Under Weiss's stewardship, CBS News has killed critical stories in order to save face for the Trump administration. trib.al/3LWxWLN

Absolutely fire paper, explaining why talking to men about inequality in academia is so awkward. And why, instead of tackling systemic issues, many (men) pretend the issue does not exist or blame it on women with faux viewpoints. A workshop won't fix systemic problem.

Marcha para Jesus do Rio tem discurso político de Malafaia

The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index fell sharply to a new all-time low in May, at 44.8, from 49.8 in April. It plunged to levels not seen in data collected consistently since the late 1970s.

Is Trump paying Iran $25B to open the Strait?

A former FBI official warned that the Trump administration "dismantled" the teams responsible for handling new strains of a virus now alarming experts and the world.

Breaking News: U.S. inflation shot up to a 3.8% annual rate in April, as the war in Iran raised energy prices and costs across the country.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

Checkmate in Iran Washington can’t reverse or control the consequences of losing this war.

Trump says it's "TREASON" to say that Iran is doing well in the war against the U.S.

About that New York Times op-ed: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The DOJ is reportedly considering dropping any audits of Trump, his family, or his businesses as part of a potential settlement of his bogus lawsuit against the IRS. That’s on top of the $10 billion in damages he wants. This is corruption on steroids — and taxpayers will pay the price.

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

President posted more than 50 times in three hours, attacking on Obama, NY Times and supreme court

The cost of the Iran war has increased to $29B, according to Pentagon officials. This comes as the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows gasoline costs are up 28.4% compared to last year, @ashleymurray.bsky.social reports for @statesnewsroom.com: tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/12/r...

“When you’re negotiating with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal?” a reporter asked. “Not even a little bit,” Trump said. trib.al/aGO8CLk

Personne n’en parle, mais Israël est accro. Des drogues sont administrées à des milliers de militaires au retour de Gaza. Du cannabis médical au LSD, tout est bon pour traiter les troubles post-traumatiques, que les Israéliens ont baptisés « blessures morales ». Mon enquête stupéfiante à Tel Aviv.

While Trump is stuck in his Iran quagmire, his buddies Putin and Kim Jong Un are slipping nukes past him. A new investigation finds that a Russian cargo ship carrying two nuclear reactors headed for North Korea sank in unexplained circumstances off the coast of Spain.

The racism is the point.

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Most alarming to some senior officials is evidence that Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

President Trump said he does not consider the economic impacts the war in Iran is having on Americans, remarks that quickly drew criticism from Democrats and appeared to undermine his campaign pledge of addressing voters’ cost of living concerns. https://wapo.st/3PdQX1c

Racism is flourishing under Trump and MAGA as Trump’s SCOTUS nominees reinvigorate racism and Jim Crow policies in the U.S.

"I don’t even know where you get this stuff, but that doesn’t make it credible because you say so,” Patel deadpanned. “I’m not saying it, Director Patel, it’s written and documented—” Van Hollen said. trib.al/ivJcg4x

Vivian Maier, New York City, 1959

"By presenting domestic labor as an innate feminine gift, the [tradwife] imagery absolves society of responsibility for making that labor sustainable or respected. " www.liberalcurrents.com/tradwives-de...

Trump Shared Anti-Black Video From Account That Posted “I Love Hitler” The account also shared antisemitic conspiracy theories, white nationalist rhetoric, and extremist content across multiple posts meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...

Exclusive: Iraq, Pakistan strike energy deals with Iran as Tehran flexes Hormuz control reut.rs/48Z47G1

President Donald Trump handed a nearly $7 million no-bid contract to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to a contractor he said had worked on his private swimming pools — but the company's own website shows no expertise in swimming pools whatsoever.

I calculated all the invisible work I do for my family – I refuse to do it anymore trib.al/QI2W7CS

The accuser was deemed credible by the FBI, who, however, were instructed not to investigate her claims.

Defense contractors, Trump allies, and insiders are cashing in as tensions with Iran escalate. buff.ly/7QLbh43

The Supreme Court just ended the project of multiracial democracy, as we know it. In Tennessee, they have already moved to decimate Black political representation, and other states are not far behind. Listen to what we do next on The Intercept Briefing. theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s...

This is very good from @gregsargent.bsky.social: I think the pivot to the ballroom reflects a party that is still in thrall to His Masters Voice and the online MAGA discourse. Voters disliked the project originally and pushing it now feels wildly out-of-touch. newrepublic.com/article/2101...

"This is not just the most corrupt presidency in American history, it is among the most corrupt regimes on earth." And abject corruption on a mass scale, it turns out, is not politically popular. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social:

This is how the BBC covered it. Now imagine he was stabbing *insert other minorities group* because he was taking his hatred of that group out on strangers.

Apparemment, "bougnoule" n'est pas raciste pour la justice française. 😐 Le tribunal va débouter Aziz, insulté par sa collègue, en estimant qu’«il existe un doute suffisamment important sur le fait que le terme "bougnoule" ait pu être utilisé en tant que surnom et non en tant qu’insulte».

Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that Alito’s claim is “simply not factual,” and that the turnout gap had “exploded” over the last three years. trib.al/8N53FLm

Nostalgiques du nazisme, adeptes de la violence politique et héritiers des gudards des années 70, les «NR» imposent leur radicalité au sein de l’extrême droite française. Cette année, leur traditionnel défilé parisien dit du «Comité du 9 mai» n’a pas été autorisé. ➡️ bit.ly/4dCHh8L

Commentary: Bowling Green researchers conducted a poll to measure the strength of the MAGA movement in Ohio. While MAGA remains popular with older, rural, conservative, Born Again men without four year degrees, the movement is showing cracks in the state ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/07/w...

Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs “What’s clear is that Reform UK’s treasurer built his career marketing properties to the very ‘globalist elites’ its leader denounces.” bylinetimes.com/2026/05/07/r...

Commentary: U.S. maritime industrial policy designed to reduce China's dominance is shifting costs to allies such as Japan and South Korea while only partly mitigating strategic risks.

Great (and terrible) new project by @amyqin.bsky.social and team on the many different types of data that the Trump administration is failing to collect. "We are literally having babies dying, and we’re not able to look and say, ‘OK, what is it about those babies?'"

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...

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : l’Iran accuse les Etats-Unis d’avoir violé le cessez-le-feu et affirme avoir riposté ; l’armée américaine dit répondre à des attaques « non provoquées » et « ne pas rechercher l’escalade »