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> Guthrie, Oklahoma will stop using Flock cameras, a license plate scanning system, after a federal grant expired, leaving the city unable to fund the program. www.koco.com/article/guth...

The United States has imposed sanctions on four judges of the International Criminal Court. This is a blatant attack on an institution that protects human rights worldwide. The US reveals its disregard for international law and for the bodies that uphold it. 1/2

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

A former D.C. police lieutenant convicted of leaking information about a police investigation to the leader of the Proud Boys group on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, was sentenced Friday to 18 months behind bars.

Just got a notification that Facebook is forcing users into professional accounts if they want to have followers, which I refuse to do. My reach and engagement has tanked on there wrt recent algorithm changes anyways, and the AI and bot stuff is out of control.

The long-con that campus athletic workers are ‘amateurs’ has finally and definitively been exposed for what it is. The numbers here demonstrate just how vicious the exploitation has been. www.espn.com/college-spor...

"oh, but what about a straight pride parade?" It exists. It's called a traffic jam.

Extra-judicial kidnapping #37462

“Being bisexual means even more unspoken social rules to contend with,” Squire continued. “You’re supposed to have had an equal number of partners of every gender, otherwise Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas shows up and cuts your Bi Card in half.”

NEW: Only three board members had the power to remove Richard L. Bean as superintendent of the Tennessee juvenile detention center that bears his name. And for decades, those positions have been held down by his closest friends and allies. With @wpln.bsky.social

For the love of God do not move here cause you enjoyed visiting once in the summer

Top story at the Post. wapo.st/459sFuR Gift link.

Next time transphobes call trans healthcare "experimental" you can show them this

The other thing about the militarized teams deployed on deportations is that they are increasingly a coalition of the willing that scrambles chains of command across various dept's and agencies (DHS, ICE, FBI, CBP, BOP, etc), creating what amounts to a personalized militia loyal only to Trump. 🧵

An Italian court has ruled that both women in a lesbian couple are legal mothers of a child conceived via IVF. buff.ly/eLkHSne A non-binary person in Brazil has been granted official documents with a neutral gender marker for the first time in the country’s history buff.ly/US69P86 #ShareGoodNewsToo

This thread from @bxroberts.org is worth your time 👇👇

If anyone is looking for a podcast guest to explain how science funding works, hit me up

If I crowdfunded a TV series involving history, scientific exploration, global cultures, and a very cute and much-loved animal, would anyone be interested in contributing? 🤔

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

Since you guys learned Ant is a robot, I present to you, the dumbest thing I ever drew-

#ICYMI: The Air Force revealed earlier this year that a general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress had inappropriate relationships with five women. Sources say one of the women whose relationship with him was scrutinized was Sen. Joni Ernst. (Published March 2025)

This is what fascism looks like. Richard Vought's vision of Project 2025 sweeping across America is so close to becoming a reality. Analysis courtesy of our friends @freestatecoalition.bsky.social Check out their Substack! #StopHR1 #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #WethePeople #StopProject2025

In NYC, officers with DHS detained Rep. Jerry Nadler’s staff member in their district office under the guise of staffers “harboring rioters”.

If you are a SFFH writer affected by the Unbound/Boundless royalty theft, please be aware that even if you are not a SFWA member but qualify, Griefcom help is still available! Griefcom explainer: www.sfwa.org/what-is-sfwa... (w/ subsidiary links) Griefcom contact form: www.sfwa.org/what-is-sfwa...

Transphobes are angry today because Hollywood is considering hiring the person who looks most like Zelda of anyone who has ever lived to play Zelda in the upcoming live-action Zelda movie

Direct File is now open source. Finally. A short, personal post about why: chrisgiven.com/2025/05/dire... Massive kudos to the Direct File team for pulling this off and showing their commitment to transparency and earning trust.

The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, keeps getting worse She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility in Georgia Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization?

Civics 101: presidents are not kings…

that's nothing have you seen what politicians have figured out doing, and they need hardly as much water

The Supreme Court’s emergency docket is now simply the Trump docket and it’s bad for us all.

Actually I'm pretty sure they've been caught lying in court repeatedly as well I think you mean to say that they say one thing when they're conspiring in private to destroy our country, another thing when they're in court, and another thing when they're courting a new class of open insurrectionists

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

Shit is getting real in Des Moines.

Oh, look, this Cybertruck got the aftermarket Roman customization package.

New — Video shared with me that was taken yesterday at Manhattan Immigration Court (290 Broadway) shows ICE officers in the midst of an arrest putting on face masks once they realize they’re being filmed my witnesses.

There are a LOT of sickening revelations about Blue Cross in here but I want to highlight that they found while Blue Cross denied payments for thousands of breast reconstruction procedures they approved special deals on those procedures for executives’ wives.