Utqiagvik, Alaska, experienced its final sunset for roughly three months on May 10, welcoming in its summer “midnight sun” period of continuous daylight.

People are well aware of autism pseudoscience, but I find it just as problematic that there is so much bad science with the autism research that is considered respectable.

important thing to note here is dr oz cites a current american replacement rate of 1.5, which is not true. the american replacement level in 2025 was 1.79. interestingly, the white replacement rate is in fact at 1.5 though

asked if the NFL is price gouging, Trump instead rants about the kickoff rule and them absurdly claims that viewers are paying "$1,000 a game" to watch the sport on TV

Clyburn: "I think Justice Roberts is gonna take his place alongside some other justices, like Taney who gave us the Dred Scott decision"

The parents of an 18-year-old US citizen who has terminal colon cancer have been reunited with their son a day after they were released from a Department of Homeland Security detention facility in Arizona: https://cnn.it/3QZ0Gcc

Update on Brian Morales, the 25-year-old American citizen who was deported to Mexico after a Texas traffic stop last month, is still not home.

generating this image required 12 percent of the pacific ocean

Trump’s recent appearances continue to raise serious questions. Difficulty walking in a straight line. Visible hand discoloration. Erratic speech. Missed basic putts despite spending all that time on the golf course. The pattern is getting harder to ignore.

“We’ve just pushed 4.5 million people further into poverty. Congrats to us”

Surely the folks who breathlessly covered Biden’s lack of awareness of administration goings-on will be equally vigorous in covering Trump not knowing he was going to fire his FDA Administrator (and is unhinged and incoherent in countless other ways), right? Right??!

The ‘America First’ Corporate Graveyard

Research consistently shows that immigrants (including the undocumented) commit fewer crimes than U.S.-born citizens. What ICE is doing has nothing to do with law, safety, or borders. It's about racism and power.

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.

Sen. Ron Johnson claims preposterously that as many as 3.9 MILLION (!!!) Americans died as a result of the covid vaccine Complete insanity

Look at how angry this woman looks as she’s demanding to look at the driver’s license of a complete stranger. How do people get this racist? And angry? And entitled? youtube.com/shorts/IodMT...

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

It's that simple. It's not even a 'thumb on the scale' or 'Republicans win close questions' issue. SCOTUS doesn't bother maintaining the pretext of consistently apply judicial methodology, they're just constantly maximizing GOP political power, no matter what that requires.

Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that Alito’s claim is “simply not factual,” and that the turnout gap had “exploded” over the last three years. trib.al/8N53FLm

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them."

Trump is spending more than $6 million of our money to paint the bottom of the Reflecting Pool blue, using a no-bid contract to spend funds intended for urgent needs. His emergency? July 4 celebration. Meanwhile, 35 million Americans live in poverty. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

They're not called Jim Crow laws any more. They are John Roberts laws

How it’s going How it’s going to go

I can't wait for Trump to issue an executive order demanding that all level roads in the US should be torn up and made to go downhill in order to solve the energy crisis.

Scientists who know anything about computational models or psychology do not say this. What's interesting is the human propensity to anthropomorphise and why that tendency is particularly strong when the cue is language.

The Fix is In

When the seasoned prosecutor leading the politically charged case against Brennan told senior Trump Justice Department officials that the evidence did not support charges, the message back was: "That’s not good enough,'" report @evanperez.bsky.social and Hannah Rabinowitz www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/p...

4/ Another officer fired pepper spray through a car window, hitting a 1-year-old girl in the back seat. A bystander filmed her in tears. DHS called the incident a “hoax.” But, as a local pastor at the scene testified later, “there’s literally video evidence.”

3/ Videos show how immigration agents have used these weapons: at one point, officers hurl tear gas canisters at protesters without apparent provocation. Then, with the street flooded in white smoke, a CBP agent shoots pepper balls before muttering “Fuck yeah,” and “Woo!”

2/ We found at least 79 children hurt by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation blitz. It’s likely a vast underestimate. Kids were at home, sitting in strollers or attending a daytime protest with their parents. Then, chemicals left them gasping for air.

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

i think the fact that we are STILL in the position that we, the democratic base, have to convince a bunch of recalcitrant senators to do things like ditch the filibuster, admit DC and PR (if they want it) as states, and, most importantly, reform SCOTUS, identifies all my problems with the party

Meet Petroleum Quartz also known as Golden Enhydro— a rare quartz variety with ancient oil trapped inside. Tiny bubbles of hydrocarbon liquid move within the crystal when tilted, offering a window into Earth’s deep history. [📹 oneloveminerals] Original post

I could not have said it better!!!❤️💯

To slightly adapt Orwell: The Supreme Court told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was its final, most essential command.

Trump’s ‘cruel and lawless’ deportation scheme spent $44M sending 17,400 people to places they’ve never been, report finds

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/n... I ❤️ New York!!

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

“We have no choice but to overturn the 20th century”