“Producers in Texas are being pressured NOT TO REPORT potential cases” of screwworm

This isn’t freedom.

Australian officials say they confiscated more than 100,000 illegal live cockroaches from a breeder in the country's largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

Pete Hegseth dropping deism and Unitarian Universalism from accepted religions in the military is honestly almost too fucking hilarious for me to be properly outraged about.

House Republicans joined by 4 Democrats vote to literally take food away from pregnant women and children

Happening now in Albany Park: Protesters are gathering in the corner of Kedzie and Lawrence to protest ICE’s increasing activity in Chicago. On Tuesday morning a man was was taken by federal agents by this intersection, sparking two days of protests and demonstrations.

’Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled.

It wasn't just his brake lines either. His airbags were subtly disabled in a way that prevented the car's sensors from detecting that they were no longer operable. (It's puzzling; it seems like such a professional hit job, and that doesn't align well with the Elon Musk stochastic terrorism frame.)

Chinese authorities are snuffing out any remembrance of the deadly 1989 military crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. Police told relatives of the victims they would not be allowed to visit a cemetery in Beijing on June 4, source says. apnews.com/article/chin...

Screwworm confirmed in Texas in the midst of having the worst imaginable people in charge. I guess we’re gonna have to keep getting hammered by infectious disease until we realize public health has a point.

This was always coming. Always. And history tells us what will come next.

Marjane Satrapi was 56.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas.

I can’t believe we’re sleepwalking into this shit.

The Coolidge coin is actually quite a rare collectible precisely because the public didn't like it and the Treasury eventually melted most of them down. As a result, the rule against living persons on coins was instituted soon thereafter.

🚨Ian Austin, 6-tour combat veteran, shows us his injury after NJ state police struck him with a projectile outside Delaney Hall ICE prison. "We're willing to f*cking die here!" he shouts at police. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️

seeing reports of rubber bullets and tear gas with an absolute deluge of police forces at Delaney. for tue second night in a row, people are facing cops on charging horses. the governor said sending in state police was “deescalating” the situation.

We murdered three more people in a boat today

It's really important that Seth Moulton isn't just eating shit, but he's eating shit specifically because he tried to get Democrats to abandon trans kids.

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

Good morning

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

In fact, the ACTUAL relevant critique is that this fund will further fund white supremacist militia and paramilitary forces. Shouldn't that be the MAIN thing repeatedly hammered home to the public? Nope.

We're told that Trump's fund is terrible because money will go to people "who assaulted police officers." This is the frame of every single Democratic politician. It's the only legible critique they levy.

after all the "ghost director" controversy, it was funny to watch something that is so totally and obviously made by a 20 year old.

I always think of what the smart and menschy director Arthur Penn told me about the early- and mid-'60s years just before everything changed when I interviewed him for Pictures at a Revolution: "It wasn't just that we were sick of the system. At that point, the system was sick of itself."

Now Paramount+ is cycling through other thumbnails. What Star Trek fan could forget these unforgettable characters from “II” and “III”?

sir, we’ve lost the fake C+C music factory

Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.

After he did it they voted for his judges

I get to talk about the best movie i've seen this year. Check it out.

A Mr. Reinhold, who was detained in several camps, here describes his daily meals given in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Three meals a day! ‘Food: early ¼ coffee, midday ½ water gruel, evenings 200 grams bread with 20 grams margarine, or a slice of sausage’

The ABC television network on Thursday accused the FCC of threatening its station licenses as part of a campaign of “unconstitutional retaliation and coercion.”

et tu, Milli Vanilli?

Called this back in October

My lord. @willbunch.bsky.social with a powerful piece on the latest atrocity under this barbaric administration. Monsters all.

Props to the creators who only specialize in hotel corridor carpeting, for they are the ones who disguise all of our sins.

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

Being investigated for the crime of being raped by Donald Trump.

"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026" New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

An ICE-detained death rate of 88.9 per 100,000 would exceed the homicide rates in Tijuana (62.7 per 100,000) and Ciudad Juárez (61.1 per 100,000). Source: bit.ly/4dJWOn6

“On Wednesday morning, the Justice Department went to court to advance an argument that, if accepted, would all but erase the existence of transgender people in the law.” Read my report at Law Dork:

Amazing how few of these guys can go down with even a shred of dignity left

They’re really going to go with vegan is worse than the seven deadly sins made flesh.

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

The Supreme Court will face the tough choice of either a) following its own principle, quashing election chaos in Alabama and protecting Black voters from disenfranchisement or b) helping out its Republican allies.