Imagine being a kid and learning both your parents were arrested by ICE. You’ll have to pay rent and survive on your own. I shadowed four siblings—US citizens near Mar-a-Lago—as they try to do that. I'll be thinking about their story for a long time 1/x www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

❤️‍🩹 From UNESCO-listed sanctuaries to historic museums, Russia’s overnight strikes across Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro left some of Ukraine's most treasured cultural landmarks scarred by fire. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

Again and again, Russia kills the people and destroys the cultural sites it says it went to war to protect. These crimes will end when the US supplies missile defense to Ukraine and enforces sanctions on Russian energy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

NEWS: Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a law requiring Virginia education officials to review how January 6 is taught in schools—pushing back against efforts to rewrite history and whitewash the attack on our democracy. Read more:

The HPV vaccine was approved 20 years ago this week. In a new series, CIDRAP News looks at what we've learned. In this story, we profile two sisters: Hailey was eligible for vaccination in 2006. Erica was not. 6 yrs later, Erica was diagnosed with cervical cancer. www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

NEW: Ballroom donors have won more than $50B in government contracts according to watchdog group @publiccitizen.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Just saying…. #BookSky

A Staircase to Heaven. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

This is really important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…” and its members believe deeply in “principles such as the rule of law, checks and balances, and the peaceful transition of power.” Follow @astronauts4america.bsky.social

We live in a country where some of the best journalists are late night comedians & editorial cartoonists. THANK YOU Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, Tom Tomorrow, Mike Luckovich & Michael de Adder ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! #LAUGH_DO_NOT_DESPAIR ✊

The last time Trump promised that things “will be wild” we got Jan. 6. Buckle up Washington.

Until it becomes the first largest in history.

Go ahead and slam journalists when they deserve it. I certainly do. But also realize that New York Times journalists Declan Walsh and Arlette Bashizi willingly traveled to an Ebola ward in the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to inform the world. Many journalists are heroes. (NYT gift link)

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

The Power to the People Festival should be held where people who can’t afford hefty ticket prices can see it. Want to start a movement? Don’t charge an entrance fee.

The Boss was in DC last night and he was on FIRE🔥: Let em hear it in the f* White House!

60 Minutes' Sharyn Alfonsi pens a goodbye note slamming Bari Weiss' actions against her "as a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting." Read the rest:

Early voting in the #NY12 Primary Election is 18 days from today. That means voters will start making critical decisions about this primary. Once they vote, we can't change their minds. We don't have a moment to waste.

A Great Day in Harlem, 1958 photograph by Art Kane RIP Sonny Rollins www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

Cartoon by Nurk

Between 2001 and 2013, almost 300 foreign-born soldiers died in service of their adoptive country. Marine Lance Cpl. José Gutierrez, believed to have been the second US service member to have been killed in Iraq, arrived here w/out papers: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/immigrant-... #MemorialDay

This photo was posted in a group called "View from your window". I couldn't resist posting this photo from Finland photographed by Helena Tarpeinen. The colors are outstanding.

The Washington Nationals are tops in runs scored but 16th in your power rankings. Time to overhaul your methodology @mlb.com www.mlb.com/news/mlb-pow...

Bhattacharya’s legacy The US had a “world-class Ebola lab in Frederick, Maryland, with the NIH,” designed to develop vaccines & treatments. The lab would normally be swinging into action. “But that lab was shuttered last year, with staff laid off abruptly”😢 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Questions Grow Over Mystery Of Missing Legislative Branch

Reading “All the President’s Men” to relive a time when news media mattered, reporters followed the facts and the Congress and Supreme Court cared about the Constitution.

As we read the headlines about Ebola, hantavirus, measles... let's summarize our MIA leadership 🔍 VACANT: CDC director - nominee named, no hearing date, acting director's top priority is waging a war on a study design that hurts his feelings 1/

May have been?

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

Seems relevant that it was Bezos' own actions that led to waves of cancelled subscriptions, not the reporting.

Former top officials at USAID, CDC, NIH and the White House said that if USAID was still intact, it’s possible its resources might have helped contain the virus in this new outbreak and even saved lives. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Q&A with Fazlur Rahman about his new memoir, THE TEMPLE ROAD. tinyurl.com/bddjpjnp

Many are losing coverage because insurance companies, such as Cigna, are dropping out of the marketplace.

At last, a pill that can PREVENT COVID after exposure to infected people buff.ly/RxebpGI Ensitrelvir cut infection from 9% to 3% in household contacts. This is the first oral post-exposure prophylaxis for COVID ever proven to work. Game changer for the immunocompromised. #medsky 😷 #publichealth

More solid coverage by Stars & Stripes.

Source after source told 60 Minutes they fear today’s insider trading scandal about military secrets is tomorrow’s national security scandal. If market-watchers can spot irregular trades, surely enemies can, too. And they’ll make their war plans accordingly. cbsn.ws/4uSxuCf

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

He had a rough year? Poor Donald.

Glad somebody noticed.

We’ll name the ruins Trumpica.

We're celebrating our 50th anniversary! 🎉🎉 Join us Tuesday, May 19th, for a fascinating conversation about how nonprofit news is proving to be a sustainable model for the news industry in San Francisco and across the country. Click the link below to learn more! bit.ly/4urf8Z6

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. ✅

Springsteen grew up during Vietnam. He understands the power of music to wake people up. And that’s what really frightens them – that people will wake up.

The dismantling of USAID is a humanitarian crisis. Only the cartoonists are covering it.

Overheard at the pump in Morgantown, WVA, construction worker with a dayglo vest: “Just cost me $75 to fill my car. F*n absurd.”

What has me worried — what we all need to focus on — is that something important in our democracy broke last week, and we are only beginning to see the fallout. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free.” — Maxim Gorky 🌱📷