Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

It’s amazing how committed my family is to me not being mentally ill and also doing everything they can to make me mentally ill

THREAD. There's been a lot of attention paid to the new 2026 United States Counterterrorism Strategy released by the Trump administration released this week, and understandably so. I've linked it here so you can review it for yourself.

Okay that Jane Wickline song bit about being late sounds like a Nick Cave song if Nick Cave were a girl with ADHD living in Bushwick with five roommates. I am -dying-.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Ceci n'est pas une golden calf.

I have spent a ridiculous amount of time in the last year consuming fictional content about fascism (Handmaid’s Tale, Testaments, Man in the High Castle) or bunkers (Paradise, Silo, Fallout, Billionaires Bunker). For All Mankind, as an aside, has elements of both.

Save me from no one knowing what working class is and from “education is bad/lies/queer.” Also “hey the weather is wacky and causing your home - whether rented or owned - to be in constant danger from fires & floods” is the easiest argument. People are pissed at the Dems cause they’ve got no fight

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

Being against public transit in the US, and especially in DC, is always about racism

It’s very important to note (because the people this will affect are already prone to anxiety!) per the article the FDA has no authority whatsoever to do this and in fact drug companies can simply refuse to comply - and have done so with other drugs as recently as last month.

Oh my god this week’s episode of For All Mankind.

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

For those of you that have heard me go on endlessly about Lempicka - there’s a livestream happening of a reunion concert in June to benefit the Ali Forney Center and I bet a bunch of you would be into it www.thebeechman.com/events/lbt25...

Minnesota did not go through all that to have people who live elsewhere do a weird one-up thing. It’s not a competition and we’re all in it together Resistance will look different in New York just like it did in Chicago and LA. We learned from those before us and we’ve got your back too ✊

One of my firm beliefs as a political scientist that's studied public opinion and political behavior for the better part of two decades, both in the US and comparatively, is that there is 30% of the population that is always ready to line up behind an authoritarian at a moment's notice.

Most of the folks who can’t afford to fly at these fuel prices also can’t afford to drive at these fuel prices.

Holy shit I just saw legit auto rickshaws hauling goods in Hasidic Brooklyn which is the most confusing thing I’ve ever seen (I only know them from India)

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

so HUD is proposing a rule that would require shelters to discriminate against trans people the rule proposal is here: www.regulations.gov/document/HUD... the public comment period is open until the end of june please let them know this is unacceptable! comment form here 👇

Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has distributed “Ka$h”-branded bottles of bourbon to bureau staff and civilians, multiple people in Patel’s orbit tell Sarah Fitzpatrick. theatln.tc/n62c70PM

Last July, the pope called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account. The teller told him that any changes had to be made in person with an ID. Knowing that was impossible, he asked: “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” She hung up on him.

This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

🧵 There is no such thing as a brunette ideology or a blond one, nor are there philosophies of male pattern baldness, there are no ideologues in the area of feet size. Yet the far right thinks there is an ideology of being trans. This hate monger wears his dad’s Nazi medal*, which says it all. [1]

(sorry but the posts are scheduled & threaded but if you really want the update without waiting: Donna was hit with a massive and unexpected tax bill from the state. She has sought legal representation and will be disputing it, but it is a complicated situation that will take a while to resolve.)

The Jewish in-laws myth has proved to be a pervasive one. As I have outlined here in great detail, Platner's wife is not Jewish. A stepfather was.

The term “working class” in common usage today isn’t about income or type of work. It’s been superseded by a postmodern definition focused on aesthetics and culture war stances. A barista who puts pronouns on a nametag is an elite. So is every adjunct lecturer. I don’t think this is a good change.

Team Spider! Brown recluses only fuck with you if you fuck with them

good for them & i'm hoping we learn more about how to support them in holding this line.

This is the 82-year-old state senator the FBI just raided because she successfully redistricted Virginia to match racist Republican redistricting efforts. They targeted her because she's ruthless and effective. They don't want anyone else to play within their new rules.

Virginia signed because their statehouse is a Democratic trifecta! We’re talking about redistricting, but we can also prepare for 2028 by forcing a popular vote instead of just a swing state obsession! (Convince swing state voters that they won’t deal with POTUS cycle misery ever again.)

As a person who lives in NYC, I don’t notice this. But my Ohio in-laws who regularly drive 8 hours to watch Ohio State sports teams do things, are definitely noticing this, and so is all of Ohio because even beyond US car culture they are just wild road warriors.

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

Look, I think god stuff is super super weird but this strongly suggests Dawkins is only an atheist because a god, whether or not it exists, didn’t flatter him.

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

This! This is the basest of the based positions on education. It should be free, accessible, and not thought of as job market preparation/training. Education is our responsibility towards the people, not the privilege of those of us who can afford it.

You know, this is also Nazi shit.

*inhales* ok i urge everyone to watch Colbert's entire Obama interview the viral 'regular people talk' portion (which is 100% cringey) is immediately followed by Obama heaping praise on Mamdani as an excellent example of this he calls him an 'extraordinary talent' www.youtube.com/watch?v=C15D...

I feel insane 1. I haven’t seen this at the national level in 30 years. 2. God forbid people running a country know stuff 3. Obama is an amazing communicator and got slammed constantly for being professorial simply because he said words other than “cheap red meat covered in gasoline yeaaaaaah!”

The way I just poured my heart out to get fucking tickets to the Vampire Lestat event in NYC. Fingers crossed.

This article is an absolute masterclass in how to write an article debunking misinformation without platforming the misinformation one iota

i think this is right and it’s also what’s driving a lot of the misguided support for newsom

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

They lied that Trump’s ballroom would be privately funded. They lie all the time about everything.

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

Organizers say Texas public university systems are "essentially dead."