Gmail/Google Workspace...for the love of everything good can you please remove the upsell widgets polluting every single one of your apps? Every time I get a ad on a service for which I am already paying I come a little closer to tossing my laptop out of a moving vehicle.

A local leader shared this abomination of a website with me earlier today and we were just beginning to dissect it (it referenced our city). Should have known @wired.com was already on it. Great work! www.wired.com/story/white-...

This had me cackling in the quiet section of my co-working space. Absolutely nailed it...and could have kept going. Great way to kick off the weekend.

Unforgivable. apnews.com/article/pfas...

Nick also broke the news that the brothers were returned home today. A few hours later, the New York Times and Washington Post reported the same thing, once again, neither credited him. I don't understand why it's so hard for big national papers to credit smaller local pubs. Nick's latest:

Dave Ramsey now shaming millennials for buying a gallon of gas a week because they could be saving for retirement or paying off debt.

Applications are open for our free 10-week Removal Defense course for community advocates and organizers. June 24 - August 26, Wednesdays 6-7:30 PM ET. Apply by May 22. secure.nationalimmigrationproject.org/np/clients/n...

Meet the Phoenix Line: a proposed rail transit line that converts existing, underutilized freight tracks into a high-capacity passenger transit corridor for Atlanta. Thanks much to Nick Durham for sharing this fascinating concept through a new guest post! www.threadatl.org/blog/hiding-...

THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THE BOUNDARY WATERS RIGHT NOW! Tonight, while most people are watching TV or putting their kids to bed, the U.S. Senate is taking a vote that could permanently end protections for one of the most beloved wilderness areas in America.

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

My childhood concept of being a grown-up did not consider how much of my adult life would be spent completing 2FA and Captcha challenges just to prove I am me.

Imagine trying to show off pics of your new dog at the family reunion but your cousin just flew around the moon on Artemis II?

Encouraging news out of Hungary!

So Stephen miller stopped refugee green card processing and now anyone without a green card loses Medicaid on Oct 1.

Atlanta - it takes about 5 minutes to call your rep and senators to demand they do all they can to stop Trump’s war crimes and pledge punish every person who carries out criminal orders. Rep. Nikema Williams (202) 225-3801 Sen. Jon Ossoff (202) 224-3521 Sen. Raphael Warnock (202) 224-3643

We need your help. The Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service. 193 million acres of public land (bigger than Texas) is being handed over to political operatives and industry insiders.

Imagine getting fired because you provided too LITTLE cover for a sex criminal?

Please don't forget this story. They deliberately dropped off Nurul Amin Shah, a blind refugee, in freezing weather miles away from home. Less than a week later, he was dead. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon are unconstitutional. The government doesn't get to decide what news the public has access to.

Absolute betrayal

Trump has spent the last several decades constantly criticizing the government (his presidency being the exception of course) and now wants to shut down and manipulate any remotely negative coverage of his own leadership? Such a tough guy…dishing it out but can’t take it.

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Absolutely despicable behavior from Tuberville, Ogles, and Fine…if you don’t really support the constitution…don’t run for office. Things like posting images of 9/11 and NYC’s new mayor are apparently not be beneath the office, but they should be.

Q: You said the war is 'very complete.' But your defense secretary says 'this is just the beginning.' So which is it? TRUMP: You could say both

Catching up on the news just to discover that someone figured out how to track movement and see through walls using wifi signals.

Ok but I really just want to know if any recently created polymarket accounts are betting "yes" on this...

Met a veteran in Atlanta last week who has to drive up to Rome GA to get the care he needs.

Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"

Pulling this from a longer thread that provides even more good observations and context from Mr. Bouie, but I wish more folks would include this kind of statement in their prognostications.

The Justice Department has filed lawsuits against Kentucky, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Utah, and West Virginia seeking access to their complete voter registration lists.

I can’t help but wonder if having authority over someone’s real estate holdings might give one a little leverage…

Of all the stupid, mendacious, insulting things Trump said last night, the thing that bothers me is his reference to voting as a privilege. It is not. It is a right. Privileges are optional. Rights are not.

One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

This is quite a read

More corruption

Earlier this month, we filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's suspension of immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries. Read more about our case and get answers to questions about the ban in our latest resource ⬇️ www.nilc.org/resources/qu...

England right now.

New LinkedIn Feature: You can add skills to *other* people's profiles. + Runs Marathon Meetings + Easily Replaceable etc.

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Exactly.

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com wired.com/story/social...

Georgia’s business success cannot offset the perennial underperformance in critical quality-of-life metrics.

What in the world. Google stuff.

Alford: "On Bad Bunny - we're still investigating. There's info out about the lyrics. I don't speak fluent Spanish, but if it's true what was said on natl TV, we have a lot of Qs for entities that broadcast it & we'll be talking w/ the FCC. This could be worse than the Janet wardrobe malfunction"

If you watched the Kid Rock halftime show you aren’t allowed to use the word “hurricane”, eat Pinchos, or drink rum. Furthermore you can’t celebrate Cinco de Mayo. I’ll entertain an exception for sociologists.