I’m maybe not the only one who found out how to watch CBS live tonight and will never need that information again.

Horrific shit

Bari Weiss offered Anderson Cooper a bigger role at CBS News, but he chose to leave 60 Minutes instead. "I'd prefer less rather than more of you." It's a hard message to miss. I'll say it again: She had no detectable experience in broadcast news. Hers was a political hire. From @status.news:

Attention, my Washington peeps!

The desperate way Starbucks is trying to scapegoat Mayor Katie Wilson for their unpopular business decisions reminds me of when Target tried to blame Seattle crime for why no one wanted to shop at their awful mini-Targets in Ballard and U-District. Eventually even they had to admit that was BS.

A quick reminder that every time Bhattacharya's NIH asks you to remove words like "gender," "diverse," or "social determinants of health," they are undermining the institution's foundational statue. Gender: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/... SDOH/diverse: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Colbert is both a mensch and an actual genius. One of one. He and @maddow.bsky.social are the two best broadcasters of our time; truly in their own category. I'm angry and sad the president and the feckless suits cancelled the show but also know it's not the end.

my favorite data centers are libraries

Me, 3 years ago: My new bar cart is going to look sophisticated AF! Me now:

As a leftist who was gifted a raccoon penis bone necklace (by infamous writer “JT LeRoy”), I take offense to this

This is pretty unusual

I’m searching for a Statue of Liberty costume for the World Cup. I think I found it on the top left…

From my law colleagues, this is the default AI policy for Berkeley Law courses, but instructors can make their own policies if they want. But good to have an unambiguous default policy and norm.

Congress can block Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund with a legislative fix. I’ll discuss on MSNOW at 1:15 pm ET.

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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://bit.ly/44aNdkq

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

Guys is it bad that the National Science Foundation has been offline since last night?

Seattle Mayor Apologizes to Starbucks, Thought It Knew Everyone Here Hated Them Already: tinyurl.com/yt2k2d3t

The journalist asked if the company's contracts with DHS and ICE gave the appearance of a conflict in the company's reporting on the massive detention ramp-up. Reuters retaliated against the journalist, its union alleges. www.poynter.org/business-wor... @poynterinstitute.bsky.social

NEW: Records released tonight show that Reynolds, makers of Vuse vapes, gave $5 Million to MAGA Inc. days before the FDA wrote a policy that could allow them to make millions selling flavored vapes. Via @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

This is a massive moment, and the Times is covering it as if it's a run-of-the-mill moment where we resolve unanswered questions about the application of power.

Sometimes something reminds of the incredibly long shadow of war, across generations. Just thinking of how much of my life has been shaped--& thus my kids' lives--by the life of my uncle, also Jeff, who died before I was born, in 1969, 27, his cells saturated by US chemical weapons used in Vietnam.

I served on a tenure committee for 6 years & I've met many many profs who teach "controversial" social science &history. I assure you that dedication, care, fairness & skillful cultivation & inclusion of diverse viewpoints is far far more common than both bad faith pundits & public assume.

If you watch The Boys and think, "oh, come on, too much, overkill," here's a reminder that the show exaggerates in terms of super powers but not about the scale of dumb. A drone show over Miami, 2025.

This was taken 5 seconds before the girl on the left pulled out her titties 😂😂

The #BrokenTImes dances onto the Nuremberg parade grounds, calling unprecedented presidential grift and Justice Department corruption "tests constitutional limits." Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund Tests Constitutional Limits www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

Loud-ass preacher outside the Mariners game: “What are you going to do?! Race your Porsche Turbo into hell?!” Me: “That actually sounds pretty cool!” Fan in front of me: “Is everyone in heaven as loud as him? If so, I don’t want to go there.”

Mom and her kids crossing the street and a car honks at them, little girl starts yelling at the driver, waving her arms around and man they start them young here in NYC.

Something you can do right now, to advocate for social science. If you're at U-M, ready-to-mail postcards are available at the @umisr.bsky.social front desk, and in the ISR atrium you'll find pre-addressed, stamped cards ready for you to add your own words. We've sent >500 so far-- join us!

Biggest fears living in NYC: -AC falling on my head -Rats running up my leg -Falling through a subway grate A new fear unlocked: sinkhole at LaGuardia! www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/l...

Whimsy is not a trend, it’s a way of life. Sincerely, Your Gen X grandma

PNW lunch of champions

Beautiful enough to steal from the Louvre

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AI will never eat half a case of mini chocolate chip muffins and that's why it will never write good

Lmao the light rail added a special message from Megan Rapinoe reminding you that Seattle is super gay so don’t be a homophobic twat while you’re here for the World Cup

With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

Missed this one from yesterday, but X, which Elon Musk said he bought to enable free speech, is now limiting non-paying users to just 50 posts per day. Or you can post as much as you dang please on Bluesky.

Missed connection! I was driving behind a blue jeep on the Aurora Bridge this evening with a personalized Sounders license plate that said “EMDASH” I need to be friends with this fellow Sounders-loving nerd! 🤓⚽️

It was a political hire. We know that because Bari Weiss had no visible experience in broadcast journnalism. None. And as @status.news puts it: Why is Weiss so determined to remake 60 Minutes, "one of the few remaining programs that consistently delivers both prestige and ratings for the network."

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

"It seems as if not only is the temperature perhaps more sensitive to the carbon, but the planet is more sensitive to rises in temperature, so the effects that we're seeing are really quite striking." Great pod on the coming likely Super El Niño, w/ @billmckibben.bsky.social & David Wallace Wells.

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I love the NBA playoffs bc I’ll turn em on thinking “I just hope this is a good game” and within five minutes my hearts desire is revealed to me (rooting against the Thunder like they’re dementors)

Wembanyama doing the steph curry shot in transition in ot to steal the life out of oklahoma city meant something to me