Bumblebee having a little rest in my garden. I always think their wings look like mica. 🐝 Did you grow up with a kerosene stove that had little mica sheet windows?

New York streets belong to New Yorkers, and Soccer Streets are for the kids. We’re turning the block outside your school into a car-free playground and World Cup celebration. Now until June 26, you’ll find Soccer Streets in front of 50 public schools across all five boroughs. Let’s play!

Molas, textile art traditionally made by women of the Kuna people of Colombia and Panama #womensart

Someone in network has to personally know Charles Yu, right? Anyone willing to pass a message along to see if he’s willing to write a note to the teacher?

Trump promised the Reflecting Pool makeover would cost $1.8M. The actual bill? $13.1M…quietly handed, no bid, no review, to a contractor who fixed his golf club pool. Now he’s being sued. Seven times over budget and counting. 📈​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/210248/...

Suffs digs deep into the gamesmanship wielded by the suffrage movement’s early 20th century leaders. The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical is now streaming free in full on YouTube and available through PBS’ Great Performances:

For fucks sake.

Florida. Mississippi. Louisiana. Tennessee. Alabama. The Trump courts and MAGA allies are resorting to a playbook that's as old as this country: silencing Black representation in government.

I feel ya buddy

One in two are also underwhelmed with this administration’s efforts to make anything less overwhelming. (Let alone safely and financially getting through a pregnancy and childbirth to raising an infant to adulthood in this anti-vaccine, bankrupting health costs dumpster fire of a society.)

Today I heard a phrase that fits the times we are living in perfectly. It couldn't be put any better: “Worse than ignorance is the shameless display of ignorance.”

May 11, 1980 | T-7 Days to Eruption Small bursts of steam and ash, fifth day in a row. Ten earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater. A new fumarole on the upper Shoestring Glacier. The bulge bulged. In the press, most scientists had quietly stopped saying "if St. Helens erupts." Now, it's "when."

ICYMI: Minnesota is now the first state in the country to enact a law that prohibits access to "nudification" technology. It targets programs that use artificial intelligence to fabricate a nude photo or pornographic video from someone's image. @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

It’s what these kinds of men do - steal the country’s money for their own gratification. If anything comes out of our experience with this, I hope it’s that Americans better understand how this happens elsewhere in the world instead of shrugging “third world”. But I won’t hold my breath.

Happy Second Birthday, Little Kitty! They threw a party for all of their friends. There’s more surprises waiting for you May 12th! ✨🐈‍⬛

Mr. Roboto by STYX is playing at the pizza place and all I can think of is Murderbot.

Meet Elisabet Ney, the unconventional artist who helped found Austin's art scene www.statesman.com/news/history...

Happy #MothersDay to all the mothers and caretakers who lead with love and hold it all together. Listen to our conversation with Progress Texas endorsee @juliejohnsontx.bsky.social, everywhere you stream Progress Texas Podcasts.

NEW NOVELLA IS DONE!!!!

A REMINDER “Trans people are not ‘issues,’ trans people are people who are just merely trying to live their lives as well and as honestly as they possibly can.” - Wilson Cruz PERIOD.

What taleed women we know; this is a photo by Ros Atkinson of a recipe from @irinageorgescu.bsky.social book, Danube Prospector pan made by our very own clever chaps and skilled ladies. www.netherton-foundry.co.uk/double-handl...

Good news!!

Good to hear @gaigedavila.bsky.social on @texasstandard.bsky.social this morning. Very interesting reporting

This is Lily. She’s been accused of drinking her mom’s slushie. Will not be taking any questions at this time. 14/10 (IG: iceedoglilly)

We're pleased to announce the signed, limited edition of Queen Demon by @marthawells.com, an oversized volume with illustrations by SubPress favorite @rovinacai.bsky.social. Queen Demon is expected to ship this summer. Preorder: subterraneanpress.com/newsannounci...

Persecution. Not “crackdown”. The past eighteen months of everything from the GOP has been PERSECUTION of immigrants of any status. We need journalism to start using that word. @texastribune.org

These are LEGAL immigrants who qualified for these licenses. But because they were not born citizens or naturalized yet, their livelihoods are being taken away. This is just one license but could easily expand to any. This is straight-up persecution. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/11/t...

Would you like some whimsy? We're sharing introductions to each of the rats in our Rat Trail by artist/maker Fong Scott. Watch now on our YouTube playlist! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

Pauchie is still available! That sweet face and blep could live with you!

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

This part right here. Heed the people you claim to be worried about or allies of who actually LIVE in these places. If those people don't think it's helpful to try to emulate the lightning in a bottle that was the HB2 boycotts in NC, then maybe listen to THEM about what they ACTUALLY WANT AND NEED.

I admire the hell out of these Texas Tech students, who held a funeral for academic freedom: pen.org/texas-tech-a...

Grandparents who fought in WW2 and who will deliver an ass-kicking for any kind of Nazi talk.

I’m a millennial who works in software. I’ve seen the quiet AI backlash and disdain from younger coworkers. It’s quiet because their leadership is wildly zealous about AI and openly objecting to AI would put those young people’s jobs at risk.

"How could the room full of people entering entry-level work not celebrate the tool aimed at eliminating entry-level work?"

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

I wrote this essay last fall for print only & I'm republishing it with their permission bc we're talking about didactism in kidlit right now and I have HAD thoughts about the connection between instructive lit and book banning. I'd be honored if you read it. www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2026/5/...

"Everlee Wihongi, 37, moved to the US w her family aged 6, & holds a green card...The family visited NZ in March for an uncle’s 80th birthday, but when they flew back to LA on 10 April, Wihongi was detained" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Not that it's OK for ICE to treat anyone this way, but this woman is a green card holder. She's a legal immigrant who did everything legally and she's been kidnapped by ICE.

It’s time. Meet in Selma. Saturday, May 16th. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

This is important and one to keep an eye on.

Happee mother's day to meee. Road trip today to pick up this bucket list wheel; an antique from Normandie with a Picardy flyer. Lots of old wormholes, so we know the grande dame is French. ;-) #spinningwheel #fiberarts #antiquespinningwheel 🧶

Voting rights

Gullah Geechee people set out to keep their family land. Unclear titles and surging taxes are pushing them out: Property disputes, predatory developers and surging sea levels are putting the historic Black community at risk On Arthur Champen’s half-acre property in Hilton Head Island, Sou...

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Catch up on everything we've published, so far, from the May/June 2026 issue of our magazine: www.texasobserver.org/issues/may-j...

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

And a lot of us non-white people too. It’s a hard truth to learn but one that’s incredibly important to understand in order to successfully make anything better.

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”