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[Matthew Fraser 🇪🇺 @frasermatthew]

Pitched battles in the streets of Paris.

[Anna Mazzola - Updates only. @Anna_Mazz]

Don’t let the pagan rites get out of hand today, May Day-ers.
#MayDay

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

If only someone had written a book -- or maybe a whole literary genre -- warning about the dangers of technology breaking free of human control.

[Greg Egan @gregeganSF]

All subjects of King Charles III across the globe have been invited to shout “Look behind you!” and “Oh no it isn’t!” at appropriate points during the coronation, and the palace has promised that boiled sweets will be tossed in the direction of every participant, however distant.

[absolute Love @love_absolute]

My first year of law school, we read a case that made no sense. The professor said there was an easy answer. For the whole class students tried to reconcile the case with the law but nobody was successful.
In the end the professor explained that the judge was on the take. -C.W.

[David Cay Johnston @DavidCayJ]

Another SCOTUS scandal, per @LeverNews.
Justice Clarence Thomas voted to end federal tenant protections that his billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow’s company says threatened its real estate profit margins.
And another case is coming soon!

https://t.co/luxqzXuvYt

[Matteo Wong @matteo_wong]

The rice cooker has been perfect since 1955. At a time when Big Tech is obsessed with “disruption” and all its gadgets are infuriating, I explore the greatest appliance’s elegance, humility, and fascinating history for @TheAtlantic
https://t.co/h2UPemk72B

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

worth saying that one of the more useful ways to think of the ideological project of the conservatives on the roberts court is that they seek to vastly expand the power of the court itself over governance. one step toward that goal would be ending chevron deference.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Can wind power push the shipping industry—one of the dirtiest on the planet—forward? https://t.co/6OyeiOBWyD

[Circulo Arquitectura @CirculoArq]

Sevilla

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The 3 smallest bones in the human body--malleus, incus, and stapes--are located in the middle ear. At 3 x 5 mm in size, the stapes is the smallest bone in the human body. All 3 bones are essential for hearing

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[Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) @froomkin]

Sinclair replacing local TV news with national propaganda. Very bad.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

when i think of what he-man has enough excess testosterone to share with mere mortal men who are coming up short Hawley is always the one who comes to mind

[Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social @Will_Bunch]

That the #MorningJoe crew seems so incredulous over the French fighting to keep their retirement age at 62 is just more proof how beaten down Americans are

[Judith Stout @judystout1]

"To be without knowledge of past history is to be permanently burdened with a lack of perspective, empathy and wisdom." Michael Higgins

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Opinion | No one could have predicted that an erratic narcissistic sociopath with limited technical knowledge would turn out to be the wrong person to lead Twitter.

by Jack Dorsey

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

Societal gender panic level: attacking cis women for wearing a bow tie

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Of course, nobody can ever predict with certainty the outcome of a trial. But it seems that Trump’s lawyer Tacopina is making the fatal mistake of arguing his case in a manner that makes his client happy, rather than trying to persuade a jury. Not usually a winning formula.

[Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein]

If written human expression weren't as banal, toneless, and cliche it is these days, AI would never work as well as it does. ChatBots would never fly in the 19th C because people had a more attentive eye to the subtleties of language. Just much more thought put into writing.