AI probably has some uses for retail. A much more realistic potential magic bullet here as I discovered when reporting on Finland’s massive grocery coop (50% market share) was no need for profit prospect.org/2023/10/11/2...

happy memorial day

Israeli soldiers subjected activists from the latest Gaza aid flotilla to sexual, psychological and physical abuse after intercepting their boats and taking them to Israel, according to numerous accounts from participants. jrnl.ie/7050938

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

There's also Project Open Arms, which connects trans people in red states with a peer who helps them make a plan to leave and directs them to resources to help them make the move. tractionpnw.org/open-arms/

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)

A US-born woman born was confronted by sheriff deputies in Louisiana who were convinced her ID and social security card were fakes. They turned her over to ICE, who shackled her & took her an hour away. Even after a lawyer convinced ICE of the woman's citizenship the sheriff says they did no wrong

1. Caste. Most people in the west don’t understand that the waves of engineers and doctors who immigrated out of India in the 70s and onwards were ‘high’ caste folks, who resented the Indian equivalent of affirmative action for caste. Caste solidarity is very powerful…/

On this note: another state (or several of them) should file an original jurisdiction suit against Florida on this basis. The domestic emoluments ban on states paying the president is a federalism safeguard, one state violating it is a real harm to the sovereign interests of every other state.

Still wild that the media covers Epstein like a True Crime curio that the President is sometimes asked to comment on and not the biggest scandal in Presidential history

Every couple months I check in on the latest Adrian Chiles articles and I’m always absolutely blown away. These are all from the last couple months. The man is operating at an incredibly high level.

John Mulaney was talking about one called Noodles the Dog where parents have to tell their kids that their beloved dog passed away and they keep making up stories but it turns out the dog actually died of autoerotic asphyxiation and Lorne turned to him and said “I hope you’re proud of yourself”

Actually it was conceived as a streamlined way for Republicans to send federal dollars to donors while creating a surveillance state. The name *always* seemed like a Nazi reference—and it likely was. The GWBush admin couldn't even explain why they used it. www.nytimes.com/2002/08/31/u...

Big NYT look at the CFTC. It "has been mowed down by the powerful business interests it is supposed to oversee... The commission has shrunk its work force, purged career officials, sharply curtailed crypto enforcement and helped out prediction markets at virtually every turn, The Times found."

remember when you used to learn this information quietly and at the age of roughly eleven

Videos circulating on social media Thursday of a Fairfield police officer body slamming, punching and repeatedly pulling the hair of a Fairfield High School student has drawn concern and outrage from numerous observers. www.vallejosun.com/video-shows-...

A man tried to record a hyper-aggressive #Boston cop, so the cop tackled him, arrested him, and filed a false police report accusing him of assault. After he beat the false charges, ICE agents grabbed him and detained him for four months.

WATCH: On Jan. 31, hundreds of families gathered at an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, to protest immigration enforcement. We spoke with two brothers, ages 11 and 15, who attended the protest and described being tear-gassed firsthand.

You may remember Republicans absolutely losing their mind when Obama released $1.7 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

Russia isn't the only one that drops bombs on medics.. Video captures the moment a second strike killed two Lebanese paramedics as they were helping victims of an earlier attack

Highly recommend my colleague Jim Pope's "Snubbed Landmark: Why United States v. Cruikshank (1876) Belongs at the Heart of the American Constitutional Canon" on the legal aspects of this campaign scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/esploro/outp...

Of note, the person who initiated this vindictive prosecution is now the Acting Attorney General

When I saw this post I assumed it was hyperbole or at least inference. But nah.

I could see why Noem got the boot for telling Congress that Trump directly authorized the official DHS Fuck Jet, but I can't figure why Bondi and Gabbard are getting pushed out. Like, they're ALL awful in their own ways, so why bother? What problem do they even think they're solving?

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

“In some far off place, many light years in space, I’ll wait for you. Where human feet have never trod, where human eyes have never seen. I’ll build a world of abstract dreams and wait for you.” Happy Birthday, Sun Ra!

the Trump admin has already bullied some hospitals into ending gender-affirming care for minors, even in states where there's no ban on the books. and they are not content to stop there: now they want patients' records and providers' files and are turning to one federal judge to get them. my story:

Melissa hits the Texas angle on the head. It is also important to note that when Trump became president, some number of people from the Texas AG's office went on to work in the national AG's office to undertake the exact same playbook:

Today, 70+ organizations sent a letter to Secretary of State Rubio demanding justice and accountability for the murder of U.S. citizen Sayfollah Musallet, who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while on his land in the West Bank on July 11, 2025, and for other Americans killed by Israel.

“The DHS propaganda machine went to work. Headlines around the country declared that Sosa-Celis and two other men had ambushed and beat two ICE officers nearly to death, giving them no choice but to use lethal force to defend themselves. It was all a lie.” open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

i would have rather america accelerated global electrification by building an unparalleled domestic green manufacturing industry but i'll take petrostate gangsterism scaring everyone into going green if that's the only option on the table

"The move came after a transgender student who was part of Boise High School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance died by suicide, and another stopped attending the school, the group’s lawyers wrote in a legal agreement reached Wednesday requesting the case be dismissed."

I don’t think that should be allowed to happen.

I figured there would be shady conduct with the Broadview Six grand jury, but it's unreal. Vouching is bad enough, but dismissing grand jurors who disagreed with them, hiding a no true bill, and hiding pages of the transcript from the judge? That should be disbarment. That's WAY beyond sanctionable.

It is important to know that these people are vile bigots no better than Strom Thurmond

The very same They should be disbarred then dismembered bsky.app/profile/fsqu...

Look at this map of life expectancy by state and tell me whether you'd like the governance of the places where people live as long as they do in Europe or Asia or the governance where people die as early as people in Russia or Bangladesh.

The next Dem President needs to just wipe this absurdity away. "Some random district court judge in Texas gets to act like a tyrannical king" is neither how the actual Constitution works nor a sensible common-sense adaptation of the Constitution's failings.

NYT: "no one has ever thought of teaching ranching at university" Every ag school: um, would you like to meet our cows NYT: "No, not like that. More romantic. More dilletante. Ugh, we're not /farmers/."

Cocaine has done infinitely more for the arts and education than AI ever will.

So here's a fun little pre-Trump tidbit of how the intel agencies have ALWAYS been awful about transparency. In 1995, President Clinton signed Executive Order 12958, which is largely still the governing document for classified info through Obama's EO 13526.

For chemist Kris Hansen, 3M was a family affair; her father was a creator of the company’s N95 face masks. Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals. (Published May 2024)

The bill wouldn't have passed without 8 Democrats voting for it.

Israeli fascist and minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, posted a video of himself on Twitter abusing the illegally kidnaped and detained members of the Global Sumud Flotilla while yelling “Welcome to Israel, we are the owners of the house".

For @aftermath.site: Bambu Lab, a giant in the 3D printing space, threatened a developer for trying to restore their product's functionality using their own open source code. The blowback was enormous and may have exposed something far more consequential. aftermath.site/bambu-lab-ag...

One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen