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In case anybody wants a source for this story that *isn't* on a website using AI and doesn't read like it was written by AI, here ya go: heritageheadlines.com/rare-west-vi...

Rare West Virginia Chestnuts Sit Near a Massive AI Data Center Plan - Hopewell Heritage Headlines

Advocates warn that blight-surviving American chestnuts near Mason County’s former state nursery could be lost to AI data center construction. State…

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Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 3w ago

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW: For anyone who has been wondering about what happens if election denier TX Attorney General Ken Paxton loses the Senate race www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Why top Texas election denier Ken Paxton could cause chaos if he loses his Senate race

Ken Paxton has election interference tools and he’s proven his willingness to use them. But legal experts are confident that courts are up to the task of protecting the will of the voters.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last mo.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · last mo.

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last mo.

Alito attended Princeton before I was even alive but I’m pretty confident that “counting“ was something we taught back then too

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · last mo.

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this court must be dismantled or reformed or whatever you want to call fixing something that’s irretrievably broken. in the meantime, start making a plan to vote in person if you need to.

US supreme court rules Trump can proceed with crackdown on mail-in voting

Justices’ ruling comes after lower courts had blocked president’s election order ahead of November midterms

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trump personally intervened in the DOJ’s case against LiveNation-Ticketmaster, reportedly telling top officials to “settle it.” LiveNation donated $500K to Trump’s inauguration, then hired a law firm with close ties to Trump weeks before the scheduled trial. The corruption is endless.

Trump Told DOJ to Settle Live Nation Case After Meeting With CEO in Oval Office

Donald Trump directed the DOJ to settle its antitrust case with Live Nation after meeting with CEO Michael Rapino in the

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

If you aren't very aware of Barton and his movement, I suggest changing that, as his work has been central to the broader Christian nationalist movement and is only becoming more and more mainstream in GOP circles. Here's a good primer I wrote on him late last year:

He Calls Church-State Separation a Myth. He’s Now Weighing In on Public School Curricula.

David Barton, far-right Christian activist and founder of Wallbuilders, has been appointed by Texas's board of education to advise on social studies instruction.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Caulk is visibly oozing from the columns of the false "Arc de Trump" on display at the Great American State Fair

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Pleased to post my draft article, “Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution.” I study the history of birthright citizenship from the 1100s to the 1700s. The English common-law rule of natural-born subjects was always tied to territory and jurisdiction. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Matorin Law Office @matorinlaw.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Wow.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

BREAM: The Journal says percentage of delinquent credit card balances is 13%, the highest in 15 years. People are using them for necessities. Your message to them? HASSETT: We talk to CEOs of the credit card companies all the time, and there's not any threat to them. People are taking a bit longer.

Matorin Law Office @matorinlaw.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Intellectualist@theintellectualist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hundreds of millions of dollars generated by the sale of Venezuelan oil are now sitting outside the U.S. Treasury, held in offshore custodial accounts that include at least one in Qatar. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/hundreds-o...

Benoît Rivet @benoit-rivet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The article is freely available on www.army.mil/article/1098...

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

The new captain jumped from the deck, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the couple swimming between their anch...

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Safety In Numbers @safetyinnumbers.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Free simulator teaches how to identify swimmers in distress/drowning. Important: drowning ppl can be dangerous to untrained rescuers. Call for lifeguard! If none can help, push float/object toward drowning person, avoid letting them grab you directly, esp in deep water. spotthedrowningchild.com

Spot The Drowning Child

Can you spot the drowning child in this crowded wave pool? An interactive public service announcement. To the untrained eye, drowning can look just like swimming. The Instinctive Drowning Response is ...

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Matorin Law Office @matorinlaw.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Chance the Lawyer@chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

because I know y’all can’t click and read

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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Peter Huestis @peterhuestis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Copyright nerds like me got a little frisson when Stephen Colbert intentionally used Vince Guaraldi Peanuts music without permission as a little parting gift to CBS: www.mediaite.com/media/tv/ste...

