I've talked before about how much Stephen Colbert meant to me when I was learning what I wanted to do. Might have to do another thread soon in light of the final show. bsky.app/profile/anot...

Oh hey, a journalism job! Here! At RNS! www.linkedin.com/posts/debora...

WOW. Donald Trump basically just agreed with Governor Newsom: JD Vance doesn’t have what it takes to carry MAGA after Trump. Trump accepted the premise — then awkwardly stumbled through some half-hearted praise for JD. Brutal.

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

Useful for other syllabi as well.

Some of us are plugging the dam with our fingers trying to save meaningful, quality education. Our institutions aren't helping us. www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...

No surprise. And as technology (rapidly!) evolves, will get more and more challenging. Average Briton now struggles to identify deepfakes, study finds www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

The San Diego Islamic Centre shooting was not an isolated act of hate. It was part of a far-right “curriculum of violence,” where attackers study, cite, and try to outdo one another. My new piece for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-san-dieg...

REUTERS: “Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boys leader sentenced ‌to 22 years for seditious conspiracy over the January 6, 2021 riot, said he planned to get between $2 & $5 million.” We are so far off the cliff. 🇺🇸 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

REID: You're the nation's top law enforcement official. Would you be okay with people who were convicted of hurting police getting taxpayer money? BLANCHE: Just to be clear, people who hurt police get money all the time REID: 🤨

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Presidential Records Act is likely constitutional, issues preliminary injunction requiring compliance with the law. Judge Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, opens his opinion with an Orwell quote.

But aren't we holding politicians to accountability for killing people? Mixed messaging

I'm not a lawyer but conspiracy to kill charges, couldn't that also count for the USAID cuts, the pulling of troops, health issues like bola and measles spread. Couldn't basically every country other than Israel and Russia charge a certain leader?

Just going to leave this here.

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

So, uh, DOJ believes a federal official should be prosecuted for taking documents they’re not entitled to? abcnews.com/US/doj-charg...

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick tells PabloReports that he is working to stop Trump’s $1.7 billion weaponization fund: PabloReports: What do you make of this $1.7 billion weaponization fund? Fitzpatrick: Bad news. We’re going to try to kill it. We’re considering a legislative option.

a very confused Trump claims that Obama withdrew from Afghanistan (Biden did)

I had a couple days of killer deadlines, and ignored email. This morning was spent responding to all the emails. I have to say, there were a few emails of that were the best examples of kindness in academia. We often point out the negative, but damn there are some very kind humans.

NEW "We even have to include a tabletop exercise of me getting arrested" — Maryland's elections administrator Election directors across the US are preparing for everything from ICE showing up at polling locations to officials being arrested during November's midterms www.wired.com/story/electi...

Political operative and longtime Trump ally Michael Caputo files the first known claim for the Justice Department’s new “anti-weaponization” fund, seeking $2.7 million in restitution.

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

Spoke to @ianhanomansing.bsky.social about the San Diego shooting, the perpetrators, and the challenges of regulating the online space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=918S...

There you go. It's a bunker. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Mask off. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

This isn’t the only reason but maybe if fewer of them kept calling on trump to execute their enemies while also getting re arrested for sexually preying on minors, they would attract more sympathetic media coverage.

Jesus, look at this thing: www.justice.gov/opa/media/14... The IRS is apparently "FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED" from investigating Trump, his companies, and his family ever again because the Acting Attorney General (his old personal attorney) says so.

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Have you been injured? #slushfund

This is the piece I read on Trump controlling the money for insurrectionists

So a contractor leaked info on Trump's taxes--something every president since Nixon has freely released--and as a result Trump can cheat on his taxes FOREVER???

Unfathomable levels of corruption.

Thick as thieves. Manager at Trump’s N.J. Golf Club Helped Plan Reflecting Pool Repairs www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

As I wrote in my book Frontier City in a chapter about how the rules didn't matter under Fords, their 'Fest events at Thomson Park & elsewhere aren't not allowed under Toronto rules because they are political events. But it didn't, and doesn't, matter. Rules are for other (poor) people.

Having read some legal interpretations of this, Trump is in control of the money. He decides what happens. So if anyone thinks this cash is going to anyone but Trump and his family, you are really going to be shocked. But promising $ will help his base in the midterms

I do not think people realize just how ugly the Texas GOP's civil war will be if James Talarico wins. Tensions have been simmering for a decade. Establishment folks would blame the far right for Paxton, a weak candidate; the far right would blame Cornyn for weakening Paxton. It would be UGLY ugly.

Religion like this is a way of empowerment, for the speaker. It uses language of politics and Christianity, with goals of empowering the speaker in the moment and further in the future. This has very little to do with the book, the faith, or Christianity and everything to do with human desperation

Jared Polis should resign today and never return to politics.

The vice president of the United States is just standing up here saying people should feel sorry for domestic terrorists who were given free and fair trials and were then convicted in a court of law. Absolutely despicable.

Anyone else remember when world leaders did not say the most ridiculous shit? I miss those days

Symbolically, the tweet on a slow-news holiday Monday from Elbridge Colby, to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, sounds like a gangland threat uttered through clenched teeth: after all we’ve done together, are you really prepared to throw it all away, and have you really thought it through?

This is sadly true, but we can't forget what got us to Project 2025 and Trump. It was decades of dismissing conspiracy theorists, Christian nationalists, and fear mongering to their echo chamber. All of which was manipulated by very wealthy people to their benefit.

I spoke with @jenstden.bsky.social at the Tyee about far-right presenters being platformed at a web summit in Vancouver. The redemption arc that Lauren Southern is attempting, and why we would not accept this thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

This six paragraph story is the only article about “one of the most single corrupt acts in American history” that I can find on the New York Times home page this morning. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

I agree with the post for sure. I agree with the headline maybe (if it can be taken as, “there’s absolutely no point whatsoever in talking about it”)

Tonight sadness is a dark cloud over our home Sabres you made us proud.

Rep. Ogles: "Muslims don’t belong in American society," Rep. Fine on "mainstream Muslims": "I think you should destroy them first" Sen. Tuberville: "The enemy is inside the gates". Rep. Roy posted "No more Muslims" on his social media. None of them censured by Democrats. No penalty.

This is what Elon Musk, Russ Vought, RFK Jr, and of course Donald Trump, have brought us. So that insurrectionists and coconspiritors could be paid off instead.

Maybe it was a bad decision to reduce my stress by embracing hockey playoffs. Go Sabres!

UPDATE: Three adult men at the Islamic Society of San Diego have been killed during the active shooting, said San Diego Police Department Chief Scott Wahl during a press conference now. Two shooters confirmed dead. No motive yet. "We are considering this a hate crime until it is not," Wahl said.