New documents show that Trump's own FBI shut down an investigation into a tip that Mahmoud Khalil was a threat - a tip submitted 2 DAYS BEFORE ICE abducted & arrested him. The Trump admin kept calling him a threat anyway. They're still trying to deport him theintercept.com/2026/05/12/m...

So many ostensible political analyses of social media are just thinly veiled nostalgia for mid-2010s Twitter.

My brother in christ I’m pretty sure the issue is that Nazis took over X

My brother in christ I’m pretty sure the issue is that Nazis took over X

Yall can’t make me read a second article from that guy.

“I will not live to have another hearing. After two 15-year denials, why would I even bother going?” 78-y/o Betty Broderick told @theappeal.org in March. “The Board has turned my 15-to-life conviction into the death penalty without any due process." She died last week. theappeal.org/incarcerated...

NEW: A new poll finds 44% of Georgia GOP voters approve of a federal takeover of elections. Also, 75% approve of the FBI’s ballot seizure in Fulton County. The results indicate that Trump’s oft-repeated lies about the 2020 election being rigged have taken hold among a large swath of Republicans.

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

Some quick thought on what this means for the way we communicate science: time to kill the peer reviewed article? pardoguerra.org/2026/05/09/i...

Damn, MUAC has work from Delcy Morelos and Tim Hecker, stacked

Mexico city is really the only place in the world I’ve visited that competes with NYC on food

wait, NY passed the age verification bill? Awesome, can’t wait for every service I use to leak my personal information on loop for the rest of my life

Boosting because it triggered Zuck’s lead flack

Remarkable, the best resourced newsroom in the world

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

One of my professional opinions that often gets me grief is that the Internet Archive, a crucial org and necessary layer of redundancy/access for many of us, should not be treated as a central load-bearing digital preservation service for institutions that should invest in their own infrastructure.

Morgan Stanley projects that next year, the 5 AI hyperscalers - Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Google - will spend more building out AI data centers than the federal government spends on all of the Department of Defense www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

omg. Omfg.

re: can you law your way out of the law with law, I’m just trying to focus on how the law alone was never enough to secure the franchise, it took organizing and loss and loss and organizing

Social science Gastown has arrived

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

When I first learned a lot of facts about the criminal legal system, I thought the issue was that most people didn't understand all the facts, and if they understood, then consensus would change.

Well, he won't be missed

gotta love when a whole education system makes itself vulnerable by making a large number of institutions dependent on a proprietary lms whose continuity or reliability they have no control over *chef's kiss* now let's do it again, but bigger, with ai

What if the Canvas hackers are just committed ungraders?

I'm against NYC robotaxis as I think we need fewer total vehicles on the streets

So is the NYPD ever going to stop running interference for ICE abductions?

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

"Europe is weeks away from crossing a critical threshold that represents a severe and immediate shortage of jet fuel, triggering many more flight cancelations and even the possible closures of smaller airports." fortune.com/2026/05/06/e...

Meanwhile Europe apparently has 3 weeks of jet fuel left.

I think SCOTUS entering the media fray is a big self own in the sense that none of them have any idea how to win that fight and if they had the legitimacy to avoid the fight they wouldn’t be doing it in the first place

I got inside the "Great Israel Real Estate Event" at Park East Synagogue on Tuesday evening. Everyone's talking about what happened outside. Here's what I saw inside: ads for illegal settlements and defiant scorn for international law via @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/05/05/z...

officially pronouncing the word "oligarch" with a hard r until further notice

“All Democrats, no, waste of human race.” He may have been transferred but we will likely be paying him for the next 30-40 years

Tag yourself, I'm digestive (variant: Ashkenazi stomach)

“Writing is hard.” Thrilled to share that this simple idea led to a new paper in Political Analysis! Where most text methods focus on content, I test if expression is also effortful action. I find simple measures like character counts reveal attitudes and predict voting. cup.org/4cUmoXi 1/

🚨 White House unveils pre-crime strategy to target the left, including pro-Palestinian protesters, "anti-Fascists," and "anti-American, radically pro-transgender ideologies." Full document: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre...

The streets are confused

RIP academic freedom

I bet if we got an update of this article for 2026-era numbers, it would look terrifying sociologicalscience.com/articles-v6-...

just fit an OLS on a binary outcome.

I see some people online who seem to really want Obama "to speak up more" etc... but my point is and has been that he's deeply OUT OF TOUCH. Which Democratic electeds are "talking to people like a college seminar?" Name names. His comments are just another complaint about "the groups." Sad!

Gas prices today are higher in all 50 states compared to last Wednesday. Biggest jumps vs a week ago: MT +36c/gal IL +35c OH +34c PA +34c NH +34c WY +33c GA +33c WV +33c RI +33c FL +32c

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

NEW: Derek Peterson, the Michigan professor facing backlash for his graduation remarks honoring pro-Palestine students (and Black and Jewish students) speaks out. Says the school's claim that he "deviated" from his prepared speech is *not true* — and the dishonesty is helping put a target on him.

The Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side is hosting an event today promoting the sale of West Bank land exclusively to Jews hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-oppo...

The Progressive Caucus (@nycprogressives.bsky.social) of NYC Council (@council.nyc.gov) said in a Sunday night statement that the NYPD violated city sanctuary laws by coordinating with ICE on the timing of an arrest at Wyckoff hospital in Bushwick. They called for an investigation.

Not new idea but if i were a dogooder with actual money concerned about media i would pick a dozen medium sized cities in swingy states and bring back local journalism.