PAULA WHITE: Nobody has stood up like you have stood up TRUMP: *sitting* *asleep*

As we approach the nation’s 250th anniversary, we find ourselves once again drowning in lies. My new book America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries attempts to reckon with moment. It will be published on May 26, 2026. Learn more and preorder at prh.com/AmericaUSA @crownpublishing

Oh my god what an episode. My spiritual chant is and will always be ,”Existence is Resistance”. Thank you

People should know that NYPL alone has 100 vacancies and that this doesn't include the 160 vacancies at BPL & QPL. Library workers also need higher pay. Meanwhile the libraries ARE NOT RECEIVING ENOUGH FUNDING. We need @mayor.nyc.gov and the @council.nyc.gov to fund libraries at 0.5% of budget now.

Families of 2-year-olds: TODAY is the deadline to sign up for free 2-K at Myschools.nyc! 

¡Familias con niños de 2 años: HOY es la fecha límite para solicitar el programa gratuito de 2-K en Myschools.nyc!

Serving up a rent freeze.

I asked some cop and he told me that they got too rowdy last time, which, I guess maybe? But plenty of fandoms get rowdy and I don’t see them shutting down multiple city blocks in anticipation. I’m curious if Mamdani knows that the cops are doing this just for Senegal?

The launch #ceremony for the "National Campaign to Combat #Drugs and Treat Addiction" at the #Damascus Conference #Palace. youtu.be/z7Hb1_bpGy0

Let’s fucking gooooooooo

One year ago.

you could get fired from The Dollar Store for saying things the Secretary of Defense or a Supreme Court Justice have said

megyn in accounting would be fired on the spot for saying what megyn on a podcast said yesterday, stephen in accounts receivable would never have another job for saying what stephen in the white house said yesterday

Yes, media and politicos focus far too closely on NYC. But also: It's worth sitting with the fact that Zohran Mamdani was elected with more votes than 51 US senators, including 33 Republicans, by my count

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

The amount of human suffering, injury, and illness that has been avoided by the advent of hormonal contraception is staggering; the amount of human potential, talent, and innovation that it has unleashed should make you weep with gratitude.

NEW: @opb.org and ProPublica found that water from one of Oregon’s most iconic rivers, the Deschutes, is largely given away to wealthy landowners who are turning the high desert green with lush pastures and landscaping.

this cannot stand.

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

The extensive damage done to America’s sole naval base in the Middle East—along with hits to at least 20 U.S. sites across the region, including military installations and diplomatic facilities—has the U.S. re-evaluating its entire footprint in the region. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

By the way, this is why you should always be skeptical of any Dem who try to sell themselves as "I'm a progressive but I'm reasonable." McMorrow's pitch is that she isn't a centrist like Stevens but she's not crazy like El-Sayed. Yet here she is doing Fox News level islamophobia.

No human is perfect so it will always be a matter of voting for the lesser of two evils. Happy that my representative will be @darializaforny.bsky.social

Federal Case Unravels, Four Felony Charges on Minnesota Activist Are Turned Into One Misdemeanor Artist and activist Isabel “Isa” Lopez had five federal charges with a possibility of eight years in prison reduced to one misdemeanor and was sentenced to time served and a $25 fine.

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

Syria after Assad: How Israeli settlers are trying to establish new facts on the ground

Israel's detention of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya and other Gazan healthcare workers is an attempt to silence them, writes Omar Abdel-Mannan:

Notice the shameless use of Islamophobia against Mamdani, El Sayed and Darializa...by both Republicans AND some Democrats. Completely normalized. Very little outrage, pushback, or demands for apology. Not a mainstream story. They're not using dog whistles. Also explains the support for genocide.

I've seen a lot of wars, a lot of suffering. The war in #Sudan is agony. And largely ignored. Why? My reportage just out in @VanityFair with photos by the incredible @lynseyaddario www.vanityfair.com/story/sudan-...

As the death toll climbs to over 160, I'm praying for those affected by the earthquakes in Venezuela and for the country, which has suffered so much in recent years.

lol does this article really not mention that Clarence Thomas was in house counsel for Monsanto, the Roundup manufacturer?

To many politicians, the party does not include the voters.

This the right move - and right reason. Hochul should not delay following suit - as should all Dem governors and Rs too to if any vertebrates remain among them.

Democrats dislike Trump's diplomacy with Iran—but they're unlikely to disrupt it. Their evolving position could hasten the party's shift toward a foreign policy reflecting their base: wary of militarism tied to Israel + rejecting bipartisan, establishment orthodoxies. www.notus.org/foreign-poli...

It's important to get out of the house every once and a while to remind yourself why you don't go out

Amy Coney Barrett has Haitian children and I hope they one day cut her out of their lives entirely.

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Lander on comparisons between his flank of the Democratic Party and the Tea Party: "We're joyful about what it looks like to deliver. That is very different energy than what the Tea Party brought. We want to build something, not just break something."

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Great story

Lol this is real

A socialist organizer just took out the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus lmao

BRAD!!!!!!!!

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

So happy to hear @darializaforny.bsky.social won! I now will have a progressive representative repping me in Congress!! (I’ve been jealous of AOC’s constituents for the longest).

RESULT: Darializa Avila Chevalier, a challenger backed by New York's left, has ousted Rep. Adriano Espaillat. An earthquake result, which means all 3 congressional candidates backed by Mamdani have won: Chevalier, Brad Lander, and Claire Valdez.

We're sending so many care champions to Albany to Tax the Rich that we had to do a second post about it! Mazel Tov to Jessica González-Rojas aka @votejgr.bsky.social and David Orkin aka @david4queens.com!

We're sending these SIX care champions to Albany to #TaxTheRich! Mazel Tov to: Aber Kawas! 🎊 Brian Romero @brianrny.bsky.social Eli Northrup @elinorthrup.bsky.social Eon Huntley @eonforassembly.bsky.social, David Orkin @david4queens.com JGR @votejgr.bsky.social !

Landor “gave them a printed copy of a 2017 federal court decision which already held that Louisiana’s policy of cutting incarcerated Rastafarians’ hair violated the RLUIPA. The officials threw all of Landor’s documents in the trash, handcuffed him to a chair … and sheared him down to the scalp.”

AOC not being interested in the primaries in her backyard is the most interesting development.

UN starts evacuating 11,000 stranded sailors from Strait of Hormuz https://aje.news/2ltmub