New article! On "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the plutocrat class ripping America apart: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-friend-...

Agree 100% w @davidcorn.bsky.social Trump talked about "Shylock bankers" last week. Which didn't make front page. Instead this crap about menace of Ivy league antisemitism. (FWIW GOP has never had Jewish national-ticket nominee. Four of past six prez of Harvard have been Jewish, including now)

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

"The lawsuit was filed in Amarillo, Texas, a portion of a federal district court where the sole judge is a 2019 Trump appointee... CBS News is not headquartered in Texas, nor did the interview take place there." www.cbsnews.com/news/paramou...

A good time for people to familiarize themselves with the best way to understand Trump II: The Concentration Camp Tendency.

Out here in rural America, where we already wait weeks and weeks for absolutely necessary tests and scans. Agonizing waits.

So tired of having to look at these people’s fetishes in public.

This study on the impact of NPR and PBS stations, released by U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., highlights stations serve 13 million people in areas threatened by hurricanes, tornadoes, disasters where the stations are an important source of information. https://loom.ly/GzzWg0M

Pay no attention to the 250K behind the curtain

🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."

If there’s a lower age limit for presidents, we can have an upper age limit.

Trump so scared he used the teleprompter

Abolish ICE. Treat them like the kidnappers they are.

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.

Growing into a real Maoist vibe here

In "Doonesbury," Andy Lippincott died 35 years ago, on May 24, 1990. Andy was not only the first openly gay character in newspaper comics but also the first one to die of AIDS. Here is that strip and the ensuing sequence:

If you want a cool sticker designed by @dynamoe.bsky.social, preorder your copy of Epic and Lovely from Annie Bloom’s! Free with order! annieblooms.com/book/9781959...

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

This really is a remarkable story

Salt Lake City! They made the city flags pride flags so you can't get in trouble for hanging them in your classroom

I don't understand how the Times can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking.

“Racial preferences” - pretty ugly look, CHE

Just reading up on the calamitous Pope Francis kerning scandal.

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

This is a remarkable letter and everyone should read it.

New: Paramount owner Shari Redstone in recent days sought to know about upcoming 60 Minutes stories involving Trump. It was part of an increase in scrutiny of 60 Minutes that resulted in producer Bill Owens' departure from the network www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

In other important news today, Wordle was BS

I didn’t mean to send you that letter with those offensive demands (which I 100% continue to stand behind). But you completely overreacted to my accidentally disclosed demands. I have no choice now but to steal $2 billion dollars from you.

Not surprising that an administration that rose to power on the spread of bullshit and propaganda is terminating the funding of researchers studying these phenomena. We are just receiving word about funding cancellations re: existing grants to members of our team and our colleagues.

“My recent performance review was rife with DEI language.” 🤔

Free Movie Week starts tonight on Criterion Channel! #FilmSky

Deporting. US citizens. @raskin.house.gov what is Judiciary doing?

UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.

“My bad” - rhymes with “eat cake”

Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

"The University declares that this opinion piece was not in violation of any Tufts policies. Further, no complaints were filed with the University or, to our knowledge, outside of the University about this op-ed."

Yet another example of the lesser-ranked schools taking the stand that the bigger schools are too scared to. Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not. The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.

In this piece, I endorse Tufts Fletcher School faculty's proposal that universities challenge Trump's speech-based deportations of non-citizen students in court, and explain why this strategy is much better than letting targeted students fend for themselves: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Gotta say, with the news this week I’m proud to be premiering an eco-doc in DC tonight. Thanks to the ever more vital DC Environmental Film Festival. Want to show our film? Get at me! www.fiegefilms.com/raising-aniya

#RIP

University presidents? Got anything here?

CMSI’s invaluable State of the Documentary Field survey is up - contribute here! tinyurl.com/cmsisurvey

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Post your favorite Doctor Who (wrong answers only)

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

"We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government.... Our problem in part is a failure of imagination. We cannot get ourselves to see how this is going to unfold in its most frightening versions." --Lee Bollinger, former president of Columbia University.

What’s both funny and infuriating to me is that we could end this madness so easily but for a small number of people paralyzed by cowardice, greed, and a collective-action problem.