The population of Tyre, Lebanon is 70,000+ - and today, Israel forced every single one of them to evacuate. Ethnic cleansing.

I don’t know whether there’s much of a need for “probes,” considering that these people are engaging in unlawful conduct out in the open.

What I witnessed and experienced today was shameful. Delaney Hall is a failure; it’s this administration’s failure. The only way to make this right for our communities is to shut it down and make sure the failures we’ve seen never happen again. 4/4

"Researchers found undisturbed primary forests store 83% more carbon per acre than the managed forests that are replacing them." This study is "shocking" - as in "we've been lied to by the forest industry" and... it's not in our climate models. sustainability.stanford.edu/news/shockin...

A US-born woman born was confronted by sheriff deputies in Louisiana who were convinced her ID and social security card were fakes. They turned her over to ICE, who shackled her & took her an hour away. Even after a lawyer convinced ICE of the woman's citizenship the sheriff says they did no wrong

Trump said we should do this back in 1984 to make other countries submit—which the media then, and in 2016 when @slate.com republished the interview, framed as him working for “peace” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

Tech billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison confesses a dystopian Al mass surveillance network designed to constantly track citizens. He confirms the administration plans to use #Al to monitor every camera, creating an inescapable dragnet over the entire nation and en by the 1%. The grid.

Doing a little reading on this Trump-IRS case. Sure, it was ridiculous on the merits and for the damages asserted, not to mention the collusive settlement and unconstitutional fund that resulted. But at least the suit was time-barred and brought against the wrong defendants under incorrect statutes.

The 2020 election denial phenomenon is obviously a thin veil for the belief that only white people’s votes should count — and the Georgia gubernatorial campaign is going to have a Black woman against one of those neo-Confederates who don’t think she should be allowed to vote.

“The Trump administration has systematically dismantled much of our global health infrastructure, without giving a thought to the consequences. Now, we are seeing those consequences play out,” @delauro.house.gov told @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/05/19/e...

NYC Public Defenders Condemn the Treatment of Samantha Randazzo, Who Gave Birth While Handcuffed to a Bench in an Open Courtroom at Brooklyn Arraignments

Just watched “Undertone” with the lovely and talented Nina Kiri. It is a very good movie that I will have to watch 3 times to comprehend. It features Nina Kiri, FYI.

Supreme Court allows Alabama GOP to erase Black House district

More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began collecting data more than three decades ago.* Two-thirds of the journalists killed were by Israeli forces.*

“Huck shows great disrespect for the Court’s precedent in Dred Scott when aiding the fugitive Jim, presumably due to liberal indoctrination by the Widow Douglas.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/exc...

"Brenda" a mother of two, works in the strawberries. "I harvest strawberries and it's a very hard job. I work in the rain, heat, cold, to earn enough take care of my family. I work very hard to earn enough for rent, food & whatever else is needed." #WeFeedYou

💔😭🌈 heroes get remembered but legends never die

My wife’s cat @catticus.bsky.social is going #otrb today. It sucks, but he’s about 18 and has had a good life since she adopted him. This cat has lore. Like the time he terrorized a huge dog who presumably thought he was a wolverine. Or the time he was frothing at the mouth from liquid Benadryl.

Historian here exactly. The Dems need to learn from the no quarters given political tactics and campaigns of the Republicans in the 1850s and 1860s when they managed to upend half a century slaveholder dominance of the federal government.

Damn this Hawks-Knicks game is wild. I had to do some math just to figure out the score gap.

I guess when I think about Scooby Doo I think about the unlikelihood of a dog being able to understand and speak English but only with a speech impediment

Civilians or Hezbollah: Who did Israel hit on Lebanon’s ‘Black Wednesday’? https://aje.news/n45399

Once again the *real* racists are the people who acknowledge that racism exists or try to do something substantive to improve the situation.

Some people are complaining that the marathon runners’ records aren’t getting enough media coverage, but have those people considered that long-distance running is boring? I get that running a marathon is an incredibly difficult feat, but so is writing a good novel and I don’t want to watch that.

According to the Lebanese National News Agency, these panels supply the town with electricity, which is needed for its water supply, and Israel destroyed homes, roads and olive trees as well.

I’m not trying to play Monday Morning Quarterback here, but I am pretty confident I wouldn’t cheat on Megan thee Stallion.

Ah... in reality, Amal was trapped beneath the rubble but still conscious, literally speaking to her family, while Israel fired on rescuers for... six hours to ensure there would be no reunion.

It has happened. Senior Judge William Martínez is the first in Colorado -- to my knowledge -- to use the phrase "sham bond hearing" to describe what's going on in immigration court. From his order today releasing a detainee after an unnamed IJ engaged in no analysis to keep a man locked up:

I really would like Weird @alyankovic.bsky.social to do a parody of Fiona Apple’s “Shadow Boxer” about the SCOTUS Shadow Docket. It’s just begging to be written.

Trump’s proposed 2027 budget would almost double the budget for plutonium pits, the chemical filled metal sphere inside a nuclear warhead that kicks off the explosion in a nuclear weapon. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/trump-2027-b...

This seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone that throughout recorded history, troops in combat are more likely to die from disease than combat injuries. And it’s not even close. The major killer over time has been diarrhea.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: SCOTUS took on an appeal that it could have declined, issued a trash decision that ignored constitutional precedents, and did so in a way that makes its precedential effect inscrutable.

People are ragging on the Mets, and they’re definitely underachieving with that much talent. But you know who has the worst run differential in MLB? The Phillies, who have the fourth-highest payroll.

Trump 'tried to use nuclear codes but was stopped by military chief'

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NEW: WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond. read @telliotter.bsky.social:

Tonight at 9 come help me figure out who stole the KitKats!

The full quote: "We look like the not fun party. Always telling and correcting people. Not allowing men to be men. Women to be hot. We used to be the party of sec [sic] drugs and rock and roll.[…] Now Dem women look like Dem men and Dem men look like women."

April 15 marks three years since the outbreak of war in Sudan. We trace the conflict through 10 of Sudan’s most heavily attacked regions and record firsthand accounts from people living there aje.news/blak6n

Dear fellow lawyers, saying that your client “categorically denies” an allegation doesn’t mean something like “denies and is righteously insulted at the mere idea” of the allegation. Unless you’re getting paid by the syllable, feel free to not say this dumb shit.

Because Pres. Trump, his Board Of Peace, & High Rep. Nickolay Mladenov allow Israel to continue assassinating CIVILIAN police officers throughout Gaza, 3-y.o. child Yahya Al-Malahi is dead today. An Israeli drone fired a missile into a police vehicle on Al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City, killing the...

The weather forecast here is getting biblical: after rain yesterday, six more days of rain.

An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.

Apple is closing down the first of its US stores to unionize. Apple says that because of the collective bargaining agreement with these workers, they "couldn’t offer to transfer them to nearby locations.” The union is outraged, and exploring options to hold Apple accountable.

Fetterman 2: Nazi Tattoo. (You know who this refers to immediately.)