The judge said that law still applies, no matter what the administration thinks. Presidential records belong to the American people, not the president.

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

Tremendous obituary for Ian Watson from Lisa Tuttle. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

If you experience frequent petition discharge, you might want to see a doctor.

"This is the eighth time in the last three years that a discharge petition has been used by some combination of Democrats and Republicans to do an end-run around GOP leadership." www.axios.com/2026/05/13/u...

New kind of phone but no one can call you on it and it only contains your favorite thing to read. Also it’s made out of paper.

In his opinion gutting the Voting Rights Act, Justice Alito cited misleading data to claim the racial turnout gap has closed. In fact, it has “exploded” over the last 15 years — thanks to the Supreme Court, says @kevintmorris.bsky.social.

I really love this series from the NYT and this is an all-timer www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/a...

SCOTUS voting rights decision “will usher in a bleaching of the nation’s legislative bodies unlike anything this country has seen since the “Redemption” of 1873–1877 ended Reconstruction and returned white supremacists to power throughout the South“ www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

Oh this is deeply dystopian. These people really think your brain and your body belong to them. And studies have already shown this kind of forced congeniality and emotional labor is linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety. Can't imagine constant surveillance improving that.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

If it’s “Bowser” with an S Then he’s Mario’s nemesis If it’s “Bowzer” with a Z Then from Sha Na Na he be

Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

“For this talented postwar writer, noir constituted the twisted literary progeny of Marx and Freud, thus providing a uniquely powerful means of depicting the nightmare that shadows the American dream.”

"Though Kluge, who died last month at the age of 94, has been typecast as the worthy, old-world éminence grise, his work isn’t so easily pinned down." Luke Dunne on Alexander Kluge: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/alexander-kluge-tribute-filmmaker-writer-new-german-cinema/

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be greetinge each othir "hey, miracle!" We sholde be daunsinge.

For the radiant Nathalie Baye. Among her 80 films, she won her first César in 1981, in Godard's Sauve qui peut (la vie).

Somethinge ys happeninge wyth poetrye. It ys showinge up more yn unexpectid places. People are talkinge about it more. Walke downe the streete and a poeme will fly above you. Somethinge ys goinge to happen wyth poetrye, somethinge goode. Poetrye ys on the move.

Just watched a video of Andy Weir describing neutrinos and he says they quantum tunnel through pretty much everything and I don’t feel this is an appropriate use of ”quantum tunneling” Anyway why ask a woman physicist when you can ask a dude novelist

BOTD Peter Ustinov!! MCCT5: 5)We're No Angels (Curtiz) 4)One of our Aircraft is Missing (Powell/Pressburger) 3)Lola Montes (Ophüls) 2)Spartacus (best performance in the film) (Kubrick) 1) Les Espions (Clouzot) More via 2004 obit: www.theguardian.com/media/2004/m...

Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2090...

My new piece for @liberalcurrents.com on the origins of the right's anti-intellectualism www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wa...

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

The IG algorithm finally showed me some positive content — turns out the chefs of some European embassies have been participating in, what seems to be, a cooking challenge in DC 🧑‍🍳 Norway ⬇️

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

please, allow me to introduce you to Sun Ra, The P-Funk Mothership, and Captain Benjamin Sisko. thank you. 😑

In 1993, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" made a Black man the star of a major sci-fi franchise and his character was like the Platonic ideal of a loving father, a great cook, a man who uplifted others, who was kind and tolerant but MILITANTLY so, and who also had flaws like any other human. Hail Sisko

I love graphics like these. A simple presentation conveys so much. Plus, excellent thread discussing the ramifications of this launch.

Public sector workers made that rocket launch happen.

Great to see BVG have finally rolled out their double decker U Bahn trains for 2026 👏

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...

For Alexander Kluge, a major influence in thought and image.

Simon Schama introduces the Walloon painting genius Michaelina Wautier, long unrecognized master of the 17th century. www.ft.com/content/77cb...

It’s great to see Hou’s CITY OF SADNESS (1989) receive a 4K restoration / re-release. For many years, it was difficult to find in its entirety. www.indiewire.com/news/general...

Written a Long Read before but first time I’ve seen it in print, print is the future…

“With a career spanning seven decades and touching nearly every corner of the humanities, any assessment of Habermas’s legacy is going to be complex.” From @mattpolprof.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/also-a-revie...

Habermas's habil at Marburg was a dodge. Adorno wanted Habermas to fill Horkheimer's chair, but it was against German custom to be promoted to Professor where you got your habil So Adorno refused to sign the habil and got connections in Marburg to do it. Presto, Habermas could then take H's chair.

Great pastoral/anti-pastoral, great Ray, great film www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/m...

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Can’t wait for post-post-truth, when truth comes back to bite.

I've always been fascinated by these Brutalist war memorials in the former Yugoslavia. They're featured heavily in Jóhann Jóhannsson's 2020 film, Last and First Men which is based on the Olaf Stapledon novel.

This is fantastic! Robert Reich: How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

For pioneering sound artist Éliane Radigue, 1932-2026.

Vought supposedly threatened a veto on the budget if it didn’t allow multi-year funding at NIH, the method by which he is forcing the agency to award fewer grants with the same budget, ending thousands of scientists’ careers each year. Ending medical research is a top priority of his.

how the CIA & MI6 got hold of Putin’s 🇺🇦 plans & why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials & other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the 🇺🇸 & 🇬🇧 uncovered Putin’s plans to invade www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...