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BREAKING: Trump says he'll give Putin two more weeks to see if he's serious about Ukraine peace but wouldn't say what actions he might consider to punish Russia

$15,120 raised for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund in just a little over 13 hours, with the initial announcement coming at night in the U.S. This brings the total raised since Nov 2023 to approximately $136,000. Thanks everyone. Feel free to continue donating, the page remains up until 31st.

Discord is introducing a new currency that pays users to interact with ads. Discord Orbs are now in beta testing, letting users earn free Nitro credits by playing interactive ads www.theverge.com/news/675481/...

Exclusive: Iran may pause uranium enrichment if the US releases frozen Iranian funds and recognizes Tehran's right to refine uranium for civilian use under a 'political deal' that could lead to a broader nuclear accord, two Iranian official sources said reut.rs/4joFox8

WOW. Federal judge orders the release of Kseniia Petrova, the Russian researcher detained by ICE for months and recently charged for allegedly smuggling frog embryos into the United States.

(Reuters) - Germany's foreign minister threatened unspecified measures against Israel on Tuesday and said Berlin would not export weapons used to break humanitarian law, as he and Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered their most severe rebuke yet over Gaza @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The only people who should refer to the President as the “commander in chief” are people in the military chain of command.

Might I suggest that the fact that folks are continually surprised when their friends or family get detained by ICE despite this pretty clearly being administration policy is indicative of both a failure to curate information diets, but also a media failure?

US administration openly intervened on behalf of the authoritarian populist candidate in the Polish presidential election

traveling to Finland I was completely speed camera-pilled. head and shoulders better experience *for driving*, as well as far far safer for pedestrians and cyclists heatmap.news/politics/hel...

I’m having @aselrod.bsky.social on fast politics Saturday podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

From the US State Department: “Europe has devolved into a hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom, and numerous other assaults on democratic self-governance” statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-f...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency.

After poaching some of the best Western auto talent, China’s car industry is about to dominate globally with charging rates, ranges, luxury design, technology, and sheer volumes. www.wired.com/story/auto-s...

trying to explain congestion pricing to Donald Trump: imagine if there was a tariff on cars entering Lower Manhattan

People who say that the United States can’t build anything anymore must not be sports fans. Barely a year goes by without the debut of a sparkling new stadium or arena, often in the very cities where it’s most difficult to build almost anything else.

Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

MAGA hero Q Shaman says someone from the Trump admin visited him in Texas and threatened to kill him because he called out Trump for being a shill for Israel.

“Smith goes on to express a hope that global trade will eventually erode the European power advantage, so that people of all nations can participate in global markets on equal terms.” www.liberalcurrents.com/in-defense-o...

"Jacob M. Miller, who in 2023 served as the student president of Harvard’s Hillel chapter...said Harvard’s Jewish community rejects the Trump administration’s narrative...'We will not allow the administration to wield our identities as a pretextual prop.'” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Recent US DOL Dir of Office of UI Modernization: Trump "cutting off $400 million in carefully planned state activities in termination letters... tragic waste of the ingenuity of dedicated state, federal & vendor staff... [workers] more likely fall through the crack" www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

Planned Parenthood halted abortions in Missouri on Tuesday after the state's top court ordered new rulings in the tumultuous legal saga over a ban that voters struck down last November.

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a Massachusetts student's challenge to his middle school’s prohibition on him wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan “There are only two genders.”

The European Commission is investigating porn platforms Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos over lapses in minor protection, the EU executive said today.

EU big tech law - EU Commission starts investigations against four porn sites for alleged non-compliance with Digital Services Act - one porn site delisted as 'very large online platform' - coordinated action by national regulators against smaller porn sites ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Oil prices inch up as U.S. bans Chevron from exporting Venezuelan crude reut.rs/43OrUWS

Namibia this week will hold its first national commemoration for victims of mass killings by German occupiers in the first genocide of the 20th century. Between 1904 and 1905. the Germans slaughtered 60,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama people.

Everything else aside, every single poll shows that the most Israel-skeptical bloc of Democratic voters are Black. Must be buying something. I think they're buying the "apartheid is bad" argument.

France has been "on the cusp" of recognizing Palestine since 1988. Will they finally do it? An interesting recitation of the history of the issue.

NEWS: DOJ filed its motion to dismiss Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case tonight. The argument basically comes down to a lot of what is before Boasberg in the Alien Enemies Act case over the would-be class at CECOT already. Filing: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Leon said that despite his decisive ruling, the firm had already suffered because of Mr. Trump’s actions…[E]xisting clients had already started “curtailing their relationships with WilmerHale, and new clients are taking their business elsewhere.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

At the time, I missed the opening of this May 1 interview in which Jesse Watters says Musk invited Fox News “to sit in on *his* weekly 10 pm DOGE meeting.” “We met the whole crew…And they showed us how DOGE really gets done.” Conspicuously absent? AMY GLEASON, THE PERSON WHO SUPPOSEDLY LEADS DOGE

We don't deserve her

What has personally radicalized me on this is that there is basically a universal consensus in America (including both police and prosecutors) that it should be legal to murder people with your car, and as a pedestrian, I take that kind of personally.

I got more where that came from

Gavin Newsom indie band photo shoot

Apparently we're dropping Rare Gavins™ right now

hey who wants to see something completely fucking cursed

I will be turning 24, and as a Pali it would be wrong of me to ask for anything for myself before first asking for the world for Gaza. Consider donating, it is a better way to spend your time and money than arguing.

The U.S. government is poised to receive a so-called golden share in United States Steel Corp. as a condition for approving Nippon Steel Corp.’s proposed acquisition of the American company.

I have a new fundraiser with the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. Last year I raised a cumulative $120,000 over three campaigns for the PCRF. My birthday is this Saturday and I would like to raise $15,000 by the end of the week.

Michael “Mike” Nedd, a 30-year veteran of Bureau of Land Management who serves as deputy director for administration and programs, was removed Tuesday. He had reportedly told career employees to ignore a memo from an appointee of the U.S. DOGE Service.

More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging www.propublica.org/article/us-o...

NEW from me @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social “Farm country voted overwhelmingly to unleash a new trade war. And now these same farmers want taxpayers to finance another round of bailouts to protect them from the consequences of their own votes.” Hell no.

I keep staring at it, it’s so ugly

Trump has just posted two state-specific tweets on Truth Social for Maine and Alaska. He’s clearly frustrated with local politicians there but doesn’t name any specifically.