Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

It’s not just kids: Trump’s crackdown on trans healthcare extends into adulthood.

Underfunding. Low staffing. Hundreds of thousands of calls placed on hold. America’s 911 system is in the throes of its own emergency. Hear why on this week’s episode of Reveal.

A plan to create one of the world’s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area twice the size of Manhattan, has provoked a furious public backlash in Utah amid concerns over its vast energy use and impact upon the state’s stressed water supplies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump admin shutting key U.S. researchers out of global virus response talks, documents and sources reveal

The temperature in Delhi is 45 Celsius/113 Fahrenheit. The government is telling people to stay indoors, but that is not a viable option for millions who need to work and move about outdoors. And its supposed to get hotter. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Some of us just don't like getting colds

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.

I resent the posters who try to inform about discourse on the CSAM/Nazi site. Whatever those people are talking about is of no interest and I question the poor judgement to remain on that site. Move on, and here's a good thread on why

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

The success of the U.S. vaccination system depends on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Under RFK Jr., both are in peril. (Published March)

Or the assumption that learning should follow a normal distribution. It's steeped in eugenics

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

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The idea that Americans pay more taxes than Europeans is catastrophically false, verging on delusional. This is what people on this site mean when we talk about populism killing the future. People just believe shit which is not remotely true, because it makes them feel better?

They’re trying to normalize the idea of a national sales tax to end progressive taxation, and I’m already sick about the number of people who are going to fall for it because they hate the idea of other people enjoying anything.

The most wild thing is that there is no settlement! The lawsuit was withdrawn! You cannot settle a lawsuit that doesn’t exist! This is just the president ordering his own agencies to give money to his allies and to declare the president above the law!

An estimated 145,000 children have been separated from their parents by ICE since 2025, a practice lawmakers warn inflicts lasting trauma that no child should ever be forced to endure.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.

During Trump’s first administration, a policy of family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border ended after widespread outrage. Now, the breakup of families is happening amid sweeps by immigration agents across the country. @micarosenberg.bsky.social

cooked him like groceries

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

The President is telling the IRS to give him $10 billion rn

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Remember when EVVVVVVVVVERYTHING was going to be on the blockchain? Remember how so many people say AI is inevitable so just start using it?

"Fired NSB chair Victor McCrary, a physical chemist at the Catholic University of America, said the board was terminated because it successfully convinced Congress to preserve NSF’s budget and the White House Office of Management and Budget 'did not want this success repeated.'"

Under President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a warning for America.

Rodrick Reed, Rodney Reed’s brother, is here to speak out about the impacts of the death penalty in Texas.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

I love this @jasonkoebler.bsky.social piece on how AI is breaking our brains so, so, SO much, do read it. It feels like nothing is real anymore and I'm in this constant state of AI hypervigilance and this was so validating.

"Supreme Court reform is the sine qua non of any progressive reform agenda. Without it, nothing else matters, because this court will use its power to strike down anything meaningful Democrats try to do." @paulwaldman.bsky.social / via @atrupar.com

Black folks in Lowndes County are literally sick of this shit under 20% of residents are served by a sewer system and over 30% test positive for hookworm--a parasite contracted from feces-contaminated soil over 70% have also had raw sewage come into their homes ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Every day I'm reminded of this quote from Crenshaw et al. “The very same Whites who administered explicit policies of segregation and racial domination kept their jobs as decision makers in employment offices of companies, admissions offices of schools, lending offices of banks, and so on.”

A new New York Times piece shows: The Iran war is accelerating something that was already underway: Europeans turn to solar, heat pumps & EVs in large numbers. E.ON reports solar interest in the UK up 63%. Enpal in Germany: inquiries for panels & heat pumps rise 30%. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

Chicago teen battling terminal cancer dies hours after reuniting with parents An 18-year-old Chicago resident battling terminal cancer has died, just one day after being reunited with his parents following their release from U.S. immigration custody.

Not that it's OK for ICE to treat anyone this way, but this woman is a green card holder. She's a legal immigrant who did everything legally and she's been kidnapped by ICE.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Your regular reminder that when David Duke ran for statewide office in the early 1990s, the MAJORITY of white Louisiana voters pulled the lever for him. This was AFTER they’d seen the pictures of Duke in a Klan outfit and a Nazi uniform.

part of reconstruction 2 is going to be finishing reconstruction 1

“The Roberts court is in many respects a neoconfederate court, and it repeatedly applies the tactics and ideas of the 1880s and 1890s court, whose members likewise could not abide a robust vision of equality”

American racism is so normal that having an accurate understanding of America's racialized history will have you sounding like a conspiracy theorist.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

One of my professional opinions that often gets me grief is that the Internet Archive, a crucial org and necessary layer of redundancy/access for many of us, should not be treated as a central load-bearing digital preservation service for institutions that should invest in their own infrastructure.

This is going to be met with a bunch of "that will never hold up in court" responses. Ok. So do it anyway. Force this administration to make its preposterous masking arguments in front of federal judges. Make them defend secret police on the record. Go on the offensive.