• UPDATE: Oklahoma parents fight back - by Judd Legum
• Alex Jones Will Repeat Unsubstantiated Rumors As Fact
• Why Do ICE Agents Cover Their Faces With Masks?
• 5-minute stress relief techniques for Todoist 🧘‍♂️
• Trump has created a new Democratic superstar: LaMonica McIver
• Federal Circuit Issues Brief Administrative Stay in Our Tariff Case
• Trans Man Detained After Using Women’s Restroom in South Carolina
• An Intellectual Preparation Guide for Joint Task Force Southern Border | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
• 512K Day: The Day The Internet (almost) Broke - YouTube
• Pete Rose reveals SECRET to hitting.. - YouTube
• Nervous About Crossing the Border? You Should Be. - Macleans.ca
• Spheres of Influence Are Not the Answer
• Who’s really working for Pennsylvania families? Follow the policy | PennLive letters - pennlive.com
• Here’s some practical guidance in how to speak to Trumpers | Opinion - pennlive.com

• Connecting with communities through walking tours – RJI
• More Than 3 Million People Would Lose SNAP Benefits Under GOP Bill, Says Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office - Bucks County Beacon
• Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick Votes for Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ That Will Cut Medicaid and Food Stamp Spending by Nearly $1 Trillion - Bucks County Beacon
• Pennsylvania Must Fight Back Against Trump's Voting Attacks by Passing Landmark Legislation to Expand Ballot Access - Bucks County Beacon
• ‘This Is the Beginning of a War:’ Teamsters Leaders Urge Action Against Amazon at Pennsylvania Conference - Bucks County Beacon
• Trump-Ramaphosa Meeting: We Can No Longer Dismiss the U.S. President's Racism
• Germany’s criminal underworld is coming out of the shadows | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
• Russia cites "emotional overload" after Trump calls Putin crazy
• ChatGPT confounds colleges and high schools
• Congress moves the "middle class" line in budget bill battle
• Stephen Miller Threatens to Suspend Habeas Corpus because He Got Caught Lying - emptywheel
• Despite Pete Hegseth, Signal is Good - emptywheel
• Not So Fast, Kristi Noem - by Jay Kuo - The Status Kuo
• America For Sale - by Jay Kuo - The Status Kuo
• The GOP Plans to Slash Medicaid “Abuse.” Guess Which States Will Suffer?
• The “No Plan”-demic - by Jay Kuo - The Status Kuo
• Another Trump Casualty: A Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate – Mother Jones
• The Qatari 747 Is Just the Latest Mega-Donation Flowing to Trump’s “Library” – Mother Jones
• New Jersey Town Seeks to Condemn Church to Build a Park and Pickleball Courts
• Scientific evidence belongs in any beat – RJI
• Embracing AI as ‘assistant’ opens door to better election coverage – RJI
• Whether Weather – Doc Searls Weblog
• John Fetterman lashes out at meeting with teachers union officials - WHYY
• Pa. Senate votes to ban transgender athletes in girls' sports - WHYY
• Context Cues: Three Books Help Explain The Moment – Eduwonk
• Montco Democratic commissioners say no to ICE agreements - WHYY
• PA LIHEAP: How Trump cuts could affect heating bills - WHYY
• Rise of SNAP benefit thefts leave Delawareans hungry - WHYY
• Bucks County commissioners say sheriff does not have power to sign agreement with ICE - WHYY
• More than 3 million people would lose SNAP benefits under GOP bill, nonpartisan report says • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
• 5 years after George Floyd’s murder, Pa.’s police misconduct database remains full of loopholes - pennlive.com
• Pennsylvania legislators vow no tax increases to cover federal funding cuts | TribLIVE.com
• Federal Court Temporarily Blocks Book Bans and "Don't Say Gay" In Iowa

• House Spending Bill Now Bans Medicaid For Transition Care For Adults
• Montana Judge Enjoins Bathroom Ban: “No Evidence” The Ban Prevents Violence
• Looking Back and Forward - The Newsguy -- Steve Herman
• Michigan Senate Vows To Not Take On Sports Ban After It Passes House
• Control of Pennsylvania Supreme Court at stake in 2025 election • Spotlight PA
• Alleged ‘Delco Pooper’ held for trial after teen who filmed incident testifies at hearing
• Tyler State Park in Bucks County closed following boating accident
• U.S. military culture normalizes website purge of pages about trailblazing women | Opinion
• When hospitals are addressing mental health needs, split-second decisions can be dangerous
• A sign of history: Hazleton students work on restoring Blue Comet Diner sign
• A summer guide to free museums and sites in Pennsylvania • Spotlight PA
• Verizon tries to get out of merger condition requiring it to unlock phones - Ars Technica
• Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
• PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty to student data extortion scheme

• Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits transgender youth
• Trump’s Angry Walmart Tirade Backfires, Wrecking His Own Tariff Scam | The New Republic
• Lessons from Millbourne, Pennsylvania, election fraud case - Votebeat
• What Is The Goal Of Trump Administration's Cruelty?
• Sen. Dave McCormick Is Legislating Crypto — And Making Money Off It
• [2504.15499] Guillotine: Hypervisors for Isolating Malicious AIs
• The Cybercriminals Who Organized a $243 Million Crypto Heist - The New York Times
• Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State - The New York Times
• American Panopticon
• As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond | Voice of San Diego
• Florida bill requiring encryption backdoors for social media accounts has failed | TechCrunch

• “Weaponization Czar” Ed Martin Threatens U.S. Security
• The DOGE Committee Has Become the Modern-Era HUAC
• MI Republicans Think It's “Inappropriate” to Ask GOP Lawmaker to Prove Their Gender
• Republicans Seek To Cut Medicaid By Imposing Work Requirements
• A Devastating New Exposé of Johnson & Johnson Indicts an Entire System | The New Republic

• How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes | WIRED
• Donald Trump Is No Longer the President of the United States
• An Obituary for the FBI
• Raising My Children in Bucks County Between Two Identities and Cultures - Bucks County Beacon
• My no-plastic life: I tried to cut out single-use items for a month – and it almost broke me | Plastics | The Guardian
• Why Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in 2024 election
• U.S. Credit Downgrade Rattles Markets in Run-up to Budget and Debt Standoff
• Pennsylvania election overhaul clears Democratic-led House - Votebeat
• Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship - PEN America
• Corruption and a Security Catastrophe in Plane Sight

• The murder business - by Judd Legum and Noel Sims
• Far Right Federal Judge Rules Gay And Trans People Can Be Discriminated Against In Workplaces
• "Chilling Effect," 11th Circuit Blocks Florida's Drag Ban
• How ‘Job Loss Penalty’ Reframes the Fight for Medicaid
• American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show
• Having a clear vision in a blurred world | by Thomas Ricouard | May, 2025 | Medium

• Inside Lucy the Elephant, the 143-year-old Shore monument to kitsch
• Lower Salford Township v. EPA (2:11-cv-06489)
• The Aura of Invincibility is Fading - by Jennifer Rubin
• Republicans target Democratic Pa. Supreme Court justices in retention election
• Philly university leaders skipped City Council DEI hearing
• The Papacy and the Pathway Out
• Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US – Krebs on Security
• Governor warns Pennsylvanians will lose health care, hospitals will close under GOP cuts to Medicaid | AP News
• The Trump administration wants to end LIHEAP. 300K Pa. households could struggle to pay heating bills. : r/Pennsylvania
• PA GOP silent after Dawn Keefer calls for rebellion against Shapiro’s budget
• Ground control to Major Trial
• DOGE’s Fraud Tracker at Social Security Turns Into a Massive Self-Own
• Democrats pass sweeping election bill through PA House • Spotlight PA

Links submitted to me in this thread​

• New Worldmaking: Reparations as climate justice, climate justice as reparations
• There’s hope · Nils Mielke, the Website
• Build Then Smile
• Prepare ye the way. But what is the way now?
• Ungovernable Love: What is Ungovernable Love?
• Ariadne Systems - Ecologically Harmonious Lifestyle
• 🔭 The Branding Essay

Links I stumbled on​

• MAGA, Measles and the Wellness Hustle
• US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return – POLITICO
• World's longest range LED flashlight : r/flashlight
• New attack can steal cryptocurrency by planting false memories in AI chatbots - Ars Technica
• Government Furiously Trying to Undo Elon Musk's Damage
• Still Getting On The Air – KC8JC
• Twitterlike is a Bad Shape

• The Moderate Case Against Transgender Sports Bans
• Hypercritical: Apple Turnover
• OPM appears to cancel sole-source award for cloud HR system
• Potentially Useful | Weeknote for 2025-W12
• Trump’s Anger Spins Out of Control at Presser as Another Bad Poll Hits | The New Republic
• Why does it feel like when I learned history in school those women protesting for suffrage and rights were awesome at making a political impact but nowadays when I see protestors it looks like it’s doing nothing? : r/NoStupidQuestions
• Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States
• Exclusive: US CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say | Reuters
• Cancelling, Crybullies and Consequences - by Laurie Penny
• Letter I received from Sen. Alsobrooks : r/maryland