Is that Jon Stewart??

People complain about the current state of affairs, but I think we're actually moving closer and closer to the American dream: being scammed every time we engage in society

Or unAmerican @economist.com it could be that Americans don’t like fascism much after all.

For a state that still celebrates Confederate Heritage Month - this article comes as a shock, but a good one.

Hungary election results in real time

“Of all the prevailing media narratives around @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, the one that is most conspicuous by its absence is how under its two-term governor California became the top performing economy not just among its 49 siblings but also any developed nation.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

FYI, Seattle.

And this was 3 years in the making. This is good ole expert, DEI, woke NASA for you, right here.

The sharply conservative Supreme Court, reshaped by President Trump’s three appointees, is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in most cases involving women and minorities, according to an analysis conducted for The Post. https://wapo.st/4tCkcJB

Sincerely… NASA couldn’t have chosen a better team of people for this mission. They have been a bright light in the shadowy time here. It’s been a joy to watch. #nasa #artemisii

“Methinks she doth … etc etc”

If mainstream journalists did their basic duty – warning us about threats to our well-being – they’d loudly warn us that a deranged criminal is trying to overthrow our democracy. It’s the biggest story of their lifetimes, and they’re either afraid to cover it properly or they’re complicit in it.

AI 'mirages' mean tools used to analyze medical scans could fabricate their findings MIRAGE: The Illusion of Visual Understanding 🧪 arxiv.org/html/2603.21... Exposes fundamental vulnerabilities in how visual–language models reason and are evaluated, pointing to urgent need for private benchmarks.

My son googled when a registration event was going to open. Come to find out, google was wrong, and almost made him miss registering for the event before it closed (if we hadnt double-checked days later). Ai is a huge distraction for finding correct information.

The other takeaway is that that crackdown on free speech was successful. It has effectively silenced further campus protests. Which is really really sad and a very bad look for universities, supposedly the bulwark of free thinking, nationwide.

Iran executed 14 prisoners on political charges in three weeks since the war began on 28 February, including protesters and alleged opposition members amid a continued internet shutdown.

As a parent of those teens (one in college, one in HS) I see this most at the college level, & it is definitely an indictment of teaching ability & engagement by profs, TAs & adjuncts who prioritize their own research over educating. In lower grades, an easy fix is return to paper.

New paper examining deceptive online networks targeting Americans in the 2020 election. Most were foreign. But the largest and most influential? ⬇️ By far it was Rally Forge, a right wing U.S. firm linked to TPUSA that made a troll farm often posing as leftists to undermine Dems in 2020. Reached 13M

The only way for Trump to be removed by Congress is for thousands of angry Americans to be in front of the White House and Capitol every damn day.

Looks like someone got to Trump and finally told him the truth - “we have no military option to end this war short of ending the entire civilization because they will always keep fighting”

“We shall repeal the twentieth century”: That’s how self-identified “radical reactionary” Murray Rothbard described the Right’s vision in 1992. This really is the core goal of the radical Right: Roll back whatever racial and social progress has been achieved over the past century and a half.

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

Trump has been in power for 2% of our nation's history but is responsible for 25% of our debt. It's almost like he's bad at business.

More accurately - prejudice makes you weak.

“Easter is the victory of life over death, of light over darkness, of love over hatred.” Pope Leo’s Easter message: www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Historian Alexis Coe blasts Congress for building the modern presidential monster, arguing they’ve abdicated their Article I powers through drift and partisanship, leaving only courts to enforce the lines they refuse to draw.

The DOJ dropped 23,000 cases against everyone from terrorists to sex traffickers, prioritizing immigrant roundups over prosecuting violent crime.

It is increasingly brazen and open..... and yet, you won't find the term "white supremacist" in the coverage of Trump 2.0 in U.S. legacy media. It is still reserved for marginal groups on the fringes of U.S. society, even though it has been federal policy for over a year now.

Hegseth's War on America's Military www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

But as a historian it is pretty fascinating.

🚨 “Leonard Leo, who put the 6 Catholic Supreme Court justices on the court, was my boss for 3 years — He’s a very dangerous man. I don’t think people realize how corrupt and compromised the Supreme Court is.” (From @acyn.bsky.social @pabloreports.bsky.social )

Conservatives never believed in freedom. Or small government. Or free speech. They're sure as hell not "pro-life". Their entire belief system has been a lie, because I think deep down most of them want a police state where only THEY have rights.

Here's the str!ke you've been asking for: www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

IT'S TIIIIIIMMMMMMEEEEEEEE!! Drastic times call for drastic measures. If you can stay home, AWESOME. If you can't, please consider NOT BUYING anything that day. The POINT is the pressure of OUR POWER. #MAYDay #May1st #GeneralStrike #NOBusinessAsUSUAL www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

The only bad thing about following the Artemis launch is seeing the stupid “Freedom 250” logo plastered everywhere - it’s like a slap in the face every time.

“We can’t invest in America” has been the Republican agenda my entire lifetime.

400+ pages of my dissertation and I haven’t used AI for any single bit of it.

Really interesting framing here by Politico - assuming the Supreme Court - the highest law of the US and sovereign American people - is up for grabs by the President and had been captured by him for most of the last year.

Their plan was always to make Americans rely on it and then charge us for it.

I thought this was Anne Hathaway for a sec

The Earth, seen by the crew of Apollo 17. Since that flight no human has gone high or far enough to see the entirety of the Earth silhouetted against the void. #space #historyofastronomy #NASA #artemis #apollo #photography

“Reuters review of trading ahead of major Trump ​administration decisions on tariffs, Venezuela and Iran that led to significant market moves showed at least four instances where the legal experts said it appeared investors knew what would happen shortly before it did.”

Putting the current leader’s name and image on everything is an authoritarian move, designed to make them seem more present, more powerful, more invincible than they are. It is a betrayal of American democracy, where power belongs to the people. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Pope Leo on Palm Sunday: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’ (Is 1:15).”

I’m a white female college grad and I think that I am as legitimately and importantly American as a white male who flunked out of trade school and listens to podcasts at the gym.

History is much more about the present than it is about the past.

“I would slit my throat” 😂 same!

Best message I’ve seen all day. #NoKings