Remote attestation is a heavily underdiscussed threat to computing freedom. People often mistakenly dismiss it with "I will run my own fork (of the OS or browser) / Magisk", not understanding that with hardware attestation, you're literally unable to 1/

JHU’s @matthewdgreen.bsky.social talks to the @nytimes.com about the potential risks of @microsoft.com Copilot’s health records tool: “There is a pot of gold of high-value data that is in one location that people can get.”

Wtf!

Republicans understand the stakes and they recognize what steps are necessary to win in the current political environment. They correctly view the conflict as existential. If Democrats continue to deny this reality, then Democrats will lose and the Republic will fall.

The opposite of a popular truth is the actual truth.

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema will go down in history as two of the people who stood at the doorway and blocked the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act when democracy and Black political power were under assault.

NEW: Catholics elected Trump in 2024 in part because he swore he would get Catholic democracy activist Jimmy Lai out of a Chinese prison — “100%, easy.” Today, comparing Lai to a “dirty cop,” Trump recited the CCP’s vocabulary for Lai’s alleged crimes. He flies to Beijing on Wednesday.

Hmm, why would the "drill baby drill" climate denier president propose the exact same policy as the slopulist former Blackwater mercenary, whose former employer's founder is now openly eyeing oil and gas opportunities in Africa? bsky.app/profile/apne...

Judging by the merits of his proposal, Graham Platner is helping Big Oil commit climate arson. America's gas and diesel taxes are already an order of magnitude smaller than every single developed country not named Russia or Canada. That's why there is no urgency in this country to decarbonize!

"The U.S. administration has suggested that the troop withdrawal was meant to punish German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for criticizing Washington’s Iran policy. But in fact it punishes the pro-American German middle class" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

It took me longer than I want to admit to realize that "no war but class war" was just the left-wing version of "all lives matter." And, well, here we are.

Why did Joe Biden do this to them? www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-mobile...

These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.

There are some *fascinating* trends on russian social media where women create guides on how to trick their spouses into signing a contract with the military--in the hope that they die and receive a cash payment. In case anyone has ever wondered what a society bursting at the seams is like.

I don’t like how extremely online our politics have become, but it’s somehow even more pathetic that our country elected a shitposter as president and he isn’t even winning at shitposting anymore.

There is no more powerful argument against remaining on Twitter than seeing these dispatches from leftists you sort of recognize from ten years ago who don't realize they are morphing into Pat Buchanan

Justin Wolfers: “More recently, the administration made a defense budget request of $1.5 trillion for fiscal 2027, a roughly 40 percent boost over this year. That’s a massive $600 billion increase, or roughly $4,000 per household.” @justinwolfers.bsky.social

The First Commandment: “You shall not have other gods beside me.” bible.usccb.org/bible/exodus... The Second Commandment: “You shall not make for yourself an idol — you shall not bow down before them or serve them.” bible.usccb.org/bible/exodus...

Here are some of the most dramatic and powerful examples of how Black Americans — from elected officials to ordinary voters — have responded to the wave of GOP gerrymanders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A must-read thread 🧵

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social — one of my first childhood heroes — cannot be silenced. www.mediaite.com/online/one-s...

This is Trump’s MAGA diehard floor who will believe just about anything — about 30%.

When JD “as a Catholic who’s an integralist, say the Pope should shut up? Well, you have sold out your argument. Because integralism doesn’t include the idea that the Pope should shut up on certain issues. That demonstrated the limits.” MAGA Catholic conundrum fortune.com/2026/05/02/t...

Trump puts the 'Southern Strategy' made famous by Nixon and Reagan on steroids. Thwarted by resistance up north, POTUS finds friendly grand juries to indict his enemies while GOP lawmakers crush Black districts The road to perdition heads South. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

You can apply lots of normalizing frameworks or you can just make a timeline of his calls with Putin. We don’t have a sovereign foreign policy. We have superpower suicide.

“.. He was losing thousands of dollars each month and falling behind on his feed bill, until he made the call he’d been dreading his whole career. .. “.. ‘Complete Jersey herd dispersal,’ one ad read. ‘Farm is going dry. Every cow must go.’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/u...

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

A few words on legacy media. Conference on World Affairs University of Colorado Boulder April 15th, 2026

A fascinating decision in the context of El Salvador and Catholicism during the Civil War which ran from 1979 to 1992, including the assassination of Archbishop Romero and the massacre of four American nuns. Hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans fled to the U.S. during that era.

Denied entry to US flight schools due to her race/gender, Bessie Coleman learned French & earned her license in France. First Black woman & the first person of #NativeAmerican descent to earn a pilot's license. She died #OTD in 1926 at age 34 after her plane malfunctioned during a test flight.

Expand the court.

"It was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers. It ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people's representatives…

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.'

Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today

This regime is stacked with conspiracy theorists — and not particularly bright ones. At what point would narrative become self-fulfilling prophecy with events acted out to align with prior beliefs and expectations? Quite interesting that MAGA went on an immediate coordinated messaging campaign.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.

Absolutely correct. We need to intentionally build our muscle to think and not let our amygdala hijack us. Chapter 10 of my book, Freedom of Mind goes into my 3 step intervention to cure human generated phobias! It is fixable! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

You need to read this. @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game. V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice. www.thenerve.news/p/donald-tru...

Missed the Pope subtweeting the Trump administration:

Truly miss his Presidency.