this is what they're going to try to do in south lebanon

A few weeks ago, I started a "degoogle" process. Time to speed it up

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling

this is unironically the political ideology of many Democrats

A data center in Okeechobee County, Florida - a cattle ranching area, one of the most conservative places in the state - was forced to withdraw its proposal last month because ranchers were not having it. What is happening is real.

minnesota gov. tim walz has signed a bill banning prediction markes (kalshi, polymarket). first state-level ban of its kind. (sports betting via traditional/mobile sports books is still illegal here too)

"Missed the AI wave?" Nah, 3% conversion is the full size of the AI wave.

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

The Atlantic publishing an endorsement of reality stars vanity mayoral campaign, that approvingly dehumanizes homeless people and drug addicts and is written by a random podcaster even most readers of the Atlantic never have heard of is a good snapshot of what's going on with media.

what we even doing here??

Objectively hilarious

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

wow the portland airport has the BEST public restrooms that i’ve ever seen in my entire life — incredible design, NO GENDER, high tech… would be perfect if not for the lack of bidets

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

scova: the only consistent rule is that liberals arent allowed to win virginia democrats: we have to respect the rules

We’re in the “break glass in case of emergency” moment for American democracy. Democrats can create 22 new blue US House seats by 2028 by redrawing maps in: – New York – Colorado – Maryland – Oregon – Wisconsin – Minnesota – Pennsylvania Time to take action.

JetBlue is moving quickly to fill Spirit's gap, adding 11 new routes from Fort Lauderdale beginning in July. - Barranquilla - Baltimore-Washington - Cali - Charlotte - Chicago O’Hare - Columbus - Detroit - Houston Bush - Indianapolis - Nashville - Ponce

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

Lmao

School is hell for a lot of kids, but it’s also the only time many others get a break from their families—which can also be hell. There should be at least one place kids can get away from their families’ ideological strangleholds and discover new ideas before they’re 18.

Multiracial democracy in the American South has briefly existed twice in American history, both times enforced from outside, and both times has lapsed the instant the rest of the country lost interest.

A definitional aspect of Bluesky is the absence of an algorithm as the default.

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

I like how she had to toss in the thing about illegals lest she actually direct peoples irritation towards the correct source

we'll be talking like this about cars soon

Talked to one of my International Students who learned about the VRA today. She said something privately to the effect of "I dont know if Americans truly understand or care how crazy sanitized your news is. Its legit scary from the view of so many other countries." My reply: "Some of us been knew."

FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1

It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

The word for this is "coup."

recession indicator: i’m getting pre-approved offers for credit cards i definitely don’t qualify for

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

“Back in my day, cars used to have ‘drivers.’ That’s a person who would ‘steer’ or ‘brake’ as needed.”

Who’s ready to take up horseback riding

every once in awhile I get well and truly fucked up about how therapyspeak is encouraging us all to walk away from each other’s problems if they cause distress the personal solution to this problem always feels like “be more fun and then you won’t die alone in a ditch”

This is the result of decades of organizing in the conservative legal community that’s been allowed to flourish in plain sight as anything but a committed ideological movement.

Hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha, there it is

Like what do you mean this country actively bought food from a pariah state that is actively at war with its partners? It’s a society wide psychosis on display here.

Hard to escape the conclusion that the blank check the U.S. has Given Israel for like 50 years has left everyone worse off. The U.S. government all but financed this society’s break from reality. Only a country who is backstopped by a global hegemon could afford to be this delusional.

a true american hero

They’re calling it the most edifying week ever seen for the British political/media class

If Lindsey Boylan pulls off this win against Cuomo donors running repugnant ads against her and a center-left Bottcher-endorsed (former chief of staff) candidate, it’ll be a very strong indicator that the rhetoric casting demsocs to the fringes is itself fringe. nysfocus.com/2026/04/27/c...

hey goldman just circling back to this on April 27, 2026

literally fucking eugenics