tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

I don’t want to scare anyone, but basically every time I talk to a current or former government lawyer they tell me we are going to need a new Constitution. Because this one is inoperative.

Sorry hate typos.. what I wanted to say is who is heading down to the Kennedy center with a big ladder? Just in case I got money to throw in for bail...

This is the slavery Pope Leo was talking about. How do you use a person's image to do work and you don't cite them or pay them? You just steal it.

This month, UCLA admin circulated two white papers that are so harrowing they’ve kept me awake at night. If you’re a UCLA person and haven’t seen these, you really must. In response, the Faculty Senate has scheduled a Town Hall on June 2. senate.ucla.edu/news/june-2-...

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case! Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social & my colleagues @democracydefendersaction.org & Washington Litigation Group This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

From M. Gessen-”This is How to Beat an Autocrat” Hungary’s Anti-corruption campaign is how Viktor Orban was toppled. It is how MAGA can be quelled here as well. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o... 🎁 Please pass on share links in your emails & Social posts

How one man's Kafkaesque plight explains the growing hunger strikes at immigration lockups and the nightly unrest in Newark Izzy Aly says he'll die soon unless an ICE camp in rural Pa. stops neglecting his advanced kidney failure My column on the fight to save Izzy www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

The Commodores support a Brick House, not this White House.

imagine being president of the united states and getting snubbed by a group popular 40 years ago and best known for lip syncing and also one of them is dead

This is not how airports work. There are a finite number of slots and gates. You cannot take every international flight from seven of the biggest airports in the country and redistribute them to red states. That's not how any of this works.

The story is that the CIA agent requested and received the gold and a bunch of currency for work-related expenses and please believe me when I say that there is a guy at your work running whatever your work’s version of this is with his expenses right now and somehow getting away with it

Let the cluster you know what begin. I don't know why he thinks that's going to make sanctuary cities not become sanctuary cities. But it's going to crash the airline industry and all of the workers for TSA

JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away.

The warrant sought "subscriber info" about those whol "subscribed" to "The Don Lemon Show." Magistrate can't see how that would be evidence of a crime. ...

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

Lmaoooo damn all the has beens. We are definitely done folks

This is going to be epic: a 48 hour memorial broadcast for @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social. #jazzsky

In case you missed when I posted last night, my piece on Pope Leo, slavery and the context of the apology in light of AI www.ms.now/opinion/pope...

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

So for everyone telling me "the Catholic church should do X because women, lgbtq, sexual abuse etc.I hear you. Trust me, getting the slavery apology on behalf of the church is a big deal, but it also has a purpose, which I've explained here. www.ms.now/opinion/pope...

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

#Poland is learning how difficult it is to rebuild democratic institutions and norms after illiberal rule. Mietek Boduszyński and @laurathornton.bsky.social heard their lessons firsthand. The most crucial? Start planning now: www.justsecurity.org/139687/ameri... #de#democracyu#RuleOfLaw

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles. January 2026 - Washington Post archive.is/CVXYF (no paywall)

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

ICE is out in full force today at Delaney Hall in tactical gear. They're threatening the hunger strikers with transfer and have already transferred one of the strike leaders. The community is out, too, refusing to let this happen.

READ THIS THREAD!!!!

Another good thread, and folks who are following the press wording that the pope "apologized for slavery" yes, he did, but it's VITAL to add that this occurred IN AN ENCYCLICAL. That's an exceptionally binding statement, and to link it to AI and labor..well read Risam, the expert, for commentary!

I think this is especially masterful because the tech bros all worship the Lord of the Rings and name a lot of their evil things after characters/objects from it, without ever having read a word from any of the books or understood a damn thing from it. Woke Pope strikes again

Reposting because a. Significant to the Papal encyclical today and B. My background is Catholic because of slavery.Yes,I have a lot of feelings about it. Not benign ones either. Gift Article. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/o...

In the US, it was the technological creation of the modern cotton gin that accelerated the Transatlantic slave trade — from 700k enslaved Black Americans in 1790 to 3.2 million in 1850. It upsets AI enthusiasts when I point to this history as offering a lesson for technology today.

I know some of y'all are in your feelings pro and con about the encyclical but let me just say getting a Pope to admit the church was complicit and needs to be on the right side of an issue is huge for an institution responsible for a lot of really bad things.

If you're wondering why Chris Olah, the cofounder of AI company Anthropic, was sitting on the stage with Pope Leo today as the pontiff unveiled his new encyclical on AI, well ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN. religionnews.com/2026/05/22/w...

apropo of today's encyclical....

In the interest of being a good professor, if you want to read the pertinent sections of Magnifica Humanitas on slavery, the "apology" and the implications for AI, skip to sections 172-181 of the Encyclical.

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

LIVE: Pope Leo AI-focused encyclical youtube.com/live/2UaS7Jb...

The inaugural Encyclical of his pontificate, tomorrow Pope Leo presents Magnifica Humanitis, on safeguarding the human person in a time of artificial intelligence. Clocking in at 180 pages, Leo to give address upon text’s release. Live-feed begins at 5:30am ET here: www.youtube.com/live/EEM7a3m...

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”

In 1934 Hitler created a medal to give to everyone who participated in the Beer Hall Putsch, in case you want to know what's going to happen to all these people after Trump gives them a big check.

From this excellent @hooks.bsky.social piece.

Former Rep. Barney Frank, champion of Wall Street reform and LGBTQ trailblazer, dies at 86 www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... by @danielarkin.bsky.social

Every day of Trump 2.0 I think “it can’t get more outrageous than this,” and I am wrong. This slush fund thing is so fucking rancid and unacceptable and I hate the feeling and reality that no politician is going to stop it, or call in Batman or something. This is not a country.

It’s not just handing out cash to insurrectionists. It’s part of a project that started with the mass funding of ICE to use stolen public funds to create spoils for loyal foot soldiers that exist beyond any accountability. It’s how these things work and it will grow as the economy craters.

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

Over 100,000 children have had a parent detained since Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign began last year. www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

I have prayed at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Like me, the Muslim-Americans who were targeted today pray for peace, for the future of their kids, for a better tomorrow. That’s what we all hope and pray for. 1/