After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

Abolish ICE in its entirety and deny everyone working for them any future government employment.

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social what bothers me most, I think, is how publishers have given up on the mid list. If you aren’t a TikTok influencer, they barely pay attention. I sold 20k copies of my mystery novel—and the sequel sold 6000 in the first five months. But they refused to pub the third. 🤷🏻‍♀️

According to the new Fox News poll, less than 1% of voters think “wokeness/transgender issues” are the most important things. Instead, they were focused on inflation, corruption, and the Iran war, all Trump weaknesses. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/shoc...

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.

"The Trump administration has laid off thousands of CDC scientists and public health professionals, including members of the agency’s ship sanitation program..." www.huffpost.com/entry/expert...

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...

Fantastic conversation between @shikhadalmia.bsky.social and @jamellebouie.net, especially the rebuttal to the Ruy Teixeira/Third Way overreading of the meaning of 2024. Highly recommend: www.theunpopulist.net/p/where-will...

Marjorie Taylor Greene argued that the belief that the Jews killed Jesus is core Christian teaching and not antisemitic. It was shocking.

Kennedy's health officials explored US ban of some widely used antidepressants

Well, would you look at that. Free...free?!...free!! romance audiobooks available today and tomorrow! Yep :) Stuff your earbuds, folks, and spread the word: libro.fm/collections/...

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CBS "News" to Cut Ties With ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi After She Outed Meddling By Right-Wing Hack Bari Weiss sg.news.yahoo.com/cbs-news-cut...

This is a perfectly reasonable question from a reporter (Rachel Scott). A question a lot of us have about the Reflecting Pool, since our tax dollars are paying for it. Although I would’ve asked with a lot more scorn in my tone. Trump’s answer is the “horror show”.

Air traffic Control is in crisis, planes are crashing, TSA lines are around the block, airlines are going out of business. And this fox news bozo went on a seven month-road trip while we were paying him to be transportation secretary? Do I have this right?

Virginia supreme court's inexplicable ruling against the will of voters on redistricting dramatically raises the urgency for Dems to redistrict in other states before 2028. The stakes in state legislative races this cycle just got more urgent. My piece on that here: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

There is not enough discussion of the EEOC's lawsuit against @nytimes.com for discriminating against a white man. Here's a gift link. Let's get into it.🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

Give me your favorite Non-Trek performance from a Star Trek actor. <sigh> No words.

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

I don't think you saw the news I just broke. This is the big court case that's been going on for the last year. The same one that made those two DOGE boys famous. You might want to, uh, share this around.

ICYMI — After Republicans stripped majority-Black Memphis of representation, this was @brotherjones.bsky.social in the rotunda. Damn. (From NC5)

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social dives into the ‘CBS News Sunday Morning’ story about the West Bank that sparked outrage from one of its interview subjects and Bari Weiss’s involvement. Plus, Trump’s remarks on the passing of CNN mogul Ted Turner in ‘Ragebait’ zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

Okay, so a woman suing Black for SA was also involved in the suit against JP Morgan. Black's attorney sent a letter to Judge Rakoff, who was overseeing the Epstein victim's class action settlement against JP Morgan, disparaging the woman. Rakoff then reduced the woman's share of the settlement.

The FBI’s reported investigation focusing on an Atlantic journalist would represent a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s war against press freedom, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.

"Make Me Better explores the idea of faith as an abdication of responsibility... Gailey asks, how much are you willing to overlook to keep the peace and belong? How much horror can you abide at the promise you will be made better?" From @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social!! They fuckin GET IT man 😈

Almost 90% of comics creators who earn income from traditional publishing do not earn the national living wage from their work, with 13% relying on state benefits 👇 #BookSky

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She was one of the driving forces behind the VA congressional map initiative.

This is exactly why we need DOJ reform to be *codified in law,* as I argued in this piece, and as Adam Schiff and others told me in interviews. The old post-Watergate norms-based approach is dead. newrepublic.com/article/2099...

"In a maximum-gerrymandering scenario, more than 400 seats in the House could be safe and essentially uncontestable, delivering to voters year after year an unresponsive and unimpeachable class of lazy representatives with little incentive to represent them" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The folks at Time Magazine asked me what tech innovation I think defins modern life today, and my answer is anchoring a list that includes contributions from Tim Cook, Tracy Chou, Gabrielle Zevin and Ray Kurtzweil, among others. time.com/collection/o...

This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

I really doubt that the press is going to show much sympathy for the millions of us who take SSRIs. Serious depression is not something that the press deems an issue worth examining. But it is not an overstatement to say that SSRIs are the difference between living and dying for millions of us.

"nobody else ever ended a war"

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

'Unheard of!' Rachel Maddow incredulous as Trump DOJ caught lying in court www.rawstory.com/rachel-maddo... Remember when perjury was a crime. I miss those days.

He was taken into ICE custody in Boston in September 2025, died March 2 at a hospital in Arizona. #Maddow www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/....

time and time again the court holds that rules and maps - even illegal ones - cannot be changed because it is “too close to an election” if the changes would benefit Dems now, it is fine canceling *ongoing primaries* in order to rewrite maps in favor of the GOP

The Supreme Court moved unusually fast tonight, letting last week’s major voting rights ruling take effect immediately after Louisiana Republicans asked the court to skip the standard 32-day waiting period before a decision is certified and returned to a lower court.

Two things are true at the same time: Creative careers are not zero-sum, and also, a power law applies in nearly every creative endeavor. The key is expanding the audience for the creative field, which changes the power curve include more creators in it. Big hits/critical recognition help everyone.

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Demand destruction vs fuel-superceding infrastructure; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/h... #Pluralistic 1/

Spotted in the wild @sarahgailey.bsky.social roomofonesown.com

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

So many reboots of old TV shows these days. But my least favorite is the Oprah Winfrey Show spinoff called The Trump Administration.

If you see this, post a character that starts with the letter T It’s G*ddamn Mister Terrific

This is a very bad decision made by very bad people on behalf of other very bad people. The Trump administration has repeatedly shown itself to use illegitimate investigations to punish people it dislikes. Therefore a Trump administration investigation is not legitimate basis for this decision.