3 million, almost certainly the biggest mass uninsuring event since the Great Recession, and a mini-recession in its own right—and growing! SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE MENTIONED IN EVERY PIECE ABOUT THE MIDTERMS

More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began collecting data more than three decades ago.* Two-thirds of the journalists killed were by Israeli forces.*

I watched this (great) @acollierastro.bsky.social video when it came out 9 months ago, but to this day I'm still haunted by the revelation that the same guy somehow wrote both He Stopped Loving Her Today, a contender for the greatest song ever, and the utterly putrid I Wanna Talk About Me.

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

*Gasp* But I was told by Sam Alito that intentional racial discrimination against Black voters remained illegal?!?!?!

Come on now going to make a new friend going to make new friend today so rocko can go out and plaaay

This is the second time in a week the Supreme Court has sidestepped process in a way that helps GOP adopt new maps to maximize partisan advantage even as election season is underway.

new from @acollierastro.bsky.social

thinking about all the 14 year old Khaleesi's who are finally old enough to watch the show their parents decided to name them after.

The BAFTA-winning team behind the documentary ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ criticised the BBC after the broadcaster shelved the film over “partiality” concerns, before it was later aired on Channel 4.

Abolish ICE in its entirety and deny everyone working for them any future government employment.

This, but for software engineering. Producing AI slop is the quickest way to lose my respect.

*flipping through large bound and leather covered manuscripts in the archive* Oh nos the LLM search engines lol

Over 60% of women who have abortions are already mothers, and they are making that decision in the best interest of their existing children. Happy Mother’s Day.

sweet relish is an abomination.

hot take: fuck this but after reading the details of the story, this is not primarily a story about corporate greed, it is primarily a story about how the chronic underfunding and understaffing of public utilities is a tool for enabling corporate greed

but I did so many jokes to keep the vibe chill

So I just stand here sorry Searching for something to say Something to say Words fail, words fail There's nothing I can say

1. 🧵"If you are taking seats from Black people...then you are a thief." Baton Rouge civil rights activist Gary Chambers said the quiet part out loud Friday as GOP lawmakers push to wipe out Louisiana’s majority-Black districts. See the heated exchange👇

Another great insight by Angela, highly recommended! Everyone should be aware what the Trump regime is doing to science and research.

im not not condoning physical violence. i am saying many know where a lot of these garbage racists live and also work.

Tapping the sign.

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

There's a lot of talk about political violence and the turning down of rhetoric. But then I ask you.....what exactly is "violence?" Is violence merely defined as the reactionary response by oppressed people enduring perpetual violence from the ruling class? But never recognized top-down?

Happy Mother’s Day from the Trump administration.

this is why I really wanted my "AI does not exist" catch phrase to take off. they really got one over on us by getting the AI label to stick.

Good morning! I hear a lot about fear of speaking out and standing up for science. A friendly reminder that I haven’t experienced a SINGLE blip of retaliation & science whistleblowers at 2 of 3 agencies who were retaliated against have been reinstated. Do NOT obey in advance. GET LOUD!

Israel’s dehumanization campaign and theft of Lebanese land has been ongoing for decades.

not loving that the head of the FBI believes in polygraph honestly.

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

I'm officially challenging @captaindisillusion.bsky.social to a physical fight.

my god this is just terrible data viz. class how could you show these numbers in an understandable way? perhaps some sort of pizza slice infographic

Thousands of immigrants were detained in Minnesota this winter. Many detainees left behind families that depended on them, who are now asking themselves whether they can safely stay, or even safely leave. (1) share.google/LU759CxFdYgG...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he’s “comfortable” with being among the names of potential Democratic candidates for the 2028 presidential election. @mckennahorsley.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/briefs/beshe...

the teachers have been saying this for two straight years but its nice to see laid out like this.

How we talk about an issue dictates how we respond to it. And that is absolutely the case with domestic violence. Last week I wrote about how law enforcement so often responds to a DV homicide with some version of *there’s no threat to the general public*. Now this. 🧵

They think you’re stupid.

I have said this before and I will say it again, but it is my firm belief that given the blatant and naked corruption exhibited by some members of the Roberts Court, decisions of the Roberts Court should not be treated as precedentially binding on later courts.

I saw someone call these 'stop words.' Conversation enders. Complaining about the fascism? "What did you expect?" Broken tech? "It's enshitification." Violent sexist comments? "Probably a bot." Useless platitudes when silences is free and appreciated.

Not picking on this person, but I honestly hate this kind of criticism. It's the same as "and, you're surprised?" No, I'm not fucking surprised. I'm *documenting* the bullshit that's going on, rather than spending all my time cynically congratulating myself for knowing all along what would happen.

these losers are grifting everywhere all the time. ruining my fun.

SCOTUS voting rights decision “will usher in a bleaching of the nation’s legislative bodies unlike anything this country has seen since the “Redemption” of 1873–1877 ended Reconstruction and returned white supremacists to power throughout the South“ www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

“At the morgue, the babies were brought in with their diapers and blankets and with their hospital ID bracelets still wrapped around their tiny ankles. The pathologists’ findings were like those you would typically see in ailing adults, not newborns.” @deldeib.bsky.social

maybe we should think about the negative impact "scientists are dumb as shit and constantly shocked by new info" will have on future generations of voters but maybe that's just me.

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

Lancet predicts 14M more deaths in the next 4 years. That includes almost half a million children under the age of 5. www.thelancet.com/article/S014...

id expect to see cosmologists dying from strokes at a significant rate since JWST launch if they were actually 'freaking out' as often as the sci pop people would have you believe. "THIS SHOULDNT EXIST" "THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN" "NOT LIKE THIS" c'mon.

placed a wreath upon his door