6/ We eliminated measles 26 years ago. We eradicated New World Screwworm 60 years ago. Keeping diseases at bay requires sustained investment, trained people, and ongoing engagement.

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

2 years ago I made some FishLover matching Pride icons for you and your roommate! thread below, plus transparent versions!

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

Reporting on how Talarico is reaching new people with his relatively run-of-the-mill mainline Christianity really shows how the media and political dominance of right wing evangelicalism has constrained the American religious imagination.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

To clear up any confusion, it’s June 1st and I’m not dead. 🌈💥🎨

We'll have normal site service restored as soon as we can; apologies! (It is almost certainly, once again, ultimately the fault of the goddamn bot traffic.)

🤣🤣🤣 This is the way. Laugh at their insults—and adopt them.

YOU CAN NEVER GET ALL 3, REGARDLESS OF WHAT TECHBROS TELL YOU

i would respect these people a little more if they just said straightforwardly that they think “voting republican” is a sacrament on par with the eucharist

These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.

Fundamentalist and Evangelical Christians have gone wrong in any number of ways but one of them is denying that G-d would ever speak to us in allegory, in poetry, in metaphor. Surely the G-d who speaks to us each day through creation can use a damn simile.

Billionaires are a parasite. They suck up wealth beyond what any person could fairly earn. They take it from our pockets and then drive up the cost of living for the rest of us, especially with housing and education. Tax them into a more modest state. It's not about money, but morality.

ken paxton let one child abuser go free, imagine what he’ll do in washington with jeffrey epstein’s best friend — cue photos of epstein and trump with photos of paxton flashed in as well

Muenster for melting. A nice crumbly blue, not too strong, on a salad. On crackers, a fruited chèvre or perhaps apricot Stilton.

AI is inevitable, that's why we have to steal everything in the world ever made by man in order to make it work. That's how all inevitable things work, so you have to let us have everything. You have to let us take the entire history of human intelligence and turn it into a resource we control.

Hereby drawing attention to the decency, integrity, and dignity of Andy Kim

A lot of attention is paid to craft traditions in Western Europe and North America, such as handsewn Hermes leather goods and bespoke Savile Row suits. But the uneven focus leads some to believe that things made outside of these places are low quality. This is not true. 🧵

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

"I'm really angry that this scifi writer whose work was stolen to train a probability machine that depletes water tables and raises electricity prices and is accelerating the transfer of wealth and capital toward men who actively hate other humans doesn't like 'AI," what a lack of vision they have"

Doctors, please do not talk loudly on the phone about your patients in the Sky Club (or honestly in other public/semi-public space). I now know more about some poor bastard's rectum than I think either he or I would prefer.

🚨🚨Breaking: @bsky.app Says #Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda. The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

Worth noting that this is actually a meta-question-- it's not "what policy do you think is good?" It's "what policy do you think other, imaginary people would think is good?" This encourages the "Everyone Think Like a Pundit Rather Than as a Citizen" disease that plagues political commentary.

Actually uplifting @hcrichardson.bsky.social time capsule. The brazen corruption is getting to be too much even for the “party of law&order.” Kultists getting nervous. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-20-2026

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

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💥 WHITE ACCOMPLICES ACTION ALERT 💥 Triple quadruple if you have access to ANY sort of influence, connections, power, budget, decision-making of ANY KIND ANYWHERE in ANY ecosystem.

It’s what LLM’s currently sound like when they’re asked to write in a ‘literary’ register. It’s bad writing but then so much supposedly literary writing sounds like this. Like each sentence is someone hitting a tennis ball to see how high it will go, and usually getting it stuck on a roof

Basically, ACAB except when you live across from the richest, snootiest, most racist country club in the state, in which case let's you and him fight.

The corruption of our civic institutions has grown so intense that it's difficult to talk about appropriate remedies while staying within the bounds of propriety.

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

9/ I would become more concerned if we started seeing cases in people with no known close contact to confirmed infections and no likely rodent exposure. That would suggest silent spread under the radar. At this point, that hasn't happened. All cases have been from passengers on the ship.

1/ We’ve had a lot of questions about how individual states are handling the hantavirus outbreak. So today, Marisa, our New York writer, is walking you through what this looks like from New York’s perspective, and why she's not panicking right now. Take it away Marisa! 🧵

As I have summed it up before: it is not smart to continually yell "you're not my REAL Pope" at the guy who is, in fact, your real Pope

10/ I would start to worry if we began seeing infections in people who had no meaningful connection to the ship or to a known case. We haven’t seen that happen.

16/ Bottom line: the risk to the public remains extremely low. There's no need to cancel trips, this isn't another Covid-19. Right now, the best thing to do is to share accurate information from sources like the WHO and to resist the urge to spread rumors or unverified claims.

If you are more likely to work outside, less likely to have AC, more likely to live on a floodplain or fire-prone area, don't have good home insurance, have a house that can't stand up to a Cat 5 storm, don't have savings and can't move easily? Of COURSE you care more. /18

where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

In 2020 I wrote for Slate asking if early internet activists like me had "blown it." Re-reading it in 2026, I realize I missed a crucial piece: the obligation of individual users to be internet stewards, not just "users." Free in the Archives: tinyurl.com/2020-revision

1/ Hantavirus update as of 12pm PDT May 11: 18 passengers connected to the cruise outbreak safely arrived in the United States overnight after disembarking in Spain. Of those, 16 are now in Nebraska and 2 were transferred to Emory in Atlanta for specialized monitoring.

⚠️ HANTAVIRUS UPDATE: WHO changed its classification of high-risk contact to include EVERYONE on board the ship. Previously, it was limited to those with known “prolonged close contact” with an infected person. Additionally, more people from the ship have become symptomatic and/or tested positive.

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said. From the archives:

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

Your Mother’s Day weekend reminder that the so-called “party of family values” has historically blocked: -Paid family & medical leave -Universal childcare -Universal pre-K -Expanded Child Tax Credit -Programs to support reproductive health Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.

As primary season continues, some Democrats claim the party needs to "move to the center" to win in November. Hogwash. Democrats can't repeat the same failed playbook of the last 50 years. It's time for them to grow a spine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQzG_TrhyrY

If HP or not being influenced by other people is more important to you than the wellbeing of the people JKR is using HP money to harm, that’s a value you hold that you should probably be aware you hold. If that conflicts with your self-image, it’s up to you to figure out which to change.

It's true that the creative fields have some sort of glamor to them, which is amusing considering that I'm typing this, unshaven, in a bathrobe covered in cat hair. But I imagine in any field, having connections through family networks/reputation can be seen as an advantage, unfair or otherwise.

Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry. This is what idol worship looks like.