Senators @warren.senate.gov and @wyden.senate.gov wrote to Pulte and his charity demanding answers. They wrote that our story raises “serious concerns that Team Pulte Inc. may have illegally funneled cash out of a charity to support President Trump.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

This is so utterly insane I’m at a loss. But it makes sense if you want to turn the entire US intelligence apparatus into a tool for domestic persecution and domination. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

Daniel Umemezie, named the National Youth Poet Laureate by Urban Word on April 25, is the first Iowan to hold the prestigious title. https://www.thegazette.com/news/cedar-falls-graduate-named-first-national-youth-poet-laureate-from-iowa/article_0b780438-9453-4e3b-8a1c-b2a414729616.html 

Martin-Baker is gonna have to make a new tie pin just for him

Your occasional reminder that Pete Hegseth is very arguably the least qualified person to hold a cabinet position in American history.

Alan Moore’s latest novel has an acknowledgements section in which he thanks the universe, a moon goddess, and a python god. it also includes this line: “Existence is a stupefying stroke of luck and we should all feel grateful to be part of it, even when much of it's on fire and overrun by Nazis.”

ICE agent, fugitive from justice in Minnesota, is arrested in Texas and now faces extradition. But ICE agent Jonathan Ross remains at large, armed and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/u...

Soldier your mission is to be a seat filler at our 80 year old president's big birthday fight! Strong sexy hunks ONLY! Absolutely NO uggos!

If you want to know more about my lawsuit against the $1.8B slush fund, here’s a quick explainer.

This is the slavery Pope Leo was talking about. How do you use a person's image to do work and you don't cite them or pay them? You just steal it.

Speaking of my current project I'm obsessed with right now: If you ever had a truly creepy Disney World experience, I'd love to read about it. I'm especially looking for creepy 1970s Disney World anecdotes. Please repost so I can hear from more people!

"Equal Time for Honor (Memorial Day)" (c) constance lee menefee ... "slain soldiers grow heavier when borne home and live soldiers restrained by burdens undisclosed must expiate survival in excruciating ways -" ...

I am EXTREMELY excited this training is happening at Netroots. If you'll be there you gotta go to this. #NN26

As a family who regularly watches storms and tornadoes from our Midwestern porch, this film looks exactly like our jam.

I am trying my hand at reviewing some fo the books I'm reading. Give it a read, let me know what you think and if you might be interested in more!

'If your reaction to all of this is relief, you are reading it wrong. If your reaction is to double down on the strategic, the human, the unteachable parts of creative work, you are reading it exactly right.'

For @jeffbakerauthor.bsky.social, seeking them sub markets, & @mothmanbelievesinu.bsky.social, fellow cryptid enthusiast. Got anything in your workshop for this devilishly ppealing antho?

I've been a journalist, writer, and editor since the 1990s. When my fellow writer-veterans asked how to get their own military-themed articles, essays, op-eds, fiction, books, and even poems published, I started the Aiming Circle. Here's what we do: linktr.ee/aimingcircle

I’ve long thought America’s lax (nay, intentional) approach to leaky data handling and regulation, dark data brokering, omnipresent personal surveillance, etc has always been a national security issue but this is a rather overt manifestation of that

An aspect of this story is that removing federal employees rights makes them less able to resist illegal actions. Its illegal to put living people on currency. But the Trump administration just pushed out the public employee. This is what they mean by "The Deep State."

It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

NEW: When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House.

it was never about kids, not one time

how it started off how it ended up going

This is the specific policy that allowed me to live with my now-spouse of 8 years, btw. Now I'm laying here with our baby sleeping between us and I can't really explain the depth of pain I feel for aspiring green card holders suddenly dealing with this. No cruelty too severe for this administration.

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Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

This speaks of inevitable futures, determined by gender, sitting in stark opposition Even at adolescence the experience is uneven, & these divisions persist into adulthood as memory, regret, & recognition The “we” implies these trajectories are systemic rather than personal #poetry #poemoftheday

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

Tulsi Gabbard losing her position as director of national intelligence is the second harshest loss of her political career, harsher than losing her seat in Congress and getting creamed in the Democratic presidential primary, but not quite as bad as when Bashar al Assad lost power in Syria.

Geopolitical Chaos is Wrecking Pandemic Agreements foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/22/t...

i often think about this review

Thread.

Greatest baseball logo ever — the Columbus (Ohio) Jets, 1955-1970. AAA farm club for the Pittsburgh Pirates. (Yes, I saw them play.)

"Altering the race and skin color of an important historical/mythological figure is blasphemy!" meanwhile

Proud to have work appearing in "Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War," an anthology of more than 60 war poets newly released from Scarlet Tanager Books! Via Amazon: amzn.to/4tFCcT3 More info via @aimingcircle.bsky.social: www.patreon.com/posts/158094... #warpoetry #ecopoetry

DoGE "accidentally" cancelled Ebola protection whilst raiding voter data.

About 2 weeks left to submit toward new volume of poetry and micro-prose on themes of "modern midwest monsters"! Deadline is Jun. 2, 2026! www.middlewestpress.com/2026/03/send...

HEY YOU GUYS. By @jakesteinberg.com from @beltpublishing.bsky.social. Cover by @downpourdw.bsky.social

Hertling: "Military memorials and cemeteries are not ordinary public spaces. They carry unwritten rules of conduct grounded in humility and respect for our nation’s fallen. These places exist first for the dead and for families who mourn them— open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse

Guess who’s probably NOT getting booed at graduation

Probably should be a bigger deal that the Trump Administration used taxpayer dollars to host a Christian Nationalist event in the nation's capital, but, nah. www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

This was singly the most predictable outcome of prediction markets.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is facing a serious threat from the Justice Department — and comes at a time when several former and current SPLC employees say the group is already deeply vulnerable.