I didn’t know there were FIVE ICE detention hunger strikes going on all over the country.

How one man's Kafkaesque plight explains the growing hunger strikes at immigration lockups and the nightly unrest in Newark Izzy Aly says he'll die soon unless an ICE camp in rural Pa. stops neglecting his advanced kidney failure My column on the fight to save Izzy www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

Read the letter from hunger strikers inside Delaney Hall. Heartbreaking. www.lahuelga.com/sos

Kansas City Art Institute has words for coke heads:

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Minnesota has just become the first state to ban prediction markets. Gov. Tim Walz has signed a bill that makes operating or advertising prediction markets a felony. This sets a major precedent for those seeking to regulate or ban Polymarket, Kalshi, and other sites.

Trump has purged federal agencies of black workers, the military of high-ranking black officers, supports GOP efforts to purge Southern states of black representation and wants elite universities to discriminate against black applicants, lest they admit too many (who obviously don’t deserve it.)

weird how many contexts the simple question "have you tried being pleasant to be around?" seems to unlock these days

My fifth book is out today! I really wanted to write something about grieving the death of a parent while also addressing how funny and ridiculous the process can be. I didn’t know if I would be able to write this, but I’m really proud I did. Please buy it! bookshop.org/p/books/in-b...

tattoo it on my forehead. thank you isaac - sincerely, an emerging theater director

need everybody to read This Article

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

here's John Mulaney's bit about RFK Jr. at the Netflix festival, via queen[dot]caitlyn0 on TikTok

genuinely very concerned for what could happen during the 72nd st trader joes closure. like I do mean Bad Things

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i have never understood "you could put yourself in the movie!" as a selling point, especially a uniquely generated movie. anyone who actually wants to watch an "AI" rom com starring a soulless digital avatar of themselves should be getting professional help for that

An absolute masterpiece of the form. What actually is that form? I can't really explain. But a masterpiece of... something.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Breaking News: The Justice Department wants to revoke the citizenship of hundreds of foreign-born Americans, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations, according to a U.S. official.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

A shocking amount of people approach fiction as if it is the news or internet beef, not a method of art making meant to communicate ideas and emotions.

I haven’t watched the Pitt but predicting things has infected most every fandom from gaming to music. There are prediction threads about what Olivia’s fourth album will be like. Art isn’t an extended universe! Sometimes people just respond to the world and make things. It’s not all a plan!

Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent

god created two genders and it’s important we all accept that (russell crowe in master and commander and paul bettany in master and commander)

My random thought for 2028: Campaigning directly to parents on the issue of closely regulating AI friend programs used by minors could be a big winning issue for a Democrat among a lot of key constituencies.

“you need to learn how to use ai” what the fuck are you talking about, how hard is it to type a prompt

please Zohran. Please !!!!!

It doesn't matter whether you are on twitter or bluesky, you will always see long threads of men arguing w/ each other about whether economic feelings are real without seeing anyone mention childcare costs, rising unsheltered homelessness or the fact that uncountable numbers of families live in cars

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oh, this is very important to know!!

He's threatening nuclear war with the kind of language they'd use to promote a special episode of Celebrity Apprentice

Jewish New Yorkers have taken over the lobby of Palantir on the 6th night of Passover to protest corporate complicity in ICE’s deportation machine. NYC Jews demand #SanctuaryNotSurveillance!

This stuff is basically propaganda, and probably more dangerous than more obvious propaganda, because it performs the overcoming of objections to AI in a way educated readers are meant to find aspirationally sophisticated

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“By July, the rabies team will be down to just one person with the clinical expertise to advise state and local officials, and the pox virus team will have none.”

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

It’s been 30 days since Trump started his illegal war with Iran. Here’s what it’s costing Americans:

When you run a business cooperatively you understand exactly where the money goes, and realize how much money is wasted on unproductive bullshit from rich idiots. No market force is going to solve that. This system was not working before and it was always destined to break.

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

A predictable #NoKings take from Jeremy Peters: A small turnout will be ominous, a large one will be meaningless, all protests from the left are merely a "primal scream," and none of them mean much. The NYT has always loved protests as history but hated them as news. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...

Dan Radcliffe in his press tour talking about Brennan Lee Mulligan and How To Hide An Empire … twin ?!?!

🟢 Durant, OK warehouse has sold… to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma! ICE previously sought to buy the space to create a mega detention center capable of holding 8,500 people. This is the 13th warehouse they have been denied.

Please sign this petition to ban "A.i." for two years from NYC schools. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

harry potter trailer

When you've never had a decision bounce back and hit you, when there are always buffers, lawyers, PR people, etc. who absorb the consequences, money to make problems go away, social networks that protect you from accountability, you don't develop the mental habit of thinking past the first move.

"Republicans in Nebraska, Indiana and West Virginia have successfully passed legislation in 2026 rolling back child labor regulations, with legislation led by Republicans pending in other states, including Florida, Missouri and Virginia." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

may we turn all corrupt centers of power into petcos