Trump is directing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prioritize cases of discrimination against white men, but commission staff are "struggling to find complaints with merit"

Middlebrow media enjoyers rise up. We want art with complex stories and emotional nuance featuring characters with interiority and yes we also want them to solve a murder or be a spy or kill a vampire or something

Chillingly explicit blood and soil nationalism here

Hello, Bluesky! We, the staff of Scientific American, are pleased to announce we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Just as mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, we are the powerhouse of the publication, and we’re excited to have a new way to contribute to its success.

The 85-year-old widow “was chained by her wrists and ankles to other inmates and loaded onto buses and a plane ‘like a potato sack.’ After two weeks in detention in Alabama and Louisiana, she said, she feared she might die.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

AI identified her as the suspect in a crime spree in states she had never been to. she was in jail for six months before she even got to speak with an officer and they instantly were shown they had no case. she lost everything—her house, dog, car, and was left stranded in north dakota.

It's just the natural evolution of conservative talk radio for the smartphone age. People calling in and being like "you know what grinds my gears? The Other" and the host goes "amazing, finally someone speaking the Forbidden Truth." It's as proven a business model as has ever existed

1. A new Fox News poll shows Democrats at +13 on transgender issues. Voters find Democrats positions on trans people much more preferable to Republicans. This includes urban and suburban voters, moderates, religious voters, and more. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Dell is one of the only reporters who actually reads bills that he writes about and it shows

Goodhart’s law all the way down.

Ben Franklin, on why you should get your kids vaccinated: “In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.

"Rogue actors have breached the Mythos protocols, potentially giving them access to all the world's software vulnerabilities" is the kind of problem that by all rights should be solved by Tom Cruise sprinting through an airport

we all know I have no life, so:

I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public

Terrible damage to children is being done in our name. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/i...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

ghoulish

For almost four years, the city of Joplin fiercely guarded the identity of a SWAT sniper who shot Clesslynn Crawford in the head during a hostage standoff. For two of those years, the officer and Joplin have fought KCUR and The Midwest Newsroom in court to hide the officer’s name.

The defense secretary is derisively comparing the media to a maligned group of rabbinic Jews, the FBI director is denying reports of drunkenness on the job, the vice president is in a two-front theological war with the pope and Erika Kirk, Donald Trump is still president, and gas is $4. Happy Friday

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

my job is laptop but I don't fully understand laptop so my daily life is full of small mysteries and this keeps me beautifully naive as like a foal

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

Exciting Bolts news: @burness.bsky.social's amazing, distressing, infuriating article on how Alaska is prosecuting a community of American Samoans for voting, is a finalist for an "Breaking Barriers" award from the Institute of Nonprofit News. Don't miss it, if you haven't had time to read it:

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

Oh, every one is always nostalgic for the geocites era web but when somebody actually makes a platform that crashes every 10 minutes, suddenly everybody wants future technology, I see how it is.

NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

It’s just a joke dude. It doesn’t mean anything. Information has no coherent structure . Ideas don’t touch reality

fox just had a banner referring to mamdani's planned grocery store as "trader zo's," and one must admit that's a good bit

Can confirm

Last summer, an incarcerated woman in Missouri had a hot flash while we were on the phone. Since then, I've been talking to people around the country about what it's like to go through perimenopause and menopause in prison. Here's the result, co-published by @themarshallproject.org and @19thnews.org

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

The Washington Post put an AI on its homepage that literally generates misinformation on tap.

This week is the first at the Daily News since Heath Freeman's Alden Capital laid off our entire print production staff. It's embarrassing to open the paper we work so hard for each day and find mistakes like this. Is this the level of editing New Yorkers can count on going forward?

Can someone out there please count up all the CPAC speakers who ranted about George Soros funding left wing causes? Be sure to take breaks and stretch every hour or two.

Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this. In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications. Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”

Irving Berlin (né Baline) was a psy-operative

When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.

if you wanna see wild deep state shit, just watch and try to wrap your head around the list of democrats who vote this month to let tulsi gabbard and kash patel use wiretaps without a warrant

ICE has detained over 6,200 children during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to recently released numbers analyzed by the Marshall Project. Advocates warn trauma from detentions will cause kids lifelong damage.

Bought a tv for the first time since I bought one with a W.-era stimulus check and spent 40 minutes turning off surveillance and AI, culminating in having to change the basic picture setting to even get the option to turn off motion smoothing. This shit sucks!

We can send four people on a trip around the moon but we can’t send four Mets on a trip around the basepaths. This says something about society.

In an active lawsuit against the FDA, the state of Missouri is arguing that access to the abortion drug mifepristone has reduced teen birth rates, thereby harming its political representation in Congress. It’s an argument being made in federal court not just on Fox

Mac Dre’s producer Khayree Shaheed used soldering tools to connect a landline phone directly into a studio mixing board. Over the jail phone line, Mac Dre rapped about being locked up and even called radio shows from jail to promote the songs.

The sharply conservative Supreme Court, reshaped by President Trump’s three appointees, is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in most cases involving women and minorities, according to an analysis conducted for The Post. https://wapo.st/4tCkcJB

Excited for this! "MS NOW announced a series of investments and collaborations with three leading nonprofit journalism organizations in support of investigative and local journalism across the country: The Pulitzer Center, States Newsroom and The Marshall Project" 💯 www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @themarshallproject.org's @shannonheffernan.bsky.social and Anna Flagg and @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Shaina Simenas about ICE's strategy of detaining families, including thousands of children, and the lasting effects on young detainees. ❓What are your Qs? 📻 Listen:

The DNC Resolutions Committee has passed my resolution to hold Trump Administration officials legally accountable for their crimes. Assuming the whole packet passes on Friday, it will become the official position of the national Democratic Party.

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

I appreciated going on @msnowreports.bsky.social earlier this week, with my co-reporter @annaflagg.bsky.social to talk about our most recent reporting on the detention of immigrant children. The producers on @anacabrera.bsky.social's show are great to work with. www.ms.now/ana-cabrera-...

Never gotten over how Columbia had a whole micro-site paying tribute to its 60s protests and building takeovers; then, when Gaza protesters repeated that strategy they called in the NYPD