Here are the 3 provisions rejected by the Senate parliamentarian, via Dems on the budget committee:

NEW: The Senate parliamentarian has rejected major provisions in the GOP's reconciliation package -- aka the $72B spending bill for ICE + Trump's ballroom. These bits now need 60 vs 51 votes to pass: *ALL CBP funding *Funds for initial screenings of unaccompanied migrant kids *$2.5B for DHS

Love it

SCOTUS just released an order after missing its own 5pm deadline: mifepristone access *will stay the same* while the issue goes back to a lower court.

Arranged marriages again but with robot arrangers.

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

Congrats, @ziibiing.com. What you did was amazing.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

there are a lot of trump voters we aren’t ever going to convert and what we need to do is make them feel like the suckers they are and withdraw from electoral politics entirely

Black people saw the largest decline in financial stability for nearly every category compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Federal Reserve survey.

the west wing is less realistic than battlestar galactica NEXT QUESTION

NEW: U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson's "reign of terror" in Mississippi "is over," Gov. Tate Reeves says, urging the ousting of the state's only Black member of Congress through redistricting before the end of 2027. He made that pronouncement even as he canceled a special session on redistricting.

🧵Tomorrow, @afscme3299.bsky.social workers are launching their first-ever open-ended ULP strike against the University of California, which is violating state law by refusing to negotiate with workers over housing benefits and by imposing terms that increase their health care costs.

The localized/personalized ads at the bottom of news articles (in the past I'd see often see stuff about solar energy where I live) are always nuts, but what in the fresh hell is this. My wife is a blond woman, and I enjoy (cooked) steak, but if this person came toward me I would run away screaming.

Never forget 5/13/1985

There's no broad sense of these families as deserving privacy or a right to be left alone. There's no consensus that it is outrageous that they've been treated this way. Public outrage could stop this but people just shrug and turn away.

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.

My god the city lakes in Minneapolis are glorious in springtime

The dismantling of the Voting Rights Act is a reminder that we have unfinished business. Our fight is not over. Join us in Montgomery, Alabama on May 16 for the National Day of Action for Voting Rights.

Note: Virginia supreme court justices are "re-elected" by state lawmakers, meaning the legislature chooses whether to reappoint them or replace them. Two of the four justices in the majority today against the new congressional map will be "up" by early 2028.

This is quite true, but unfortunately, at least in my experience, higher ed administrators have zero interest in this conversation (or indeed in any sort of open conversation about anything, come to think of it).

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

The signed Snoopy that @tomtomorrow.bsky.social posted made me think of my rarest autograph - Neil Armstrong on a copy of First On The Moon. I've told the story before, but I don't think I have here, so here it goes again... 1/n

it’s very easy to find out what i really believe you just have to ask. if finding out someone’s beliefs is harder than that then maybe you should just assume they’re a shady little opportunist with no principles

Dogs’ reactions when you ask them if they want a walk.

The next time you find someone pretending to explain quantum mechanics, quantum computers and quantum artificial intelligence like a guru, keep in mind this short introduction to the field given by Prof. Shankar at Yale University. After it, you can start spreading ignorance too. Simply brilliant.

A May Day rally and march in Minneapolis comes as labor and immigrant rights groups say fear and disruption from recent enforcement actions are shaping how people show up this year.

RIGHT NOW! NYC HIGHER ED WORKERS ARE IN THE STREETS! @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org #MayDay2026

The more I learn about Reconstruction-not as a foregone conclusion but its genius& contingency,the movement coalitions and tactics;political insights& policy proposals;the race/gender/economic egalitarian vision for the abolition democracy,the more I understand why the period is not widely studied.

the first between Tidal, Apple, and Spotify to ban AI songs will get a windfall of new subs and the other two will get crumbs

The Southern Poverty Law Center is being debanked over a mindless conspiracy theory embedded in an indictment by the Trump regime.

The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar. • Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars • Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination

In his (very cool/fun) book *2312*, Kim Stanley Robinson refers to the period from 2005-2060 as "The Dithering," which in the novel is followed by massive global flooding caused by unaddressed anthropogenic global warming. I've thought about the term a lot since reading that book.

I really can't tell you how much better it feels to choose your lane and to go hard there. Focus on one or two things and get some traction there. Keep inviting people to join in. Most will not and some will. Keep going.

This short film about one night in one city documents racial profiling and a host of other abuses by ICE using body cam footage. Issued as a video opinion by full editorial board of the New York Times, it is utterly bone-chilling. Gift link. Please take the time to watch it, then call your reps.

"New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport joined with Roxbury township to sue to stop the warehouse conversion. They alleged in a federal lawsuit that DHS had ignored federal policies requiring the government to engage with state and local governments and consider their positions..." 1/2

Their “distrust” in higher ed is predetermined, dogmatic. It is not seeking “to be heard,” nor does it ultimately care about evidence of higher ed working in good faith to make changes in line with their “concerns.” it is seeking nothing less than the destruction of the enterprise itself. 2/

please, god, I’ve never wanted anything more than this

"In other words, it needs a person to first organize the world in way that is useful to the AI system, like, for example, the way armies of low paid workers in Africa label images in order to create training data for AI."

6 figures to block someone you sexually assaulted from a city council position is actually WILD.

There are more than 11,000 kinds of birds. I evaluated them all and made a definitive list of the 100 greatest names. I consider myself a bird name connoisseur but these blew me away. Over the next 10 days I'll add them to this thread. This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

I am really curious as to whether ostensible Dem leaders like Cory Booker will ever come around to the idea that "some of you voters really suck!" is a shitty electoral message. It would be interesting to make Booker explain what he thinks he is trying to accomplish with these remarks--I've no clue.

I wrote a whole book about AI but I agree with this completely — and also the implication that there are countless other areas of research more important than AI.

We all have days like this

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Ofc, there's nothing new about this. And (for me at least) D&G help with making sense of how sadism and desire for one's own repression go hand in hand in (broadly speaking) fascist movements

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

I think the biggest thing you hear from the left is that there is somehow always hundreds of billions of dollars to fight horrifying wars of choice that presidents force upon us, and which kill many thousands and echo for decades, yet there isn’t enough money to make sure basic human needs are met.