Ken Martin claimed that “there was no smoking gun” in the DNC autopsy report. No, Ken, the autopsy report WAS the smoking gun. If the best a political party could muster is a document so incompetently produced that it lacked a conclusion, it proves the party’s leadership was the problem!

Pope making a media studies move from the joint lens of anthropology and philosophy

What an absolute terrifying nightmare abc7.com/live-updates...

It's fun how nothing makes sense

RIP: My interview/visit with Peter Neumann was among my career highlights. Onstensibly a computer scientist, he was but he was also a full-on hacker. Crafty as crafty can be, curious & wanting to do the right thing. Hhttps://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/science/rethinking-the-computer-at-80.html

Between front loaders and patio furniture Americans accept mold as routine part of their life. It’s a health hazard for some of us and frankly disgusting especially if you are trying to clean you clothes

I'm an anti-fan of the privilege concept (hello baggage, hello conjuring feelings of shame), but this very clear piece of writing on pitfalls for clear writing by Corey Robin is excellent and worth sharing widely: coreyrobin.com/2026/05/15/t...

Every month, thousands of working class New Yorkers use Western Union to send money to loved ones. Now Western Union wants to buy its top competitor, Intermex, so it can jack up remittance fees and squeeze families even more. Families shouldn’t pay the price for corporate monopolies.

AI Cyborg Allyship? www.wired.com/story/overwo...

Excellent. Enough with the fragrance www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Cancer seems like a pretty good reason to ban potassium bromate. This encapsulates everything wrong with the USA: let's keep poisoning our population just to keep food slightly cheaper, which ignores the long-term health and financial consequences of doing so www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/d...

Inflation up dramatically - a direct result of Trump's Iran war. Blaming others won't help. Without a change of course, Americans will keep paying the price.

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

I had somehow missed that the fascist surveillance company had cooked up a sad little fashion line for soulless manbaby shitweasels how adorable, you working overtime for the kakistocracy in your robin egg blue frump coat

Too good not to share for those of us whose serious health concerns were written off as anxiety.

RIP a great hacker has passed :( www-ftm-nl.translate.goog/artikelen/ka...

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

The news that our national forests, some of the most pristine and beautiful areas, are treated heavily with glyphosate pretty much broke me this week.

You can be tough on RFK and still admit psychiatry has major problems. These drugs are lifesavers for some. For others, withdrawal rivals the illness itself. Don't simply defend the field just because the wrong person is criticizing it.

NIMBY Slayer "Are we kind of being pricks?’" Such a typical MA move: pretend to move forward with affordable housing with a dodgy hack. Video in story. Watch it. It will make your day www.marbleheadindependent.com/are-we-kind-...

I got the Laurelhurst Community Council's meeting minutes before they took down their website. You'll never guess what they had to say about the helicopters flying sick kids to the hospital: www.thestranger.com/news/laurelh...

The CDC quietly stopped helping states test for infectious diseases like rabies. RFK Jr. is gutting critical public health services and making our country less safe. I'm calling on him to answer for his dangerous choices.

I have been somewhat homeless (staying mostly with family) for the last year, thanks to this. Incredibly exciting. Incredibly stressful (as I am building due to health reasons). I can't believe we are at this stage of things.

Neuromuncher, that should be. Weekly podcast wherein I describe my favorite snacks and local snackeries.

I'm looking for a copy of Born That Way (an Irish movie on disability). Any pointers? www.instagram.com/reels/DR7Oto...

Is this a rabbit? Sadly the dog dug them up this am :(

Thanks to whoever made Grand Central even more breathtaking

June bug is contemplating our AI future

MAHA helped create a government that nearly passed a pesticide shield law, only to have to mobilize to stop it. I’m grateful they helped stop it. I’m pissed they helped create the conditions that made it possible. And it's why I feel like I am losing my mind.

BREAKING: The Senate just unanimously banned Senators from trading on prediction markets, effective immediately.

Pesticide shield has been removed from (an otherwise terrible bill). It only got through due to an MAHA/Dem alliance. I suspect we will need more strategic alliances to stop some of the worst moves by the GoP. MAHA ladies going hard after those they deem traitors (lol)

Profs, never been a more important time to join the AAUP. It's a quick and easy online form. www.aaup.org

Middle school art is where it’s at

i have serious misgivings about Graham Platner but I hope he wins and conducts his office in a way that makes me feel that I was wrong to doubt. I would vote for him if I lived in Maine despite my misgivings because we know exactly who Collins is and she's bad.

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

Weekly reminder that the problem with hidden mold is that it is hidden, not picked up by air tests, can be incredibly hard to find, and can be making you/your family ill in radically distinct ways. Cheers.

Saving here for research. But just in case you might benefit from the keto diet but think it is just RFK-madness (it's not), I'm sharing (I'm not on this diet but know folks who manage all sorts of problems from Crohn's to Schizophrenia with it)

Let's do everything in our power to get RFK out of power, but let's not lull ourselves into magical thinking that will solve the vax problem, which runs so much deeper (and isn't just an issue in the US). In fact, the US is currently doing pretty well compared to its neighbors and much of the EU.

LA weirdos! It appears that @uchicagopress.bsky.social is giving away my book OIL BEACH for FREE this month (as an e-book) Link is here: press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEb...

Hah, they fixed it. It's too bad most allergists don't know how to diagnose and treat the problem, as many of us don't even have a traditional allergy but are just truly sickened by the stuff. Integrative MDs are all over this, at least, but that is not good enough.

I’m in shock: they updated their post

Same! The capacity of my body in and out of mold exposure is unbelievable if I didn’t experience it firsthand. Between my husband and I, we have 4 Chem/Bio degrees and 3 graduate degrees. Stuff like this had him gaslighting me at first, but now that he’s seen me deal with it, he mostly gets it.

Mold entirely reprogrammed my immune system. There’s a Nobel Prize lying in wait in bodies like ours, if approached with a modicum of scientific curiosity. But instead AAAAI wants to smugly post lies and delusions. Then turn around and wonder why no one trusts their doctors or vaccines anymore.

Since it keeps getting taken down, we'll keep reposting the the Palantir board getting a truly psycho message from Karp.

Part of the reason trust in mainstream medicine is at an all-time low is due to its narrowness & dogmatism. This is no myth for some of us. I wish it were not so. It is the bane of my existence, but I absolutely get sick in these ways and am fine with no mold exposure.

"And he has spent $57 million to try to undercut the measure, including $9 million more disclosed on Friday.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

Reminder that Trump issued an EO to boost production of glyphosate, a chemical in weedkiller that has been linked to cancer. Today, his admin is arguing before SCOTUS in defense of chemical manufacturers during a trial that could shield them from future liability. “Make America Healthy Again.”

You need proof that a core MAHA faction is willing to go Dem if Dems go tough on toxic chemicals? Look no further (though most Dems are pretty clueless on this opportunity as they too are in the laps of big chem) www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

MAHA is right to go after Bayer and push for real regulation of glyphosate. Most Democrats won't touch it. Total missed opportunity. They are protesting at the Supreme Court today since the gov might give Bayer total immunity x.com/i/broadcasts...

Trump says Cole Allen "hates Christians" but there's zero evidence for this. In fact, Allen identified as Christian less than a month ago, and was enraged by Trump's AI image portrayal of himself as Jesus: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/assassin-w...