Welp, there is now a good business opportunity for those who have certain skills to commit to only creating AI-free products. This means graphic designers, web developers, journalists, researchers, lawyers, and consultants… Take note! If your lawyer or doctor uses AI, run.

Clothoff, the infamous AI nudification site, has been given a 14-day deadline to stop children from accessing the site. If they don't, they risk almost $50 million in fines and being delisted from Google. It's not clear to me if this would be delisted from everywhere or just Australia.

Sometimes something reminds of the incredibly long shadow of war, across generations. Just thinking of how much of my life has been shaped--& thus my kids' lives--by the life of my uncle, also Jeff, who died before I was born, in 1969, 27, his cells saturated by US chemical weapons used in Vietnam.

Elevate Strategies runs a PAC (Elevate Utah PAC) that raises money to support progressive or left-leaning, down-ballot candidates to challenge GOP lawmakers in Utah. They also raise funds through merchandise sales (such as "Utah Nature Security" hats) to support their advocacy work.

NEW 🧵: Here's how Dems could redraw 9 congressional maps by 2028 & target more than 20 GOP seats. The GOP tried to rig the national map in 2026, & Dems had few ways to respond. But Dems could fully counteract them by 2028. We have example maps for each state www.the-downballot.com/p/how-democr...

This is wild.

CSO Alert: There was a combined sewer overflow in East Boston, impacting the Upper Inner Harbor on May 19. Please avoid contact with the affected bodies of water until Friday, May 22, at 9 a.m.

BREAKING: The City Council votes 28-21 to approve a measure designed to rid the Chicago Police Department of officers with ties to hate groups and far-right extremist organizations. @wttw.bsky.social

The report “Project 2025 and the Unraveling of America” examines how Project 2025 is driving a far-reaching transformation of the government through agency dismantling, the erosion of human rights protections, and the consolidation of executive authority with dangerous consequences for democracy.

What a godsend for Russia. While you’re paying $4 or $5 a gallon for gas, Russia is raking it in. And it is Putin’s get out of jail free card.

Last month, I broke news of a death inside an Amazon warehouse and the company’s response. My latest reporting reveals that two employees at that facility have died and a third sustained a life altering injury — all in the course of the last four years.

NEWS: Wyden, Senate Democrats Take Action to Roll Back Trump AI Care Denial Experiment on Seniors

This Pilsen-based indie events company is making a splash on Chicago’s festival scene. blockclubchi.co/4nQ4OaL

DOJ to me: “The only thing illegal & corrupt about this situation is the brazen weaponization of federal resources by previous admins to retaliate against those with opposing political beliefs. This Dept will continue to expose this lawfare & ensure those who experienced injustices are made whole.”

How do far-right movements coordinate across borders? At re:publica this week, researchers from Bellingcat and the Center für Monitoring, Analyse und Strategie will unpack the narratives and platform dynamics shaping the transnational far-right. Join live in Berlin: re-publica.com/en/node/10278

Not only did two neo nazi teens attempt to copycat the Christchurch mass shooting, the world's richest man falsely blamed trans people for it. Not a single outlet covered that he spread that disinformation.

Zelenskyy: “If, in the coming weeks, we manage to return to meaningful trilateral communication and involve the Europeans, this would be the right outcome. For our part, we are ready for such steps. I count on our partners to be ready as well – and that the Russians will not hide.”

“His actions without a doubt delayed, distracted and ultimately deterred these two individuals from gaining access to the greater areas of the mosque where as many as 140 kids were within 15ft of these suspects”

Spanberger has vetoed a bill that'd have set up a marijuana retail market. She also vetoed a bill meant to bar ICE agents from local courthouses, while signing a bill to ban them from wearing masks. www.ffxnow.com/2026/05/20/j... Reminder, this was another big criminal justice veto last month:

NEW: A California DA was prosecuting Stanford students for felonies over pro-Palestine protests. Bolts reported back in February that he was fundraising off these cases. Learning this, defense attorneys dug more, & filed a motion to force Rosen off the case for bias. A judge just removed him:

Maryland's Republican sheriffs threatened to not abide by the new state law that bans 287(g) contracts with ICE. But all but one now has ended the contracts, and the last says it's no longer enforced. marylandmatters.org/2026/05/18/d...

