This is evil collective punishment.

TFW when your 82-year-old Midwestern dad can’t take your call because he’s too busy organzing against ICE.

“Using data between 2020 and 2024, we show that Americans came to believe that white (Black) people experienced more (less) discrimination. In fact, by 2021, Republicans, on average, perceived white people as facing more discrimination than Black people.” 🫠 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy”

Lastly C) the people who said they do care about climate are not who the article just blithely assumes they are. The stereotype that greens are affluent latte-sipping white Brooklynites is nonsense. Ackshwally.... Poor Black people care most about climate. /15 www.brookings.edu/articles/bla...

New in PN: The assault on higher ed goes deeper than you think "This is bigger than budget cuts. It’s not just a continuation of things like longtime GOP efforts to cut Pell Grants. It’s a wide-ranging assault designed to drastically limit access to higher ed for all but the rich & well-connected."

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

“Dred Scott excluded Black people from American citizenship ahead of the Civil War. Plessy blessed policies of racial segregation in 1896. And now there was Callais.” virginiamercury.com/2026/05/07/r...

IME GETTED THE MOUSEYY !!!!!!! RAWR!

Retired Factory Worker Had No Idea Earnings From ’50s Would Have To Support 3 Generations Of Family https://theonion.com/retired-factory-worker-had-no-idea-earnings-from-50s-w-1819576513/

“Before the industrial revolution comment, Caulfield praised Jeff Bezos for his passion and use of Amazon as a “stepping stone” to his real dream: spaceflight. Rattled after the crowd’s reaction, she continued her speech: “Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives.” The crowd cheered.”

Every day I'm reminded of this quote from Crenshaw et al. “The very same Whites who administered explicit policies of segregation and racial domination kept their jobs as decision makers in employment offices of companies, admissions offices of schools, lending offices of banks, and so on.”

Almost 50% of Arizonans who had SNAP benefits have been kicked off of the program since last summer thanks to Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”. This is an excellent article on the cruelty, which of course is the point.

after reading this I think I basically agree with the short term advice, despite the intentionally obnoxious headline, but I also think the premise of it is reflective of broad liberal-left failure--and is also an opportunity www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

We're only 30 letters away from hitting 5000 letters to the City Council demanding that they benchmark public library funding at 0.5% of the city expense budget. If you live in NYC, please send a letter to your member. It takes 30 seconds. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

EMERGENCY FLOOFPOST

The Roberts Court has made American democracy much worse today. Congress has an urgent obligation to act. 2/2

This is shameful. Every American should be outraged--and saddened--at the devastation to the Voting Rights Act, to fair representation, to protections against race discrimination, to our democracy, to our history, to our country. Shame on the Roberts Court.

Let me get this straight, SCOTUS rules against districts that benefit minorities but still allows gerrymandering for GOP to keep others "white"?

Racism prevails by a vote of 6-3

Boggles the mind that redistricting is fine as long as it's giving preference or advantage to a political party, but not when it's being used to give an equal voice to constituents. Shouldn't individual voters' voice matter more than the party?

This was a 6-3 decision. Alito wrote the majority opinion. All three liberal justices dissented.

#mayday has long been a day for workers to show collective power. This Friday, history gives new urgency to “Plan 2028”: a strategy for unions and social movements to organize now toward coordinated action on May 1, 2028.

This is how the United States Department of Justice writes now.

I'd like all politicians to know you'd mostly be defending antidepressant-taking middle class folks wearing the same button-downs they bought 10-20 years ago in grad school and whose fluorescent-lit offices have 2-3 plastic chairs and institutional off-white paint.

The story here is that Congress rejected Trump’s proposal to slash funding for the National Science Foundation, but Trump is gutting the agency anyway. The by-now classic Russ Vought play of treating Congress as an irrelevancy. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

California voters will decide in November whether to require photo identification to cast a ballot, making California the latest battleground in a long-running effort by conservatives to push voter ID laws (cont.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...?

The Affect, Context, and Target (ACT) Framework: A systematic and narrative review of emotions and collective action across democratic-authoritarian regimes and tight-loose cultures onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This admin is unwittingly doing a great job of accelerating the transition to renewable energy infrastructure.

ICE has detained over 6,200 children during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to recently released numbers analyzed by the Marshall Project. Advocates warn trauma from detentions will cause kids lifelong damage.

NIH is not okay. @nytimes.com highlights how grant-making & ability to obligate funding is at risk from staff shortages and time consuming screening processes designed to censor research to align with the administration's political ideology. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s... Some highlights:

NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles. theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

My latest in The Nation, on "high agency," a New York Times oopsie, and William Graham Sumner, for some reason. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Today, I received a notification of another death in ICE custody. That’s 47 deaths during Trump’s second term. We must stand up and demand real accountability — ICE has a duty to provide care to those in their custody.

#ViktorOrban didn't just stop. He was stopped. BY THE PEOPLE. That's the lesson.

Behaviores Report: 95% goode 5% hav an 'god comblex"

Thousands have packed into Chicago's Grant Park this sunny afternoon for today's mass No Kings protest. "All you fascists bound to lose" playing to open the rally.

Solidarity with all holding it down in cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, & Philly to keep ICE out of our schools, hospitals, court houses, & communities! Solidarity FOREVER!! ✊🏾🚫👑 #ICEout

New York #NoKings protesters are so numerous that the 7th Avenue and Central Park South are packed!

I’m scrolling through vids & pix from all over the U.S. & the world, & having a good cry. It’s all so moving & beautiful & powerful! And also it’s all so awful; what’s prompted these protests. Thank you, to everyone on the streets today. Those of us who are unable to march are grateful for you.

No Kings (Philadelphia)

No Kings!

Large crowds were gathering Saturday morning in the nation’s capital for the third #NoKings protest, rallying with others across the United States against what organizers say is an unprecedented expansion of power by President Donald Trump.

#NoKings in DC.

Levin: This is the largest protest in Minnesota history… The next major national action of this movement is not just gonna be another protest. On May 1st, across the country, we are saying no business as usual. No work, no school, no shopping.

Chicago #NoKings kicking off with a call to get ICE out of our airports.

Huge crowd at one of many No Kings protests in Austin, Texas!

No Kings in Boston!!

A massive No Kings crowd turns out in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Hundreds Of Thousands Marching Against The Far Right & Racism In London #StrongerTogether 🇬🇧 HAPPENING NOW 🇬🇧 #NoHate #NoRacism #NoKings