The anti-abortion movement weaponizes ‘parental rights’ to target youth abortion access/abortion broadly—only for state agents to then go after parents who help their children access abortion as 'unfit' or even abusive. @ifwhenhow.bsky.social's work on this issue is indispensable:

I remember hearing that and thinking “What do these people think Border Patrol and ICE have been doing in Texas all these years?”

PAUL TUDOR JONES, on CNBC this week, arguing that stocks have “more room to run” — thanks to the “productivity miracle” that is AI — before what he expects will be a “breathtaking correction.” @cnbc.com

so you'll be able to get a glock but not an abortion pill. that tracks.

This will kill a lot of people. Which is the point.

Because it really lets the elide questions about why their states are expensive, how segregated are their cities, and how are the police conducting themselves in their municipalities etc.

I'd have so much more respect for these genAI adopter types if they'd just say the honest relatable thing ie "I don't want to work" instead of all this daily BS

No one in this administration actually works

Because before I was a science journalist I got a PhD in physiology and pharmacology. In specifically, the effects of drugs of abuse on the brain. And then I did a post doc studying the effects of antidepressants on the brain. So.

I have many, many issues with this particular coverage of RFK Jr's latest crusade against antidepressants (wild how they only got comment from people who wanted to quit them). First, RFK's LANGUAGE www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

'Big Tech’s record $725bn AI investment strategy is beginning to strain the resources of America’s largest companies, leaving them with less cash left over this year than at any point in the past decade.’ www.ft.com/content/b3df...

We’re in the “break glass in case of emergency” moment for American democracy. Democrats can create 22 new blue US House seats by 2028 by redrawing maps in: – New York – Colorado – Maryland – Oregon – Wisconsin – Minnesota – Pennsylvania Time to take action.

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

scova: the only consistent rule is that liberals arent allowed to win virginia democrats: we have to respect the rules

Trump’s push for mass deportation, building on Romney’s proposal for self-deportation, really undercuts the idea that what we’re witnessing is a “natural” thermostatic backlash to “wokeness.”

And each of the yes votes was only 0.000032% of the total votes cast so who can say if there was even an election

“This one homicide is part of a much larger pattern that has emerged out of the second Trump era: Ever since the 45th and now 47th US president returned to power, immigrant deaths in ICE custody have surged as the Trump-Vance…

The party of local control has decided that "local" means wherever they have control www.texastribune.org/2026/05/08/a...

The notorious Florida immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” may be winding down operations soon, Gov. Ron DeSantis acknowledged on Thursday.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

FWIW, libraries—under intense budget pressure—have long been making the same move, from self-hosted library management systems (also called LMSs, confusingly) to cloud-hosted ExLibris. Librarians can of course say more about whether they fear the same vulnerabilities.

Americans: I can't afford gas or groceries Bezos' Washington Post:

That’s crazy. You’re telling me the exact same strain anti-majoritarian jurisprudence that was literally built out of the logic of an apartheid chattel slave empire is reshowing itself at the precise moment that white fascist apartheid is reconsolidating itself in the south? In my legal system? No…

Every CFO at every Canvas institution should put a stop payment on the next SaaS withdrawal. Things do not get better from here.

In the comments: ”I'll just note that Canvas is no longer a pedagogical tool; in its current iteration and ownership structure, faculty and students are trapped in a digital learning environment that mines our labor without consent or privacy and intellectual property protections.”

I think if I were Taiwan looking at The State of Things I would conclude that a) middle powers can very credibly hold up the military might of the great powers and actually deny them victory, and B) this does not actually stop the Great Powers from invading anyway. Wouldn't feel great.

There is a little too much emphasis on formal contracts between local police and DHS in the media. (Part of this is just the ability to quantify and data viz 287g agreements.) But, informal cooperation is wildly common and most people will never know. nysfocus.com/2026/05/07/o...

The fact that if I ran for local office and won, I would have to take a pay cut to manage a $1.3 billion budget and make decisions that directly impact the well-being of half a million people is kind of insane. Unpopular but true: we under-pay our often disappointing politicians.

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

The Democrats had a 50 state strategy under Howard Dean until 2009 when new leadership came in. I think about this a lot. State houses are where voting rights are made or broken.

FEMA’s top official said that the “vast majority” of calls were answered during the deadly Texas floods. But new data indicates that the agency failed to answer 58% of the calls, and the average wait was 61 minutes at the peak.

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

I think we need to be more blunt that they're just making up BS reasons because they hate renewables and like fossil fuels even when the former makes more sense.

They want wellness snake oil to be the healthcare system, because they want vast, vaaaassst quantities of people to die.

icymi trump defunded an important yale lab that works on pandemic and climate change risk *as the hantavirus outbreak unfolded*. that deserves more attention

The thing with Trump and pandemics is the one thing his administration did right on Covid RFK Jr is dead set against ever happening again.

By 4 p.m., the NAACP filed in Davidson County Chancery Court for an emergency injuction against the maps. A link to the full filing has been added to our story.

so the email from the college admin asking us to download everything in case we are able to log in to canvas implies 1) nothing is backed up, and 2) they have no idea whether/when it's coming back right? lmao. i have no access to any of the grades i gave all semester. means everyone gets an A, no?

RFK Jr. showing his eugenicist beliefs. Here he is today at The City Club in Cleveland: "The average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. So what was really killing them? It was almost impossible for COVID to kill a healthy person. It was killing people who were already sick."

Like none of you is available to create something more novel than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or He-Man? You can only milk nostalgia but so much.

American-style authoritarianism won't stay in Alberta

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

Just reminding everyone that Black political representation has material effects on policy. It’s so effective that the last time Black politicians were run out of office (Reconstruction), it was with violent force. They paid with their lives for their success. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"This country is safe to travel to even though it has a bunch of oppressive laws because no one enforces them" is one of the most dangerous pieces of advice travel influencers can give!

This shit is disgusting.

Louise Lucas led Virginia's response to Republican gerrymandering. Then the FBI swarmed her office.

It took me nearly 20 years to pay off my student loans. I don't want the new generation of students to have student loans that they have to pay off. This is a minority position in the U.S. and speaks badly about this country.

What does a university have that Google cannot offer its workers? Art History departments, Classics departments, History departments, Music Theory, etc. The humanities are what distinguishes universities in an AI economy. Universities defunding the humanities are digging their own graves.

I’m just trying to imagine the coverage a Democratic administration would get if gas was $4.55 and Dems were like, ‘Sounds great to us!’ Fox would be asking when white folk would be violently storming the Capitol. Again.