And Obama wore a tan suit once

Ten years into Trump I don't believe anyone who claims to be offended by Democratic speech

In light of the ongoing situation with Ebola in the DRC, I'm sorry to have to remind you that evolutionary biology makes it abundantly clear that ignoring a catastrophic disease outbreak because it's there, not here, is a terrible, terrible idea.

New post: "Stolen Revolution" Coverage on Iran has focused on Trump, not what's going inside the country. So we talked to the authors of a brilliant new book on Iran's recent history about the war, the regime and the chances for change. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

And Obama wore a tan suit once

As @junlper.beer noted, this is just the birthday boy defense. x.com/canteverdie/...

So it turns out, our oligarch overlords were optimistic about the speed and severity of climate change and, in consequence, most of them will still be alive when the peasants’ anger reaches pitchfork-and-torch levels which should be interesting

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

A very intriguing result: the discovery of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the early Universe that seems to have formed before its galaxy. Still a lot of work to do to understand it, but this is an important step to understanding how SMBHs (more than ~1 million x the mass of the Sun) form. 🧪

BREAKING: Ethics complaint just filed against Pam Bondi — & it's damning She ran DOJ like a weapon — & now 100+ scholars, retired judges & retired FL Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince — joined by @democracydefendersfund.org @ldadorg.bsky.social & LFRL — are holding her accountable -TN

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

The oath of office *obligates* Dems to seek Trump's removal. Republican obstruction may be a reason why they should mostly seek to highlight Republican complicity with Trump's crimes. But it really can't justify abdicating the impeachment power altogether. www.offmessage.net/p/the-revisi...

today I learned that the James Talarico "six genders" thing refers to him listing six different combinations of X and Y chromosomes (XX, XY, X, XXY, XYY, XXXY) that occur regularly. that isn't even lefty in any way, that's just a factually true statement!

It sure looks like MAGA started to focus on the SPLC for potential prosecution right around the time my story about Stephen Miller's private emails published. (End of 2019.) I'm sure it's a total coincidence!

Semiotic anthropologist here w/alt-text! As I tell students & everyone who will listen: One of the great lessons of anthropology is that we built this. All of it. And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built. We can & must build differently.

Good plan! Uh, quick question - why is CDC short on staff, anyway?

My husband just had the pleasure of watching crowds heckle this monstrosity as it passed through our neighborhood. “Words cannot describe how vulgar it is.”

Last year, a court struck down background checks for private firearms sales. So the legislature passed a new law to reestablish them, run by the state police. And the Virginia State Police just...aren't doing it. They're simply pretending the law hasn't been passed.

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

Shown on MSNOW in the last hour. $92 million of this went to Cornyn.

Around 6:40 p.m., Hernández-Navarrete reunited with his mother, brother, best friend and soccer coaches as he made his return to Chicago. More on the emotive reunion @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/26/c... Photos by Jim Vondruska.

no they don’t & no you haven’t (at least in a legal or clinically appropriate way). absolute fucking freaks obsessed with youth genitals to a terrifying degree.

So many normal (“Huh? Wtf dude?”) and quasi-normal (“Oh yeah, heard that”) ways to respond to the crazy ass fake claim and so of course he goes… another way

A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

Can’t wait for Alito &tc to point out that since there exists an alternate universe in which Alabama developed the self-same district maps *without* racist intent, via party affiliation, the maps must be approved. Would be the first invocation of the multiverse in a SCOTUS opinion, ever!

TIL that the basic research that led to GLP-1 drugs was conducted by government scientists at the VA and NIH whyy.org/segments/oze...

Saez and @gabrielzucman.bsky.social on the CA billionaire tax 250 households (0.001% of the state) holds wealth equal to more than half of California’s entire annual economic output Their wealth grows 15% a year and is taxed at just 0.26% per year www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

As protests outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in New Jersey grow, it's important to internalize the lessons learned by @katmabu.bsky.social and the Broadview Six about putting your body on the line to confront fascism. Read my conversation with Abughazaleh here:

the original Alfie score still rips btw youtube.com/playlist?lis...

CNN put together a montage of Trump officials, including Trump himself, saying over and over again for nearly three months now that gas prices are about to drop, any day now

If you’re looking for the one area law enforcement has been defunded lol

Ossoff: "It makes a difference who represents us. When you sent me and Sen. Warnock to the Senate, we capped the cost of insulin at $35. And when Donald Trump and his allies took power again, they threw hundreds of thousands of Georgians off their health insurance. The contrast could not be clearer"

MIA from work but still trading stocks is extremely on brand for a Congressman in 2026.

Climate change is coming for… (spins wheel) French wines, this year

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

Minneapolis Police officers killed George Floyd six years ago tonight. A popular uprising against police and anti-Blackness quickly spread across the globe. In Minneapolis, community overran the 3rd Precinct and set it aflame. Watch UR's feature-length documentary on the uprising:

updating your committee on your dissertation progress

We’ve got exactly one public intellectual in the mode of midcentury liberalism left and it’s the pope

First of all, I hope y’all are AT LEAST masking when you’re sick or sniffly, and not blithely passing that shit on to your friends, coworkers, and fellow commuters. 1/

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

On this note: another state (or several of them) should file an original jurisdiction suit against Florida on this basis. The domestic emoluments ban on states paying the president is a federalism safeguard, one state violating it is a real harm to the sovereign interests of every other state.

Question: Since a blockade is an act of war, and since the Cuba blockade is implemented with US Navy vessels - why aren’t we’re talking about Trump violating the War Powers Resolution wrt Cuba, as well?

This is Adam Hoffman, a 49-year-old Waco, TX attorney. He faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy. Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail & no sex offender status. A judge increased his sentence to 60 days. Not an immigrant. Not a trans person. Not a Black or brown person

The NYT sees itself not as a defender of journalistic principles or a champion of democratic values, but rather a theater critic for political actors. There are no real-world consequences here, no pain or suffering for the common people who aren't in their social circles. It's just a parlor game

I wrote about the DNC autopsy and why arguing about messaging is pointless and counter productive. you want to improve D electoral fortunes? enfranchise DC. end gerrymandering. expand the court. stop fucking around. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/procedural...

@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...

Hawaiʻi just passed a new law that limits corporations' ability to engage in political campaigns. Let’s see this in other states.