UPDATE: “A human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation helped galvanize opposition to Trump's immigration policies, was thrown out on Friday.” www.newschannel5.com/news/judge-d...

TFW when your 82-year-old Midwestern dad can’t take your call because he’s too busy organzing against ICE.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Starts next week: Over 4 Wednesday’s Two free seats And several pay-what-you-can seats available

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

"Hey Siri, how can I make polling suck more?"

Trump did not write the Art of the Deal, Tony Schwartz did.

Doing an image search for "soccer ball emoji" will drive you to the brink of madness. Behold what bleak future you have wrought. Behold madness.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

This story was broken by The Cornell Sun, which @nytimes.com nowhere cites. As a former editor-in-chief of The Sun — and in the name of brave, amazing college newspapers everywhere — do not treat student journalists as truffle pigs, taking what they've sniffed out without credit or compensation.

ICYMI...some good news, for once! Thank you, @acls1919.bsky.social @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social for fighting for scholars, including the @medievalacademy.bsky.social members whose funding was unjustly cut off. More info here: www.historians.org/news/federal...

Four Wednesday evenings to support folks in building peer and community groups of all kinds Starts 5/20 By donation! Therapists do not own sitting in a circle. We need each other in so many different ways more than ever. We can do this without annoying the holy crap out of each other

1/ Update on what we know about the evolving hantavirus situation, strap in. A Swiss man linked to the ship has now tested positive after developing symptoms after disembarking. He received an exposure alert, sought care, and tested positive. This means there are 3 deaths and 5 suspected.

so while I have some issues with the precis describing these groups the core point is right the broad center left is becoming unglued on questions of fact in ways that increasingly resemble the right hard to say how much it's our politics, how much it's short form video poisoning, but it's real

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

"With adoption rates below 50%, the report observes that the use of AI “is far from universal” in publishing." "everyone is doing it" is far from true. It's always far from true.

What did you think “Mass Deportation Now” meant?

The National Science Foundation is the main source of funding for basic sciences in the US. For decades, they have supported a scientific R&D ecosystem in the US that has been an engine of economic growth and competitive advantage. Destroying the agency is no less than an act of sabotage.

This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Breaking news: The Trump administration’s move to drop the long-standing recommendation for newborn hepatitis B vaccination within 24 hours of birth will likely lead to additional infections and millions in added health care costs, new studies show.

Trump's shameful betrayal of our Afghan allies. Veterans (and most people) are outraged. Paul Rieckhoff on Trump’s plan to ship 1,100 Afghan allies — including 400 children — to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Uh oh: Somebody saw his horrible 33pct approval/67 pct disapproval numbers and is lashing out online all hours of the night. Shows just how laser-focused he is on the lives and economic hardships of regular Americans.

This is really something. Fox News poll finds a solid majority of voters say Trump lacks the mental soundness to be president.

Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Excellent piece from @lopatto.bsky.social on the incurable hollowness of AI. Almost gives me hope for the future of creativity

This is fun

Excited that InfoWars has switched sides in the infowars

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Klaus McForkface, a lifting robot developed by German manufacturer Linde AG, performed a stunning 1200-kilogram (2646 lb) overhead lift in Hamburg, beating the human world record by more than 300%

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Rogan is enabling a corrupt authoritarian. Never forget.

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

"Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Trump isn't just saying the quiet part out loud more often — his interior monologue and his public one are increasingly blending into an unholy slurry.

It's interesting to me that a story about online rape networks doesn't seem to have broken through? The story's inception was instigated in part by Gisèle Pelicot's rapes. Her husband drugged and and raped her and then invited dozens of other men to rape her while she was drugged.

Does anybody remember when teen pregnancy was a huge boogeyman of the right? They had all these purity dances and whatnot? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

this really is a significant blow to the global far right. Hungary under Orban was more than a financier and place to host events: it was a proof of concept

Yes. And it will never stop being horrifying that the "mass deportation" promise swept Trump into office. For anyone with a cursory knowledge of history, the term immediately evokes Auschwitz, Chelmno and Treblinka.

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

The normalization of the R slur recently has been SO disheartening & people looking the other way when this happens can't claim to truly care about disabled people. You can't only care about disabled people when it's politically convenient and expect us to believe you're sincere.

Randi Weingarten to @patrioticmillionaires.org: "We have to make it easy for somebody to see hope and light. Whether you call them fascists, authoritarians, or feudalistic lords like Peter Thiel, they rely on fear, division, apathy, and isolation. It's really hate vs. hope."

Hadn’t realized, before this moment, the degree to which the pandemic created “nice pants” days.

exhausted historian of christianity screaming into the void, once again: christianity has never been apolitical. to wit: jesus was executed by the roman state.

genuinely good work from house dems who swiftly made clear that he can leave or he can be thrown out, but he’s going one way or the other

Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus? That was this week.

Breaking: ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

the most surprising thing to all my friends and family back East is that I made the Boston Globe for something OTHER than being dragged out of Fenway Park for heckling John Henry about trading Mookie Betts www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/13/o...

“The fact that it takes months or years for burnout to build up means it can take months or years to fully recover.” In the Irish Examiner, UL's Professor Stephen Gallagher discusses workplace burnout & his research on burnout among hospital doctors & nurses. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/he...

Um dude, Jesus was about as "WEAK on Crime!" as it gets.

Swalwell is OUT of the California gubernatorial campaign