MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one.

one reason I am actually quite optimistic that national Dems will push hard for another round of retaliatory gerrymanders in 2028 is that Black Southern Dems are critical to the current leadership class's hold on power and they're gonna be pretty mad when a bunch of their fav members get drawn out

Does anyone know where I could get a rebel loon sew-on patch for a backpack? Preferably one where the proceeds actually go toward local groups that help immigrants affected by OMS, and not some rando grifter on Etsy?

I set up this screenshot to dunk on Odysseus but now I kind of want to do this

i've been resistant to this idea but i am coming around to the theory that rfk jr simply thinks modern medicine heals too many people and a good "healthcare system" is one that just lets sick people die out.

Lol, oh my god. Who are the 39% of Republicans who think Donald Trump would beat them in a fight? How whipped are you?!?

AWOOOOOOO!!!!

“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.)

Thanks to all of, uh, that garbage for reminding me to take the antidepressant

It’s the soundtrack that did me in ☠️

Minneapolis celebrates spring with a parade of giant handmade socialist puppets and a festival where people row the sun across the lake. This year's Mayday festival was today, and I'm going to try to share some photos and videos (many taken by others) to try to explain it for my non-local friends.

Unfazable Minneapolis

welcoming the sun

never has minneapolis needed to celebrate the sun coming more than at the end of winter 2026. ICE are not gone completely, but we still won, and it was incredibly cathartic to see this ceremony at mayday about protecting our neighbors, grounding why we did this work. i love this city

May Day, full of people

After a long, hard, icey winter, this year's Minneapolis May Day Parade is a massive celebration. Though our fair city is no longer served by passenger trains, we do have the absolutely unique Southside Battle Train.

May Day in Minneapolis always feels like a reward for surviving a Minnesota winter. This year is different. We survived a winter when the federal government sent an occupying force, kidnapped our neighbors, and spent months trying to destroy our community. We’re still here. ❤️

everyone chanting “egg egg egg” for this baby loon to hatch. wow it’s been a long winter and I just love south mpls so so much

Secular mayday saints

Alan Moore in the Observer Q&A today

Bicycles locked to every fixed object in Powderhorn Park

Minneapolis May Day Battle Train rolling down Bloomington - the best annual tradition.

Guys I’m going to fucking cry

Or mobile bands per block. And the May Day Parade hasn't actually started yet.

jacob frey i am a consultant i need $15k to bring back loring park doll day. for small businesses

emergency need: my friend susan raffo, beloved minneapolis healing justice practitioner needs money for a queer Black woman & child trying to get out of an abusive situation today they need $2000 today, she’s only been able to find $100 venmo: @ziibiing

Nice work, ‘Murica.

Before or after the parade, add Mercado Central to your day. They’ve been through hell and need our support. Tacos, empanadas, and delicious strawberry milkshakes!

Hey if you're in the Twin Cities, or within close enough driving distance that you could get to Minneapolis by noon tomorrow, you should go to the MAYDAY PARADE because Minneapolis's Mayday Parade is AWESOME.

need all the non-minneapolis people to understand that tomorrow is mayday and your timeline will be flooded with photos of a strange and wonderful parade full of puppets and dancers and steampunk floats it is very important that you appreciate and repost everything you see.

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

They were wrong, and so acted like an invading army. They murdered people and harmed many more. They made Minnesotans choose a side and most of us here in the metro chose us. These people need to ditch Call of Duty fantasies. They are so weak as people they can’t imagine being MN.

The administration miscalculated by thinking that the Twin Cities—predominantly white (about 70% for the metro)—was as violently racist and xenophobic as they are. That there was some “silent majority” who would welcome violence against our neighbors.

“How much you wanna bet I could throw a football over them mountains? Gah… if the coach would’ve put me in fourth quarter, we’d’ve been state champions. No doubt in my mind. You better believe things would’ve been different… I’d have gone pro. In a heartbeat…”

Cinco de Mayo parade in St Paul 💚😍😍😍 FUCK ICE

I hope his post-retirement raccoon jerky project leaves him riddled with brain-eating roundworms.

“I let you win! I could kick your ass if I really wanted to!!!” the little man cried through a flood of tears. Then he climbed on the back of his butterfly steed and flew back to his little mushroom house, slammed the door, and jerked himself off until he fell asleep.

Happy May Day. A better world together.

Mac Groveland / Frogtown / Highland Park

Virginia's new map is what happens when the GOP gerrymandered it and other southern states to their advantage for way too many election cycles and the electorate both shifted and got a chance to hit back.

no more independent commissions, repeal any “fair map” amendments that exist, fuck ‘em all draw out every seat in california, illinois, new york, etc no more half measures

what the end of the VRA is going to do in the south is a moral abomination it is also not going to be enough to keep the house in R hands this fall given the environment we’re looking at, but it’s going to make it a lot harder in the future the Dem gerrymanders need to get more extreme

I really wish that whoever is trying to organize and promote a general strike would include up front a way for people who have care taking jobs to participate / show support.

I will admit that white people cooked with 'shit or get off the pot'

Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.

I often work with scam victims, and the hardest cases are people who were warned by friends and family. The psychic damage of realizing everyone else was right, that you're not just vulnerable but an active idiot, and that you've fucked yourself, is very hard to absorb.

We have to fly this busted ass flag to celebrate our city's legacy of being incorporated in 1965

Buying a $16 burger at a strip mall brewpub named like "Premium Burger Nostalgia Plays Command Higher Margins In Today's Markets" and screaming at the staff about the history of this city which has no city center

Fascists target autistic people and trans people (look at Ole Lovaas, an OG nazi, who modified his child torture of autistic kids in the Feminine Boy Project to apply that torture to trans kids, etc), because both populations threaten the basic principle of fascism: violation of bodily autonomy.