This is the kind of leadership we're looking for.

Bye bitch

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

"Look like me, kids!"

A "study documented a Houston–to–Kansas City route that was serviced only by United. Tickets on average went for $300—until 2014, when Spirit also began to service the route. Spirit offered fares closer to $90, and United was forced to bring the average fare down to $180" - @scottnover.bsky.social

Sea Yeti

Why is glyphosate, one of the most litigated chemicals in American history, being quietly sprayed across our national forests? This is the secret plan to cover the world in herbicide—that they don't want you to know about. Our latest investigation: https://tinyurl.com/yc3au2xf

No Talkspace, no Betterhelp, no MD Live, etc.

🧑‍🌾 WATCH: “If farmers contract cancer from this chemical, if this makes it into the Farm Bill you won’t be able to sue.” Rep Massie warns🚨about a provision protecting foreign pesticide corporations from lawsuits by sick farmers —a bill rusty grills pushes in Tennessee🤔

The only mainstream journalists speaking truth to power these days are cartoonists. @adamzyglis.bsky.social

This is amazing: A new rapid-response network just launched to alert people to ICE prison camps in their area. GTFOice.org Sign up. Tell ICE to "GTFO"! (and thanks to @milestaylor.bsky.social and @defiance.org for this initiative!)

Sky News: Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist. Greta Thunberg: See you all at the next climate strike :) news.sky.com/story/human-...

Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org]

No excuse not to go renewable ASAP

This is evil

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

Hero

On this day in 1931, nine Black teenagers were arrested and falsely accused of raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. They spent 6-17 years in prison despite evidence that exonerated them.

every day we wake up to new confirmations that reclaiming the means of production is how we get free. make pasta, make zines; make paintings and gardens and fresh bread and friendships. make a future you can hold in your own uncommodified hands.

Layers and layers of grift

Four core aspects to a good life for autistic kids: Being accepted by others in a way that allows the child to be themselves; Finding ‘the things that light [the child]’; Having a sense of control over their own life and Physical/sensory environments matter. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers represented the federal government’s overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died, her family announced on Saturday.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Make your own #ICEoutComics. Big love to @trungles.com, one of the organizers of this initiative, who made this instructions graphic.

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

I thought this was pitchbot

BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Justice Department attorney Joe Thompson, who has been the face of the Minnesota fraud investigations, has resigned. Reports say he and others resigned after being pushed to investigate Renee Good's widow.

Trump is now upset and has asked the Department of the Interior to crack down on stickers covering his face on annual national park passes. They are attempting to claim that placing a sticker over his image voids the pass entirely.

Imagine reading this quote about the U.S. Beyond depraved

BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.

A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

On this day in 2014, Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Black boy, died from injuries inflicted when he was shot by a white police officer the day before. Tamir was playing in a park near his Cleveland home when a police car approached him.

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Never forget this beautiful baby walking out into that mob. ❤️Ruby❤️

Nothing new under the sun

Thank the gods

Oh no am I a dog person now?

Nearly half of America’s children—48.9%—now grow up in families considered poor, according to Oxfam’s 2025 inequality report. It’s a statistic that should shake the nation to its core: in the wealthiest country in human history, almost one in two kids are struggling to meet basic needs.

FUCK ICE

General Motors is axing nearly 1,700 jobs across Michigan and Ohio, gutting its EV and battery operations just months after boasting record profits and raising its outlook — a move that perfectly captures the moral bankruptcy of corporate America’s current layoff spree.

Trump hates Maduro because they're alike. "[A]ll of the institutions have been wrecked. You have to fix them all. Education. They had a medical system that was really the envy of the region." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.