FTW.

Wrote about the importance of adhering to an effective, disciplined nonviolence in fighting the Trump regime, especially given a growing obsession with “heroic” violence online (gift link). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Iran controlling the strait is very bad. so is allowing a madman with a massive nuclear arsenal to attack sovereign nations at will.

if the NYT opinion columnists wants to solve the FP problems trump has created, they might consider calling for Trump to resign with half the enthusiasm with which they called for biden to resign.

the proximate reason i post here — beyond the fact that i like a lot of you and enjoy reading your thoughts and jokes and observations — is that this is a non-algorithmic platform where people share lots of stuff and people read what is shared. that's still valuable even if it doesn't "influence!"

I get defensive in Minnesotan when people start trashing Bluesky as not good somehow. Do you know how much money was raised on here to support folks in Minnesota desperately in need of help? How much coordination was done here or started here? How this place has helped keep some of us going?

They let the nation, the Constitution, and the framers down. Plus all those who fought for freedom.

Traduction en anglais de « bateau de croisière »: petri dish. 🫣

Really hard to imagine a crew more comprehensively crude, malign, incompetent, corrupt and shameless getting hold of a previously mostly functional state than the appalling specimens now running this country into every available ditch.

NYT reports DOJ is considering settling Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. As I wrote in my Substack, this is a straightforward scam https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/a-judge-calls-out-trumps-self-dealing

News from Pyongyang:

Great Egret

That me

This presumes something false: That social media platforms are actually a digital marketplace of ideas wherein robust debate occurs that changes the minds of those so engaged. Horseshit. Shards of rhetoric turn no one. This platform can gather, rally and encourage the sentient and sane. That's it.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Louis Armstrong performing for his wife at the Great Sphinx of Giza (1961). 📷 Bettmann/Corbis

So true. This was Biden's big failing. Obama's, too. Trump shows the value of endless salesmanship--even when you're lying about a nonexistent Golden Age.

Federal income taxes are relatively low for middle and low income people. What is expensive is FICA, social security taxes which are regressive and are capped so high income people pay only on first 184,000. Need to remove cap and lower rate.

Supreme Court Overturns Law of Gravity: tinyurl.com/2ncsnnb7

Gravity is woke.

She reported Epstein, Maxwell, and other of their co-conspirators more than 30 years ago in 1996 to her local NYC precinct and nothing was done. She then reported it to the FBI. The FBI failed to do anything.

JimCrow2: The Voting Rights Decision Silences Black People in Fayette County, Tennessee www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

As my friend @mirandayaver.bsky.social has pointed out repeatedly, “work requirements” are actually paperwork requirements. This massively increases the burden on both SNAP applicants and staff, which in the case of AZ has resulted in almost half of SNAP participants being kicked off.

This country is being run like it was bought out by private equity stripped for parts to be sold off in liquidation.

the US indisputably has a string of concentration camps now. does the US have death camps now? probably not exactly but...I don't think we actually know for sure. will the US have death camps in the near future? I think the really horrible answer is, "it kind of depends on the midterms."

YESSSS!!!!

"We don’t need reasonable and nonpartisan now. We need unreasonable partisan demands rammed through however we can."

Gloucester Beach, Bass Rocks - 1924 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104553

No one can make that go away. Biden and Blinken and Sullivan ignoring Netanyahu choosing a side (against them!!) in US politics was the height of stupidity

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

I live in a county where Black voting rights have never stopped being under assault, even with the VRA intact. The year I ran for office, our sheriffs arrested a young Jewish campaign staffer who was helping Black students secure their rights. That was 2018. This has always been the fight.

"A federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration must continue allowing members of Congress to inspect immigration detention facilities without advance notice, ruling unanimously..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

He is not simply an embarrassment, Trump is a dangerous embarrassment.

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

80% of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. are preventable. The Momnibus is not just a bill. It’s a promise to moms that we are working to address this crisis — they deserve to live, and to see their children grow up and thrive.

No, the way I would like to formulate the claim is that the People of Virginia, who are the ultimately sovereign (within Virginia), have decided the matter, and the court is powerless to say otherwise

I totally agree with you!

Dems really need to cut back on that "leftist violent rhetoric"

Happy Mother's Day to every person who has ever raised a child Especially if you're doing it in these times Children are everything Our future And raising them well is the most important thing that we can ever do Keep up the fight! Please find some joy today I wish you peace!

Ari Berman for Mother Jones: Roberts has been trying to kill the Voting Rights Act for more than 40 years, and it looks like he’s finally succeeded. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

2/2 I am sure this shouldn't be taken as any sign of partisan bias, but FYI: Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were all on GW Bush legal team during history-changing Florida recount. -GWB named Roberts to appeals court, then chief justice. -GWB named Kav to appeals court. -ACB appts were from Trump

An interesting discussion about saving city centers in smaller French villages. It is in French, but you can turn on subtitles to auto-translate to English. youtu.be/P47rTXgiRhg?... #15minutecity #urbanism #urbanplanning #france

Really tired of stories calling things a blow to Democrats when they are actually a blow to democracy

"My baby and I are so in sync. The on-off switch for my breast milk also functions as a Bluetooth for the baby. When it’s on, we sync up so only one of us can talk at a time, which is awesome because she’s four weeks old and has nothing interesting to say." buff.ly/A80xl9K

"So what needs to happen now - and it needs to happen now - is that Democrat-led states need to set aside procedure and redraw the maps. New York, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Maryland, and Colorado need to get it done. Do it in 2026 if possible. By 2028 is non-negotiable."