Sometimes you just have to listen to Defying Gravity on repeat and have a good cry.

This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.

bear vs man isn’t “vibes,” it’s our fucking life

there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care

My heart can’t take much more of this in 2026.

I think about this scene all the time. RIP Anthony Head

RIP Anthony Stewart Head. Wow has it been a rough couple of years for the BTVS cast.

Waymos in California are driving around empty almost half the time. As with Uber-Lyft, all that mileage is new congestion compared to everyone driving alone OR using transit/bike/walk. findingspress.org/article/1618...

I called my senators about this exact thing this morning. Someone from Ron Johnson’s office actually answered the phone (almost never happens) AND he listened politely when I politely told him I do not support or respect RoJo voting for theft.

Every. Single. Clip. Of this guy makes me squirm with the culty glaze of his facial expression. It’s so creepy. I can’t take it.

HELL YES 🔥 It’s definitely not over. We don’t give up that easily.

to be a woman is to want to constantly scream and cry at the same time

Hunter Biden spending his whole day every day on Twitter being like "I'm not a pedophile, I was smoking crack with ADULT hookers at the Super 8 outside of Newark, you guys have pictures of all of it INCLUDING my hog from My Leaked Stolen Laptop™" is a masterstroke. Should've done this years ago.

I don't get Chris Hayes project to apparently rehabilitate Platner's image. I'm not naive about the political moment we're in, but the fact that a Nazi tattoo isn't disqualifying is bonkers. The idea he had no idea what it was for all those years, or that Jewish family members didn't mind it ...

No mention in the NYT. The unequal health coverage for Trump v Biden is absurd

This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

I appreciate the effort my rep @markpocan.bsky.social is putting into making sure the beagles from Ridglan are re-homed. I would love to see the same energy directed to addressing human rights crises in ICE concentration camps. He is a sitting congressman!!

This. I do a decent amount of public speaking/writing on political issues. And I think that work helps inform people who want to learn. But I also know that my biggest impact has been with a few skeptical* family members. And in those cases, change has taken regular conversations over 10+ years.

A pedestrian was killed on East Washington Ave this morning in a crash that also included 3 vehicles. Speed was almost certainly a factor. That road is a menace and our state DOT, who owns and controls it, has severely restricted safer design. I have this awful feeling every time this happens.

Christopher Nolan has been asked this before, about why he doesn’t have email or a cell phone, and it’s always men asking the question who never make the connection that Nolan’s wife Emma Thomas, who is also the producer on his films, likely handles most if not all of these communication issues

It just feels like the mean ones never die. And this is deeply unfair.

USDOT should demo a protected bike lane www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

Correct. Though better than “revolutionaries”—which has a positive buzz in U.S. history—they are radicals. Reckless wrecking radicals. And with that bit of alliteration, I’m off to get some coffee.

The Purcell principle now officially just means “Republicans win.” For the reasons Sotomayor lays out here, SCOTUS’s eleventh hour intervention for Alabama Republicans is indefensible. It’s going to unleash massive chaos on the ground for both voters and election administrators. What a disaster.

The culty little smirk as he claims people in NY and CA aren’t somehow Americans too…

“Republican friendly” is just a sanitized way of saying racist here www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

this court would authorize all-white primaries if it could find some facially neutral means to do so

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

🚨BREAKING: All I can say is this is fucking so cynical I have no words. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Sigh. Why are these people so evil? (I know I know. It’s greed and power.)

I don’t think “assurance” from Markwayne is gonna cut it.

Cartoon by Steve Breen

Who could have possibly seen this coming 😶

Wisconsin is about to lose a quarter of our childcare centers due to funding cuts. Francesca is running because she has a plan to address this!!

Worth a watch. www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...

the funny thing about masculinity is that it doesn’t exist and yet anxiety about it makes the world go round

spending more money on shit we don't need than the things we do. good plan.

Today I heard the phrase “A.I. Conscientious Objector” and I think I need to start describing myself as such from now on.

💔 This is unfortunate.

hello historians of technology, mobility, cycling, automobility, traffic and streets: Since the #SHOT2026 conference will be virtual, would any of you like to collaborate on a "history of technologies of automobility" panel? I could panel organize. www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...

This stands out: “Hungary’s economy is a mess, but post-election polling by Median, an organization that had predicted election results with uncanny accuracy, shows that voters saw corruption as the most important issue by far.”

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

At the start of my terrorism studies course, I ask students what most terrorists have in common. They always say: 1- Mental illness 2- Religion. They are, of course, wrong. The two most common traits of violent extremists are: 1- Gender 2- History of domestic violence and online mysogyny.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

This right here.