Terry Pratchett bears witness at the American Visionary Art Museum.

bsky.app/profile/john... Yep

thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for the heads up lolsob "Industry groups said the move could even raise prices because manufacturers have already redesigned products, retooled factories and trained workers to build and service next-generation refrigerant equipment."

Roadways are flooding. If you can stay put. Stay safe NYC.

BREAKING: Sen. Ed Markey calls for Trump's impeachment.

I was last week years old when I learned that folks fight against air pollution regulation in India by claiming Indian people are uniquely adapted to dirty air (in part because of, amongst other things, yogic breathing 🤯) Incredibly story from @rishpardikar.bsky.social drilled.media/news/air-pol...

Big Beautiful Bribe Bank

House Republicans aren’t keen on Trump $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded pot of $$ for convicted crooks Rep Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA): “We’re gonna kill it” Rep David Schweikert (R-AZ): “I have big concerns about it” Rep Don Bacon (R-NE): How did President negotiate with himself?

Stay extra hydrated is a great way to make sure you stand up. But also, I've really enjoyed shifting to standing desk the last few months

There are many widely available health & wellness apps that will remind you to periodically get up from your desk and walk around but I can personally recommend my own low-tech method which is to continuously drink ungodly amounts of tea.

Credit where credit is due: The NYT homepage has come around to recognizing the enormity of this story. The articles are still full of weasel words, but it's progress!

Economic illiteracy

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

Bezos, of course, is the reason The Post lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers, necessitating sweeping layoffs

PG&E's Capex budget is $12B for 2026. 6 million of these would be $2.2B, and you could probably get most of the way there for customer rebates worth half that.

My colleagues at RTI also conducted a study debunking the rationale for such bathroom bills: www.wunc.org/law/2017-03-...

These RCT results (via Swayable) get at the big problem. The right wing immigration ads Dems ran both built public support for the ICE nightmare we are living now, AND were politically disastrous, showing clear backfire on candidate choice questions. They made voters want to vote for Trump.

So batteries are getting to the point where you could tell a utility "If half your customers get a KitchenAid stand mixer equivalent appliance, you can flatten your two peakiest hours every day."

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

The fact the Google maps doesn't have a navigation mode for the msp skyway is Minnesota erasure. Also, Minneapolis, 5 extra cool points for the skyway.

Note Cassidy's vote. Note Cornyn, Tillis, and Tuberville. www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

About 4 years ago I switched over to www.ecosia.org, which is Bing underneath. It's actually better than Google most of the time.

Five SFF Satires of Modern Tech Culture reactormag.com/five-sff-sat...

So much for "let me google that for you..."

You can't snarkily reply "let me Google that for you" anymore, because Google has immolated their own product.

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

I don't mind paying a fee, but the gas tax should also be 42 cents now just to keep up with inflation.

Costco membership now gets your Chevy Bolt rebates! electrek.co/2026/05/18/c...

Heartened to see a Democrat take on Reagan and this ridiculous quote. It's always gotten under my skin.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

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This is the correct way to report it. They dropped the case to AVOID the court reviewing it. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Today's work news, my keynote at Linux Foundations Open Source Summit. Thanks to @pleia2.bsky.social for capturing this photo ♥️

Really happy to see @dague.net on the keynote stage at #OSSummit to talk about Quantum computers 🤩 More about the open source Qiskit project + add-ons here: github.com/Qiskit And more on how to develop here: ibm.biz/oss2026 🎉

Alex is an amazing human, and the editor of @thexylom.com, an investigative journalism outlet focused on climate, environmental justice, and health. Please boost this, and support him if you can.

Come work with me at the best newspaper in the world! (Yeah, I said it.)

Sen. Bill Cassidy's losing legacy: He gave America RFK Jr. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Folks in MSP, I applaud you for providing a dungeon crawler experience in your core CBD. Tomorrow morning's adventure will be to see if I can navigate from my hotel to the convention center via the skyway only.

Louisiana IMHO is a really good example of the resource curse

9 years was not an excessive punishment. Peters was a county official who used someone else’s security badge to let a fellow election denier access the whole county's voting data. That is an extreme breach of public trust for the purpose of undermining our democracy; harsh deterrence is vital.

This was up in a bar in MSP I was in last night. So awesome.

This just in, Old Man's War is apparently perfect PERFECT I SAY Also he nine other novels on this list are okay too I guess (Go ahead and put your favorite "How could they forget [x]" in the comments, mine would be All Systems Red, we stan a Murderbot in this house) www.cbr.com/perfect-sci-...

Bigger, better batteries are going to make gas obsolete. www.ft.com/content/b5c5...

“The truth is that the Voting Rights Act was conceived, crafted and passed in order to further realize American democracy. And it was, itself, the product of an explosion of democratic energy.”

she’s in oakland, someone tell interpol

And Louisiana is not a "red" state. It's a gerrymandered, voter-suppressed, democratically-underfunded State. But I'm telling you, Black folks are here doing the work everyday. If Louisiana gets better, the country gets betters. By every measure, invest in the South!!!

Without the library, there is no history, only the stories power wants told.

If you're going to interview someone who uses a truck, you're morally obligated to ask them when they last used their bed. ,

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.