pay their bills, the First Family is treating the Pentagon like a private wealth accelerator. This is our money they are spending. This is corruption we pay for. Congress should issue subpoenas immediately.

The “No Kings” movement announced nationwide protests set for June 14, which is President Trump’s 80th birthday.

Every night it’s worse.

Whoopsy 😬

I know there is a lot going on, and not all of this is new, but numerous aspects of this OMB proposal are highly alarming and would, if enacted, effectively force American scientists receiving federal funding (which is...most of them in some capacity or another) to stop engaging with the public.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who have been integral to the failed negotiations in the Iran War, have “suggested promoting real estate projects in Tehran and an investment fund in the event a deal was reached” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

Man who ran Kennedy Center into the ground weighs in.