NEW on “Paper Trail”: Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It also cost nearly $1,000 per pill, even though that same pill cost just 25 cents to make. Listen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts:

How the flamingo became a potent protest symbol

Iran said US air strikes had left 20,000 residents in its southern Hormozgan province without water after two storage reservoirs were destroyed in the latest exchange of fire between the two sides. The flare-up came after Iran shot down an American helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz.

My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

don’t think i have ever seen a politician as feckless and cowardly as starmer

Great news: the courts will have a chance to rein in the abuses at Camp East Montana, the infamous tent camp built on Fort Bliss in El Paso. I have known seasoned veterans of this field who visited the camp and came away saying it was one of the worst ICE detention centers they’d ever been to.

DHS paid just over $1 billion for the eleven properties. A review of state tax and land records and commercial sales data shows the government paid above the most recent valuation at every one of the sites and above recent market comparables at most of them.

The White House site casts ICE arrests as an alien invasion, using crime and gang labels to imply criminal threat while public data shows many detainees have no convictions.

A 'mind-blowing' swim for survival and complex abdomen reconstruction saved Sam after Thursday Island shark attack

For those unaware, the object the … goon is about to strike that man with is *designed* to break bones. it can shatter a pelvis. It is a brutal and sadistic weapon and belongs in like Warhammer 40k, not in real life. If a billy club is nasty, that thing is basically ‘we are aiming to maim and kill’

Inculcation Time

Has held a Norwegian passport for 24 years - got rejected on US entry to the World Cup Sarmed Saify was looking forward to seeing Norway meet Iraq in the United States. Now the player developer in Rosenborg has to stay home. www.nrk.no/trondelag/ha...

In a way you're grieving a life you were looking forward to living. Give yourself good experiences, even though you're in pain and suffering. Take up a hobby that puts you in touch with an expansive feeling, skating, swimming, biking, cross country skiing, sailing, preferably something with glide.

Commerce.

Our system of governance derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed. When public servants conceal information or lie to the people they serve in order to manufacture that consent, our public servants soon become our masters. An NDA is anathema. Nobody should sign such a pledge.

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Just a periodic reminder that this obscene-wealth-to-scale website exists and should be viewed by everyone eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

You can pre-order the audiobook from Libro.fm

The latest technology for finding Anne Frank "The new technique instead takes advantage of normal communication between WiFi routers and connected devices. ...Because this information is transmitted without encryption, anyone within range can potentially read it."

@realwhitneywebb.bsky.social "a lot of it is made possible by these moneyed interests that greatly influence both countries. But again, it's broader than the US and Israel. But you can see it very significantly by looking at the oligarch networks of those two countries in particular."

NEW! from Max Jones and Diego Ramos When it was reported that Wegmans grocery stores were utilizing facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect data on their customers, the company declined to disclose the software-end of its surveillance machine...

All Uncles, both grandparents, my parents and spouses are buried there - I was little when Dad took us to see graves, & explained that the soldiers buried on Lee family ground had a "sacred line of sight" to Lincoln's memorial. Arlington Cemetery families & staff need a say in this!!!

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

This week's Nonviolence News reflects on ironic and iconic struggles. We take a look at the Global Sumud Flotilla, recent worker strikes, mass protests in Kenya and Bolivia, and much more. Enjoy. nonviolencenews.org/2026/05/23/m...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Take the new day Make a new start

India doesn't like the tune Norway's journalists are playing. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy...

Commerce.

Stephen Colbert returns. Only in Monroe Friday May 22nd 2026

The push to cut funding from the National Academies of Science will involve illegally impounding funds on the claim that fringe Republican lawmakers understand what constitutes the “gold standard” for science better than the best scientists in America. www.aip.org/fyi/republic...

It is a matter of moral urgency that the next administration has a policy of making everyone involved in this and all other Stephen-Miller-tier immigration policies as miserable, bereft, and hounded as humanly possible for the rest of their lives

Fearing their time is running out, the hard right may turn to an increasingly aggressive strategy: breaking things. Trump seems to be preparing to do so.

"Global Sumud Flotilla says they have documented 15 counts of sexual assault. The worst allegedly happened on an Israeli landing vessel, which was converted into a temporary prison."

This should terrify everyone👇

www.wired.com/story/startu... Americans, especially in CA, should read about Prospera in Honduras.

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard is out as DNI. That's good, but her office shouldn't exist, either:

"...fascism is a funny thing. It makes you constantly think about pyjamas. The footmen of such regimes always come knocking on your door at around four in the morning. They not only imprison you, but also shame you based on your choice of nightwear."

I am so excited about @kylietcheung.bsky.social's latest piece—as we head into the midterms, it's so vital for people to understand that abortion rights isn't just about state or national lawmakers. VOTE LOCAL jessica.substack.com/p/2026-elect...

Every job posting warns of exposure to toxic chemicals and extreme temperatures at the facility, which the state has argued in court was built to store goods, not house people.

Where’s your free market now, Moses? www.kcrg.com/2026/05/20/i...

The FBI wants coverage in these areas: Eastern 48 (East of the Mississippi River); Western 48 (West of the Mississippi River); Hawaii; Puerto Rico; Alaska; and outlying areas such as Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or Tribal Territories. Documents show the FBI is willing to pay $6 million for each.

this is a masterpiece

NEW Trump’s admin quietly brought back cyanide bombs on public lands. Spring-loaded traps that fire sodium cyanide into animals’ faces. 🧵

the jury effectively found us guilty of criminal damage, but the four people .. will be sentenced as terrorists most likely...we weren't allowed to say the words genocide and ethnic cleansing...to justify or even explain our actions and the jury..had no idea that we would be sentenced as terrorists.

and E here means we're going to get Trump allies "volunteering" to do luxury travel and propaganda creation on the taxpayer dime

"In fact, Europe’s seabeds are so extensively destroyed that to find a reference for a healthy seabed ecosystem, researchers turned to historical records. There are no surviving seabeds that meet the old descriptions. "