this thing is so much worse than we're being made to believe. im going to sleep thehill.com/policy/healt...

that's a good way of putting it

I miss grace and elegance and kindness and class.

Imagine being a Russian troll assigned to Bluesky: “Comrade, today you will destabilize Western democracy by arguing with poets, policy nerds, and a raccoon avatar with tenure.”

Stephen Colbert just put on a master class in how to sign off with grace and gratitude

we are ruled by insane people www.wsj.com/politics/pol...?

The Department of Education (or lack there of, under the current regime), posted AI slop and Twitter went wild. Thousands of negative comments. I didn’t see one positive comment. I clipped some of my favorites of this complete garbage post that our tax dollars pay for! #pinks

Trump is circumventing Congress’s power of the purse. He’s circumventing the judiciary. By potentially granting settlements to people who possess no valid legal claim, he’s circumventing civil and criminal law. This is one of the most purely monarchical moments of a monarchical presidency.

NEW: Colorado Democrats voted to formally condemn and censure Gov. Jared Polis (D) over his decision to grant prominent election denier Tina Peters clemency. By censuring him, Polis won't be allowed to participate as an "officially recognized representative" at any Democratic-sponsored events.

This is a true statement and we’ve got to get the vote out to stop this madness.

Drugs. Guns. Booze. Sexual harassment…still ongoing. Trump’s response? $324,000/year. Full salary. Dr. Alexander Eastman is back on the payroll and your tax dollars are footing the bill. This isn’t draining the swamp. This IS the swamp. #Corruption #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/ArYNXYXUYSlS...

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of our voter clients, we just won DOJ voter data case. We are 6-0 and DOJ is 0-7. www.democracydocket.com/cases/maine-...

A win! A federal judge ruled that the White House must preserve all presidential records including text messages and has to comply with the Presidential Records Act. This blocks a DOJ memo from April that tried to declare Trump’s White House records his personal private property.

How much suffering is it going to take before all Americans learn their lesson?

The White House refrained from allowing an American doctor exposed to the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo to be treated promptly, according to The Washington Post. 🧵 www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goons-...

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

Virtually ​all major oil refineries in central Russia have been forced to ‌halt or scale back fuel output following Ukrainian drone attacks in recent days, according to official data and sources. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

“Mr. Schaap felt he had no choice but to have his herd killed. Testing showed that the water he had pulled from wells on his property contained exceptionally high levels of PFAS,” #Pinks #ProudBlue #MomSky #Gift www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/s...

well this is interesting - I had to look up who Tina Peters is - wanted to overturn the 2020 election - I don't think that deserves a pardon of any kind - but then, likely she'll be in on that $1.776 billion in corruption funds Trump will be doling out

Here is Israel's Ambassador to Canada Iddo Moed, with Danielle Smith, the Trump allied premier of Alberta, 2025.

MeidasTouch: What do you make of this $1.776 billion fund— Gavin Newsom: It’s a criminal enterprise. It’s not just corruption, it’s not just graft, it’s a full-on criminal enterprise and it needs to be shut down.

Europe to the world: ‘Canada is with us’ as it joins defence alliance in historic first www.yacnews.com/europe-to-th...

very interesting - and yes there is age discrimination - only job recently I had where I did not feel age discrimination was NYC's hospital system on covid test & trace team - in fact, my experience decades ago in HIV research was considered valuable www.investopedia.com/workers-want...?

fascinating article on Kars4kids - I grew up near Lakewood-one thing article does not mention is it is one of the most important Orthodox Jewish communities in all of the world - certainly though the ads do not mention religious specificity of the charity www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...?

it's amazing to me that the first I have ever heard of a gay candidate for Prime Minister in the UK was via the new Saturday Night Live UK - I guess this has not been covered in US media yet? Wes Streeting is the politician www.facebook.com/wesstreeting...

Interesting piece @nytimes.com France-Kenya summit which happened soon after I moved to Nairobi- I will say, local French @carrefour.bsky.social supermarkets told me of trouble they have getting French products, so not sure what Macron can do about that www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/w...?

😕 In fairness he’ll probably pocket most of it

“Short-term pain.” Tell that to the Uber driver who can't afford to show up to work with gas prices so high. Tell that to the retired couple who just skipped their dinner. And tell that to those who are being forced out of retirement to cover their electric bill.

The oxygen that keeps us alive comes from natural ecosystems: half on land, half at sea. It's not complicated: we are TOTALLY dependent on the living world. Yet it's still treated as nothing but 'resources', to exploit and destroy for profit.

While everyone's watching Hormuz, the Epstein files are being buried. The law says release them. Trump is fighting it. Massie may lose his seat Tuesday for pushing it. And now a $1.7B slush fund for Jan 6 defendants? Don't go quiet. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

imagine having one of the most important travel editors in all of the world, secretly checking into your hotel for a review..... @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/t...?

I've heard some people stereotype Southerners as Confederacy-loving Trumpers, but are those the only people from the South? No! #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth #USDemocracy #MomSky

rest in peace

Slain Trans UW Student Identified as Juniper Blessing: “The Most Amazing Human Being”

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

Soylent Green is people.

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16 spectacular months for rich people.

I dropped an egg in the kitchen yesterday. It’s Biden’s fault. I didn’t clean it up. It’s Biden’s fault. So, let’s prosecute Obama for treason.

“No one goes to Pilates thinking ‘I’m going to be a fascist today’”

this is fascinating

In a country where a tea tariff once drew such anger that colonists were stirred to rebellion, history has a way of repeating itself. apnews.com/article/trum...

How a weaker dollar is quietly making life more expensive apnews.com/article/trum...

It’s no secret that working class men are struggling. I spoke with Jimmy Williams, IUPAT union president and fourth-generation Philly construction worker, about how the labor movement can help. www.playboy.com/read/politic...

Fucking FINALLY a look into the lives of blue collar men that engages with but isn't about propping up the ideals of hegemonic masculinity

These tacky creeps cannot be allowed to ruin democracy and torpedo planet Earth, that would be so gross and embarrassing