It’s “making up a guy to get mad at” all the way down. Starting to think this style of argument may not be in good faith 🙃

99% of these pieces are responding to a Republican caricature of Democrats. The other 1% are responding to some random left-anarchist with no power who hates Democrats more than Republicans and represents precisely no one (since they don't believe in voting). Dumb dumb dumb.

This is an EXTREMELY important conversation this century. And no lie, COVID exposed just how intricate and fragile the relationship is between the economy and society.

Needless to say, Edge Ops and the Piccerillos have refused to explain what’s going on. Read the full story here: www.levernews.com/the-ice-surv...

We’re getting there.

"Most of the enslaved people identified in the research so far were enslaved by Harvard presidents, treasurers, deans, and academics and made to work in Boston, Cambridge, the American South, and abroad..." Whew. Also, the redress ideas are...lacking.

Zohran Mamdani inherited a $12 billion budget deficit and brought it down to zero in 6 months without cutting essential services by taxing billionaires. This is why they were in a panic about his candidacy.

this looks like an extra tough captcha test

FIFA predicted the New York area would take in $3 billion from the World Cup. But some official estimates say the city could lose money on the world’s biggest sporting event.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Louis Armstrong performing for his wife at the Great Sphinx of Giza (1961). 📷 Bettmann/Corbis

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

The first two ¶¶ in a story describing how the "Middle Powers" fear Trump and China will cozy up, making it harder to pit the two hegemons against each other. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/w...

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Hahahhhaha hahah haha oh man wow

Are any nerds organizing an Amtrak trip from SD to LA to ride the new metro line? Am I…am I that nerd?

[bowling alone voice] the real sign of how truly "bowling alone" our society has become is that we're getting these paeans to the most ephemeral and commercial of transactions, like "talking to a cashier" or "getting annoyed by a taxi driver" and not anything approaching actual community

culturally this bit is blowing my mind a bit (and may be what @radokirov.bsky.social alluded to in his last blog post). i would think that the achievement is the result itself, and the credit “belongs” to the prompter for making it known to the world, whatever the tools and means

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

I’ll vote for whichever 2028 candidate promises reconstruction 2.0 at this point

🗣️ from LOUISIANA SINCE 1877🗣️

Two sportswriters walk into a bar and can’t find the game. With the NBA adding streaming-only options, the games are a little harder to find in bars and restaurants. We tried to find out why. free to read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/726...

Such a funny gif. Nolllywood (am I right?) >>

Having your cable network nationally broadcast every Atlanta Braves game just because you like them is a top-tier non-philanthropy thing for a rich person to do. RIP, but also: Braves suck.

I didn't want to have the small pox vac but my Mum put me in my Sunday best and took me to where it was being administered, I complained again that I didn't want it she told me " you are having it, you can complain to me in 20 years when you are still alive to belly ach about it"(8 then 68 now)

"For the first time, New York City has a mayor who has made riding a bike a seemingly genuine part of his political identity." Yes, however, I think it's more that Mamdani has made *not driving* part of his political identity. This is a man who gets around like most New Yorkers do.

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

A formal recall petition against Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry was filed on May 4, 2026, requiring over 500,000 handwritten signatures within 180 days. LOCATION: In-person signing is required, at Geaux Create Studios (2320 Drusilla Lane, Suite F, Baton Rouge, LA 70809). Let's do this!

Republicans can't gerrymander their way to victory in the midterms. It's quite bad, anti-democracy, and unfair. Should be objected to, opposed, and countered as best as possible for those reasons. Still, if you're worrying, the numbers aren't there, especially since the economy will likely worsen.

Even with the Virginia court reversing the state's redistricting referendum—pretty undemocratic, no?—I stand by this argument I made in @thebulwark.com in February. Concern is very warranted. Doomerism and despair can be self-defeating, prompting the "obey in advance" that helps authoritarianism.

Not since Reconstruction ended in the 1870s amid white-supremacist terrorism and voter suppression has Black electoral influence declined so suddenly in the American South. trib.al/huKmBtq

Get with the programme!

Researchers in Hong Kong developed a nasal spray for rapid stroke intervention. The system uses nanotechnology to deliver neuroprotective drugs directly to the brain and reduce neuronal damage during the emergency stage.

The southern visibility feels good.

Another for the more than 3 list: “Ye’ain’ee” You have not even = you ain’t even “Ye’ain’ee wash ya hands yet?! Just nasty!”

i will happily offer you my $100 against your $25, as many times as you want, that Graham Platner will not be the 2028 Democratic Presidential nominee

You mean Georgia EUROPE right?!

State supreme court justices play a critical role in defending your rights and freedoms, which is why the election happening in Georgia right now is so important. Make sure you have a plan to vote for Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin.

I’m aware this is news to CBS and this dude but we were literally shouting about this a year ago, it’s not unearthed, and it’s even stupider than you think: the cruise ships paid their salaries. It literally paid more than it cost. We gave money back rather than control disease because RFK

Hahahhahahahaha

look, it’s time to embarrass these people. ask them if trump could play quarterback right now for the cowboys, ask them if trump is more mortal or god, ask them if donald trump deserved an oscar for his performance in home alone 2

“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.

This is how democracy dies!!

Mary Eliza Mahoney May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926 first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States. In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.

Remember that company that Trump paid a billion dollars so that they *wouldn't* build offshore wind farms in the US? They're doing amazing shit over in Europe. Floating turbines are so cool!

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 we are so effing stupid in this country.