When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

Major news! A state court in Kansas has just blocked the states gender affirming care ban! Nobody is at our desk right now so we can’t draft up a story but you all deserve to know this incredible news. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

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The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

It's cool to lie to a judge, right?

TLDR: The judge openly accused DOJ of misleading the court in Texas, forum shopping, and conducting a fishing expedition without a coherent criminal theory. It's pretty clear she will grant the motion to quash.

What possible jurisdiction does the Northern District of Texas have over health care services by NYU?

Mother's Day can be bittersweet for those whose mothers suddenly fell down a high flight of stairs after her past allegations of rape surfaced while her ex-husband was facing a new rape trial. May those moms rest in peace on their ex-husbands' golf courses. by Ivanka, Eric, & Donald Trump, Jr.

The movies get it wrong. Drowning happens quickly and silently. Always watch kids closely at pools and spas.

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

Bathroom bans are unworkable in practice. When pushed, supporters admit they expect trans people to break their laws. Creating laws trans people have no choice but to break isn't an accident. The intent is punishment of the ones they hate. The intent is driving trans people out of public life

#a2council 🧵 A brief history of Ann Arbor isn't a small town anymore

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

Only in A2, the mayor's race may come down to Cat Person vs Dog Person. ##a2council

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

a ban on gender affirming care for minors and a green light on *tanning beds* really sums up Trump II's HHS in an Onion worthy headline

in light of RFK jr.'s new push to limit antidepressant prescriptopms, re-upping this piece i wrote last year:

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

Just remember, they are trying to ban gender affirming care supposedly in the name of protecting minors from harm

Trustee Wilkerson has resigned from the AAPS BOE effective immediately. #a2schools #a2schoolboard

It seems the university may not have been entirely honest in suggesting that they were caught unaware. I’m shocked, shocked I say! In fact, Prof. Peterson said they were aware and that he modified some language based on their feedback. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

This is like turning to the Klan for stats on race. The Southern Poverty Law Center designates SEGM as an anti-LGBTQ hate group and "a hub of pseudoscience".

UM alums who are dismayed by Pres Grasso's statement apologizing for Dr. Peterson's Commencement address, please sign this open letter to protect and uphold the University’s own professed principles of free expression and free speech. #MichiganAlumni #UMich docs.google.com/document/d/1...

There was a time when the ultra-wealthy in this country at least pretended to acknowledge their privilege and their luck. It helped fuel a sense of civil obligation. These days, however: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

FWIW Linda McMahon is very credibly accused of sex trafficking minors & covering up multiple child rapes for >20 years. The reason she hasn’t faced legal consequences for it is not for lack of evidence, but because she was able to delay accountability until she was outside the statute of limitations

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

Wow, the NYT really campaigned hard to get Azeen Ghorayshi a Pullitzer for her transphobic reporting and podcast. She didn't get it but was a finalist for it despite several trans subjects of her reporting and their families speaking out about they felt betrayed by her coverage and framing.

the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...

If Dem leaders are still so far behind the curve— or so deep in big tech's pockets— they think their youngest current & future voters are interested in/can be grifted on "harness[ing] the power of AI," I genuinely despair. Try "understanding the functioning & limitations or, & alternatives to," bro

Assume AI training for K-12 is a good idea. Schiff's bill, the LIFT AI Act, is a grant program for the National Science Foundation. The NSF has no director. The nominee is a Thiel acolyte with no science degrees. Trump just fired the entire Board that oversees NSF. No. Absolutely not.

@schiff.senate.gov, please directly address the reports that LLMs have encouraged kids to kill themselves and shoot up their schools AND that "A.i." decreases cognitive abilities AND the companies are run by right wing billionaires AND the environmental and economic damage the industry causes.

This clip is good, the U of M's response was bad.

Prof. Derek Peterson, U of Michigan historian & MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a grad speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” His words, and the cheers that followed made my heart sing.

This product should not exist. www.wsj.com/us-news/chat...

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

Wow. Where was the president of Cornell and did he know his car was capable of doing this on its own?

Whoa. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

I once met a man who was convinced a certain woman was in love with him. She worked at the local Pizza Hut and every time he ordered a pizza she came to his house with a pizza. I thought, "This must be the dumbest man alive." But Pizza Lover's got nothing on Dawkins.

Opinion | Unless Mayor Taylor puts Back up the neighborhood watch Signs, I will have no Choice but to Donate thousands of dollars to Donald Trump under a Fake Name again. #a2council by Strozzapreti Linguine Rotini

The ballroom, the arch… I have a PhD in Egyptology and I know a mortuary temple complex when I see one.

Blanche: "It would not surprise me if it turns out that our Secret Service agent was shot by the individual who's currently charged with that crime, but ... "

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

We are definitely in the weirdest timeline.

Ann Arbor Public Schools is hosting a Freedom 250 propaganda event on May 7th. Let them know if you don't want this in our schools. #a2schools #aaps

Ladies, before you marry a Republican make sure to ask if they're the "hustle out of danger and leave your wife behind" type or the "use your pregnant wife as a human shield" type.

Woman who unlawfully leaked the personal health information of trans youth is surprised to experience consequences for posting video to X of a conference that explicitly prohibited filming panels and sharing publicly.

What no one on the anti side will mention is that the organizers of the protest are a group of trans youth in Boston. They love talking about how concerned they are for theoretical youth rather than the actual live trans youth protesting the event. Those are just "activists to them."

As a DC reporter, I don't endorse mindless war, militarized cities, illegal abductions, defunded medical research, government insider trading, and mass pardons of violent criminals. But in the name of our norms, tonight I will break bread and share laughs with the president who did all of this.