Trump hearing "cisgender" and thinking its "six genders" then getting all mad about it, thus forcing other Republicans to agree that the libs are now demanding there be six genders, is a perfect encapsulation of our Golden Age of Dickishness and Stupidity.

The Florida Project is the best film about Florida for me, a Florida native. Such a good film. The child actors are amazing too.

Trump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat. It turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA's stock. The President's corruption is a national security disaster.

Wasn't Putin on the phone with his underling in the WH for 90 minutes 2 weeks ago? Then the Pentagon decides to withdraw AT LEAST US 5,000 troops from Germany, an order which then suddenly becomes withdrawal from a coordinated planned exercise in Poland, which has been supportive of Ukraine.

The Salt Lake Tribune, a news org that went nonprofit in 2019, just took down its paywall. Last year, The Trib contacted 350 subscribers “with an offer: End your subscription in exchange for becoming a voluntary member… 87% of those subscribers stayed on as members.” www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05...

Beijing has approved export licenses for several hundred American slaughterhouses to ship beef to China, per new data on the website of China’s General Administration of Customs.

Because X isn’t already terrible enough, Marc Andreessen’s VC firm (a16z) recently “announced its latest investment: a news company called Monitoring the Situation, or MTS,” which promises a “24/7 firehose of ‘what's happening RIGHT NOW,’ broadcast live to the scrolling masses on X.” 5/6/26…1/

This is fascinating: the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe is asking for full control of Dungeness Spit, a federal wildlife refuge. It's a great idea, and we should start doing a lot more transfer of federal land to Indigenous nations here in #Cascadia: www.kuow.org/stories/wash...

Interventions to psychological manipulation, with @dianebenscoter.bsky.social, Founder of Antidote and former cult member and deprogrammer. Cambridge Disinformation Summit webinar series. youtu.be/S-j3NDQ6wW0?...

The numbers here are massive (and not just from a scientist but reviewed by another) "That actually makes the data complex a 16 gigawatt thermal load project, the “equivalent of about 23 atom bombs worth of energy dumped into this local environment every single day""

Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency. www.wired.com/story/a-fede...

The Trump administration is moving to evict nearly 1,000 bison from federal grasslands in Montana. Handing the land over to cattle ranchers at heavily subsidized grazing rates.

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

HPV vaccination cuts cancer risk in men by about half, study suggests www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"The whole ball game" #Ossoff

fuuuuuuck

🚨BREAKING: Internal emails between DOJ personnel suggest that, from the very outset of the effort to obtain sensitive voter data from states — much earlier than previously known — officials there planned to share it with the DHS. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In Ecuador’s Amazon, Indigenous ecologists are turning local knowledge into court-grade evidence to defend forests from mining companies. Their constitution recognises nature as a rights-bearing subject with legal protections to exist and maintain its vital cycles buff.ly/FhAKXj4 #ShareGoodNewsToo

"the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power..." www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...

yiiiikes

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to block its bid to build a national voter database using private voter data from every state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

Kevin Warsh is refusing to disclose more than $100 million of his assets. Totally unprecedented. Warsh needs to release this information now. What is he hiding?

This is valuable @wired.com reporting on prominent DOGE operatives and their fates. Where are they now? Some still inside our government, sadly for us. www.wired.com/story/where-...

Urge Stanford to reject the DOJ's demands for sensitive personal information about Stanford Medical School students: Please sign & share the petition: alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/ca...

We live to fight another day! A victory tonight—as we killed a backroom deal Johnson and the WH cut to extend FISA authority for five more years. Dropped in the middle of the night. We killed it on the Floor. But, it will be back. So we must keep fighting!

🚨HS/College Summer Internship Opp Update: If the deadline for priority application was missed, interested student's can still apply for general application: Any questions re: App -email: [email protected] Again, reiterate - an amazing opp based on my son & his peers experience.

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

#Discover @paulinsc.bsky.social @hermes61.bsky.social @umaija.bsky.social #Politics #Political #PoliticalNews #News #📰News #ArrestTrump #RemoveTrump #ImpeachTrumpNow

That time I drew some Akira fan art.

It’s all fun and games until the fish go away www.noaa.gov/news-release...

Pay attention. Or pay the price. Do not comply in advance. Pushback. It's your right.

haha how silly… oh (from @twonks.bsky.social)

Rug design by Bauhaus artist Anni Albers (1899 – 1994) pioneer in modern weaving #WomensArt

In Japan, festivals to celebrate the appearance of sakura (cherry blossoms) occur in spring and are known as hanami. Sakura were a favourite subject of Japanese woodblock prints so I thought I'd put together a virtual hanami (flower viewing) thread for #FolkyFriday today. Please enjoy. 1/5

For World Tuberculosis Day, read about Prof. Florence Siebert, whose work with proteins created an accurate test for TB in the 1930s: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenc...

"German utilities expressed many of the same concerns nearly a decade ago when plug-in solar started to become popular in Germany. But with more than a million systems installed, no safety incidents have been reported for customers who used the panels as instructed"

I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

America first is letting foreign companies come into the US to mine copper?

New from me today - DHS hack shows funding for AI surveillance including automated surveillance in airports; adapters allowing agents to use phones for biometric scanning; and an AI platform that ingests all 911 call data nationally www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union. This could have tremendous implications for voting:

After former President Biden nominated Scott Colom to serve as a judge on a federal court, U.S. Sen. Hyde-Smith blocked his nomination...because of his support for trans rights. Now, he's her November 2026 opponent.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Sorry ladies Palantir has a message for you and it’s that Rosie the Riveter also had to eat it and go back to her husband’s kitchen newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

A whistleblower complaint alleges John Solly claimed to have stored highly sensitive Social Security data on a thumb drive. Solly and Leidos, his current employer, strongly deny the allegations. www.wired.com/story/john-s...

I usually avoid posting things from the other place but I will make an exception because this is so damn cool. @yappelbaum.bsky.social