As the United States wages Trump's war with Iran, the Defense Department has just designated its press office a classified space and banned journalists from accessing it to meet with the public affairs officers who have traditionally answered their questions.

I cannot express how important this is Jessica Knurick explains why this is so important not just to scientists, but to ALL AMERICANS. Vought et. al is making political interference official government policy. Modern day Lysenkoism. Lysenkoism destroyed. This will destroy US science as well.🧪

AIPAC is funneling pro-Israel money to candidates and covering its tracks. forward.com/news/828070/... -

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There will never be another I Voted sticker as cool or as coveted as the shirt-ripping wolverine. But that shouldn't stop you from voting for top candidates for stickers for Michigan's midterm election! Vote for up to 9 of 30 options, narrowed from 2,000: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

Politico: U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said the rebranding of the Kennedy Center as the “Trump-Kennedy Center” violated the clear language of federal law that requires the building to honor President Kennedy alone. Excellent development! 💙 #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

This is the moment his political career should have ended. And yet …. Apparently there is no bottom for Republicans and their supporters.

Sorry to hear about Jeff Bezos's rocket exploding prematurely. A good technique to prevent that from happening is to try thinking about something you find totally unarousing or even repulsive, like giving workers a living wage or paying a fair share of taxes.

DEVELOPING: Rob Lowe’s band from St. Elmo’s Fire has withdrawn from President Trump’s America 250 celebration.

Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption

My sweet girl turns 21 today. What should be a joyous day fills me with so much fear and sadness. She should be celebrating endless possibilities not navigating this current manmade hellscape.

Donald Trump is sending the Justice Department after a woman he raped.

Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.

I ain't embracing shit. Demi Moore, Sandra Bullock, all you boneheaded Hollywood hippies and woo woo peddlers, kiss my whole arse.

Data centres 🤮🔪

Every state should take a page out of Hawaii’s playbook on tackling Citizens United

Trump's Gestapo

Hands up if you know what they're talking about.

Why this GOP Congress sucks...

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

The rest of his GOP buddies get a piece of the loot so they are all for it. Call your GOP senators! @indivisibleneb.bsky.social @indivcentraloh.bsky.social @indivisiblepa.bsky.social @indivisiblephl.bsky.social @indivisiblenwi.bsky.social @indivisiblemadison.bsky.social

Rep. Becca Balint’s #CupOfJoe nailed it: “Underbabied” isn’t real, but lacking resources to start a family is. Instead of cutting costs, this admin shames women with a useless website and attacks reproductive rights. We need real investments, not invented words.

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"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

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Drawn by Dr Seuss over 50 years ago.

💥💯💪🏽✊🏾 "We are living in a time where ideas are a crime, where gender is a crime, where skin color is a crime, where truth is a crime" This Land Was Made For You And Me #antifa #resist #fightfascism #defenddemocracy #resistance #antifascist #defenddenydepose #wethepeople

We've normalized working people living out of their cars because we can't normalize taxing billionaires.

Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.

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Today's cartoon by Chris Britt:

BREAKING: The DOJ is now 146 days overdue in releasing the Epstein files.

This is pretty amazing.

Chevron seeks huge tax break to build a power plant exclusively for a Texas data center [via @wired.com]

Look, I get wanting to protect your trademark. But, this kind of legal bullying is BS. Y'all know what to do. Here is the website for the Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit: www.metrodetroitanimals.org. Show them some love. 🩷