Under Trump, more than 145,000 US kids have been separated from their parents, a study shows

“The Washingtons offered a $10 reward for Ms. Judge's return to bondage—but she evaded capture, married, had several children, and lived for more than 50 years as a free woman in New Hampshire. She died there, still free, on February 25, 1848.”

“We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Because disabled people living in public housing have it so easy.

the thing is we lived through a revolution: the repeal of taxation, reagan onward. that means there’s one easy trick for the core of reconstruction: fix the rates loud in the streets, power in the spreadsheets

JUST IN: Justice Department moves to dismiss most serious criminal case filed over #Jan6 Capitol Riot: seditious conspiracy prosecution of Proud Boys. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2023/05...

‘Turn off the juice of the rulers!’ Who are the Volcano Group, mystery saboteurs behind a five-day Berlin blackout?

i love browsing resale sites and blocking people for selling trump hats

It’s worth noting that when Jan. 6 happened, the pro-Trump right used dozens of conspiracy theories to try and offload blame from themselves—e.g., claiming it was “antifa,” “feds.” Now, they seem keen to just admit they did it—all of it—and it was good.

a hero of our time

North Carolina in 2026 is doing crime innovation & the reviews are fantastic www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...

Robot legs are here and they aren’t going anywhere. [booing begins] Whether you like it or not we are going to cut off all of your legs and arms [booing intensifies] and heads and replace them all with robot legs and only robot legs [shouting over boos] well I can see you aren’t ready for the future

White House propaganda app, which IT experts say has security vulnerabilities, is to be installed on the work phones of every US government employee. www.govexec.com/management/20...

Last September, federal immigration agents raided an apartment complex on Chicago's south side, rounding up dozens, including children. I spoke with one of the raid's victims, now living in Mexico, on seeking what justice he can from the government. My latest, for @southsideweekly.bsky.social

This is insane

Obama’s stimulus and recovery was too small because of worries about inflation. And everyone hated that. So, Biden came back with a bigger stimulus and recovery and got tons of inflation (but the whole world got inflation, so it wasn’t driven by Biden). And everyone hated that too.

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

Trump saying he can't go somewhere (Don Jr.'s wedding) because he's too busy and then spending an excessive amount of time posting is genuinely kind of relatable

Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, who was best known for the hit “It Takes Two,” has died. He was 59

this is happening

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

During his disappearance from Congress, Tom Kean appears to have signed authorizations for his chief of staff to take two “gift travel” trips, per U.S. House documents reviewed by @notus.com www.notus.org/congress/tom...

Blanche's blabbermouth strikes again

Of note, the person who initiated this vindictive prosecution is now the Acting Attorney General

Then they came for the 1031 exchanges, which they said were an unfair tax loophole the wealthy use to buy fancier vacation homes. And I did not speak out. Because I inherited all of my vacation homes from my father using a totally different tax loophole.

BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nearly 10 million visitors attended the nation’s first-ever World’s Fair in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park 150 years ago. More than 200 structures were built for the fair, including Memorial Hall — now home to the Please Touch Museum.

$5 says he walks in on a different wedding held at the golf club in Jersey this weekend.

my observation is a whole lot of people on all sides of politics just do not give a shit about Africa, except as a cudgel in their various factional beefs

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This too is white supremacy.

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Gas is expensive and food is unaffordable, which is why the biggest problem facing the country is a Black Betty Boop

NEW: U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's office reacts to Thursday's "Broadview Six" revelations. The former lead prosecutor in the case had serving as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now Durbin's office says her detail from the Justice Department "has been terminated."

This week, you may have heard about fabricated, AI-generated quotes appearing in a book covering AI's reality-skewing effects. I talked to the author, and what came out is, I think, a fascinating look at how people justify their own continued of these imperfect tools arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...

I have some bad news for Matt about Betty Boop and race-swapping...

So, I am exaggerating for satirical purposes here. Here's a helpful & short overview of the bad and not-quite-as-bad-as-expected aspects of the guidance for people who aren't aware: bsky.app/profile/good...

We did it, lads. We banned trans people from toilets. Now to sit back and watch house prices come down and vegetables stop rotting on supermarket shelves and we'll all come together and feast on Cadbury's Creme Eggs as big as your head, m'boy, And we'll watch Morecambe and Wise, who did NOT die

If what happened here isn't met with severe sanctions that you can't walk away from, it will send the worst of possible messages to every Trump lawyer in the country: you might get yelled at, but you can get away with anything

This is more or less a declaration of the polite bigotry animating carceral policies in big blue cities.

bottom line is the dnc leadership didnt actually care about the autopsy and pawned it off to someone woefully unprepared to do a true assessment of what happened. then he turned in shoddy work and they tried to bury it, creating more of an issue than it was in the first place.

Imagine being a Russian troll assigned to Bluesky: “Comrade, today you will destabilize Western democracy by arguing with poets, policy nerds, and a raccoon avatar with tenure.”

increasingly forced to conclude that the united states is simply not a civilized nation

Retrofitting #vehicles to make them wheelchair #accessible always presents problems. #Kia has found a solution - with a twist - for its new electric van.. https://thedriven.io/2026/05/22/kia-introduces-innovative-wheelchair-accessible-option-to-pv5-electric-van/

Democrats are the party of high institutional trust, which includes law enforcement. (My general take.) Even when policing specifically hurts vulnerable groups, Ds will reflexively back the institution.

#OtD 22 May 1623 English military forces met with Powhatan leaders for a peace parley. A rich doctor, John Pott, poisoned their wine, killing 200 Powhatan, then troops opened fire on survivors killing 50 more. Pott later became governor of Virginia stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9502...

Quinn Emanuel Just Got a $3 Million Ethics Lesson. A Judge Made Them Write It Themselves. https://abovethelaw.com/2026/05/quinn-emanuel-just-got-a-3-million-ethics-lesson-a-judge-made-them-write-it-themselves/