Now that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...

We barely squeaked by. Reform the court now.

Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷

WATCH — @rokhanna.bsky.social : “The 🇺🇸 are tired of Netanyahu’s arrogance. They think we should tell him 🇺🇸 calls the shots. They want LESS cooperation and blank checks to 🇮🇱, not MORE.” He moved to block integrating 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 militaries as Bibi asked for. (while pretending he wants less aid)

Holy fuck, they not only cut the whistleblower's break line, they disabled his airbag and other safety features.

The targeting or removal of journalists like Scott Pelley should concern every American, regardless of political affiliation. A free press &the First Amendment are essential safeguards of democracy.Free speech & a free press are not partisan values they are the foundation of a free society. #SheShed

When ACA premium tax credits were boosted, record numbers of Americans got covered. Republicans let those credits expire, then turned around and backed Trump’s $200B Iran war ask. Less care, more war. #FundHealthcareNotWar

Feds subpoena Hasan Piker over Cuba trips. NSPM-7 is here! www.foxnews.com/politics/fed...

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

It only takes a few minutes to tell the FCC that this sucks

Tonight’s Features: Aftersun & Shortbus

Ate Taco Bell myself today. No regrets.

Contributors (cont.): , Alex Dodt, David Anson Lee, Will Falk, Davey Long, and Jo Ann Clark. Cover art by Richard Hanus.

Issue 34 arrives like a fresh sprout following a long, dark winter. Featuring brash and velvety new work from around the the globe!

Our latest issue finds us rushing through time and space courtesy of new work from @geoliminal.bsky.social Elisabeth Sheffield, @israelbonilla.bsky.social Roberto Ontiveros, @supernaturalfeat.com @juliaevem.bsky.social Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, @addisonzeller.bsky.social

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

I'll be teaching for Flash Fiction Magazine, the art (and it is an art) of compression! Free workshop on May 23rd!

reminder that one of the most promising emerging treatments for glioblastoma, the most lethal of all cancers, is customized MRNA vaccines, which HHS under Trump now refuses to fund: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I understand the cynicism Ohioans are feeling. Many people think the system is too broken and that we can’t fix it. But I know Ohioans, and when we fight for change, we make it happen.

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

The extended libity bibidty cinematic universe fucking sucks.

Ahh, yes, the unpopular decisions like “black people don’t deserve political representation,” or “rich people should be able to control everything,” or “women shouldn’t be in charge of their bodies.” Truly a man committed to justice.

The dumbest supervillain. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Not new idea but if i were a dogooder with actual money concerned about media i would pick a dozen medium sized cities in swingy states and bring back local journalism.

How much could a ballroom cost? A billion dollars? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

“Everyone in American school is so friendly to ask me how I got a head so large,” said Davor Radogost, who told reporters his classmates graciously go out of their way to comment on his odor and thanked a passing student who shouted, “Nice capris, bitch!”

NEW: SEIU California joins California Nurses Association, United Domestic Workers, California Teachers Association, IATSE and other unions backing Tom Steyer.

NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

A great win for working-class anti-war politics!

Excited about the @grahamformaine.bsky.social news. I appreciate that people have concerns—I also think it's important to allow people the grace to become better versions of themselves. This is what building a working-class coalition looks like.

Graham Platner Will Be Maine’s Democratic Senate Nominee The anti-war, anti-Israel oysterman is Democrats’ presumptive Senate nominee in Maine, after Governor Janet Mills suspended her candidacy, @andrewperez.bsky.social reports. Read: zeteo.com/p/graham-pla...

Thanks to @keithjpowell.com, @livingjelly.bsky.social,and everyone at @yourimpossiblevoice.com for publishing this new story of mine, "Courtship," on their awesome journal's site today! yourimpossiblevoice.com/courtship/

Seeing Michael Tracey and Matt Taibbi gang up on smearing Virginia Roberts Giuffre when she can no longer even defend herself is truly sickening. Their little routine of denying that Jeffrey Epstein did anything that bad may make them money from fellow freaks but it’s harmful to victims everywhere

You know you guys fired the photographer who took this photo.

Oddity is such a good movie.

The creator of He-Man is suffering from dementia and his wife had to set up a gofundme to fundraise despite the fact that Amazon MGM is releasing a multi-million dollar live action adaptation of the franchise this year www.gofundme.com/f/support-ro...

And now, a conversation with Columbus Crew President of Business Operations Mary Shepro about the theft of McCoy Park. in

About 1,100 Afghans who supported US forces, including interpreters and their families, are being held at a US-run facility in Doha. They may be offered relocation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo or return to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan after US resettlement was halted.-ABC News

NEVER COMPLY IN ADVANCE

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Kelsey has suggested that the opposite of The Raid 2 is Little Women.

This is not a knock on DMB but if you had told me twenty years ago that Dave Mathews would be this outspoken on an issue that Radiohead completely shat the bed on, well... I would've been surprised!

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

As always, if you need a cover (or interior) designed, please don't hesitate to contact me! I feel like I haven't been designing enough covers this year and would love to correct that.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18. Ask yourself why they won’t” Josh H.

Israeli bombs that the United States paid for. It is unconscionable we continue to provide aid to Israel as they continue to murder civilians and violate international law in Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank. No more money to Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime.

A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for these new customers.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.