Last night, the US military invaded a quiet residential neighborhood in Pasadena for a “training exercise” that went until 1AM. Mayor Victor Gordo didn’t inform residents until right before and supposedly the military didn’t tell the city until yesterday

I wanna give off John Turturro at the Knicks game energy.

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It's #Pride Month, of course, so here's something else for straight people to read, consider, & try to understand. This is why representation is so important. We've had to "translate" EVERYTHING in our heads our entire lives. It's such a relief, a reduction in cognitive load, when we don't have to.

A New York paramedic tells what they see in Trump’s health. Hint: it’s not good. For Trump. An informed view from someone at the sharp end.

🚨🚨 Huge breaking news from Brussels: Hungary has lifted its two-year-long veto on Ukraine's EU accession. Ukraine and Moldova will soon be able to open the first cluster of the accession process. The saga is over.

Oof. Apparently Platner's team tried setting up an interview with Dave Portnoy, aka the founder of Barstool Sports and an avowed Trump supporter. It...did not go well.

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

i spend a lot of time thinking about Big Bertha, a rock picked up by the Apollo 14 astronauts on the moon in 1971 and then discovered in 2019 to be the only piece of Earth’s original crust we’ve ever gotten our hands on

Absolutely amazing student reporting here by @thedailynu.bsky.social on Evanston Police violating city ordinances to go out of their way to assist ICE.

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

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People on the right went wild over James Talarico saying that God is beyond gender, saying god is nonbinary or w/e. It reminded me of the time Charlie Kirk got backed into a corner by this college kid.

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

“your uterus is your castle” is the funniest pro-abortion stance I’ve ever seen

Death to touchscreens

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

Adding to Tom Steyer discourse

Okay, on the latest #taskmaster @alexhorne.bsky.social holds up this puzzle, telling people to solve it before continuing the show. I gave up after about 10 minutes, but for fun... I gave it to Claude, Gemini, & ChatGPT... Only one of them figured it out.

The autopsy used the word "transgendered" [sic], which is basically the linguistic equivalent of blaming the election on "negroes". One has only to read that one word and realize the author is so out of touch and ignorant that anything they opine should be disregarded.

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

this is unironically a solid idea. lots of other things in this category would work as well

@clairewillett.bsky.social Your bond photo is from here: www.palmspringslife.com/arts-culture...

tell me: - do these limits feel ok? - is 5 minutes acceptable? - why is post editing important to you?

here's what we're thinking: 1) you have 5 minutes to edit a post 2) you can only edit each posts once 3) images and videos can’t be edited 4) a prominent "edited" badge appears on the post 5) version history is visible to everyone 6) your account has to be at least a week old

ok, deep breath… we're discussing *potentially* adding post editing to Bluesky this year.

@annamerlan.bsky.social wrote the definitive piece on this www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wish i had the resources to explore this more fully as a report but as someone who has worked in menta health care for nearly 20 years now, i can tell you - conversion therapy is an INDUSTRY in the UK.

A…stunning campaign launch. "My dad got cancer & my mom's employer collapsed. The executives got paid & the workers got screwed. She didn't have the heart to tell us, even when the bank took the house…when she took her own life, the eviction notice was in her pocket." @ahlmanfornebraska.bsky.social

Everyone who has ever spent time in the IDF should, at minimum, spend 25x that amount of time in a re-education facility learning basic morality and ways to contribute to humanity.

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

Yeah, if I'm being too subtle - that's the point! They think urban Dems can't govern themselves. So you get state laws overriding local laws, state laws determining how much of the city budget needs to go to police, districts that make sure the cities are represented by Rs who don't live there.

TN eliminated only majority-Black district AL, LA eliminating majority-Black districts SC planning to oust only Black Democrat since Reconstruction MS planning to oust only Black rep GA planning special session to eliminate majority-Black districts This is what return to Jim Crow looks like

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

This checks out. Be careful cleaning out old, abandoned houses. Protective wear isn’t just for COVID

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced the agency is investigating a potential hantavirus case in an Illinois resident that is not linked to a recent deadly cruise ship outbreak. news.wttw.com/2026/05/12/p...

Chad Johnson is CEO of 'Grain Weevil'. His son did robotics competitions in high school, which inspired this little fella that breaks up hardened surfaces & levels grain to ensure it behaves like a liquid, avoids clumping. This probably saves 10-30 human lives a year. NO BOOTS IN THE GRAIN.

Trans rights are human rights and this administration is an abomination of hate and greed.

I somewhat agree, although Thirsty Suitors should have slimmed down the game. I expected a new take on meaningful relationship fights. Instead half the game was that insane hoverboard powerplant level from Jak 2. The narrative I saw before getting stuck was really good.

No, Aaron. I get you’re in a tough spot, but I cannot permit you to run from this.

This hit me so hard this week.

I hope she is sitting in her mold castle having just the worst day because of this

What do electric buses do at night? They help balance the grid. First Bus in Glasgow: "By flexing when buses are charged, the depots can increase demand at times when there is excess renewable energy on the system, particularly wind power in Scotland, and reduce demand during peak periods. [1/2]

blogging sickos who just use *all* the platforms are my favorites need a "wall of blogmaxxing" to showcase everyone who has blogs on each platform (with something published in the past month, not just tested once)…someone make this 😂

yike

found this guy on Tiktok who has discovered carpenter's speed squares make an insanely satisfying noise when you bounce them off tires or wood, called @lostcoastedc on there