“‘Roots’ is a … story following the descendants of a man sold into slavery in the United States. It won the Pulitzer Prize & was adapted into a mini-series. … The Children’s Defense Fund Alex Haley Farm is in Clinton. Haley grew up in Henning, Tennessee.”

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

Someone just told a pro AI bro in my comments: I’m not using it because it’s not smarter than me, I can see why you like it though.

Scientists named this species of hairy ghost pipefish after beloved Sesame Street resident Mr. Snuffleupagus and we're obsessed.

I guess it's too much to ask the Seattle Times Editorial Board to do any research before writing. ZERO PARKING SPOTS WILL BE CLOSED DURING BICYCLE WEEKEND! Car access will be exactly the same as any other day, you just won't be able to drive along the street, which has no on-street parking.

WHOMST amongst us

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A lot of men aren't handling the shift from having to be NEEDED to having to be WANTED particularly well.

Oh did this hit me right in the scars left by various losses.

"There's all this stuff that's working, and it's impossible to pay attention to, because we're not scared of things that work," is a killer line that says so much about why Americans voted to break everything.

Open hatred. This feels like something out of a movie like Footloose. Surreal.

I've read two headlines in the last 24 hours saying Trump is running a "fraud-busting initiative" on Medicare and "trying to fix" the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. AP and NYT, respectively, are doing the administration's propaganda work for them.

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I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

huh! good to see internet rewilding being taken up as a frame and a rallying cry by @mozilla.org Be great if you guys linked to where the idea was born and the people already working with others and bending the whole shape of our lives around how to do it: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

Identity doesn’t give people a free pass but why is it that BlueSky seems to enforce the rules more stringently (or make new ones up entirely) when the transgression is by a trans and/or Black person? Aaron isn’t addressing this and that’s what makes it DARVO, yes.

this is straight up DARVO

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

A pretty obvious one here is "Being a good person requires nothing of me beyond believing that I am a good person"

This, from Nick Kristof, is required reading www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Slightly increase a band: They Definitely Are Giants

again, i don’t think any of this is necessary. just say that the court was out of bounds, that it may be correct on the definition of “election” but that this technical matter has no bearing on the results of the referendum, which occurred in a free and fair contest.

SCOTUS: ok so all the KKK members in the Republican Party have to do is avoid saying "I'm doing this for racist reasons" on television and they can redistrict away THE REPUBLICAN PARTY:

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

huh

I don’t think we need a product on the market that does this.

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.

You read about how complicit the liberal media was with the ascendance of the national socialists in Germany and it's difficult to comprehend. The thing is, I see it now and it is still difficult to comprehend. To be this stupid and gullible. To be this incompetent. To be as complicit as this.

tech ceo: we regret to inform you that the torment created by the Torment Nexus is the fault of the depraved author of beloved novel DON’T CREATE THE TORMENT NEXUS

1981's income tax brackets

Over 60% of women who have abortions are already mothers, and they are making that decision in the best interest of their existing children. Happy Mother’s Day.

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

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

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They're just straight up calling autism a social contagion now. Exactly the same thing they did to trans people.

How it’s going How it’s going to go

Instead of protests, Hungarians gathered for the first time in a very long time to greet their new Prime Minister and welcome the new government.

The world now uses at least 40 million hectares of cropland, an area the size of Paraguay, to produce biofuels that account for only 4% of global transport energy In the US, we use 30-40% of our corn supply and 40-50% of our soybean oil supply to produce…about 6% of our transport fuel

my fav part is how the artist they commissioned for the piece was also like"what the fuck are you on?

You can watch the planet grow larger in the windshield as the spacecraft approaches over the next few days with a newly active raw image feed: solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche-raw-i... And track its position (or even fast-forward to the encounter on May 15) here: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...

This unassuming little crescent is actually something cool: It's a crescent Mars, seen by NASA's Psyche spacecraft as it approaches the Red Planet for a gravity assist flyby next week. Details: go.nasa.gov/4tsCLPQ

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

Hantavirus on a cruise ship was a test - an easy one - and we already failed. Much worse is coming. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...

If your coverage of the Virginia Supreme Court today doesn’t include “technicality” and “overturning the will of the voters,” you’re doing it wrong.

removing this guy from his position is the single most important errand facing American politics at present. the amount of damage he's doing is almost incalculable.

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like