There’s a virus in our tax system. A stealth virus, it was embedded in America’s economic DNA for a century, biding its time. And then we created those conditions, unleashing it to infect our institutions of culture and democracy, replicate, and burst forth to infect anew. An oligarchy virus.

Energy policy think tanks keep putting out proposals like "give Mark Zuckerberg sole control over our utility rates by making him America's next grid czar" and the people in Everytown, America are like "go ahead and fuckin try"

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

This is for my parents. I'm afraid they won't get the care they need because of the ridiculous American healthcare system that wrings dollars out of people then leaves them high & dry when they need help. If you can help by donating and/or signal boosting, thanks. www.gofundme.com/f/help-glend...

The greed is wild. Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate a single store with unionized workers because they're so against workers getting what they deserve.

House: 202-225-3121 Senate: 202-224-3121 www.cnn.com/2026/04/05/s... 🧪

The Arts and Sciences are peak human being. Without them, we are nothing.

Science is good. We should fund it.

watching NASA hit a very specific target in the big big ocean with a vehicle that just came back from outer space at 25,000mph definitely has me reflecting on the charter bus company that couldn't get me to a bus station

Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...

I cannot overstate how nice it is for things to go exactly as planned. The total absence of drama involved in landing #artemis is healing my soul. Nothing ad hoc, nothing panicked, just calm smooth efficiency. We can have nice things.

Welcome back, Integrity!! Pay attention kids, you can't ChatGPT your way into this kinda awesomeness!!! #ArtemisII #Integrity

Move slow and fix things

For a start you need to get informed abt Prairieland. People making noise outside an ICE detention center hit with "ant!fa" terrorism charges. This is intended to have a cooling effect. If you can't care about this I don't expect you got what it takes to really resist prairielanddefendants.com

"Why don't Americans..." they do. There's brave acts happening out of sight everyday. Why don't YOU support them when they get arrested or provide material cover for them?

If you read one thread today, make it this one.

I fear we're mere hours from "This is just the language of New York real estate, that's how they do deals, why don't you get that?" pieces about Iran. Fuck that. You saw what you saw. He posted those words. None of this can ever be normalized.

I’ve researched the entire history that led to the 25th Amendment and what followed and wrote about all of it nearly a decade ago. Since then — and, in part, due to its limits and complications — I’ve only called for Section 4 to be invoked on two dates: January 6, 2021, and today.

This has never felt as real as it does right now.

After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

reconstructing all knowledge of the Before Times by asking the last remaining computer terminal found beneath the rubble if it will explain human civilization before making me a burrito bowl

Solidarity with our friends at Sesame Workers Union as they rally today to celebrate their one year anniversary, and fight for a fair contract that addresses pay inequality and gives them the dignity and respect they deserve. U is for union!✊

It is 100% ALWAYS about the grift with these fuckers.

I can't even with this shit anymore.

How Ms. Rachel is helping kids get out of ICE detention—one video at a time

Oof. This hits damn hard. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...” www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. I'll explain it all in 45 minutes on @meidastouch.com here: www.youtube.com/live/H-D8SzR...

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

“Most people know it’s wrong to punish kids for the problems of adults.” Sen. @jeffyarbro.bsky.social on Sen. Bo Watson again delaying his & Lamberth’s bill to track/keep undocumented kids out of schools (opposed by Hamilton County principals + others with hearts) He hopes it’s dead.

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The latest data shows that at least $156 billion across 48 data center projects was blocked or stalled by local opposition in 2025. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...

We're being used as beta-testers for a technology that has no built-in guardrails and it shows. Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian share.google/7Gmg2S3DBo0L...

This is absolutely fucking vile. What the fuck.

Just sitting here thinking about how Black ppl came up with jazz, the blues, rock and roll and hip hop WHILE this country was doing everything it could to ensure we had nothing. Nobody needs Al to create except the untalented.

Fuck yeah. Abandon all assholes and read better books. #booksky

Jared Kushner is claiming to be a "volunteer" in his work as an envoy. But I don't think someone qualifies as a "volunteer" in a job where they are trying to shake down everyone they deal with for monetary compensation.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but ICE-Gestapo killers aren’t at airports to help TSA, they are there to intimidate and terrorize and it’s also practice for what they plan to do at polling locations this November by order of the orange felon. This is what fascism looks like.

Perfect pic of how useless sending ICE to "help" TSA really was. They're not helping. They're getting paid to stand around while unpaid TSA agents are trying to deal with all those people standing in line out the door of the airport. And Republicans still refuse to pass TSA funding.

The Zionists are ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon using genocidal tactics deployed in Gaza. Israeli journalists report this openly, and yet there is silence from Western media.

"Are ICE agents trained for this? ICE agents increasingly lack the necessary training **to be ICE agents,** and they definitely aren’t trained to work as TSA officials..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Just because the President deploys ICE agents to airports doesn’t change the facts: He’s in the Epstein Files. He started an unauthorized war he can’t end. Americans are struggling, and he’s failed to pass legislation, even though they control Congress & the White House. Time for accountability.

just let the Hell's Angels handle security, what could go wrong