I wrote about the campaign to criminalize “organized retail theft” in this piece. It’s the only time I’ve written something where I felt like I was going crazy. Theft is already a crime! But retailers lied about the stats, the law, and the causes—they claim that MS-13 and Hezbollah are behind it.

Gunshots in Philippines senate where senator is holed up to evade arrest

in addition to the other reasons prices are skyrocketing, rising coffee prices specifically are also an indicator of climate change.

Louisiana officials have agreed to a tentative $4.8 million settlement with the family of Ronald Greene, a Black motorist who died during a violent roadside arrest carried out by five white officers. n.pr/4uCrMEy

Mmhmm. (That's why they try so hard to stifle art and creativity. Art promotes imagination. Imagination leads to change.)

Threatened by a man that's half dead? These guys can't even sell feigned victimhood.

We literally can't have shit. A cup of coffee is one of the few relatively affordable daily rituals/comforts that crosses class lines.

Let this radicalize you

Trump officials sue Catholic diocese in bid to seize land for border wall #Axios

hey that's white supremacist fascism

Everyone knows Hollywood is fucked, but most people don't actually know why. The studios used the strikes as cover to cancel a full 1/3rd of TV production across the board. 1/3 of TV cast & crew are out of work. Fully. There just aren't jobs for them. Many are people who made your favorite shows.

If you TRULY believe someone is experiencing a mental health crisis, you should not dog pile them. What they believe is very real TO THEM. It’s scary.

ProPublica identified 155 counties in the Deep South with private schools that opened as likely segregation academies. One in Amite County, Mississippi, has never — over nearly 30 years of surveys — reported enrolling more than one Black student. (Published Dec. 2024)

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Two can play at this game!😂

I use this a lot with my clients in therapy.

Trey Songz strained in a lot of his earlier music, with the lips poking out and vein in his neck sitting on ten for songs that absolutely did not require allat.

Fighting so hard to not break my diet by eating chili cheese dogs and Grippo's for dinner, but that's what's by stomach is yearning for.

I mean in a functioning society with a sane, responsible media this would be treated as a massive self-imposed credibility scandal for any respectable polling firm. Instead we’ll all be expected to treat ai responses as legitimate reflective of the views of real humans.

"the team is understood to be made up of agents who are willing to pursue political targets set by the Trump administration, with one current government official noting that investigators are tasked with building cases similar to the recent criminal prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey."

At some point there needs to be a *proper* conversation about how cruelty has become a new normal for so many people. And we can't just keep putting it down to structures. Too many people with plenty of agency are actively choosing this.

Breaking News: U.S. intelligence reports show that Iran retains substantial missile capacity, despite President Trump’s claims otherwise.

The inevitable implication of this, and what's effectively their position, is that the president has all of the power to start a war whenever he wants and Congress has no say in the matter and can't do anything about it.

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

For the first time in three years, Americans' wages are no longer outpacing inflation, further compounding affordability concerns. https://cnn.it/3R39Zbe

Day 4568957448 of cancer being a raggedy bitch.

Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player who has served as a global ambassador for the sport, has died from brain cancer, his family said. He was 47 www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

The internet distorts people's idea of community.

In the last 3 months, 40% of Americans have quit their streaming services over continued price increases 📈 These companies keep raising their prices, exploiting their monopolies and hoping inertia will prevent most people from switching Support creators directly where possible - a few options �

This is collective punishment, which violates the constitutional framework of nearly every nation on Earth, including the United States. At least, it is until the current Christian White Nationalist supermajority of the Supreme Court decide to legalise it in the face of centuries of precedent.

“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union. This could have tremendous implications for voting:

We’re getting there.

BREAKING: The South Carolina Senate quashed an effort to redraw the state’s congressional maps to dismantle the state’s sole Democratic district, represented by longtime Rep. Jim Clyburn. Full story to come.

"It's your job to know that" -- Rep. DeLauro seems to understand that HUD Secretary Scott Turner (who reads from notecards when doing TV hits) is in *way* over his head and asks him a series of factual questions about HUD programs, which of course he can't answer

"The same Supreme Court that told Black voters in Alabama and Texas that they’d have to live with illegal maps because a primary was four months away had no problem blowing up an ongoing election in Louisiana."

Renaissance World Tour era was such a fucking vibe. I still go back and look at pics. We need that energy again. At least the damn movie released to streaming already.

‘It Hurts My Heart’: Black Elders Reflect on Tennessee Plan To Strip Memphis of Power capitalbnews.org/black-elders...

HUD SECRETARY SCOTT TURNER: We can't just house people CLYBURN: How do you house them if you take all the money away? TURNER: Housing first is a failed model, sir CLYBURN: I'm not dealing in slogans. How do you house people when you take the money away?

I think I'm coming around to accept that I've reached a point where I have to take allergy medicine every day on a set schedule. I used to be able to go weeks even in the spring and summer between a single use but now as soon as I step foot outside, I'm fucked.

America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

Once again, I didn't have to watch to know he was addressing a woman.

Iran’s traditional naval fleet has been almost completely destroyed by US-Israeli raids. But Iran’s military has put a fleet of small vessels on the water that is crippling every passageway. www.wired.com/story/iran-i...

They was also gassing all that music ... a bunch of sheep!

Per the article: she was feeling ill but started to improve so they attributed it to anxiety. She is now in critical condition.

Big part of what happened here is common decency towards people without social power was framed as political correctness.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

Trump: "Americans' financial situation -- I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all."

What happened to all those private donors, Donald? Americans are on the hook not only for his tariffs but also for the billion he needs for his gilded ballroom. In the meantime, he's cut your healthcare coverage and SNAP benefits all to "save" money.

If a Democratic president had a disapproval rating of 65%, corporate media would dedicate hours/pages of discussion about it every day. www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/p...

the overlap of american sports culture and military worship is craaaaazyyyyy