“Billionaires are funding a communist resurgence in America” can only be said by someone with severe lead poisoning or head injury

The posters. #1HourCityConspiracy

I'm trans because I noticed I'd been trans for quite some time. It is an observation, not something I decided. I decided to tell people. A lot of them reacted like I was making a big change. I'm just describing myself. I am trans. Why not notice? What does understanding cost?

Every transfem needs to know this. Quit nicotine. It's worse for us than usual because it interferes with estrogen receptors! This can delay breast growth and other physical changes, and cause chronic fatigue because you don't have enough functional hormones.

This is a huge political miscalculation. Biden won because people were tired of thinking of Trump (at that time) and Biden literally told him to shut up. There is absolutely a base of Trump meme obsessed democrats eating this shit up but it has a hard, low ceiling. Normal people are tired of this.

Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia

Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

Their goal is to trap women in motherhood. To raise the birthrate, yes, but more importantly, to leave women in the kind of precarious position where they have no choice but to settle for less-than-ideal husbands and/or less-than-ideal jobs.

I’m out in DTLA at the tail end of the morning May Day march. Outside City Hall, police met protesters & pushed them down the street in an apparent attempt to open the road for a prison bus. Protesters moved vehicles & stepped back, but LAPD pushed & then towed the vehicles. March now headed to MDC.

So far we have empirical evidence LLMs doesnt actually make workers more productive on the whole *and* its not cheaper than human labor. The party is over.

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

All of this happened in the last 48 hours. The white supremacists had every step of Jim Crow 2.0 planned out for years, they were just waiting for the green light from the six traitors on the Supreme Court to set into motion the mass disenfranchisement of Black people

I think one reason is attacks on the poor for various character flaws (laziness, poor judgment, irresponsibility, entitlement, criminality, on and on) are so common that we don’t even notice them as class warfare.

BREAKING: We're suing Louisiana officials for suspending the state's primary election after voting has already begun. On the heels of a Supreme Court decision that eviscerated protections for voters of color, elected officials jumped at the chance to disenfranchise people — we won't allow it.

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

On #MayDay, immigrant workers demand respect & dignity. “Ppl like me simply need the ability to move from one place to another without fear, walk freely like every NYer. #NY4All is important because it would help restore dignity & safety in immigrant communities.” - Edison, construction worker

Reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania movie And now wants to reboot The Apprentice — with Don Jr as host. Still shopping on Amazon?

I was trying to quote this to @edburkemsp.bsky.social yesterday. (He was telling me that he'd always assumed the way a broken bone worked was, it healed and then you were better?)

The Hasan stuff aside, I sometimes think about how Turkish-American Aysenur Eygi was killed by a IDF soldier shooting her in the head and Biden inexplicably claimed that the soldier actually fired a bullet at the ground which then 'bounced" into her skull. He never clarified or apologized.

Credit to @kaine.senate.gov for asking CJCS Caine yesterday about the legal basis for the boat strikes. Caine offered no legal justification for the strikes but only referred to a classified legal opinion—presumably the OLC memo. Administration's refusal to release this OLC memo is very telling.

HAPPY ANARCHY DAY! While you take time for yourself and celebrate surviving another year, let us remember all those who didn't survive or who otherwise faced the boot of state repression this last year... (art by @nobonzo.bsky.social)

University of Nottingham cutting 600 jobs and closing humanities programs 'could prevent university from continuing to be a university.' Fixed it for you.

Your favorite suburban wine mom's favorite wine dealer stopped Donald Trump's tariffs. Whether you like it or not, the wine moms have the mandate of heaven.

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

And if you still have Chat GPT app or login or whatever, today's a GREAT DAY to delete it! 🖕✨

The *moment* that Epstein buddy stops paying these freaks to babble hate speech, their viewership and fame vanishes below that of like, a mid level celebrity cat. 11x more people tune in each week to watch Holley Muraco's rescue beavers, than they do one of these forsaken kirklings.

It doesn’t surprise me Tucker has so few viewers and I largely blame that horrible laugh of his

The short answer is the new owners stopped paying us for our work so we quit and started @ggtribune.com because we love making funny stuff together, and if we aren’t getting paid we may as well not get paid writing for our own website. We are paying our own writers though, unlike Sumerian.

Buff-tip moths They look like little broken birch twigs! A perfect disguise!

"Distinguished University Professor Juliet Daniel was a world-class researcher and a trailblazer who led with both her heart and her mind. Her contributions to cancer research were monumental, yet she never lost her profound warmth or her commitment to her Caribbean roots." #Barbados

ICYMI: The House Appropriations Committee voted 35-25 yesterday to advance a bill that would underfund WIC and cut fruit and vegetable benefits for almost 5.4 million toddlers, preschoolers, new moms & pregnant women in low-income families.

Nick also broke the news that the brothers were returned home today. A few hours later, the New York Times and Washington Post reported the same thing, once again, neither credited him. I don't understand why it's so hard for big national papers to credit smaller local pubs. Nick's latest:

New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).

The magnolia in our front yard is magnoliaing

rolling out the red carpet but it's still wrapped up in a couple of bungie cords so it just rolls right by you into the road

I really can't tell you how much better it feels to choose your lane and to go hard there. Focus on one or two things and get some traction there. Keep inviting people to join in. Most will not and some will. Keep going.

Just gonna reskeet this for no particular reason

To the moon and back

Here are the 42 Democrats who joined 192 Republicans in fulfilling Trump's wishes to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data:

This also raises a good, tangential point: get off Substack! I did years ago, and Michael Tracey has NEVER gotten in the same room as me since!

I enter the Target and I'm immediately sprayed with some Rick and Morty perfume. Pickle Rick I think they call it. I wander my way past their Pride Collection™ which is now just Confederate flag merchandise over to the toothpaste aisle which is behind bulletproof glass. Excellent shopping experience

insane how foreseeable and prevenatable the Roberts Court and Trump 2 both were and yet here we are in hell

Anyone could come talk to a public elementary school in the 90s We had a breakdancing Dracula come talk to us about the dangers of shaking up sodas

It’s still open yall

Flyers Fans Not Sure  Whether Gritty  Supposed To Be Eating Live Bird https://theonion.com/flyers-fans-not-sure-whether-gritty-supposed-to-be-eating-live-bird/

Something that more people need to embrace about the importance of public library organizing is that it's a good foundation to organize for other public goods. We need to explicitly connect library organizing with parks organizing as just one example and so on and so forth...

’Moby Dick’ by Melville A novel about whales.

To me, he is the torch carrier that we’ve been waiting for. He’s the shining star of an NBA that is regressing into a noticeable form of cultural & moral decline that starts at the top but has infected every part of the association & fandom. He’s impossible not to root for.

The Two Trumps