“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Climate change is real. Largely human caused and already an existential threat to many communities and livelihoods. To tackle climate change we must implement an aggressive, science-based plan to markedly curtail greenhouse gas emissions globally and pull carbon down from our atmosphere. #MEpolitics

This is the message. Any Democrat willing to sacrifice trans folks—especially kids—will sacrifice anything.

Following Musicology Duck’s ramblings around Washington has really made the capital feel like a real city, where real people try to live their lives while the stupidest, most venal people on the planet try to rip us all off in a sketchy drug deal.

ICE just tasered an activist they were chasing outside of Delaney Hall.

I did a write up of this issue here: besttrousers.substack.com/p/what-the-c...

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Reconciliation! @sirenspod.bsky.social welcomes the tremendous @mollyereynolds.bsky.social to explore the mysteries of Congress and just how far they’re willing to break norms. Plus, FISA, Ukraine, Peter Magyar, room service, and Devil Wears Prada. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Study: The diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis (DTaP) vaccine provides critical protection to infants during the first months of life when they are most vulnerable to whooping cough. Receiving Tdap during pregnancy did NOT increase risk of serious adverse events or negative pregnancy outcomes.

Redditors have caught Google secretly updating its Chrome terms of service to remove a line that guaranteed that local AI models won't send data to Google servers. That's now gone, meaning your local AI sends data to Google, so it's not that local. old.reddit.com/r/chrome/com...

This thing has spread to UiPath packages.... that's a major business automation company and this thing just went nuclear just because all the sensitive places where UiPath is used

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

about 30 seconds of work from me, follow up with any questions, ~nothing I'm doing is secret sauce. assume this is pretty portable to Gemini CLI but i have minimal experience with it

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

Happy birthday, John Brown!

Here’s VA Senate Majority Leader @ssurovell.bsky.social explaining how the Republican judges on the state Supreme Court misread the state constitution and related statutes: bsky.app/profile/blue...

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

I won. Boutique Airlines sued me & AIN over 2 yrs ago. They called me a liar and a thief. I won in trial court. I just won in Appeals court. I expect it will be a nightmare to get my legal fees back. But I proved that the work was my own. I proved I wrote the truth. I am a good reporter. I won.

My 8yo asked if I would post something to Bluesky for her, then grabbed a piece of paper and made this So here is your advice for the day:

An optimistic development in ALS: some patients with a genetic form of the disease are improving after receiving the most recently approved therapy. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/w...

The puppies are active right now!!! Go & look!!!!

Competition? I like it. Playing the same game but with different rules? Not so much. I have no problem with private schools, but I do have a problem with schools taking tax dollars yet not accepting all kids. https://nonpareilonline.com/video/news/video_47068329-6625-5a30-8a7e-e7e5be987c4c.html

Not a lawyer, but the recent Supreme Court decision is so obviously bankrupt. If I had coworkers doing “work” like that, I would tell the boss to fire them before they cause the company to fail. The dissent should be “this is bad behavior, impeach my fellows and remove them from the bench”

‼️🚨 Microsoft calls this "intended behaviour," so here we go. How to dump the credentials of every user stored in Microsoft Edge: 1. Open Edge. Don't browse anywhere, just open it. 2. Flip to Task Manager, find Edge, expand the task.

Note that the vigil was outside of work hours and not on federal property, attended in a personal capacity and not with VA uniforms or badges

Right now, Iowa doesn't have a mental health system - we have a mental health crisis. Was glad to visit the new facility in Linn County that will help serve Iowans across the state and to be able to hear directly from professionals on what support they need. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

this is such a cool science minute! UNMUTE

I do, however, work on the *opposite* of killing people with drones, in that I am currently trying to find funding and partners to support my work documenting and fighting back against the horrific rise of targeted small drone attacks on civilians globally (please send me leads!):

Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts Lawsuits Executive Pay Global Footprint Lobbying Activity Media Strategies All in One Place ›› palantirwatch.org #privacy #government #surveillance #technology

We have a $1.4 billion budget deficit. Let's help solve this problem and stop Iowans from spending their tax dollars elsewhere by legalizing adult-use cannabis. https://littlevillagemag.com/rob-sand-releases-cannabis-agenda-420/

I know we get inured to stuff, but it is hard to fathom the cruelty here. At a time of tax cuts for the most powerful, they are trying to remove basic supports for the most vulnerable. The Trump administration's war on people with disabilities continues.

Happy April 28 to all who celebrate!

Legalize, tax, and regulate cannabis in Iowa like alcohol. https://robsand.com/issues/cannabis-plan/

Not only is @apnews.com attending the White House correspondents dinner, they invited one of the Trump staffers who kicked them out of the press pool as their guest. This is all so wrong. apnews.com/article/whit...

He's the worst thing that ever happened to America. I despise him BECAUSE I love my country. 🇺🇸

this has to be disqualifying, not just for judicial nominees but for anyone who wants to be taken seriously in civilized society

Dear White House correspondents, It's not too late to develop flu symptoms and decide that you should stay home and miss having dinner with fascists. Think about it. Sincerely, Mark

I've been saying this for years. Treat cannabis like we do alcohol. Read my full plan at RobSand.com/cannabis

This shit won't capture the moment unless they replace the angel with Nero playin' the fiddle and whatnot.

Businesses across Iowa invested millions to produce legal THC beverages only to have insiders pull the rug out from under them less than a year later - leaving them with products they can't sell & no path forward. I say treat it like alcohol: keeping money in Iowa & helping support small businesses.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite