“Personally for me, I have very various friends who are in the #LGBTQ community and I am one of them as well. There’s been discrimination for years, there’s been violence against gay people, there’s plenty of people who have died just bc they were trans” www.wmtv15news.com/2026/05/13/w...

“Watertown High School students walked out of class fourth hour to protest the school board’s decision to remove a song tied to #LGBTQ+ history from the band’s spring concert” www.wmtv15news.com/2026/05/13/w...

“Watertown High School band students won’t be allowed to perform an instrumental piece of music tied to #LGBTQ+ history at their spring concert. The Watertown school board voted 7-1 to remove “A Mother of A Revolution!” from the May 18 program” www.wpr.org/news/waterto...

“Israel’s military targeted multiple locations across southern Lebanon overnight, following another day of deadly attacks that came despite the U.S.-brokered April ceasefire. On Wednesday, Israeli strikes killed at least 12 people, including 2 children” www.democracynow.org/2026/5/14/he...

“A federal judge in Washington, DC on Wednesday temporarily blocked Trump administration sanctions targeting United Nations Palestine expert Francesca Albanese, ruling that the punitive measures violated her First Amendment rights” www.commondreams.org/news/frances...

“Albanese has done nothing more than speak!” wrote US District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, in his 26-page decision granting a preliminary injunction against the sanctions, which US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last summer” www.commondreams.org/news/frances...

Pre colonial nations that lived here were the Shasta, the Okwanda, the Konomihu, the Modoc, the Achomawi, the Atsugewi, the Karuk, the Klamath, the Wintu, the Yana. Almost like they don’t exist.

BREAKING: We're suing federal agencies and the Tennessee Highway Patrol on behalf of people who have faced arrest, intimidation, and surveillance for filming the immigration and law enforcement activities of the “Memphis Safe Task Force.” The First Amendment protects our right to record.

“The Sierra Nevada tourist hub—home to ski resorts, lakeside casinos, and roughly 25 to 28 million annual visitors—is facing an energy crisis with a familiar culprit: the data centers powering the AI boom.” fortune.com/2026/05/12/l...

“Students at the University of Washington are criticizing the school for continuing to host a Turning Points USA event days after the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old transgender student.” #ProtectTransKids www.them.us/story/uw-stu...

“Amid the shock of a trans young person being murdered in…a city that is viewed by many as a sanctuary 4 queer & trans people, students online have criticized the University of WA for its response 2 the homicide & over safety measures in student housing” #ProtectTransKids www.them.us/story/uw-stu...

“Students at the University of Washington are criticizing the school for continuing to host a Turning Points USA event days after the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old transgender student.” #ProtectTransKids www.them.us/story/uw-stu...

I have no confidence in the current head of moderation of this site's ability to fairly moderate this site.

A new study examining the TikTok algorithms appears to suggest that content users received on the platform skewed more politically conservative during the 2024 presidential election, regardless of a user’s personal preferences.

Turning old plastic into new plastic is really, really hard. Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic. (Published Aug. 2024)

“Venezuela says an oil spill that originated in Trinidad & Tobago, two islands just off its coast, had caused serious environmental damage along the coastlines of at least 2 of its states & in a gulf area near the Caribbean nation” #ClimateAction apnews.com/article/vene...

The evidence points in one direction: restricting access to gender-affirming care is harmful for transgender youth.

The rest of the world is watching and harassing Americans on social media instead of like, lobbying their governments to take action about any of the human rights crises, of which this is only one But it *is* a human rights crisis and an early stage of genocide

One of the arguments against AI is that the people & institutions trying to sell it to us have done so much harm in so many ways with so little conscience on so many other fronts. This AP piece is among the group netting the team including @garanceburke.bsky.social the Pulitzer.

“[It’s] no longer just bombardment or physical destruction. It is the collapse of every essential condition required for human survival: water, food, health, dignity, shelter, safety, everything.” —Eyad Amawi, Gaza Relief Committee. #GazaGenocide www.democracynow.org/2026/5/7/gaz...

“Gaza is facing an ‘environmental & biological apocalypse’ under Israeli bombardment & blockade, reports Palestinian aid worker Eyad Amawi of the Gaza Relief Committee. Israel’s destruction of infrastructure has become a ‘generator 4 disease” #GazaGenocide www.democracynow.org/2026/5/7/gaz...

“Judge rules government illegally canceled more than $100 million in humanities grants” apnews.com/article/trum...

“The Trump admin’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups & other orgs was unconstitutional, & the DOGE had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday” apnews.com/article/trum...

