If you take transit (or bike!) to work in San Francisco, the city will pay for your taxi home in the event of illness, family emergency, or required overtime. Up to $150 up to 4 times per year. www.sfenvironment.org/emergency-ri...

Martin Scorsese Plays Vincent Van Gogh in a Short, Surreal Film by Akira Kurosawa

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

Pope Leo XIV says that the Catholic Church’s teaching on sexual ethics must be less prioritized over “greater, more important issues.” “We tend to think that when the Church is talking about morality, that the only issue of morality is sexual. And in reality, there are much greater issues.”

Fascism in action. bsky.app/profile/wash...

👀 "The Marshall Plan.. committed more than $13 billion for Europe’s postwar recovery—approximately $150 billion in today’s dollars. Donald T. deal with Iran, which..commits the US and its regional partners.. that Iran receives “at least $300 billion” for its “rehabilitation and economic development”

“.. A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

NEW: Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.

2hrs layover at Frankfurt Airport.. barley enough time to reach Z gates (5mins away from missing flight) and, unlike MUC airport, no contingency plans by Lufthansa crews to help people about to miss flights www.fastcompany.com/91556504/hea...

A Mexican interviewer was cut off mid interview with Hakimi due to the language protocol FFS honestly, A Mexican can't ask a question in Spanish to a Spanish speaker in the WC that's co-hosted in Mexico? Even in the US about 1/5 of the country speaks spanish... What's even the point of this rule?

Chatbots on five different websites claimed to be licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania when prompted by Spotlight PA — the same kind of output that led the Shapiro administration to file a lawsuit last month.

Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.

© Vladimir Volegov. 'Wiener Cafe in Stockholm.' Oil on Canvas, 2018. 55 × 46 cm.

Victor Marx, frontrunner for the GOP nod for CO Gov, makes astonishing claims about his accomplishments. He’s either had one of the most extraordinary lives in human history or he’s a liar and a fraud. When I asked how voters should decide, he joked that his dog would bite me.

NYT interview with Scott Pelley is amazing. And for first time, he tells how his CBS bosses wanted him to lie on air — about Pretti and Good killings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

White phosphorus is not banned under international law, but can "create cruel injuries" and indiscriminate harm in civilian areas. n.pr/4dUErxb

What an embarrassment

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty... nothing can be done?” asked Judge Patricia Millett. “I think that’s right, yes,” responded DOJ attorney Yaakov Roth www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi. And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face." Then he lied about it. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

The corporate private prison industrial complex coup is complete. Trump names a former GEO Group executive now to run ICE. The company's government ties run deep. | NPR www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

Scott Pelley, the longtime CBS News journalist, was fired by the network a day after he harshly criticized its leadership in a staff meeting.

Growing US reliance on Chinese biotechs prompts national security fears ft.trib.al/lPXz4y4

Great piece from my colleague Kerith Gabriel on the Americanized bastardization of the World Cup, including the absurd half-time show at the finals www.inquirer.com/soccer/socce...

Israeli and Russian security forces have been added to a United Nations blacklist on sexual violence in conflict, according to a report reviewed Thursday, May 28, by Agence France-Presse (AFP). It's amazing how similar the conduct of the Russian and Israeli forces is in this regards.

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” the person said.  About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company. @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

I'm in this picture and I don't like it but I'm not surprised in the LEAST. Also pretty wild that we have the Daily Northwestern covering this instead of the Sun Times or The Reader.

Seriously funny..

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Top EU prosecutor complains to Brussels about Greece amid farm fraud probe The Greek government earlier this week submitted an amendment to effectively block European prosecutors from probing lawmakers. www.politico.eu/article/eu-p...

🚨New Bright Line Watch report on the rule of law in the US - joint w/@rickhasen.bsky.social's Strengthening Democracy Project at UCLA Law The most comprehensive expert survey to date - 21 federal judges, 113 elite lawyers, and 193 law profs brightlinewatch.org/erosion-of-t... 🧵 on findings below ⬇️

Yet another sign of how Bari Weiss has politicized CBS News: CBS MORNINGS, which had Gayle King hosting from LA Thursday and spending 30% of the show on the Survivor finale, didn’t cover Colbert’s finale at all. The TODAY show led its 8:30 half-hour with Colbert’s exit.

National Geographic has picked Crete in its Best of the World list for food, and the island is also an official 2026 European region of gastronomy. #Destinations ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/26oU

Prosecutors may face sanctions over redactions to grand jury transcripts linked to four of ‘Broadview Six’ defendants

Trump and sons to be ‘forever’ exempt from tax audits ft.trib.al/ePJ9DiF

BREAKING The World Health Organization has declared an international health emergency over a rare strain of Ebola that has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but has stopped short of calling the outbreak a pandemic

I love and respect this scientist. Carl Sagan answers a question about creation vs evolution.

Natalie Anne Kyriacou OAM - an Australian environmentalist, social justice advocate & author, delivers a powerful and deeply provocative address. Opening with the question, “How do you think we will be written about in history books?”

"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

“.. This is an insane amount of trades,” he said, adding that it looks more like something done by “a hedge fund with massive algo trades” that buys and shorts securities than a personal account. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amsterdam is home to the first underwater bike parking in the world. It's open 24/7, can house 7,000 bikes and 700 rental bikes and has a shop for maintenance and repair. Construction costs were around 60 million euros. That's cheap compared to the annual savings on healthcare costs from cycling!

GILLIBRAND: What is your record?! I don't want to just hear about what you don't like about the Biden administration SCOTT TURNER: During the Biden administra-- GILLIBRAND: Stop talking about Biden! Talk about your record TURNER: During the Biden administration-- GILLIBRAND: Oh my God!

New York subway rule: dogs can only travel if they go "in a bag." New Yorkers took it very seriously... and became incredibly creative. 🐶

Okay the crazy thing is that this is a *fully instrumental piece.* There are no words. The school board is essentially saying that notes played by tubas and oboes are too dangerous for students to hear.

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

Two diesel buses in service are better for the environment than one electric bus

David Attenborough has raised awareness of the natural world and its myriad interconnections on which humans depend go.nature.com/48RTqVz

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

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...