When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!

writing a book: "the body takes the L"

If the President can successfully order the IRS to hand over billions of dollars to his personal bank account, the Constitution is dead and no longer operative. I'm not kidding. We've crossed a kind of Rubicon and the social contract is null and void.

people lie to themselves and make up an imaginary past all the time. good to have ways to check what you knew when.

music ‘theory’ is ptolemaic astronomy waiting for its copernicus

Requiring the parent of a SNAP recipient to provide a written statement clarifying that a birthday money transfer was not recurring support is so dystopian.

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

this is where judicial review inevitably cashes out though. "the constitution is unconstitutional, and I get to say so because of my special robe." Callais was decided on the same basis

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

stop what you’re doing and read this

no surprise that kash thinks polygraphs are real, but surely FBI agents generally know its only for intimidating those not in the know, right?

what's that name for the literary aphorism where if an author shows you something with a clear function early they should make it be important later on

This fucking sucks man. Sorry but we can't outlaw play just because we've created a culture where a handful of people have decided the only impact they can possibly make is one wherein they commit a horrific act of violence. We gotta let kids play. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/02/s...

What happens when people learn that humans are not standalone organisms, but walking ecosystems? Our new paper explored whether learning about the #holobiont concept – humans are symbiotic assemblages of a host & trillions of microbes – influences nature connectedness. 1/

The vanishing cold

clydsedales and shetlands out here catching strays just because somebody lost their bet on the kentucky derby

notably missing the missing middle. this screams a harsh zoning regime coupled with connected developers being able to bribe local officials to let them do whatever they want anyways

you ever wonder where barn owls used to live?

better late than never, i guess

Cow tools

A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.

this is, by the way, what happened with activities like 'hiking to beautiful places and maybe not destroying them'

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

darkly funny that every button of governance they smash trying to find the one that will make the woke go away is actually labeled ‘collapse US hegemony’

landlords, and airbnb hosts most of all, operate under the incredible delusion that they are entitled to infinite, guaranteed profit. all reward, no risk.

“We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is.”

A Garland for May Day (1895) Walter Crane

Eastern North America! Wanna learn more about your local bumblebees? Here's an intro to identifying our three most common species. Also, for all my fellow @inaturalist.bsky.social City Nature Challenge identifiers, this is a quick starting point for IDing all your local bee observations this week!

“i despise you, i despise your order, your laws, your force propped authority. hang me for it."

Political analysts were outraged after new reporting revealed that President Donald Trump's DHS bulldozed a 1,000-year-old cultural site in Arizona to build a new wall. #Intaglio

I’m giving this as a gift to all the people in the last year who have said “I think [XYZ use] is bullshit, but some of the medical AI applications seem to be impressive…" where radiology is the most frequent example

the purpose of a system is what it does

#BREAKING Federal prosecutors in Chicago say they are dismissing the conspiracy count against the remaining members of the Broadview Six.

Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.

its bleakly fun watching people come to the edge of the realization that they are the world's biggest dum-dum, and then for their ego defense mechanism to kick in to try to save face. shame about all of human society, though.

these focus groups are just further anecdotal evidence for my view that trump is is understood as a totem for wealth and prosperity. these people are genuinely bewildered that he isn’t, and might in fact be a human being with ulterior motives

changing the ‘armed forces medley’ to just be john browns body & the day the nazi died

kalshi rushing out ai slop ads about onions

every municipal officials in america: "yes, it always does. the data on this is very clear. but...but it might NOT work for us"

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

1. Every year, large areas of gorse in Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks are deliberately burnt. It’s an appalling act of vandalism, killing wildlife, preventing regeneration of crucial habitats, releasing toxic smoke and carbon. This thread is about why it’s happening. Pic from this weekend. 1/7

TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Today is Sextidi the 6th of Floréal in the year 234. Floréal is the month of flowers. Today we celebrate common columbine.#JacobinDay More information on common columbine

Cook County Circuit Judge Erica Reddick just took the bench for arguments over whether a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate Operation Midway Blitz agents. Will update as I can …

haha, oh shit, new thing to talk about with my critical thinking students