Stephen Colbert is a national treasure and so is every member his extraordinary team. it’s a travesty their show is ending. honored I’ve somehow have been on the program four times (!) and that I bear even a slight resemblance to the kind-hearted man behind that desk.

TFW when your 82-year-old Midwestern dad can’t take your call because he’s too busy organzing against ICE.

Americans aren't buying into AI

Once again an insightful @timothysnyder.bsky.social video. This time, it's about a multi-power world w/Russia and the United States being "superlosers". "Cooperation w/the other superloser..makes matters worse both for the other superloser and for the world." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

The National Weather Service just put out a flood advisory and severe thunderstorm warning. Here's how to stay safe, New York.  Text NOTIFYNYC to 692-692 to sign up for NYC emergency alerts and find more information at nyc.gov/floodprep.

Tell publishers to keep the news in the Wayback Machine: www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

This article, from this day (May 20, 1986) illustrates DJT's habit of suing people if he doesn't get his way. He changes lawyers, tries again. He lost a case against tenants that he wanted evict. He went after their lawyer. It was dismissed. This illustrates a history of tantrums & more. #Pinks

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Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has condemned Israel and summoned the Israeli ambassador to Italy: "Italy further demands an apology for the treatment reserved to these demonstrators and for the total contempt shown toward the explicit requests of the Italian Government." #eupoli

Disturbing new video posted by Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shows him taunting detained pro-Palestinian flotilla activists being held in horrifying conditions. In the footage, Ben-Gvir can be seen shouting at the handcuffed activists while appearing to gloat over their detention.

This law isn't about students' safety or privacy — it's about making life harder for a small group of students who already face bullying, harassment, and violence.

The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 Civilian in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. SOUTHCOM is now counting the survivor of the last strike, on May 8, as another death. We have the running tally of strikes and deaths on our tracker @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

“It’s not just the 6,200 children who have been arrested… it’s the 100,000 families who have been impacted by ICE and the deportations. That number should shock the conscience of everyone in this country.” — @rweingarten.bsky.social #ReadThemHome #EndFamilyDetention

Massie should read the unredacted Epstein Files on the House floor and then run as an independent.

NEW: More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood, according to a new Brookings report.

“Shame must change sides.” -Gisèle Pelicot She was raped. But she insisted on an open courtroom, where videos of her assault were played during the proceedings. The 50 men that raped her high-fived eachother during break. All of the defendants were found guilty. Her memoir became a best seller.

We’ve kept ICE funding blocked since January, but Republicans are now trying to rush it through — and they’re hoping you’re too distracted to notice.

Here's what we know so far about the shooting at the San Diego Mosque: •3 Muslim members murdered •The children are traumatized but safe •The 2 suspects killed themselves •NYT & CNN report anti-Islamic comments inside car & on guns •Police are treating this as a hate crime against Muslims

This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.

So much respect for this exceptional leader! Mamdani disputes Reagan claiming the 9 scariest words are “I’m from the government & I’m here to help,” saying: “9 more terrifying words are actually 'I worked all day, and can't feed my family.' Share everywhere! #uspoli substack.com/@rawstory/no...

Our only path to safety is to insist on fully shared, fully equal humanity, and to refuse to normalize hate and violence against anyone. (2/3)

HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)

The Colbert effect and I’m here for it. Loser CBS. Good, lose more.

JFC. As @willbunch.bsky.social implores us, can't we take the time to acknowledge the insanity and and blatant corruption of president who is losing a war badly, and who still found time to trade stocks 3,700 times in 3 months? -GIFT LINK- share.inquirer.com/drRRdU

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”

The US withdrawal from its global public health responsibilities is a disaster for local communities and a risk to everyone worldwide. Gift link

Earlier this week, Oklahoma passed a bill raising the minimum age to marry to 18 and closing dangerous religious loopholes that enabled abusive and exploitative child marriages. We're proud to be helping lead the fight to end child marriage in all 50 states. Here's our statement.

Inea’s story is one of home, tradition, and memory over generations.

🕊️🙏🕊️ None of us are free until all of us are free. American Friends of Combatants for Peace Summud in Humanity 7th Joint Nakba Remembrance Ceremony Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon

🇺🇸 🇨🇺 The #US announced late Thursday night it plans to indict former Cuban president Raul #Castro. The move follows a visit to #Havana by #CIA Director John Ratcliffe in a bid to improve dialogue between #Washington and the island nation. Watch for more ⤵️

BREAKING: A Russian missile attack on a Kyiv apartment building the previous day killed 24 people, including three children, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday.

Trump said that repairs to the DC Reflecting pool would cost $1.8 Million. Now? The price tag is $13.1 million. The company doing the repairs got a no-bid contract for the project after previously working on pools at Trump's properties. Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?

COLLINS: But if someone was paying $2.98 a gallon before the war, and now they're paying $4.53, saying 'that's life' might not make them feel better JIM JORDAN: Those are your words, not mine COLLINS: You said that just now. I quoted you.

I know Bluesky is the backwater lib bubble that will never matter in a million years or whatever but it's funny to note that the Washington Post has its Walgreens Bari Weiss podcast over here farming rage views because their engagement on YouTube is so bad

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

THIS STORY DEMANDS WAY MORE ATTENTION Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion-claiming they harmed him by leaking his tax returns Trump of course controls the IRS Trump may order the IRS to "settle" this case for $1.7 billion of taxpayer money, placed in a slush fund controlled by-you guessed it-Trump

This from an old China hand in Beijing: the list of music played at the Xi-Trump banquet. Yes, they really did strike up the band for the Village People classic to finish... but wow - ripping out a version of We Are the World? Deep cut... "there's a choice we're making/we're saving our own lives"

Trump is on his way back from the China summit after a bunch of empty words about what he achieved. Apparently “we settled a lot of different problems that other people woudn't have been able to solve". Xi looked pleased though.

On Saturday 16th, thousands of racists will descend upon London. Refugee charity Choose Love has set up a site to convert the march into a fundraiser for displaced people. www.tommychooseslove.org

"the Age-Appropriate Materials Act...broadly restricts materials from being available to students if they contain nudity, sexual abuse, sexual content or 'excessive violence.'" How TF do you teach about slavery w/o referring to its violence? 🙄🤬🙄🤬🙄 www.wbir.com/article/news...

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

The interaction between the zookeeper and the otters is just too adorable.

Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket. The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) @jfrejnyc.bsky.social is doing the work of repairing this broken world. Please consider joining or making a donation or both!! secure.everyaction.com/P2P/PcjRvVRU...

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) @jfrejnyc.bsky.social is doing the work of repairing this broken world. Please consider joining or making a donation or both!! secure.everyaction.com/P2P/PcjRvVRU...

America's chief Middle East negotiator - Jared Kushner - is almost completely dependent on Middle East government investment in his chief business. It's probably the biggest conflict of interest in American diplomatic history and we should be talking about this way more.