Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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The treadmill at the hotel fitness center displayed my weight as I got started this morning. Just rude

I literally cannot say anything I want to say about this because I will get banned

"We know that grades are not scientific or objective measurements of student learning. They are reflections of progress on an individual instructor’s learning goals as determined by performance on activities, assignments and exams created by that same instructor.

Go off, BBC

Fox buying Roku for $22 billion. Another merger where a media company will own production, distribution, and exhibition of content. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Might be a Midwest thing, but there’s something wonderful about stepping outside on a summer morning after a cold front has gone through and you’ve got low humidity, cool temperatures, and a bit of a breeze.

For more on this, be on the lookout for @kkdumez.bsky.social new book coming out in Sept You can pre-order it now bookshop.org/p/books/live...

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

This review of Fahrenheit 451 written in 1954 slaps.

They tried to hide but I got em anyway

I will become that weird old lady with the analog house

Calling @kkdumez.bsky.social #LiveLaughLovebook

A mother, a daughter, a granddaughter: For the Peldo family, three generations of women have been victims of sexual abuse. Each woman was told by church leaders to forgive her abuser instead of reporting him to police. w/ @startribune.com

A City of Chicago employee who planned bike infrastructure projects was killed on Friday afternoon riding his bike in the Bridgeport neighborhood. His name was Riley O’Neil and he and I went to high school together and played on the lacrosse team together.

Remember Yogi Berra, for example, who was shot through the hand as a boat pilot at Omaha Beach. He never applied for the Purple Heart as not to worry his mother. The next day he helped clear the beach of bodies. He was asked how this affected him. He replied, "Baseball ain't hard."

Imho, Lake Michigan beaches are undefeated. Give me those singing sands

The companies selling legal and safe e-bikes need to be much more vocal about this, otherwise pedal-assist bikes that top out at, say, 18 mph are either going get swept up in a broad ban of all e-thingies or find themselves subject to licensing and registration, which would be a de facto ban.

Let’s cut through the noise from Trump’s DHS. Here’s what I saw on the ground at Delaney Hall:

Tom Tiffany and Derrick Van Orden are still defending Trump’s Medicaid cuts while families protest outside Wisconsin hospitals worried about losing care. Their message to struggling Wisconsinites? Work more.  #WIGov #Wipolitics

Road tripping this weekend. Filled up leaving SW Wisconsin at $4.29/gal. Entered Illinois- $4.99

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

It is worth saying that it appears that the brave and principled actions of people of Minneapolis and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good seem to have been a legitimate inflection point in American politics. We should carry that forward with us.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

The Purdue AeroEco Lab predicts another 44 million birds flying over Wisconsin the next few nights. Keeping your lights off overnight and your bird feeders full can help these birds as they migrate through the area. aeroecolab.com/wisconsin

If you want to feel empowered this morning, here's a gift link of @tressiemcphd.bsky.social banger article on women seeing through influencer attempts to convince us that we should fear the AI www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

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Note to parents of college students: Do not plan your family vacation or buy nonrefundable tickets before the last day of finals.

Current* conditions near Michigan City, IN:

Ugly story unfolding with Robin Vos and Assembly Republicans. THREAD

Of course they do. Last year a friend had a miscarriage and drs refused to prescribe her any "helpful" meds like Mifepristone. She suffered and bled for 7 days in rage at what was being done to her in WI. She wrote a letter to the editor, but I don't know if any of the Milwaukee papers printed it.

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

Was just entering grades and it crapped out and is now inaccessible. Not the way end the semester

By the look on Marco's face he got more than 5 Our Fathers and 10 Hail Marys for penance

Living in Ames, IA. Working a couple different part time jobs while my husband was in grad school at Iowa State.

As someone who lives in a Wisconsin congressional district we are hopefully turning blue this November, this is very unbelievable.

Accurate

Small town life We went to movies tonight. The app said the movie started at 5. We get the theater a couple minutes before 5. The sign on the door says the movie starts at 4:55. As we finish paying the manager says we are the only ones there so he'll restart it for us.

i think we do ourselves a disservice when we are allowed to forget that every piece of civil rights legislation was written with the blood of martyrs. a few drops of the blood used to write the VRA was viola liuzzo’s. she was murdered by klansmen after the march from selma to montgomery.

AOC tells PabloReports that the reinstatement of the agent who shot Renee Good is a reminder of why Democrats should not give ICE and CBP a dime. AOC: Every single person that that man encounters is in just as grave danger as she was in.

Since it's come up, I really do think people have forgotten just how monumentally shitty it was when every square inch of public space smelled like a fucking ashtray

I have never heard of a " wake low" before either, but can confirm that's what happened yesterday. That wind was crazy.

“That’s sick!” I wholeheartedly agreed. “Can girls do that?!” Now it was my turn to stop in my tracks. A random encounter in our capital in 2026. We’ve had female pilots in the Air Force since 1988.