Let's make billionaires pay their fair share and find out

NEW: One person who says he won't be tapping into Trump's weaponization fund: Jacob Chansley, the QAnon Shaman. He's working on his own $40 trillion lawsuit he hopes will bring down the government. He's representing himself in court. us.cnn.com/2026/05/20/p...

I propose that all the Republican lawmakers who refuse to stop Trump from building all these expensive garish monstrosities be forced to personally demolish them with their bare hands. On streaming video.

New: Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio on his podcast said "every J6er needs to be able to get some type of funds” from Trump's weaponization money: "As long as the disbursements happen and they're, you know, considerable, I'm OK with it." www.mediamatters.org/january-6-in...

One draft proclamation set to be presented at an upcoming Battle Ground city council meeting condemns “Antifa-associated violence,” which describes it as “threats to public safety, civil order, and constitutional governance.”

The decision for a patient to stop taking SSRIs should be between the patient and their doctor. End of story. @balint.house.gov and I are demanding that RFK Jr. stop this attack on the very medications that keep millions of Americans alive.

Not sure this is a huge surprise, but would be good to be accurate about what’s being backed. It’s not just that they “double the length of time it takes for some people to achieve settled status from five years to 10” - for most people it will start at 15 years. For most refugees, it’s 20 years.

These dipshits broke the law by trying to overturn an election and now your tax dollars will be going to support their lifestyle of chatting online with FBI agents posing as 14 year olds.

NEW: Trump has once again done something that is obviously corrupt but may prove impossible to unravel—unless a Congress controlled by his own party finds the rare gumption to buck him. Me and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social on the president who sued himself: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

One Special Boy with Hundreds of Thousands of Millions of Peanut Farms

“If allowed to continue, it will fund insurrectionists, militias, and paramilitaries that are loyal to the president but unaccountable to the rule of law. To protect their safety and our democracy, our clients are suing to stop that from happening,” Ballou said. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Pope Leo ”named the Capuchin pastor of a predominantly immigrant parish in Washington, D.C., that has faced recent federal immigration crackdowns, as the next bishop of Venice, Florida, sending another Catholic leader vocal in the defense of migrants to President Donald Trump's adopted home state.”

the democrats should outsource their rhetoric to tween and teen girls, the most vicious word assassins in all of creation

as we all know you cant trust a wealthy guy to pursue an economically progressive agenda (to be fair, the record outside of the roosevelt family on this aint great, but still)

Looks like Stan Woodward--the guy who stole $1.8B from taxpayers to pay off terrorists--is moving to access the Jim Comey files DOJ obtained by violating the Fourth Amendment. This is from Dan Richman's docket where he tried to get everything back.

These firings of #USPTF members without real rationale further threatens the trust & politicizes the processes that allows Americans to get key preventive services covered without cost-sharing. We must be vigilant to ensure access to vaccines, screenings, contraception and more.

We can do this in Colorado, too. Here’s my call to action: www.denverpost.com/2025/12/10/c...

I wrote this 4 years ago and posted it at the beginning of a cartoon exhibit

Like, my head is going to explode if I have to hear people argue why Rahm Emanuel, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Elissa Slotkin, Jared Polis, or Stephen A. Smith, et al. is superior to JB Pritzker based solely on "Well, they're not billionaires!"

I've mostly tried not to comment on the California gov primary, but man, I'm getting really tired of Becerra supporters arguing that Becerra is a better choice than Steyer simply because Steyer is a billionaire. Like come on, at least TRY to make a policy argument.

Highway 61 along the North Shore of Lake Superior has reopened and wildfire evacuations have been lifted.

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Yes, we must win the AI race with China, just as we had to win the nuclear race. But the nuclear race was controlled and PAID FOR by the govt for the good of the American people. The AI race is controlled by billionaires who only want to beat China so they can make trillions destroying human labor.

Functionally indistinguishable from the way Putin talks about Ukraine & Xi talks about Taiwan.

Folks have long been warning that ICE's aggressive posture would incidentally disincentivize people from cooperating with law enforcement, but in this case it really seems like ICE arrested this man — who lost his daughter and almost his granddaughter — *because* he assisted with the investigation

A clear-eyed description of what is happening. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

Bezos proposes a natural experiment. Let's test his hypothesis by doubling the highest marginal tax rate, making sure to fund public goods with the increased revenue.

Again, that this stuff doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of Article I of the Constitution. A complete collapse of the polity.

Two months ago. [March 15]