We mourn with the San Diego Muslim community after a deadly shooting at the Islamic Center today. Our hearts break for the loved ones of the victims and at the images of children being led to safety. We must confront Islamophobia clearly, urgently and without hesitation.

The 1776 fund is trolling alongside corruption alongside fascism. The unholy Trinity of Trumpism.

11) Compare my nonpartisan maps with Cohn’s. Mine unify coherent regions—his split many apart & combine places with little in common. Mine have 9 Black Dem seats in the rural Black Belt from NC to the Mississippi Delta, several due to the VRA—his have zero. Dems likely win 11 more seats on mine

This is also illegal -- I don't care what they claim www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Ron DeSantis and the Republican Florida legislature spent years banning books in schools, trans kids from using the bathroom, and mentioning LGBTQ people in schools. The result? Florida's test reading scores have sunk to dead last in the country. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/f...

there is, once again, no one for whom Trump has more contempt than his supporters. he could not be clearer that he hates them and they love it.

Congress should be paid whatever the minimum wage in their district is.

I'm begging for one article--just one--that is "Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These urban voters in Harlem say `We told you he'd screw everything up, why didn't you listen to us?'" Just one. Just one "diner" interview in a place w a density above 1 per 1000 sq mi and < 95% white.

Ai is mostly about mass surveillance ex # 468377

A great thing to have would be less flagrantly racist leadership in the Democratic Party

It’s happening

As always, the "mainstream" media loves to pat itself on the back, arrogantly/sanctimoniously, claiming (with zero self awareness) they report "without fear or favor." In fact, almost ALL their reporting is very much WITH fear AND favor, such as in the case of Musk. bluevirginia.us/2026/05/satu...

I think Newsomism is a neolib variation of Platnerism and both are grotesque mutations made possible by the gamma rays of the Trumpocene.

Biden had one job and only one job: crush the insurrectionist Republican Party, because the moment they got back in power they clearly intended demolish any other progress made before or after. He never even started to pretend to try.

There are FIVE YEARS of resources and actions to take in my pinned post. **FIVE YEARS** Folks have been busting ass for half a decade on this, and we're all eager for anyone to get involved who hasn't yet.

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Isn't a "Detransitioning Clinic," as forced to be built at a Texas hospital, technically also "gender affirming care?" The very thing that's the problem?

Our president treats taxpayers like a giant ATM machine and we just take it.

Someday this will be like the insane POW-MIA flags everywhere, i.e. proof that a conspiracy theory spread far and on American soil. But unlike that one, so many people are going to be harmed in the process!

"average starting salary for recent graduates is $56,153" says an article about college (under)graduates meanwhile, in masters degree requiring library land...

Truth. Child trafficking is pervasive on the Christian right. Any and all manner of moral monstrosity is acceptable, to them, if it advances Christian global supremacy.

my kingdom for a 24/7 distributed on-message lib-left propaganda apparatus that could make "the streamer who goes around calling people the n-word in the hopes they hit him so he can shoot them" the face of the republican party

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I cannot stress enough how much anyone who complains about the government spending money to give new parents free diapers should never know one single moment of peace

Oh LOOK! A map of all the states calling librarians pedophiles and groomers. Remember, the books they call "porn" the loudest are books that teach children about body autonomy, the right to say no, and how not to get groomed. Probably a coincidence...

I don't really have much to say about the NY Times covering that NYU students don't want Jon Haidt as their graduation speaker beyond the fact that the paper has not covered this case (or more like it) which involves state censorship of faculty speech. It is monumentally more important.

Every time you think the corruption can’t get any more shameless, Trump rises to the challenge.

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

"Trump’s policies will add an extra seven billion tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere through 2030 compared to the U.S. Paris Agreement target. Using the Biden EPA’s own social cost of carbon, that will result in $1.6 trillion in global climate damages." (from @leahstokes.bsky.social)

A long but very informative thread reporting on the ways the publishing industry is interacting with genAI. Worth a read if you work with books in any capacity.

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

A teenager, exercising his First Amendment right to record federal goons in public, is calmly filming them when one of the goons suddenly shoves him into a car.

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

It's Tubthumping by Chumbawamba

Blue states & blue cities are keeping the country afloat. Red states can’t make it in their own, they have to rely on tax dollars from cities like Chicago to pay the bills.

Tax the rich and funnel some of that money to community services like libraries, museums, and archives. That will do far more good than throwing cash at tech bros to buy another yacht.

This hit me so hard this week.

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A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

Hello everybody, I want to believe just as much as anybody else does but I really need to tell you that in my 10+ years of experience as a disinformation expert, the only reason UFO shit gets put out by the government is to distract you from other really bad things

tell me again how the water usage is typical actually

Trump promised his ballroom wouldn’t cost you a penny. Now, Senate Republicans are asking taxpayers to foot a $1 BILLION bill for it.

PSA: if you use an LLM to do your writing, no you didn’t BECAUSE IT IS NOT YOUR WRITING!! YOU ARE NOT A WRITER. You extruded some text from the plagiarism machine. YOU ARE A PLAGIARIST. YOU WILL NEVER BE A WRITER BY STEALING OTHERS’ WORDS.

The general energy of the country as far-right extremists targeted libraries & migrant shelters & trans people under Biden, unchecked. Why do people think crises & attacks on civil liberties don’t exist when a democrat is in office? Could that be why those under the boot don’t vote?