Stephen Colbert Sticks It to CBS in Peanuts Copyright Lawsuit Gag During Final Late Show

The bit came as Colbert riffed on news that the company controlling Peanuts music rights had filed lawsuits against people allegedly using the song illegally.

mediaite.com

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

From the reporter who scooped the news that Treasury's GC was quitting, IRS wrote a 25-page memo about why Trump's IRS lawsuit was dogshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...

I.R.S. officials prepared a 25-page memorandum outlining what they saw as flaws in Mr. Trump’s suit and advising the Justice Department to move to dismiss it, according to two people familiar with the memo. That memo was provided to Treasury officials in April, and it is unclear if they passed it along to its intended recipients at the Justice Department, according to the people, who spoke anonymously to discuss internal government deliberations.

No lawyers from the Justice Department ever appeared in court to respond to the suit or disputed any of Mr. Trump’s claims, which demanded at least $10 billion from the I.R.S. for not doing enough to prevent the leak of his tax information. The Justice Department instead made to a highly unusual deal in the case. In exchange for Mr. Trump dropping the suit, the Trump administration created the $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund for people who say they were wrongly targeted by the federal government.

The existence of the internal memo, which has not been previously reported, shows that the Trump administration disregarded readily available defenses to a lawsuit filed by the president against an agency he controls. While the Justice Department has said that Mr. Trump will not receive money from the new fund, critics have slammed the arrangement as a corrupt attempt at paying Mr. Trump’s political supporters, including, potentially, those who were convicted and later pardoned for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 6mo ago

2. Primary source documents, videos, and all the reciepts:

The smoking guns in Trump’s new financial disclosure

Trump publicly praised companies the same day he bought their stock.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

More fallout from Callais: SCOTUS wipes out two decisions involving the rights of private plaintiffs (rather than the DOJ) to bring a claim under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. KBJ dissents. These are less important now that Section 2 has been gutted... www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

BD. OF ELECTION COMM'RS, ET AL. V. NAACP, ET AL.
The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the
United States District Court for the Southern District of
Mississippi for further consideration in light of Louisiana v.
Callais, 608 U. S. ___ (2026). Justice Jackson, dissenting:
This case presents only the question of Section 2’s private
enforceability, which our decision in Louisiana v. Callais,
608 U. S. ___ (2026), did not address. Thus I see no basis for
vacating the lower court’s judgment. Instead, in light of Morse
v. Republican Party of Va., 517 U. S. 186 (1996), I would
summarily affirm.
CERTIORARI -- SUMMARY DISPOSITION
25-253 TURTLE MOUNTAIN BAND, ET AL. V. HOWE, SEC. OF STATE OF ND
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The
judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit for further
consideration in light of Louisiana v. Callais, 608 U. S. ___
(2026). Justice Jackson, dissenting: This case presents only
the question of Section 2’s private enforceability, which our
decision in Louisiana v. Callais, 608 U. S. ___ (2026), did not
address. Thus I see no basis for vacating the lower court’s
judgment. Instead, in light of Morse v. Republican Party of
Va., 517 U. S. 186 (1996), I would summarily reverse.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

But if SCOTUS holds that private plaintiffs can't enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, then it would mean that ONLY Trump's Justice Department can do so. KBJ is objectively correct in dissent: Callais didn't address this question at all, so today's decisions are inexplicable and strange.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6mo ago

At this point, I think he is just trolling us.

Matorin Law Office @matorinlaw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Gather round, children, and behold the Streisand effect in its full glory.

Damon Beres@damonberes.com · 6mo ago

Go @sfitz787.bsky.social 👊

Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A 77-year-old woman was seen walking alone through a shelled frontline road in the Lyman area. With no safe route out, a ground robot was sent to reach her. It carried a blanket message: “Grandma, get on.” She was safely evacuated after a four-hour operation. 📹Ukraine’s Third Army Corps

Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions

A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...

phys.org

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is literally establishing a second special code of law just for Alex Jones so he can do whatever he wants. What the fuck are we doing? How the fuck is this allowed?

Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D.@drharmony.net · 6mo ago