The Roberts Court's DreadsOff decision will go down in Infamy: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US supreme court blocks Rastafarian man’s lawsuit over forced head-shaving in prison

In a 6-3 opinion, the court says Louisiana prisoner cannot sue guards after he grew his hair for more than 20 years

theguardian.com

What I will never understand is that the only real appeal--to me--of extraordinary wealth would be the power to say exactly what I think. Why be a billionaire if you still end up groveling to fools.

Dean Baker@deanbaker13.bsky.social · 2mo ago

That's easy for you to say, but you don't have $200 billion you have to look after. And I happen to know that Zuckerberg loves each and every one of those 200 billion dollars.

It's a great souvenir for tourists to DC.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After spending $14 million in taxpayer funds, Trump's renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are peeling off and floating to the surface

As the screwworm spreads... Remember that Elon Musk’s DOGE cut $15M from a screwworm monitoring program. And we're now learning that Trump’s USDA delayed a project to develop new ways to contain the parasite and held up construction of a monitoring facility. The incompetence is dangerous.

“Unlike Barack Hussein Obama, who sent Iran pallets of cash"-DJT So 1.7B of Iran's frozen accounts delivered in greenbacks (because we'd excluded Iran from the global financial system) is worse that 300B+ from Gulf States to re-open the straight of Hormuz?

Venomous not poisonous. Get it right NYT! Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Keeps Picking Up Snakes. Is He Doing It Right? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Keeps Picking Up Snakes. Is He Doing It Right?

nytimes.com

Complaints about US roads focus on starved public spending and construction costs. But people forget how much more Americans drive (because of sprawl) and how much heavier our vehicles are. We have way more roads to maintain (per capita) that depreciate faster. guardianservice.com/auto-insuran...

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · 2mo ago

Stone-cold photo caption writing in Fortune fortune.com/2026/05/25/f...

I think he's admitting he doesn't actually pay a lot of taxes, so of course doubling them won't do much good. I assume he's living off interest deductible loans against amazon stock.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Collins: Bezos said that you could double his taxes and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens. Mamdani: I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.

I have a glimmer of hope that net result of the Supreme Court shredding the Voting Rights Act, and the democrats finally counter punching on redistricting will be adoption of nationwide redistricting reform. Ideally, something discretionless with a single optimization like compactness.

Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Alabama's new 6R-1D map which erased the seat of one Black House Democrat gets blocked by a federal court - 'intentional race-based discrimination.' storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I'm not totally opposed to this. Rail infrastructure produces lots of positive externalities: fewer emissions, resiliency to oil shocks, military logistics. Maybe the state should take a minority stake in each common carrier and vote for more capex and employee training over dividends.

Alan Fisher@alanthefisher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Conrail 2, except it's a shittier manifestation: ChudRail

I grew up with Bicycle Sunday on Lake Washington Blvd in the 80s. I wonder if it helped seed the bike advocacy constituency, or, instead, hurt it by cementing the idea that biking was just a weekend recreation thing.

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 2mo ago

“Wilson's reversal of that decision strongly aligned with the result of a 2022 public survey showing that 62% of Seattle residents wanted to see Bicycle Weekends expanded across more days.”

Trailhead Direct is running today! 🥾 🚌

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 2mo ago

Direct minibus service between light rail stations in Seattle and Bellevue and several major Eastside trailheads starts Saturday, and runs on weekends and holidays through August 30. Story: www.theurbanist.org/2026-trailhe...

The Dutch are not afraid of water. In my neighborhood in Den Haag, there's underwater car parking with car elevators. People happily park 100K BMWs and Mercedes under the canal.

De Filmende Fietser@filmendefietser.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

As the timelapse of the 4-year building proces of the bike parking shows, underwater really means underwater, not just underground! Now boats are sailing over the parked bicycles!

California has winds in the evening as the heated land causes air to rise drawing in cooler heavier air from the ocean. It nicely complements the cessation of solar. Still, batteries and hydro are doing most of the sunset surge here.

Brian DiNunno@bdinunno.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Then there is what happened just last night on California's grid with the arrival of the extra SunZia wind power. Those natural gas plants that wait poised to surge at sunset ... just weren't needed. 1.5 GW of gas during the day to be ready went to 1 GW at sunset with 9 GW of batteries. Amazing.

Blue morphos' wings have a big range of unrepresentable cyans. It's structural color, so pure frequencies, and all squarely in the blue green region screens can't show you. They look nothing like this.

Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are all leading cyan deficient lives. I can't even show you what you're missing.

First-past-the-post (FPP) systems usually sustain the two party system, but at the risk of chaos monkeys occasionally winning a plurality and burning it all down. Labor and conservatives should embrace proportional representation or instant run-off. Policy and values over party.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3mo ago

Scale of defeat should shake ‘big two’ parties into serious action ft.trib.al/C4VBs82

Going postal:

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The U.S. Postal Service is considering allowing people to ship handguns through the mail for the first time in nearly 100 years

This may be the ultimate legacy of the recent Hungarian election. If you really believe that democracy is on the line, then any and all coalitions should be forged and ideology and ambition sublimated.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 3mo ago

Two Israeli political heavyweights say they would join forces in upcoming elections in a shared effort to unseat longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department

Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised

thetimes.com

Interesting how no-one around him either in office or assisting him feels able to intervene privately and explain to save him from himself. In fact the incentives are so extreme that the way to respond is to draw attention to the error and invent an entirely new arithmetic to justify it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

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I think this is a great idea on the merits. We can quickly reallocate ROW as an emergency measure. A network of "fietsraats"-- bike streets could be created to provide citywide mobility. Protected bike lane construction could follow.

European Cyclists' Federation@ecf.com · 3mo ago

📣𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: A coalition of European mobility advocates is calling on governments at all levels to urgently scale up cycling as a fast, affordable and energy-efficient solution to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. 🔗Read the full article here: tinyurl.com/33jjwttd

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4mo ago

Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found. There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX

Consenting Manufacture.

ISAIAH@isaiahmn.org · 4mo ago

🚨 BREAKING: The Manufactured Housing Bill of Rights has passed the Minnesota Senate! #mnleg Minnesotans are one step closer to reining in corporate greed and winning real stability for manufactured home residents across race and place. 🏘️

Like Trump’s other spurious political proescutions, this is borrowing a page from his private sector penchant for litigation as a weapon to make the target’s life hell. He doesn’t have to win. He gets to publicly smear them & cost them a lot of money & stress even when they ultimately win.

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1. The central claim in the indictment of SPLC is a lie. The DOJ/FBI accuse SPLC of lying to donors about seeking to “dismantle” extremist groups while secretly funding them. But the funds were used to infiltrate & help law enforcement dismantle these groups. Kash Patel knows this is the truth…

Thought that maybe, just maybe, @seattletimes.com would do the right thing and slip a bare-minimum credit into their piece on the story I broke, including my screenshot of the IG story, shortly before it vanished. Nah. They don't care. Still pretending they got the story on their own.

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Seattle Times lifted my story, and a screen shot that I took at a specific time—of an IG story THE REPORTER WHO WROTE THEIR PIECE mentioned today was no longer available by the time he looked—and did not credit me. I'm a 1-person operation. Please support my independent work: publicola.com/support

They think you're stupid.

In Trump 1, I feared that he would die in office before facing his day in court, in Trump 2, I fear he will survive long enough to pardon all his criminal children and associates.

Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · 4mo ago

god i love it so much when crypto bros are like 'hey that OTHER crypto thing, not my thing but another one, is bad and scammy!' so close to getting it

Liquor Cabinet!!!! Why did I not come up with that!!!

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Welp