READ THAT LAST SENTENCE. No more status quo.

Happy Mother's Day to the mother of us all. (And who deserves to be treated better.)

I’m not sure about Central and Eastern Washington, but ICE abductions are anecdotally ramping up along the I-5 corridor, and I hope that people are planning accordingly. Take WAISN’s Rapid Response training and join their team. Find the folks in your neighborhood who are organizing mutual aid and RR

Very sad news, the 18 year old that was battling colon cancer has passed away, just a day after being reunited with his parents after a judge ordered their release from ICE custody. Our hearts are with the family, friends and community who knew Kevin and advocates for his parents release.

What a powerful photo. Famous journalist @katiephang.bsky.social examines evidence and surfaces clues from the Epstein files released by the US government.

New in PN: This is a crisis of democracy. What will Dems do about it? "Perhaps you’re uncomfortable with one or more of these proposals. That’s fine. At this point, the details are less important than preparing for a new approach to politics, procedures, and governing."

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

“.. most months it’s the No. 1 consumer of water in the county.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

When you see clips of people celebrating in Hungary after corrupt Orban is gone, realize that Trump, Vance and Rubio did everything they could to keep those celebrations from happening so Putin’s puppet could remain in power.

#TRUMP IS UNFIT AS OUR PRESIDENT If Congress does nothing to impeach him, then, in Nov, we MUST VOTE to 86 #GOP & centrist #DEM like Schumer & Jeffries Then OUR Congress will 86 Electoral College 86 #MAGA wannabe King Trump #StringerTogether #UNITEDWeStand TYVM @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social

He’s another worthless clown in the clown car. #VoteThemOut #FightBack

Gift link to this important op-ed by @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

Conservative evangelicals telling immigrants and trans people how demonized they are

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73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

The US did NOT contact airline passengers who flew with people known to have been infected with hantavirus. Cool cool.

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

For years, Hungary's Viktor Orban gerrymandered his opposition out of power. But in the end, all the dirty tricks in the world couldn't save him from sinking approval ratings and massive voter turnout. There's a lesson here for us.

What does it cost our Humanity to look the other way when Women, Children, and Young Men of promise are ripped off the street and disappeared? What does it cost us as a Society, to normalize such barbarism? - Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (D- New York) - May 8, 2026.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in court a few days ago for his criminal corruption trial. Good. He’s getting some practice in before he goes to The Hague. 🍿

After Watergate, Congress tried to curtail the role of money in politics. But a pivotal Supreme Court case nipped it in the bud. Years later, new details are emerging on how wealthy Americans were conferred with a “right to spend” on elections. 🎁 Gift Link ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

I love this for these two, just like a couple of Pirañas eating each others faces. #Sheshed www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Dems who dismissed the ballroom as a "distraction" were playing dumb about the deeper significance of the ballroom as a Trumpian assertion of imperial/dictatorial power. That's why it's heartening that a new Wapo poll shows huge majorities oppose it. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2101...

The ballroom should be taken along with the Triumphal Arch and Trump's face being stamped all over DC. It all adds up to a declaration of authoritarian and dictatorial power that's an affront to our republic. Dems can't play dumb about that larger story. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2101...

The Republican hypocrisy is absolutely sickening. They hide their cruelty behind thoughts and prayers, while gutting programs for American kids to serve their leader. We expose them every single day. If you’re as disgusted by this as I am join the fight. Subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

1. 🧵"If you are taking seats from Black people...then you are a thief." Baton Rouge civil rights activist Gary Chambers said the quiet part out loud Friday as GOP lawmakers push to wipe out Louisiana’s majority-Black districts. See the heated exchange👇

Tennessee NAACP goes to court to stop "late-decade Congressional redistricting," and the law sure looks to be on their side.

Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone.

I could not have said it better!!!❤️💯

"72% of the white population is put into one district. 75% of the Black population is carved into two,” Sen. Jeff Yarbro of Nashville said. “We are being asked to believe that it’s just the luck of the draw, just happenstance.” Within hours of a new congressional map passing, the NAACP filed suit.

🇫🇷⚡ France’s power market just hit a new extreme: record-breaking negative electricity prices. In April, 90% of days saw zero or below-zero prices on the day-ahead market. At one point, prices plunged to -€479/MWh amid midday solar oversupply 📉

Just so we understand.

There’s a bizarre social consensus, somehow strongest among the elites and institutional leaders of the nation, that all this deranged behavior simply amounts to nothing - bluster and chaos sitting atop a fundamental normalcy.

This is a good time to remind people that the US has some of the highest covid mortality rates in the world. The “best they can” got millions killed and many more disabled. They’ve gutted the CDC. Put an anti-vaxxer in charge of HHS. Stoked eugenicist rhetoric. Hope is not a strategy.

He thinks he sounds tough, and maybe really is unhinged, but this looks like someone afraid of escalation, afraid of looking liking he lost, and desperately hoping bluster is enough to turn things around. It won’t be, not least because the Iranians—along with Gulf states, China, everyone—sees it.

NAACP Tennessee President Gloria Sweet-Love filed an emergency petition to stop a new congressional map from going into effect in Davidson County Chancery Court. The lawsuit was filed less than three hours after Gov. Bill Lee signed the new map into law. From @cstephenson.bsky.social.

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The names: “Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Dubai Ports World. And billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner, who was labeled as a ‘co-conspirator,’ by the FBI.”

Mayor Karen Bass

The federal government has turned over evidence from the shooting death of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross to a magistrate judge in U.S. District Court for Minnesota, according to an attorney involved in a case tangential to Ross. www.startribune.com/federal-gove...

While you're celebrating with your mom this Sunday, thousands of kids are wondering when they'll see theirs again.

Lambert: The Strait of Hormuz is going to be open and we’re going to control it. Mockler: In two weeks? Lambert: It doesn’t matter if it’s two weeks or two months. Mockler: It does actually matter because economists are saying if it's closed for a few more months, we're going into a recession