"Since October, seven deaths have been classified as suicides, a number that is already the most for any fiscal year in the agency’s history. ICE has usually recorded one or no such deaths annually." www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...

In October, Keshia Smith’s 22-year-old son died. A week before she was set to leave for Arkansas, her father died of cancer. On the second day of her trip, Smith discovered a shiny stone in the dirt. It turned out to be a 3.09-carat white diamond. https://wapo.st/49Akn0k

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

Wikipedia doesn't have to be a solo experience. Artist Spencer Chang is turning Wikipedia into a shared space where you can see traces of others and explore together!

We're losing-losing the next war abcnews.com/US/army-cuts...

“As deaths in ICE detention centers mount, one Brooklyn woman is fighting for the release of her ill father, and is raising concerns about the treatment of detainees with deteriorating health.” “He’s telling me, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’” she said. “I’m scared that he’s gonna hurt himself.”

I am not a lawyer, but the conduct described here seems very bad to me! For example, presenting a case to a grand jury which refused to indict, then *kicking out the jurors who voted against the charges and trying again.*

NEW: A U.S. counter-terror fusion center believes ICE's tweets are so racist they could incite acts of violence by white supremacists and encourage neo-Nazis to seek employment at the agency, according to an internal memo we obtained. theintercept.com/2026/05/21/i...

Recall: Dems hung tough on no funding for ICE & BP, Rs caved and passed rest of DHS and decided to do ICE and BP via reconciliation. Trump wanted ballroom then slush fund, couldn’t work it out, & here we are. Lesson for Dems: Hanging tough put pressure on Rs, -> Rs in disarray.

New Republican gerrymanders have shifted Trump’s margin in the median House seat from 3.1 points to 5.2. By 2028, the GOP could make it 8.5 and the House unwinnable for Dems except in huge wave elections. But if Dems respond in all these states, they could undo practically the entire GOP advantage

NEW: Records released tonight show that Reynolds, makers of Vuse vapes, gave $5 Million to MAGA Inc. days before the FDA wrote a policy that could allow them to make millions selling flavored vapes. Via @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

Here’s @jemelehill.bsky.social adding some context to the NAACP call for athletes to boycott schools in the South where racist Republican redistricting is happening:

Trump is putting no effort into becoming less unpopular but a TON into putting elements of a coup in place. Some of them may remain invisible, but the ones we can see point to his general approach: violent intimidation + corrupt judges + executive branch and congressional coconspirators + bribes.

ICYMI - WEMBY: “Every day I wake up and see the news and I’m horrified.”

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) previously said he wouldn’t call a special redistricting session amid pressure from Trump. But McMaster went back on his word this week, calling lawmakers back to redraw the state’s congressional map and eliminate its lone majority-Black district.

The racism and childishness is awful, but this part is just fucking weird: “The two Republican delegates spent 13 minutes accusing Wu…of being a spy..pointing out things like his use of a Mac computer instead of a PC like most delegates.” WTF?

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i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

Like @mychal3ts.bsky.social writes, “The library is always here for you." That's why we're committed to being here for our libraries. This year, we're adding $31.7 million in permanent, baseline funding to our city's three library systems so they can better serve New Yorkers.

The whole dumb conversation about "woke" was a precursor to this absolutely sinister anti black institutionalized racism and so many people gave that segregationist logic credibility.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com President Trump is attacking the numbers that help Americans understand reality itself. In this video, we show how that effort follows an authoritarian playbook, in which power matters more than truth.

Stock Market Crash "Hindenburg Omen" Triggered 🚨 The Hindenburg Omen, an indicator that correctly detected the 1987 and 2008 stock market crashes, triggered simultaneously on Wednesday for both the Nasdaq and the NYSE 🤯👀

Black cemetery in Florida vandalized, 'Trump' spray-painted on graves reut.rs/495gOz8

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

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President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

Big thanks to the Artemis II crew who touched down at the Canadian Museum of Nature today to give us a quick tour of the moon — no space suit required.

Recapping what's happened tonight so far: —Dem aligned with the Dan Osborn plan wins in NE —2 supreme court justices appear to lose their seats in WV —NJ: Baraka reelected in Newark; a left win in Belleville —Main legislative target of WV far-right wins —Big ???: Nebraska's CD2, Nebraska SoS

🚨BREAKING: The Republican National Committee announced Tuesday that it is deploying staff — including “poll watchers” and “election observers” — to at least 17 states in what it calls a nationwide “election integrity” operation ahead of the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Ghoulish stuff, and deeply counterproductive. The message this sends to immigrant communities is “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

The Ku Klux Kourt

Ziobro is accused of stealing governmnent funds as well as illegally using spyware against other Polish politicians

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

"The U.S. administration has suggested that the troop withdrawal was meant to punish German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for criticizing Washington’s Iran policy. But in fact it punishes the pro-American German middle class" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Ohio Rep. Max Miller — a Trump-backed MAGA congressman — is facing allegations of years of physical abuse from his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, daughter of Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno.

It's called WHITE FUCKING SUPREMACY.

WATCH — @realdlhughley.bsky.social : “I don’t understand why a 4/5 star athlete would go to a school where the state is ushering in a new iteration of Jim Crow… if you can’t run in a state, don’t run in a state.” #Memphis #Louisiana #Tennessee #Alabama @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

“.. If you need a 'stock market is not the economy' visual, this is a good candidate: Tech stocks relative to the market: all-time high. “.. Tech jobs relative to all jobs: all-time low.” - Schwab

“we have to fight back by voting” when we just VOTED and had that taken from us is INSANE

VA's current judicial retirement age is 73—an entirely arbitrary number. Resetting it to 54 would require every justice to retire, allowing for an all-new court. Of note, VA public employees can collect partial pensions from the state's retirement system starting at age 55.

Welcome back to Canada, President Obama. Thank you for joining us in Toronto for important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future — and empower more people to build with us.

DJT is still looking for buyers. It's already hit another new low. Stock has lost over 90% of its value ($97 to $8).

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

I (reluctantly) wrote on the public ritual of the Met Gala. "Beauty is necessary for evil. Art has always been a way for extraordinary wealth and destructive power to justify their existence." open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...