I don't want to say smart watches are not quite accurate with their fitness metrics, but I was just awarded my daily step goal for the hand motions I made while eating potato chips.

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

YOU CANNOT UNSEE BISEXUAL LIGHTING

Got the chance to interview the lovely and very funny Ella Maisy Purvis about Season 2 of #Patience for @tellyvisions.org. I'll be recapping the show again starting June 14!

You guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.

It’s really important to remember is that Vought’s Regulation on Federal Financial Assistance works without agency action. University offices of sponsored programs and other recipients will change their behavior to avoid being noncompliant. There’s no “it’s not so bad” outcome. That’s the point.

Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student. AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

the thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.

if you live in new york, please go right ahead and remind the state attorney general to fucking protect at-risk children’s medical privacy.

What a catastrophe. Hospitals that do this voluntarily are helping ensure future patients will not seek care anywhere. And who knows what it will mean for the patients directly affected. gothamist.com/news/nyc-par...

Even in the middle of all this *waves hands around*, it's important to remember to relax and ponder one of the great philosophical questions of our time: Does Guy Fieri swallow?

Really wondering when the New York's state and city Human Rights Law is going to be enforced against these hospitals.

ok my story on this went up but folks were pretty reticent to chat. still, getting some good feedback behind the scenes! if people start mounting a response or resistance to this, i would love to hear about it

Congrats, John Roberts! You ended the three-branch method of governance!

OMB is forcing “the Smithsonian to spend congressionally appropriated funding in a way that’s ‘consistent with the FY 2026 President’s Budget’ in order to receive it. The president’s budget differed widely from what Congress ultimately chose to fund.” www.notus.org/trump-white-...

i literally just wanted to own a two bedroom home in a walkable neighborhood where i can have three cats and a dog and wear nice outfits to go feed pigeons and now society is about to collapse

Feeling down on humanity? Well the shelter where I volunteer ran low on dogfood and we put out the word on FB and we had trucks lining up to unload all the food people donated. We got way more than we can use. This am I drove this huge load over to a shelter a coupla counties over. #dogsifbluesky

I just think we're going to need to burn the white house ourselves after this

Nicky Childers wrote the hell out of this article.

So here's the problem with that firewall: It's already been struggling for years, and Team Trump seems to be doing everything it can to make sure screwworm makes a comeback.

Fast forward to 1996. The US & Panama co-establish COPEG! It's a giant flesh-eating maggot farm that raises & releases millions of sterile males per week. This building right here is the firewall keeping flesh-eating maggots out of Central & North America. pa.usembassy.gov/copeg-25th-a...

Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.

This was always coming. Always. And history tells us what will come next.

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

“we told you so” is unfortunately deeply unsatisfying in the face of what we told you

"And then things got worse." The complete Schedule P/C list, folks... This includes thousands and thousands of civil servants. To my eye, this covers more than just 15s.

I would really like for outlets to, after stating the government’s allegations, at least mention the fact that the car ran into us. An ICE agent drove into a crowd. Of people. Who were peacefully protesting. And then the government tried to paint us as a lawless mob.

Yeah, there we go. I'm a little obsessed with tracking ignored warnings from scientists as they are vindicated.

NEW: Organizers in San Diego are still patrolling immigrant neighborhoods to watch out and inform people about ICE. Over the last year, they've had to come to terms with what they've seen out of Minneapolis, and adapt their training and strategies. Important new reporting out of SoCal:

I guess we're really never getting the strait opened.

In general, the idea that every voter suppression tactic and attempt to erase Black representation is actually going to backfire due to xyz is a really easy way for people to convince themselves they don’t have to actually do anything.

Welp there’s no unseeing this

it’s crazy watching people be loud and wrong online and when presented with facts they simply refuse to accept them like. i know we’re in a literacy crisis but now it feels like we’re doing straight up crimes against information.

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

I see Florida higher education continues its race to hell.

due to the rising cost of housing, there are now three wolves inside you

Yassssss subscribed. www.capitalweather.com/welcome/

these are truly awful people. i wish them the worst. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

I think one of the problems is that people keep saying conservative when they actually mean racist. No conservative is like, "Oh, I can't listen to Kendrick because I'm actually in favor of a small, limited government that doesn't put money into a social safety net."

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

I may need to give away the fish fertilizer. My yard is too small for this 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Under huge political pressure, the USPS is preparing rules to implement the mail-in ballot Executive Order. As APWU president, Jonathan Smith, said: "The order contradicts the fundamental purpose of the USPS and its workforce – to provide universal service" #Votebymail

Trump administration is planning on opening up vast tracks of land, including National Wildlife Refuge land to upland bird and migratory fowl hunting. Call your representatives. #birds #nature

the biggest bubble ever constructed is white male U.S. corporate hustlebro culture, and it's painfully disorienting for the sad chaps when they wander off campus into the real world

Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REMOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NAME FROM KENNEDY CENTER BUILDING - ORDER

Say it with me... The fascists aren't having any fun and the latest concert debacle is downstream of this fact. Their art sucks and this is a major reason they can't stand the Left(s).

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...