The UK is going to implement a national trans bathroom ban this week by fiat. archive.ph/aXsWh

1/5 On May 15, Associated Press leadership cut 20 guild covered staff. Layoffs included U.S. news, photographers, investigations, business and sports across 12 states.

Gabriel Rockhill has an alarming message: all of the smartest leftwing theorists you know were bought and sold by capitalism as controlled opposition. Richard Gilman-Opalsky joins me to evaluate Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism. open.substack.com/pub/matthewr...

AP's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation is the kind of work executive editor Julie Pace says “highlights the unique strengths of AP’s global, multiformat newsroom.” But those strengths are being hacked away as management leaves U.S. staffers in the dark on impending layoffs.

The Trump administration has announced two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development.

BREAKING: Correspondents' dinner shooting suspect is a 31-year-old man from California, AP sources say.

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1/3 “News doesn’t reveal itself from a distance. It has to be witnessed.” AP Executive Editor Julie Pace affirmed the importance of “eyewitness journalism,” while AP is offering buyouts to more than 120 U.S. guild covered employees across multiple formats. How can AP be on the ground without us?

(1 of 2) WARNING: SCAM EMAILS PRETENDING TO BE FROM ME. They offer very specific feedback on writing in progress/posted or self-published works, then propose an offline conversation. They are coming from this address: [email protected].

Not enough coverage about Eliezer Yudkowsky focuses on how in his short story "Three Worlds Collide" he envisions a future where rape is legal, and this fact is generally agreed to have been a great leap forward for humanity. www.lesswrong.com/posts/bojLBv...

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This piece begins with Amity Shlaes' most common and most deceitful trick -- citing the unemployment numbers in 1938, when the country fell into a recession because FDR had been persuaded to *ease off* the New Deal, as proof that the New Deal didn't work. Pure hackery.

Grogu got in the trash and ate some chocolate and he died

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"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

Bob Marley 'attends' to Stevie Wonder's hair during a jam at the Black Music Association Show in Philadelphia, 1979. Photo: Leandre K. Jackson.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people. The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work. Subscribe to support our journalism.

There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame

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26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball. Now being discarded as if he was human refuse. Shame on Syracuse for not intervening. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

NEW — On Wednesday, the Chicago City Council is expected to vote on a proposed substitute ordinance which, if approved, would allow the Chicago Police Department to remove officers connected to far-right extremist groups. thetriibe.com/2026/04/alde...

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

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The irrational decision of buying this book for its gorgeous cover.

1. Idaho banned the pride flag on government property. So Boise made the pride flag their official city flag, which allowed them to fly it. Then Idaho banned new city flags. So in response, Boise has now wrapped the poles themselves in rainbows! Subscribe to support our journalism.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social I offer this to delight, not to contradict: to my admittedly basic sensibilities, Cheekface sound much more like Imperial Teen than Cake, Ween or The Dismemberment Plan: youtu.be/-aRSSHEUzAM?...

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i want to know where the software was made i want to know who made the software i want to know why the software was made i want to know why software was chosen as the means to the end i want to know what will happen when the software is no longer available or is changed beyond recognition

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Another person has died in ICE custody. Tuan Van Bui, 55, died on April 1. ICE waited until the holiday weekend to say anything. At least 15 people have died in ICE custody this year.

Out of curiosity, are there any fellow artists who create art inspired by vintage print/book illustrations? Would love to follow more who share my niche.

Movies used to have Karen Allen in em.

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

IMHO, the Vine GOAT www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSGV...

Can't wait to hear this. Just the idea of it sounds amazing in my head already

Ohio just introduced HB798, an omnibus anti-trans bill that targets every aspect of trans peoples lives. It bans trans people from bathrooms, even in private businesses. It retroactively bans gender marker changes on birth certificates and drivers licenses. It compels misgendering in schools.

I have experienced similar pile-ons when my summary of a court's holding was mistaken for my personal view on the matter. This insistence on stripping a post of context then imputing bad faith is making BlueSky unusable for legal reporting. Today's incident shows that the problem is getting worse.

"While nobody builds it, everyone lies" is so far proving to be a solid marketing strategy.