May Chen

Here's how private equity killed your local mall.

They are gonna break PubMed now aren’t they

Bernie Sanders and I are standing for a 5% tax on California billionaires, so 3.5 million Californians and poor kids don’t lose their healthcare. Gavin Newsom is standing with the billionaires and supporting Proposition 42 to stop a billionaire tax from ever happening.

#NoKings Vote! Yes prop 40 No prop 41 & 42

URGENT: Our No Kings Coalition Instagram has been taken down. At about 1:30 PM ET, Meta froze the main No Kings Coalition Instagram account. This happened at the peak of our national day of action. We need your help to spread the word. Tell them to RESTORE the account. #NoKings #NoKingsVoteEarly

We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.” This is what Microsoft’s director of applied science had to say about training their AI model on copyrighted content from our newsroom and many others, according to new docs revealed during our lawsuit against the company.

NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried

Brain worm Q2 progress report Measles outbreaks Screw worm returns Explosive diarrhea!!! Glyphosate protected Weird food pyramid

NEW STORY: “It is general knowledge in our practice that for $2 million, you can have a pardon,” a prominent defense attorney told me. Others said $1-2 million is the going rate, though clients were offering *many* times that amount for challenging cases. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins. forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...

ICE is holding “a man who has Stage 3 lung cancer,” Kim told reporter @alexjn.bsky.social. He wants to “spend his final months… with his family. But they just won’t let him go."

Reluctant to post too much about this but I did want to share my favourite finding from the dozens of manipulated or duplicated ThermoFisher verification blots. This one has a giant square. Enjoy!

Democrats lose procedural battles and revert to the same recourse: "We just have to win the next election." But that's always how a party should feel. Of course you have to win. This default approach throwing everything into the basket of electoralism has failed. www.offmessage.net/p/the-failed...

Flowers that survived my Darwinian gardening. Happy Mother’s Day to all trying their best

@kevinmullin.house.gov You really shouldn’t have endorsed him in the first place if that is an open secret. I voted for you and would like to know why you endorsed him.

I heard someone say that we should be registering voters at gas stations.

POV: You made history by joining the LARGEST protest in United States history! #NoKings Use the energy’s from today’s historic day to meet your neighbors (if safe) and start a group chat on Signal. The most important resistance work is hyper localized 🤝 #WeSayNoKings

#nokings San Mateo showed up!

Ready for No Kings

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI. The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom. san.com/cc/what-your...

Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.

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The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Does that seem fair to you?

Remember, the GOP isn’t afraid of voter fraud. They’re scared of voter accuracy.

Susan Collins has apparently decided to give Republicans the votes needed to pass the SAVE Act. This is a three-alarm emergency. We must act swiftly. Tell every Senator right now we absolutely cannot let this pass:

Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in prison two years ago, was most likely poisoned by a toxin found in a South American frog, the Foreign Ministries of Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said on Saturday in a joint statement.

Breaking MS NOW: Some of the Epstein docs the DOJ invited members of Congress to view are STILL redacted, despite promises otherwise. Raskin says DOJ's reading room has just four computers. It would take seven years to get through the files in the current conditions established by the DOJ.

Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul who spent decades as a defiant thorn in Beijing’s side, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison.

You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump. This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.

This five year old is still in jail

Kristi Noem and her department’s latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately.

Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job. “I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.

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Congress is not powerless. Democrats must unify around an actual agenda. 1. Vote no on DHS funding bill. 2. Repeal the multi-year $75 billion funding for ICE. 3. End qualified immunity for ICE agents. 4. Investigate and prosecute every single ICE agent who broke the law.

The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians: ‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’

I’m old enough to remember that the Boston Marathon Bomber was captured and stood a trial for his terrorist attack

We were just sent Alex’s GoFundMe.

This analysis by the New York Times paints a damning picture of ICE's decision to kill Alex Pretti after Pretti had attempted to help a woman who had been shoved (assaulted) by ICE. ICE had Pretti pinned on the ground when one agent appears to come across a gun. After taking the gun, they kill him.

Dems Not signed onto kristi noem impeachment articles (8)🤮 - John Mannion (NY 22nd) - Lucy McBath (GA 6th) - Jennifer McClellan (VA 4th) - Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI 8th) - Gregory Meeks (NY 5th) - Grace Meng (NY 6th) - Joe Morelle (NY 25th) - Jared Moskowitz (FL 23rd) - Frank Mrvan (IN 1st)