The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

“This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.” #ArtemisII www.bbc.com/news/live/c4...

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Third Way, January 2025: No more litmus tests! Democrats must "reject the pledges!" Third Way, March 2026: Here's a litmus test!

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

The IRS wanted to let churches endorse candidates A federal judge said no religionnews.com/2026/03/31/b...

This whole idea that this is the beginning of the end of America is ridiculous. The American people still identify as *Americans*, still value democracy and freedom. We're being given a VERY explicit choice between "destroy everything that makes our lives enjoyable" and "throw the bums out."

Since its Trans Day of Visibility, I thought I might share these panels from GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN--a graphic novel in stores 5/5, by me, @ryehickman.bsky.social and @longtalljodie.com

Today's MPR show with Angela Davis is a conversation with faith leaders about their resistance to Metro Surge and it's really worth listening to. I'd especially recommend it to faith leaders out of state. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

I’m glad that Epic has stated on another app that the CEO is going to get in touch with the guy with brain cancer and deal with that. Truly. But when you lay off 1000 people, you’re fucking up someone’s life like that. Inevitably. Probably more than one person’s. Every fucking time.

Death is a common and meaningful experience. ⚓️ A good death is possible and desirable. 🛟 Advance Care Planning is great, and everyone should do it. 🩺 Grief is normal, and it can be treated for better outcomes. 🧠

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

Glad you went. The point is that the biggest possible numbers on the streets is visual confirmation that the regime isn’t in control and people do not fear it. That matters for opposing an authoritarian consolidation; the perception of weakness is weakness. Maxing crowd numbers is a valid goal

Lab Leakers: "SARS-CoV-2 can't infect bats, so it must have been made in a lab". Science: "Let's do the experiment". SARS-CoV-2 behaves exactly like one would expect in a reservoir species - low-level infection, no overt disease, etc. Elegant study from Sato Lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Please stop spreading this rage bait. The quote everyone's angry about, about "crappy identity politics," is not from Weir.

Is this extremely predictable, extremely predicted outcome unplanned, though? Or have capital and its assistant, the state, been relentlessly shaving down the mediating layer between public funds and private profit, "education," for decades?

Lindsey Graham is in so many ways the instigator of this. This should be a defining issue in his Senate race in South Carolina, a state where he was already unpopular before this war began.

IT IS NOT HIS HOUSE. It’s ours.

There's no mention in this piece that this violates federal law. It ends with an implication that Trump can do this all on his own: "It’s unclear when exactly Trump will sign the order or how long it will take for workers to get paid as a result of the president’s intervention."

i don't much like platner for the same reason i have rapidly come to dislike annie andrews and the same reason i don't like newsom — values matter, and throwing out homophobic or misogynistic or transphobic "jokes" display contempt for the values the overwhelming majority of party voters live by

I march for everyone who can't. For those who have spirit and passion but are in constant pain. Including several close to me. I march so that a guy who looks like me can be clearly and openly seen standing firm and clear. I march because I will not give in to these fascist fucks.

Looking at the Super Mario Bros premiere promo on MeTV Toons... Are they adding Captain N too? That's wild! Curious if the Zelda episodes will be there too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIwt...

With ICE's public approval in the toilet, the agency is quietly paying off local police to act as bounty hunters carrying out its immigration mission www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Arguably not my nicest post ever. But I really do think vibes-based pundits need to be ignored from here on out. Either stick to data and have people respect and listen to you, or just go with your own vibes and be rightly dismissed and ignored. The stakes are too high for pundits' bullshit.

It’s Republicans. It’s 100% Republicans. Trans people aren’t persecuted when democrats control any lever of power. They invariably are wherever republicans can do so. I’m begging you, begging, ALL of you, to acknowledge that the single most effective way to improve trans lives is to vote blue.

one thing that frustrates me quite a bit about modern opinion-writing is that hardly anyone tries to argue with a particular person or a specific argument. it's all gesturing towards people saying something. take this piece for example. setting aside the merits of the argument, who is the target?

And prosecuted from its leadership to its least functionary.

Ms Rachel 2028 bsky.app/profile/mike...

How, other than my white complexion and blond hair, would I be able to prove my citizenship to the satisfaction of ICE on any given Sunday?

tell me again your favorite memories of twitter tell me again your amazing reasons for staying

I am not pointing this comment at anyone in particular, but: The TSA line has already been a fraught place for brown and Black travelers for as long as it has been around. The racism might get worse tomorrow, but it isn’t going to start tomorrow. That is all.

The deal with Google was always “we let you scrape all our websites and in return you send people to them.” Every AI slop feature they add is a violation of that deal. Ultimately we, meaning website makers, will have to make a hard decision about whether the deal is worth it anymore.

"We should have empathy for the president." Once again, the cult's cabinet officers insist that we must adjust our norms to make room for the world's most special little boy

Post-pandemic, we (very briefly) had a strong labor market for early-20s workers, for the first time since the 1990s. People, including Gen-Z, said they *hated* this, because this tight labor market raised prices on food delivery, ubers, fast food and other labor intensive, low-skill work.

Starting the work now to prosecute and civilly sue ICE for its abuses as soon as the Trump presidency ends and they lose federal protection. Others should follow this lead. Lay the basis to hit the ground running on accountability, on all the many crimes and abuses imposed by the Trump regime.

There are many problems with saying "the deeply evil sh*t in the history of science doesn't count as science," but two key points are (1) these evil things often substantially contributed to scientific understanding today and (2) lots of contemporary science involves similarly evil sh*t.

In the Wall Street Journal. Something has changed.

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

I do not want it in my search I do not want it in my church I do not want it in my car I do not want it, near or far I do not want to be its wife I do not want it in my life I do not want it here or there I do not want it ANYWHERE

It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.

Normally the Democrats have to point out that we're starving the social safety net to feed an insatiable war machine, but Mike Johnson just went right out and said it.

This is why he is attacking science. In the hopes we will never know the harm he has done.

next time someone from the Trump administration says "no one could've predicted this" remind them that the dumbass trump take egg guy from bluesky predicted this

“AI is here to stay” is very much a self-fulfilling prophecy, and we must use ourselves to ensure it does not come true.

"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

Just days ago, Witkoff told us on @cnbc.com that Putin said he WASN'T sharing intel and that we had to "take him at his word."

Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed. Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

Pro tip: if you’re putting together a program about how women’s pain is (badly) treated… Don’t pick someone who doesn’t live with chronic pain. Sore boobs and non-endo period cramps may be unpleasant. The way acute pain is treated is terrible. But the chronic stuff is all that and constant.