My aunt was visiting California about 10 years ago and joking about the restaurant we met at having all gender restrooms. I said "yeah, they're only for one person at a time so it's just one line" and they were so let down that it made sense. They just wanted to be mad and/or mean.

Over 550 men in California have fallen ill after cutting natural or factory-made stone countertops. But epidemiologists say this isn't just a California problem. n.pr/4tRh1O0

"The nazi tattoo is bad and we should have a better candidate but since we don't, I will hope/help him beat the Republican" is a respectable opinion; you don't have to fucking lie to yourself and me with bullshit like "its just a skull, no one knows what it means."

A devastating story has come out about a US citizen child, Orlin, who was murdered after ICE deported his mom. This tragedy is an abject failure by ICE, and it’s why I will not give them another cent. We must stop the cruelty and lawlessness of this administration.

Worth a read. This is insane. Trump sues his own government and negotiates a settlement with people he appointed and ends up with a $1.7 billion slush fund to dole out to whoever he wants. Wildly illegal, unconstitutional, and stupid in every possible way. America is so cooked.

They are using DC as a playground because they can, unlike in sovereign states where this stupid game has been put to an end

Oh come on www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A popular conspiracy theory about a cluster of hantavirus cases claims that the well-documented illness is a scam, perpetrated by either the Israeli government or some other undefined group of Jewish people. None of this is true. That hasn't stopped the theory spreading wildly on social media.

A far-right idiot amplified by Alex Jones, Jason Whitlock, Gavin McInnis and others has been streaming himself saying racist shit to black people in order to provoke them into violence so he can shoot them. He just shot just a black man here in Tennessee.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Two police officers from Gratis, Ohio, an all-white town per the US census, showed up at a majority Latinx public school in Cincinnati—50 miles away—to search for kids for ICE, disguised as a “wellness check.”

“It took them a whole lot of energy and effort to sift through all these things to find this needle in the haystack,” said Doyle, a longtime immigration attorney. “And it is a needle in the haystack.”

More people in California voted for Trump than in most of the states he WON

btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now

"We asked Spencer if he has ever lived in the trailer, and he said no, adding, 'I have never told anyone I lived there.' However, in the campaign ad, he says squarely, "This is where I live" as he stood in front of the trailer." TMZ doing politics is good actually

"Multiple others were recruited from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, allegedly during the many years of friendship between the now-president and Epstein." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The US isn't a country it's just 16 CEO's in a trenchcoat

Well, I think Elon and Trump have been on the same flight logs before

A quick warning about gas starting in May, your fuel will last even shorter durations bc they will be diluting it even more. E15 gasoline can now be sold. 15% ethanol based gas evaporates faster and creates more smog in warmer months.

Anduril has an absolutely abysmal record in real-life and test scenarios, to the point that their weapons have had to be pulled from battlefields, but the vibes are right so they get another five billion.

honestly love this guy wasn't antiabortion enough for the true believers and was too antivaxx for the normies but what got him fired was refusing to endorse flavored vapes. everything is so incredibly stupid now but sometimes it is funny www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

Rest in peace to Jason Collins, an unthinkably brave person and incredible leader for the LGBT community. Over a decade later and his coming out column is still an astonishing piece of writing. Wish the sport had caught up more and that he could have lived to see it.

45% of brits support ending all immigration that drops to 15% when you tell them it would lead to nhs staffing shortages

... whether it be spreading conspiracy theories about suitcases of ballots being shipped in to key counties that are typically Democratic strongholds or blaming electoral losses on chimerical voting by undocumented immigrants. More here:

New research finds that ICE raids and deportation fears disrupted local economies, reduced work among undocumented immigrants, and may have hurt some U.S.-born workers too. n.pr/4uJCV6t

John Roberts has spent more than four decades trying to destroy the Voting Rights Act and the Callais decision and its disastrous aftermath shows how nakedly political and partisan the Roberts Court has always been www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

The people you can most reliably track as "anti-Zionist who is also antisemitic" are the folks who have also been openly transphobic. Kasparian, Greenwald, Carlson. Left and right, this is the common thread for many.

They're not going to stop with trans. They've realized that they can get away with just about anything if they claim to be protecting "the children." If they roll back gay marriage, they won't stop there either. There is no fucking accommodating these people, they must be defeated & marginalized.

New photos reveal that Brock Pierce cut the ribbon for Trump's golden statue of himself at Trump's golf resort. Brock Pierce was a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein's and emailed him in 2012 that he "had a great time with the girls."

Oh my god. I know Roger and he is an excellent scientist. This is outrageous!

Also, if you are going to pretend that representative "Rothschild space lasers" is a principled anti-zionist rather than a viscious anti-semite, there's something thoroughly wrong with your brain.

The Speaker of the House in Alabama calls on the courts to “overturn the 14th Amendment.” This is the same legislative body, a court found engaged in intentional racial discrimination in drawing voting maps in the Milligan case. x.com/austinpratt_...

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

NEWS: 30 former Ohio State football players—including Al Washington, Ray Ellis and Keith Ferguson—say they'll join class action against OSU over sex abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss. It’s the first time any named FB players have gone public alleging Strauss abused them. www.sportico.com/leagues/coll...

“In 2025, DC saw traffic fatalities cut in half. This progress should be protected … Decisions impacting the traffic enforcement program should be made by DC’s locally elected leaders, not by federal lawmakers.” Don't want a ticket? Slow down. @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @51st.news #washingtondc

Historians of the Soviet Union will recognize this dynamic, which mirrors the time that right wing judge was berating Stanford law students while the press condemned the students for being upset about it. There is some really dark shit happening in elite US political and media circles these days.

The famously right-coded history of rock music

I have so many memories navigating the Pedway in the 90s as a kid. It was dated even back then but it still feels like an essential piece of the city.

NEW: The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents hobbled federal efforts to pursue serious crimes. By April, prosecutors had brought charged just eight people with drug or gun crimes, the fewest in more than two decades. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Rutgers School of Engineering canceled a commencement speech by Rami Elghandour—an alum and executive producer of an Oscar-nominated film about Hind Rajab, a Palestinian child killed by Israel—because "some" students complained: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... His response (via X):

BREAKING: The FBI has raided L. Louise Lucas' office, the Virginia Democrat who championed the 10-1 congressional map proposal, which voters approved in the state special election last month. Lucas has also been an outspoken critic of Trump. Full story to come. Background:

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

So the Feds did more to investigate VA workers who went to Alex Pretti memorial than those who killed him.

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

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...