A D.C. report on progress in a new pilot program to reduce school truancy says that while Latino kids are a relatively small proportion of truant kids, those who have been truant have become more truant over fears of ICE activity. One kid, *a U.S. citizen*, was detained by ICE.

It always sucked as an equilibrium, to be clear. The conclusion that it must be killed is uncomfortable because it requires us to, sigh, figure out how to get Congress to work.

He’s a fast talker. He’s a quick thinker. Neither of these make him even smart, much less good.

This is the only Odyssey adaptation that understands that the hero is an impulsive himbo who deserves his many ass whoopings. It is entirely believable that this Odysseus would get a bunch of his guys turned into pigs by a sexy witch.

Original photo (and many others) by @nicolehester.bsky.social here www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

Are you kidding me. Consulates are, in addition to being very important for the ability of governments to retain relationships with their diasporas, the entities you need to engage to get travel documents to deport someone. I have some questions about the long-term thinking here!

Subscription service that just sends you the same cat toy every three weeks forever so you can replace it by the time it’s been fully destroyed

Meanwhile there are magazines that deserve more attention. The Prospect is great right now. Liberal Currents is trying to make the left-liberal coalition work from the liberal side. I’m trying to make it work from the left side at Dissent

The rule is that for every time you share an article from Jacobin that you didn’t like you have to subscribe to Dissent so consider your choices carefully

World’s smallest Los Angeles Lakers fan has logged back on #PennyHelping

Not really relevant to this thread but sometimes, when I’m having a really rough time, I tell myself “Sniper made it through.” I won’t gloss the reference for spoilers but if you get it, let’s be friends.

I’m coming to the uncomfortable conclusion that we have reached the end of the road on the viability of the 21st-Century Balance of Powers (executive branch makes policy; judicial branch has a veto; legislative branch keeps the other two running via executive funding and judicial appointments).

This bot just keeps on giving

Still have the event merch page up but that specific shirt is definitely not there. shop.indycar.com/collections/...

Sigh. Love to defend my favorite series from itself, again. A reminder that if you’re planning to come to the DC Indycar race and want to help show that America/DC/Indycar are for everyone, you should hit me up.

I’m in favor of this practice

Ok so like…Pynchon. I tried to read The Crying of Lot 49 as a teenager, and found it infuriating, and gave up early. I’m currently trying to read Inherent Vice, and mostly it makes me sleepy, and…honestly that’s also the effect THC has on me so points for verisimilitude I guess? But ?? Help???

I know I’ve already reposted but…Trump I demolished a global refugee resettlement infrastructure in the name of vetting. Biden, somehow, genuinely rebuilt it. Trump II hasn’t just redemolished it but made a farce of it, by building an active recruitment pipeline which is the opposite of vetting.

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

Visas revoked for journalistic outlet board members who criticized Trump allies. Very bad for First Amendment freedoms of the press & to speak truth to power. Fits alongside the attacks on Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, & tech researchers for their free speech. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/w...

#PennyHelping enforce an end to the workday.

I continue to believe that one of the biggest stumbling blocks for high-info people who are bearish on AI is that, if you’re not in the industry, a lot of the people you expect to _know what they are talking about_ are spouting stuff like this. Which makes it awfully hard to see who _does_ know.

Genuinely trying to figure out what it means to shift from a deeply-ingrained “what differentiates humans is that we are THINKING animals” to “what differentiates humans is that we are thinking ANIMALS” in midlife

Just spent an evening talking AI and have become convinced only that we are at long last building the built different from this meme:

#PennyHelping: not only did she climb on me to help me look under the couch for her toys, but she is now playing with one I didn’t even find that she managed to unearth from somewhere.

Important #PennyHelping news; The tail threat has been neutralized. She has caught it.

Also is not at war because it is in a ceasefire, during which a blockade continues, which hopefully nobody notices is definitionally a continuation of war

The United States is not at war for purposes of the War Powers Act clock, but is at war for purposes of characterizing dissent or opposition as treason. Got it.

@blanksslate.bsky.social has literally ordered extra rice from takeout places in the expectation of future fried rice. And then I remember the rice containers in the fridge and dig through them with a fork like a heathen. I am why we, as a civilization, can’t have nice things.

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. —Penfold Blanks-Lind.

#PennyHelping by trying to cause a foul in the basketball game but I can’t tell if she’s trying to favor the Wolves or the Nuggets

I’m genuinely concerned that Overtone hair-color preservation products are so good that kids aren’t being forced to cultivate a zen attitude toward modifying their appearances. But for me, personally, I deserve all this and I love it. (Pictured with just-woke-up hair but also with Penny)

It’s an utter tragedy that I learned about this at an age where I simply cannot in good conscience make jello shots.

We have a disagreement over whether this counts as #PennyHelping but she clearly thinks it does.

America’s teensiest Lakers fan maybe shouldn’t have picked a Western Conference team

Mhmmmmm

TFW you’re like “oh that was probably an old-school Vox product I wonder who wrote it” and….uh, lol

Penny’s sports preferences: -Yankees -Los Angeles Lakers -Indiana Hoosiers football -Mercedes (we haven’t had an F1 weekend yet but she literally turned up the volume on the German anthem) Also she only pays attention to GTP (IMSA) and Hypercar (WEC) Nothing But The Best For Our Girl (sigh)

This is by no means an exoneration of Jackson, the estate, or the film, but NYer profile of director makes clear: only after principal photography finished was he told that settlement with one of the victims prevented him (bc fam was involved as producers( from depicting any of the events involved

Sorry to everyone but it turns out Penny does not yet have a way to #PennyHelping a discussion of the virtues of procedural justice (If we had a yard, that would absolutely lead our “IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE THAT” sign)

(Centrist and resistlib are not the same and I can’t believe anyone really thinks they are in 2026??)

#PennyHelping: sound up for purr motor you guys.

My theory prof Barney Bate (z’’l) used to argue with me the postmodernists were really still modernists, and, thinking for the fifth time already this week that a child working in the same profession as their parents is a sign of weakness in society, I am at long last forced to conclude he was right

#PennyHelping, laundry day edition: -kept fresh laundry warm by napping in it -shook creases out of clothes as I hung and folded them -boxed stack of clothes hangers in case they got any funny ideas about attacking

In addition to everything else, “pluck out” is not a verb that is used to indicate fluent or professional playing. So if you write that you listened to the Navy Band “pluck out” military and patriotic songs, I assume you’re trying to insult their musicianship.

Who recommended I read Atmosphere? Because it’s very much not the sort of thing I usually fall for and I have FALLEN FOR IT SO HARD.

Very few of us really know anything, and even fewer of us have anything insightful to say about it. Here’s a kitten.

Song parodist for hire (But actually: website covering motorsport from the perspective of power)