This is why the Democrats' current obsession with tax cuts is so dangerous. They're paving the way for more extreme proposals like ending progressive taxation altogether. Again, we don't need "Republican lite." We need a party that affirms that paying for the things government does is good.

For as left wing as Bluesky is I think a lot of people remain weirdly disconnected from the fact that "Israel has committed genocide" is as close to a consensus position among actually existing Democratic voters as possible

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

Hasn't even been a year and Zohran's governance is having a massive impact on my family. Our daycare was able to open a 15-seat 3K program because of the 2,000 extra seats the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is gonna save us almost 50 grand.

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Three selfless men, likely, saved the lives of over a hundred children.

like the uvalde cops, but the total opposite

Yeah man, the voters get it, you can stop selling.

The lesson I would take from this is that solidarity across ranks and including students works.

BREAKING: Sen. Ed Markey calls for Trump's impeachment.

Israel has approved the construction of a new military complex at a site that formerly hosted the UNRWA headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem — a site it demolished in January. The UNRWA had provided humanitarian services like health care and education to Palestinian refugees there since 1952.

Except for the AI companies. “No the software gods that can write all software clearly won't be able to create AI for you. That's why you need my AI start-up. AGI for everything except the one very specific thing my company does. Wait, why are you laughing at me?” #ai

Google had a good run. But consumers will 1000% flee from this. People hate AI. They hate tech companies. They hate data centers. They hate not getting fast, correct answers, verifiable with links. This is corporate suicide. End of an era.

It’s wild to be this out of step with public sentiment. Wild. Yeah, that’s one word for it.

Bro, she did fucking crimes. Was unrepentant and if put into power would do them again. The fuck you talking about beliefs.

One thing that's missing from democratic messaging about trump's many crimes is "we told you so." It's not enough to say "this is a horrendously bad thing," you have to establish credibility by saying (& repeating) that you predicted he would do this type of bad thing, which is easy because you did

It would be cheaper to give every coal miner $5m every year than it is to keep them employed in coal mining. Not even joking; there are maybe 40k coal workers, but annual economic burden of U.S. coal is $200B-$500B (climate change, public health, water & ecosystem damage, dispatch inefficiency).

People will point out that Trump is doing this with a fraction of the GOP which is a fraction of the electorate but it’s also the fraction we privilege above all others in our politics by design and culture.

congrats to big tech for reinventing auditory hallucinations

LOL, Bill Spadea remains the all time NJ champion of lack of self awareness

Cinema

How it started: Ronald Reagan rips the solar panels off the White House roof How it's going: The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is closed today as a fast-moving wildfire bears down on Simi Valley

These fuckers are going to pass this and then vote to approve the war aren't they...

It’s time to end this reckless and illegal war now! Costs are skyrocketing and the American people are fed up. House Republicans need to rein in this President.

Elon musk retweeted the “shooters were trans” lies on his personal account of over 200 million followers

I'm so fucking sick of this shit.

and now, your moment of zen. 🎥 (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhEwUvv67q/)

This is peak mid 20th century CIA-style work www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

a common feature in this emerging genre is the thinly veiled contempt that the administrative classes of institutions have toward their own students, and there's a simple explanation for this: those administrators see students chiefly as revenue streams rather than fully participating humans

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

it’s absolutely wild. she’s vetoed recreational marijuana, municipal collective bargaining, and we expect her to veto state level class actions. just a goddamn disaster.

Whatever scraps of goodwill Spanberger had amongst her base have now been lit on fire. What an astounding and unforced collapse of leadership by her. Instead of a year of historic accomplishments, she’s creating a long list of historic failures.

Thune says he disapproves of the Trump weaponization fund “Yeah, not a big fan, and I'm not sure exactly how they intend to use it, but my understanding is that was just announced. But yeah, I don't see a purpose.”

Commentary: NJ’s investment in civic information protects against declining media literacy newjerseymonitor.com/2026/05/19/n... by @jerseybeenews.bsky.social

BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader John Thune splits with Trump over $1.776B DOJ weaponization ‘slush fund’ in first sign of major party rift www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

It was indeed the dumbest of times.

The money is the only thing they care enough about to pretend to care about us.

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

if you also said “who?” this guy works for Peter Thiel’s money

The sister of Ireland's president, Catherine Connolly, is among eight Irish citizens abducted in international waters by Israel on Gaza-bound aid flotilla ships, organisers have said. President Connolly herself has confirmed this, stating that the news was "upsetting"

It’s very hard to digest how the explicit antimuslim racism on display in the streets of London on Saturday is passing by with no consequences. Very hard not to feel like we’re regarded as second class citizens and fair game to be sacrificed on the alter of pacifying angry voters. Very hard & scary.

Humans are stupid AF and will never learn Wasn’t Love Canal over 1/2 a century ago?

NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"

Jared Polis pretty much screwed his career with this One Weird Trick to pander to the MAGA demographic for a future presidential run. Just the worst political insticts.

🧵The Congressman has plenty of time to call out Iran, spread falsehoods about the Iranian people, and call anyone who criticizes Israel antisemitic. But has he put out a single statement about Iranian girls being executed by the US? #njpol

This tweet from Gottheimer after an attack on Muslims doesn't undo the violent rhetoric and hate he stokes on a weekly basis. Yet he gets platformed in the NY Times and the Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Atheist students who stood together against a genocide and for humanity got expelled. Vote them out.

First, they taxed the private jets And I did not speak out. fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...