Happiest of Happy Birthdays to the extraordinary, legendary, inspirational Sir David Attenborough who turns 100 years old today, 8 May 2026. One of my personal heroes and the driving role model behind why I got involved in wildlife education, I sincerely love this man. 🎂 ❤️🐺❤️

Hell no.

Her husband wrote an entire book telling people not to go to college like him.

These so-called evangelical Christian leaders don’t see the biblical irony of their actions. I guess I should have had idol worship as center square on my bingo card.

New in PN: Why fixing America is much harder than fixing Hungary "I warned in 2020 that it would be dangerous to let Trump go out like Nixon, and the Biden administration’s subsequent decision to pursue healing instead of accountability turned out to be disastrous." — @brynntannehill.bsky.social

Donald Trump lashed out at a Black female reporter, calling her question “stupid.” trib.al/rxx3eTj “This is one of the worst reporters—she’s with ABC Fake News, and she’s a horror show."

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed until residents complained about low water pressure - POLITICO

When Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid last year, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange. From Pulitzer finalist “The End of Aid”:

IDF soldier who participated in the mistaken killing of three Israeli hostages in Gaza City in Dec 2023 confirmed to his mother what was widely reported at the time: they killed the men, who were waving white flags, because their unit was under orders to kill all Gazan men they encountered.

…defense against Hamas on Oct 7. On Oct 10 the IDF released video that showed the 17th Bn’s commander describing the killing of 4 Hamas fighters—but the IDF’s own video made clear those fighters surrendered and complied with instructions to disrobe before being killed. www.972mag.com/three-hostag...

He’s all yours, folks. My first guess was Moscow, but looks like the comforts of MAGA provides even a softer landing. Brace for impact, let the clown show commence. 😱🚫🤡 From SzabadonMagyar

The more things change The more they stay the same.

Was there ever a hand-wringing WaPo piece on “tree, rope, journalist, some assembly required” or any of the other psycho right-wing memes over the years? I doubt it. It’s only a problem when it’s pointed right.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

AOC is right to say this, and anyone who attacks her for it is wrong. And AOC should under no circumstances be labeled antisemitic.

I honestly think no Senator has had his brain cooked more by spending too much time on X than Mike Lee

MTG is still a far-right racist conspiracy theorist, but Ryan Grim wants to give her endless praise.

Louisiana is 33% Black and has six congressional districts. Yet in the past 149 years, they've just had 4 Black congressmen. All of whom are still alive. And that's too many for Louisiana's white Republican leaders.

We are losing our best and brightest. Trump’s immigration policies will have an effect on immigrant scientists like Shirley Meng. She is stepping down as director of Energy Storage Research Alliance and will be relocating to Singapore. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

This article talks about it a bit, but the real reason why Ben Shapiro is losing influence on the American right is that he's a pro-Israel Jew, and the future of the extremely online right is anti-Israel and antisemitic. Simple as that. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds strong support for Democrats this midterm season. It also shows increasing concern about the war in Iran and the economy, particularly the price of gas.

Agreed with Greg, except I think make it a civil rights museum called the Rosa Parks Center. Two reasons: 1) We can't let the media get their heads turned by bad faith about wasting money. Use it, don't destroy it. 2) If Trump is still alive, watching Obama dedicate this center will kill him.

While you can’t afford a trip for your family this summer, you just paid for Sean Duffy’s 7-month road trip at $4.55 per gallon of gas.

Billionaires Gone Wild: how our wealthy overlords bought democracy, can't get no respect & what happens next. Got to talk about it on today's @newyorker.com "Political Scene" podcast with @eosnos.bsky.social, @janemayer.bsky.social & @sbg1.bsky.social. Listen: www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

Which of these has the more ironic name? "TRUTH" Social or Fox "NEWS" #WordsMatter

Notice that none of the boxes are checked.

Just astonishing that in 2020 the NYT endorsed both Warren and Klobuchar for President. There will never be "Still, she persisted" Amy Klobuchar t-shirts.

Big thanks to Joe Rogan and @jaketapper.bsky.social for this.

The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.

Christian nationalist “pastors” Calvin Robinson, Joel Webbon, and Dale Partridge endorse ending women’s suffrage. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/women-vote...

Republican House Rep. Chuck Edwards is facing an Ethics Committee investigation into alleged sexual misconduct of female staffers. Where are all the Republicans like Nancy Mace and Anna Paulina Luna screeching for him to resign?

Just a reminder that corporate media will happily launder any politician as long as they talk to them and play the game. You can carry out any war or genocide or kill literally millions of people and they'll slop up this bullshit for you if you give them a minute of useless, meaningless chit-chat.

Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “A political lynching… an era of retribution… what just happened in Tennessee was the largest and most swift disenfranchisement of Black people in a century.” #Memphis @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

It truly amazes me how the NYT just does not think smaller publications are worthy of being cited in its pages.

Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...

Sen. Ashley Moody: "Listen, if you go out and you say, 'okay, I don't like a person, and I'm going to target them, and I'm going to craft charges against them, come up with something because I don't like them,' that's weaponization." (Somehow she's not talking about Trump ... )

This, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.

there's no marcomentum, stop trying to make marcomentum happen.

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

the Washington Post has become the New York Post thanks Jeff Bezos

Iran now just doing Trump things - endless hostage-taking and ransom demands

Trump’s plan to transform the People’s House into an “emperor’s palace” symbolizes a “broader effort to replace a republican regime with an imperial one.” trib.al/506rD4W

Republicans CHOSE to let the ACA tax credits expire & drive up health care costs, forcing families to drop coverage.   Their argument? It's too expensive to lower YOUR health care costs.    But somehow there is ALWAYS money for Trump's reckless foreign wars and gold-plated ballrooms.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

Trump promised his ballroom wouldn’t cost you a penny. Now, Senate Republicans are asking taxpayers to foot a $1 BILLION bill for it.