I just took action with @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social to tell Santander: Stop financing toxic fossil fuel expansion in Latin America and beyond! Take action: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

“Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after world-renowned figures — including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso — can be seen roaming around a Berlin museum” apnews.com/article/germ...

“TotalEnergies’ report came a day after the British oil giant BP reported that its profits more than doubled compared to the first quarter of last year.”

“France-based TotalEnergies on Wednesday became the latest fossil fuel giant to report massive profits juiced by the US-Israeli war on Iran, which has sent global oil prices surging and jacked up costs for consumers” www.commondreams.org/news/totalen...

“Over the weekend, Oxfam projected that six of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies—including BP & TotalEnergies—will rake in $2,967 in profits per second this year, an increase of roughly $37 million per day compared to last year” www.commondreams.org/news/totalen...

“350.org warned earlier this week that energy market disruptions caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran could hit households, businesses, and governments around the world with more than $1 trillion in extra costs” www.commondreams.org/news/totalen...

SCOTUS is a tool of the elite class whose only purpose is to subvert democracy. Abolish the Supreme Court, NOW! #VotingRightsAct

SCOTUS is a racist institution and a tool of the elite class used to subvert democracy. Abolish the Supreme Court, NOW! #VotingRightsAct www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“An analysis by the Rainforest Foundation Norway estimates that between 2011 and 2020, Indigenous peoples and local communities involved in land tenure and forest management received less than 1% of global funding for climate change mitigation” grist.org/indigenous/i...

“Israel has intercepted 22 out of the 58 aid boats travelling through international waters and bound for the besieged Gaza Strip… Israel “kidnapped” 211 of the 400 activists taking part in the flotilla, including a Paris city councillor” #GazaGenocide www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

“The United States has fallen to a “historic low” in the Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), or Reporters Without Borders, annual press freedom tracker, continuing a decade-long decline, the organisation has said” www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

“While the US, during the first year of US President Donald Trump’s second term, remained in the “problematic” category, it dropped seven spaces from 57th in the world to 64th” www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

“Trump and his administration have carried out a coordinated war on press freedom since the day he took office, and we will live with the consequences for years to come,” —Clayton Weimers, exec director of RSF’s North America office. #Fascism www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

“Today marks 60 days since the Trump admin notified Congress that it was carrying out strikes on Iran – meaning that under the War Powers Act of 1973, today is the deadline 4 Trump 2 either end the Iran war or seek congressional authorization 2 extend it” www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

“61% of Americans See Trump's Iran War as 'Mistake', Far Outpacing Disapproval of Vietnam and Iraq” www.commondreams.org/news/iran-wa...

“Within two months, the war—which has inflicted thousands of civilian deaths and caused gas prices to spike worldwide with little tangible gain—has reached levels of unpopularity that previous wars now seen as historic boondoggles took years to reach” www.commondreams.org/news/iran-wa...

“US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded a contract to a private security company that has faced accusations of “torture” and “enforced disappearance” to assist in tracking down undocumented immigrant children who arrived in the US alone” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“ICE actually runs the operations with the aim of deporting the children or pursuing criminal cases against them – or their adult sponsors sheltering them legally in the US. A critic at the time called ICE’s efforts “backdoor family separation”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Freya is living her best life. #Caturday

“In the shattered neighbourhoods of Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah in the Gaza Strip, the roar of Israeli drones and the concussive thud of controlled demolitions are daily reminders that the war has never really ended” #GazaGenocide www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

“Despite a “ceasefire” in place since Oct…828 Palestinians have been killed since the “truce” began. Now, families in Gaza are bracing 4 a renewed offensive as Israeli officials threaten 2 tear up the fragile agreement 2 force a surrender” #GazaGenocide www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

“Israel has given final approval for a multibillion-dollar deal to buy two new combat squadrons of advanced F-35 and F-15IA fighter jets from United States manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Boeing” #GazaGenocide www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

“America opened the door to war for [the countries taking part in the sale] so they would open their treasuries and the Israeli-American arms trade would boom after a slump” www.commondreams.org/news/arms-sa...

“Trump is bypassing Congress to fast-track arms sales to the United Arab Emirates, apparently without receiving any promise that the UAE would stop arming the genocidal Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan,” —Kenneth Roth, Princeton University. www.commondreams.org/news/arms-sa...

“Ongoing sea-level rise & the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana will swallow up the New Orleans area within a few generations, with the new paper estimating the city “may well be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico b4 the end of this century” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“An Israeli court has extended the detention of two Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla activists who were abducted by Israeli authorities last week, an Israeli rights group representing them says” #GazaGenocide www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...