Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

Alan Turing. An English mathematician, computer scientist, and World War II hero. He cracked the Nazi Enigma code, saving millions of lives. Despite this, he was chemically castrated by the British government for his homosexuality and died from cyanide poisoning. #GayPrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈

@normeisen.bsky.social and Karen Attiah, former last full-time Black columnist at the Washington Post, finally have a hearing on her firing. This is huge news for protecting First Amendment rights. WATCH LIVE: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

First day of #Pride month. Be kind to yourself, stay hydrated, and take care of each other. Promote smaller LGBTQIA2S+ artists, projects, and products. Ignoring the latest "discourse" is self-care. It can feel like a lot just existing, but please keep at it. The world is better with you in it. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖

“If you don’t leave … you are coming with us”

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.

GLM Lightning Mapper might point to a bolide (fireball) causing that very large boom over southern New England a little while ago.

ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall

JUST IN: A judge has ordered the release from ICE detention of a man who became the caretaker of his 1-year-old granddaughter (S.Z.H.) last year after the girl's father shot and killed her mother and himself — and shot, but didn't kill, his daughter too. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope. 📽️: David Rogers

Trump bought stock in the UFC’s parent company while promoting fights set to take place at the White House on his birthday, HuffPost has learned

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Nick Bilton, the new chief of 60 Minutes, once wrote a scary NYT column titled "Could Wearable Computers Be as Harmful as Cigarettes?" -- and then had to append an editor's note and a correction that are almost as long as the column itself. www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/s...

UPDATE: After loud backlash, @KnoxSchools has put ‘ROOTS’, a Pulitzer-prize winning state book, back in schools. tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/26/k...

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

Western Europe Bakes! Pink dots are all-time records for May. I count at 30, but there are many more. Temps 15°C+ (almost 30F) above normal. For some areas a heatwave this extreme this early is without precedent, but climate change makes it much more likely, more intense and longer lasting.. 1/

Parts of Kansas City was designed to have neighborhood shopping centers every few miles. It used to have a trolley (paved over & recently revived with a streetcar). It also has wide tree-lined thoroughfares in some places. You can also tell how at one point, that kind of planning stopped 😔

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Love how you can learn about life in Monroe through its community events calendar 😁

The Espionage Act has been used for decades to target journalists and whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing. Use our action center tool to tell lawmakers to pass the Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act and reform the archaic law.

ICE flights. Friday, May 22, 2026. The Costa Rica third-country removal is now confirmed, will update the tracker tomorrow morning. Another possible to Ecuador. And a Panama third-country transfer spotted by @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social.

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

Deadline is May 31 to apply for @journalists.org's 2026 Women's Leadership Accelerator! I'm coordinating it & while I know it's amazing, our alumni say it better: "best decisions I've made for my ... career" & "you can't comprehend the value..." Apply: www.journalists.org/womens-leade...

AI chatbots and scrapers are not disappearing anytime soon. In the meantime, publishers should consider all options when it comes to what it means for their audience strategy. This case study is about an org that chose to learn about and leverage its bot traffic to gain newsletter subscribers.

Colbert is not the only thing CBS is cutting this week. Tonight is the last night of CBS Radio after 99 years 😞

Wow - DHS circulated a “Be on the Lookout” alert to national law enforcement for Ben Palmer, the comedian who made that fake ICE tip line. Great work by @aurabogado.bsky.social: www.injusticewatch.org/civil-courts...

Every spring, college students moving out of dorms and apartments discard items from futons to mini-fridges. An innovative program at Illinois State University makes sure those items don’t go to waste. (via WGLT)

Patton Oswalt brutally slammed Trump for taking a victory lap over Stephen Colbert's show ending. Patton noted Colbert will be bigger than ever before once he's off network TV because he will complete freedom. A clip from my interview of Patton #Colbert #LateShow

“Up to 70% of rooms reserved by Fifa in Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Seattle have been cancelled, the AHLA said.” FIFA says this is normal 🧐 but as one who has made room block resys for events, this would be a catastrophic misjudgment www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

SIGN OF THE DAY…

“In 1876, before modern meteorological records, a super El Niño is thought to have contributed to a global famine that killed as many as 50 million people.” Fires, floods, whole ecosystems destroyed 😟 www.sciencefocus.com/news/super-e...

I thought corporate speak couldn’t get worse. I was wrong.

2026 in one statement: “Parker Loverich is a real reporter.” 😵‍💫 It’s also weird that they’d wholesale scrub Parker, including LinkedIn and X accounts? How fast was that investigation? 🧐

This is a travesty

"The companies behind the sports gambling platforms FanDuel, DraftKings and Fanatics Sportsbook poured $41 million into a new super PAC to spend on state-level candidates across the country."

Have you all seen this? 👀 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

“So what’s actually happening at the biological level? Coffee is the largest single source of polyphenols and antioxidants in the average Western diet, and its main bioactive compound, chlorogenic acid, suppresses several pro-inflammatory pathways while raising the body’s antioxidant defenses.”

This is also brilliant! And can’t help but notice how police in neon vests and bowler hats — not shields, helmets and riot gear — can still deescalate rowdy people.

“The question of the day was ‘Which side of the bridge are you on?’”

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Well this isn’t creepy at all

I'm worried about the effect AI gigs will have on our society. Mentally disorienting, morally crushing, financially unstable. Yet AI needs humans. "Between February and April 2026, I was hired and fired on seven different projects over four different platforms. The dismissals were always abrupt."

I’m so excited to be leading this program again! Applications are due 5/31. If you have questions, please come to the Q&A this Wednesday! 👇

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.

It appears that Democrats are bound by one set of rules while Republicans play by another, and Republican-appointed judges have repeatedly put their collective thumb on the scale of elections to make sure their party prevails.

“I do accept responsibility” for my behavior followed by “this is not me” 🤨