So much of American politics revolves around wealthy people hating that someone less wealthy can say "Fuck you, no" to them without suffering ruin. That's why they try to end every public social welfare program. They want to be an aristocracy that can destroy lives in retaliation for hurt feelings.

The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair

You’re too kind. Musk’s elimination of USAiD expected to cause 14 million deaths over 5 years, and we are now 1 year into this ongoing genocide. About 2.8M dead so far, and counting. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"Poverty and inequality are not accidents; they are predictable outcomes of policy choices." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The unrest in Northern Ireland looks like much more of a pogrom than a protest. Elon Musk keeps using his overlordship of X to cheerlead this racist violence, but 11 pages of BBC updates don't mention him. And the U.K.'s prime minister continues to rely on X as his only short-form text-post outlet.

This is a big deal. First coal. Next gas. And they'll both ultimately end up at zero.

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I mean, why not have another Kristallnacht? That turned out so well for the world last time. /s www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Frederic Edwin Church, American painter, 1826–1900. The Heart of the Andes, 1859. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | Senuri Nimaya

It’s time to stop blaming trans people for Republican failures.

You know what would get me to watch the UFC fights at the White House? Put Hunter BIden in the octagon with fucking Jake Tapper

On this June 4th, wishing for a world with more people willing to stand in front of the tanks, and less who are willing to drive them.

I mean, it worked for cigarettes. For decades.

Today SCOTUS allowing Alabama to press ahead with the use of a map that erases a majority Black congressional district makes clear clear that this Court has unashamedly set its course to dismantle the 14th Amendment brick-by-brick. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to block the officers’ promotions appears driven by his anti-diversity stance rather than based on merit." ... "appears" .... Really, @nytimes.com ? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

There's a reason England sent all their failsons to the Americas back when: it helped limit the damage they might do locally. Modern methods play out a little differently, but the motivation is similar when your scion shouldn't touch the family business. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/b...

Trump denies any responsibility for the midterm debacle, while Republican senators, suddenly lucid, drop him. His deal with Iran, empty of substance, is just a grotesque bandage against the crushing weight of inflation. #ProudBlue #DV1

“These elder boomers who run these sparsely populated towns and counties, they do not want thriving rural communities. They want a quiet little tomb to die in” vt.tiktok.com/ZSxGDfkmt/

Hey @nytimes.com, "Senator Andy Kim, who said he was trying to de-escalate the situation, was among those affected." "affected"? How about "assaulted"? He was pepper-sprayed by an executive branch thug, who should be up on charges along with his other gang members. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/n...

Massachusetts ride share drivers just made history as the first in the nation to successfully unionize. A win for Massachusetts and a win for workers everywhere.

Read the whole short thread. When your enemy is floundering, throw him an anchor, not a lifeline.

Shit like this is happening multiple times an hour outside Delaney Hall after dark and the mainstream press is nowhere to be found.

If you haven't seen it, Armitage with a banger: cmarmitage.substack.com/p/why-is-the...

Imagine a world where every time shoplifting occurred, an august body of lawmakers had to, once again, convene and debate a law that affirmed that shoplifting is, indeed, illegal. That's where the USA is with these stupid failed "War Powers" acts to stop a war THAT IS ALREADY ILLEGAL.

we had a guest homilist at Mass from an org that works with immigrants who says he gets challenged sometimes about using Americans' resources to help non-citizens. his response is always "we don't help them because they're Americans, we help them because WE are Americans," and that really got me

All I could think of when I saw this in the NY Times... In 2020, a 33-year-old man fell into an underground vault of rats when the sidewalk collapsed beneath him, though he survived. ..was, WHY DOES NYC MAINTAIN UNDERGROUND VAULTS OF RATS!!!??! Of course, I blame Mamdani.

Failing "Governor" Gavin Newscum refuses to rake the forests! (Just getting ahead of breaking Truth Social Truths) Stay safe out there, Californians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

"Trumpvilles"

The LIRR on strike is a bigger deal than most would think. Hundreds of thousands of people use the train to commute from LI into the City. These workers have not had a raise in 5 years! They’re asking for 4.5-5% which is nothing as compared to inflation. I stand with the workers! #UnionStrong

Righteous indignation bringing the fire.

Sōichirō Tomioka (Japanese, 1922–1994) "Trees", 1961. Oil on Canvas, 74 × 93 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Personally, I'm so glad we're spending millions in taxpayer dollars to fund a Chinese business trip for people rich enough to buy planets and so we can watch the orangutan get his ass handed to him.

Banger column today: cmarmitage.substack.com/p/is-there-a...

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Elusive street artist Banksy has claimed responsibility for a new sculpture in central London.

Like the kids say, read the whole thing.

This rate of change in methane gas use is insane. 25% decrease in one year. "That growth in battery capacity managed to shift about three times as much power from the daytime...It has caused the need for gas-fired generation to drop by more than a quarter from the same time last year"

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

"There are about a thousand of us" is devastating.

@digby56.bsky.social Has a good one today: www.salon.com/2026/04/30/c...

the republicans are an existential threat to american democracy -- but so too is a democratic party that's wholly captured by big-dollar donors and the military-industrial complex, and which insulates itself from the needs and demands of its constituents.