“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state. The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Oof. This is a tough one.

The Trump administration has again petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court regarding #BirthrightCitizenship, this time on the merits of the administration’s effort to rewrite the constitutional right afforded to children born on U.S. soil. Via @statesnewsroom.com buff.ly/S9lbjZr

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

People will blame anything for their kid's autism before they admit they fucked a nerd

It was the omg of times, it was the Jfc of times

If you are currently abroad and on a valid H-1b visa, starting Sunday you'll be barred from re-entering the U.S. - unless you or your employer pay $100,000 to the U.S. government. This de facto travel ban will cause chaos throughout tech and the entire economy. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

1. Republicans are attempting to get the FBI to label trans advocacy as domestic terrorism. Project 2025's parent org is pushing it. It would not label all trans people as terrorists, but it would open the door for heavy surveillance and disruption. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Americans used to know birds by thousands of unique local folk names. Ruddy Ducks alone were called dummy duck, dinky, dipper, dopper, dumb-bird, and god-damn. My latest piece is on the joy of folk names and losing them to the bureaucratic formalization of knowledge about birds.

Calling my uncles new snowmobile suit a 'cute romper' and getting disinvited to our Boy's Day

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Look who visited our native prairie pollinator garden 🥹🥹🥹🥹

Zuzuecanag de nażidwakiye, aŋpetug de. 🥹 I freed this little one at work today.

Ḣtawani ed kodana bduhe 😊🕷️

New linguistics meme dropped

if shoehorning references to the family of engineers whose experiments in flying machines formed the basis of modern aviation is wrong, then i don't want to be wright

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.

1. In an alarming move, the Trump administration has banned trans coverage for federal employees and their families, including youth and adults. It mandates faith-based conversion therapy coverage. It is one of the largest removals of coverage in the US. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Anti-trans legislation permanently impacts real South Dakotans. Not only are transgender residents suppressed by these laws, but their communities lose business owners, neighbors and friends when they're forced to leave as a result.

South Dakota’s secretary of state is taking responsibility for the release of sensitive voter registration data, after her office published a spreadsheet that labeled thousands of residents as having registered to vote at government assistance agencies. buff.ly/KWGc8zE

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

good lord

The SF mayor himself states that crime is at a 5-year low, and yet apparently that means we need to pour even more tax dollars into policing? Absurd. Not to mention the state going out of its way to assist ICE, who will already be swimming with federal money given the recent budget bill. Gross.

Innovation strikes in the field of chimpanzee rectum adornment: defector.com/innovation-s...

That masculine coolness of a black t-shirt, obliterated by a layer of cat hair

"They falsely stated that I, a U.S. citizen, have no Constitutional rights at a point of entry, and officers became increasingly agitated as I continued to assert my rights regardless."

oh

A friend sent me an AI slop video thinking it was funny :( now I have to kill him

A minor point obvs but god bless her hairdresser's sabotage work

this shouldn't just prompt a resignation, it's almost like negligent homicide if any of those people died

I have the most-liked comment on a niche YouTube video about having no one to talk to about it... and I have no one to talk to about it

A South Dakota lawmaker removed a social media post that some fellow lawmakers described as “a direct expression of racism and sexism.” Meanwhile, a legislative leader declined to act on the post and criticized the legislators who complained about it. buff.ly/bpl6uQw

BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.

If you get chemicals in your eyes you’re supposed to flush them with clean water for 15 minutes? Girl the drought

Correction: in the US. Spoke with Pauline, who stayed up until 5AM finishing the installation for today. She described an emotional experience pulling together the research of the missing. Family members still don’t know where some folks are being held. They were grabbed at work and on the street

Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Wamatukaḣce do

Fuck.

Brennan Lee Mulligan: This note is written in a language you don't know how to read. @vornietom.bsky.social: Bet.

CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.