“That does not, to me, sound like a charitable purpose...” www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

there are only, like, 30 people tops in a given class year at Yale Med who identify as a member of *any* group underrepresented in medicine so please understand that the Trump admin is losing its shit about the tiniest handful of elite Black and Latino students ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Authoritarian regimes benefit from people who are not smart enough to get promoted in traditional ladders but ambitious enough to commit crimes in their efforts to get ahead. Regimes give them a path. As we reduce education, as we reduce real opportunities, we are creating perfect conditions.

is brian enlisting

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

Ross Barkan copied my lede almost word for word. @bobbyallyn.bsky.social found other questionable passages, and @nymag.com is reviewing his work. Now Ross says it's "one of the dumber controversies imaginable" and "you become a target after a while when you do this" Thread: bsky.app/profile/drew...

An NHS campaigner reveals how spy-tech giant Palantir tried to secretly hire influencers to smear Good Law Project 👀 🎧 Listen to The Shadow Contract👇 https://goodlaw.social/1e69ba

1. On March 11, Trump toured a Thermo Fisher Scientific facility in Ohio and repeatedly praised the company. On *the same day* Trump bought between $15,000 and $50,000 of Thermo Fisher stock. The purchase was "UNSOLICITED," meaning it was requested by the customer, not recommended by an advisor.

Good piece by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social. There is little difference at times between Reform, Labour or Tories on hostile rhetoric against minorities. Toxic language has become "normalised". The biggest cause of division isn't immigration, it's political rhetoric. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In their latest act of horrific cruelty, DHS agents shackle a 33-year-old woman inside Brooklyn courthouse as she delivers a child. Public defenders are demanding accountability. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Venezuelan statehood would dwarf any previous immigration flow into the United States, creating upward of 33 million new U.S. citizens in a single move. trib.al/GS7zINK

Texas limits eligibility for Medicaid to families living below 15 percent of the poverty level, meaning that a family of three earning more than—get this—$4,098 annually is not eligible for any benefits. trib.al/xIxx6h8

Note: The pastor who runs services attended by Pete Hegseth, who spoke (via video) at this event, self-identifies as a Christian nationalist. So, too, did former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

If you thought the big problem in your party was voters thinking (in this case, wrongly!) that its leaders endorsed and ran on unpopular ideological positions, why would you spend millions of $ highlighting fringe pols and their positions? RNC doesn’t run ads highlighting fringe Republicans!

Oh, 2 weeks flew by. Finally releasing his healthcare plan.

The US-sanctioned Russian-flagged handymax tanker PEGASUS (9276028) keeps going in and out of the US blockade perimeter, just out of spite. We have multiple satellite images confirming that this is not an AIS spoof.

"All that was left to install was the grass, actually more of a frankenturf: a carpet of natural Kentucky bluegrass reinforced with millions of woven synthetic fibers (!) grown in Moses Lake, Washington and shipped to LA in refrigerated trucks." #worldcup #LA

Friends, we live in noir times--far darker than the era that inspired Raymond Chandler to create his hard-boiled detective anti-hero. Someone needs to buy the Art Deco Arcadia News-Journal Bldg., start a muckraking outlet and clean Los Angeles County up! www.lee-associates.com/properties/?...

Professionals in the field of law and medicine have what's called a Fiduciary Duty. They must exercise care to put your interests first before their own. AI companies have no such duty. Do not give your life, health, or liberty to them

BREAKING: 144 House Democrats Join 203 Republicans to Pass CORCA Which Gives DHS and ICE the Absolute Power to Collect Personal Information on Everyone Under Guise of Fighting Retail Theft, in Case the Democrats Weren’t Disappointing You Enough

Obviously this is insane, but there's a long-running conspiracy theory that President Eisenhower met with alien representatives in 1954 to sign a non-agression pact and technology exchange called the Greada Treaty. I doubt this brainrot slop is a reference to that.

LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt won’t stop talking about the apocalyptic results of homeless people using “super meth,” a very scary-sounding drug that does not exist:

"Court Watch LA says volunteer observers are needed as a deliberately opaque immigration court system fuels mass deportations and unnecessarily criminalizes non-citizens." lapublicpress.org/2026/05/la-i...

Pete Hegseth’s focused on the cost of the bomb. I’m more interested in the size of the economic crater.⁣ ⁣ And that crater may be 10 to 100 times larger.⁣ ⁣ For many families, that translates into thousands — perhaps tens of thousands — of dollars.

Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but we are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

The Alabama Supreme Court issued a blockbuster decision in 2024 that endangered IVF treatments. This year, a lawyer who helps people navigate assisted reproduction is challenging a sitting justice; she accuses the court of releasing “anti-family rulings.”

The same warrantless surveillance tactics being used in immigration sweeps could be turned against journalists and their sources. Congress should pass the Government Surveillance Reform Act and close the data broker loophole.

Defense Sec Hegseth speaking via video at this event, closing his remarks w/a story about George Washington praying at Valley Forge. Note: Washington was a person of faith, but historians have long dismissed the story of him praying at Valley Forge as a fabrication. religionnews.com/2025/09/29/c...

April Barber Scales was incarcerated as a minor but granted clemency after decades. The North Carolina governor recently denied dozens of petitions; she says at least one applicant, “surely to God, would have deserved a second chance.”

In the months before the Hungarian election, the Danube Institute, a government-funded think-tank, distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in an attempt to build an international echo chamber and amplify Orban. @atlatszo.hu has some of the contracts english.atlatszo.hu/2026/05/14/j...

well, i'm convinced!

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Worker Protection Unit is treating wage theft as a crime.

Trump's corrupt efforts to settle the IRS lawsuit with a slush fund that could pay off J6ers amounts to "using public money to reward the perpetrators of right-wing violence." @michaelmechanic.bsky.social explains deeper legal issues here (cites my reporting): www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

This @ft graphic shows that trump suddenly got very interested in trading stocks

Ken Paxton is historically corrupt, John Cornyn is a MAGA traffic cone, and Talarico might be a SECRET VEGETARIAN WITH MID TACO ORDERS. Which one has the best case to be elected to the Senate? WHO CAN SAY?

Detainees are telling us they are being treated brutally. Trump’s admin is trying to stop us from seeing it. And GEO Group has a 15yr $1B contract to run Delaney Hall. Detainees took a huge risk to tell us what’s happening behind closed doors. We must listen and take action now.

Mike Johnson thinks $174,000 isn’t enough to survive without insider trading. But $15/hour is too much to ask for everyone else. Every single day, these goons prove how disconnected they are from everyday Americans.

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

And Louisiana is not a "red" state. It's a gerrymandered, voter-suppressed, democratically-underfunded State. But I'm telling you, Black folks are here doing the work everyday. If Louisiana gets better, the country gets betters. By every measure, invest in the South!!!

For those keeping score, the money Trump wants to give to his January 6th felons is more than 3 times the annual appropriation for public broadcasting, before he nixed it. Good use of taxpayer dollars!

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Pardon in 3 2 1..."Blackman and his co-conspirators billed Medicare and other federal healthcare benefit programs over $1 billion...Blackman showcased his wealth in a music video, including showing off a large waterfront property." www.cbsnews.com/news/brett-b...

This is horrible.

“The Big Sea” takes aim at Denka, a company that federal regulators said posed a substantial cancer risk to St. John residents, and the wider industrial corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge — an area known as Cancer Alley. https://ow.ly/vozu50YZVzx

As family homelessness hits record highs, school districts are offering parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night

JD Vance: "There's a lot of fraud in the federal government – it's unbelievable how much you've been fleeced by your own government"