chris xu

that’s my mayor 😭

look if you dont want hoards of students chasing nazis across campus for disrupting their class you can always make class sizes smaller

“Players report the birds and animals in the game as either encouraging, or taunting, or celebrating them, depending on their context. This is beautiful to me…” 🥺

Mikell taught me how to kick people and be a smartass it’s true

Where Did the Fairyland Dandelions Go? For more than 45 years, three huge steel and bronze dandelion puffs reached for the sky outside Children’s Fairyland only to disappear without a trace. COYOTE went on a quest to find them.

I am completely enamored with @reveleth.com's intense, all-in deep dive on the low-stakes mystery of what happened to the sculptures that used to be at the entrance of Oakland's little amusement park! also there's a pie recipe here. why? READ ON www.coyotemedia.org/where-did-th...

ICE has been sweeping through Chicago for weeks now, yet coverage of it is still really hard to find. I wanted to compile both my go-to places that I turn to, as well as offer some ideas to news orgs on how to cover the onslaught better: dansinker.com/posts/202…

rewatching back to the future and realizing that marty traveled back 30 years to 1955, but it’s been 40 years since 1985

:(

my roman empire

🫡

The reason it was so important to talk about how invading cities with the US military over nothing was a sign of weakness, not strength, was because they have basically no more steps on the escalation ladder. Everything they are calling for and threatening to do they've already basically done

Meanwhile, Michigan’s Attorney General issued a reminder that withholding gender-affirming care violates the state’s anti-discrimination laws, and specifically rebukes the University of Michigan’s decision to withhold this care as “shameful, dangerous, and potentially illegal.”

Gov. Pritzker Announces Launch of Legal Hotline and Resource Hub for LGBTQIA+ Community In light of federal threats, IL Pride Connect includes a statewide legal hotline and website with information to support LGBTQIA+ individuals and their families

In the face of these growing legal threats, Illinois has announced a state-wide legal hotline and resource hub to support LGBTQ+ people. idhs.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...

Coverage of Gender-Affirming Care Banned for Federal Workers Gender-affirming care will no longer be covered for federal workers in 2026, according to a letter the Trump administration sent to insurance carriers.

In Jan, the Office of Personnel Management told providers to stop covering gender-affirming care for federal employees & dependents under 19 in 2026. This loss in coverage is now expanded to all ages & will affect ~17,000 transgender employees, plus an unknown number of dependents.

as a friend put it, this song goes against my class politics but it is an absolute banger 😓

you telling me a leftover sopressata from a picnic fried this rice?

“…National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for […] the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to be fired […] or to resign.”

good afternoon ONLY to organized labor

www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...

i spent about 3 minutes observing the world outside of my own asshole and i gotta say this is actually one of the LEAST unsettling questions of our times

YouTube video by Billie Eilish Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER (Story of My Song)

if you haven’t seen it, i LOVE this video of billie and finneas talking about how they made birds of a feather

mike have you seen the tiktoks

Immigration — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

We have a new issue page up today, looking at the multi-pronged assault on both immigrants to the United States and the immigration system itself: unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

*flabbergasted in asian*

phrenology but it's good

They fired all my friends who were experts at doing this so that they could hire corrupt vendors to do this poorly

list of specific ills i wish upon jk rowling available upon request

tl;dr

IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on taxpayers suspected of being here illegally.

We’re continuing to build out our explainer about how the administration is undermining data security. Last week, the IRS moved to share taxpayer data with DHS, despite the outgoing commissioner’s previous refusal to do so.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

hell yeah

Documenting in public — Unbreaking We’re very grateful to the people behind the 70+ trackers we use to do our work. Now, we’re sharing that list.

At Unbreaking, we’re continually reminded of how difficult it is for a single group to keep track of all of the changes made by the Trump administration. We’re very grateful to the people behind the 70+ trackers we use to do our work. Now, we’re sharing that list: unbreaking.org/blog/documen...

A grid of black-and-white, often askew photos of buildings and kids and a horse-drawn carriage.

Turns out the 1940s NYC Tax Department photographs (by WPA photogs) include outtakes, and they are so wonderful! 1940s.nyc/outtakes

rated M for Malthus???