"American political culture will be fixed when it’s considered just as rude to praise corporate power as it is to make a racial or gender-based epithet" - Matt Stoller, Big newsletter on Substack, sign up for the free tier level

Funny Conan O’Brien Delivers the Commencement Address | Harvard Commencement 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3fC...

Ronny Chieng Address | Harvard Class Day 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORq_...

Ossoff: "Last week, yet more Americans were wounded in a war nobody voted for & nobody can explain. This war in Iran is worst foreign policy blunder since Iraq, & just like the Iraq war, it's a war built on lies. Let's update the record. On day one Trump said it was running 'ahead of schedule' ... "

Like Nazi Germany in WWII, Genocidal Israel today is willing to take the whole world down for its insane colonial ambitions www.youtube.com/watch?v=e03w...

Larry Johnson predicts the next several phases of Ukraine and Mideast war games and has some good news www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayb1...

CLOSE DELANEY HALL. CLOSE THEM ALL.

Was trying to figure out who the hell Nick Bilton is, and I was happy to learn he's already been sent to The Hague

I know what hell has ready on the menu for Greg Gutfield, when he arrives

Can't make it to the Halifax public library or don't want to wait through the long holds for the book at the library? Get your own copy of If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy today! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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I want you to hear straight from me about what happened at Delaney Hall on Monday and what I saw inside the facility. ICE out of control. GEO Group profiting off of human misery. People living in inhumane conditions. Let me walk you through it.

They are just going to toy with Iran, and dilly dallying …..why? So Bibi can obliterate Lebanon while the headlines focus on Iran.

Out now! David Beckmann calls us to push back, restore progress against injustice, and turn values into action. With a foreword by celebrated writer Rick Steves. Order now: https://bit.ly/3OxwJPz Read a preview: https://bit.ly/481Lzo6

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 We learned people detained inside Delaney Hall in Newark say prisoners are being beaten by guards and that some kind of chemical is being deployed inside. @jordanchariton.bsky.social and Jon Farina are LIVE NOW on Status Coup’s YouTube.

Tramp's slush fund to pay the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups who commit violence in his name is an unprecedented attack on democracy. Rob Weissman of Public Citizen explains. Also the rise and fall of Bill Gates. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

How German Media Coverage of Gaza was as toxic or more toxic than US corporate coverage of Gaza (4-26-26) www.merip.org/2026/04/how-...

I do want to point out I have been asking media CEOs about Google Zero for at least three years and the industry basically did nothing to recapture their audiences or distribution

LIVE NOW: Join me as I announce NEW action to safeguard California’s elections. YouTube: youtube.com/live/9IbJgXW... Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/15460... Instagram, X, Twitch: @CAgovernor

NEW EPISODE: We are at the most critical point in redistricting since the Callais decision -- with key developments in Alabama, Florida and South Carolina. What happens in the coming days will define the maps for 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=40rS...

NEW: “We’re all paying heavily for sprawl, whether we live there or not, and we’re all financially benefitting from infill housing, whether we live there or not.” Happy to be part of this outstanding, devastating, evidence-based article on the BIG COSTS of bad planning. Via @nationalobserver.com.

Give to candidates directly. Give to county Democratic parties. Avoid super PACs unless you know exactly who is behind it and know them well.

(RNS) —Starting from the centrality of the human person, Pope Leo XIV offers a series of reflections to help guide the world through the challenges and risks posed by AI.

Massachusetts is now the first state to certify a rideshare driver union after granting Lyft and Uber drivers' collective bargaining rights. This is the largest new private-sector union in over 85 years. 70,000 workers are now represented by the App Drivers Union.

*The Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV released his first papal encyclical calling out the dangers of artificial intelligence and urging the safeguarding of the human person* #AI www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The overall number of Catholic nuns continues to plummet; the average age of an American sister is 80. Yet driven by a desire for radical peace and deep community, these young women are entering religious vocations guardianbookshop.com/convent-wisd...

Nuns are having a moment. It’s not the religion women crave, ​rather, it’s sense of purpose, community and peace​ . . . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Glenn Diesen & Einar Tangen discuss the hegemonic, 1984 Epstein Class leading Europe US and NATO into decline by every metric. They can’t accept we’re already in a multi-polar world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V8u...

He's completely incompetent, even apart from being deranged.

Can we all now agree that running the government like a business was an incredibly stupid idea?

“Justice Jackson told a gathering of the American Law Institute her colleagues' handling of the Louisiana case may have compromised the court's impartiality in political matters…” — To put it mildly. abcnews.com/Politics/jus...

When invited to work in Gothenburg, Sweden, we visited a site for a new park. I saw children helping design the park; over 100 different each day, for a school year. Rainy day? ‘No such thing as bad weather, it’s bad clothing’ Lifestyle. Scandinavian countries. World’s happiest.

@ProudSocialist on Twitter: Putting the common good over profit is the essence of socialism. Putting profit over people is the essence of capitalism. Without corporate media influence, people choose socialism over capitalism.

“The fact Chris Rabb was able to win in machine territory should send a shock wave to the Democratic establishment that base voters are upset and want transformational change,” said Joseph Geevarghese of Our Revolution. @rabbforcongress.bsky.social @apnews.com: tinyurl.com/ym5x87va

Vibrant and rare White Auroras appearing over Norway 🇳🇴

6 Greenville, SC residents, including at least 3 cops have been arrested & charged with child sex trafficking AGAIN—not immigrants, not trans people, not drag queens, not Black or brown people. And we will not hear Trump or any MAGA politician acknowledge this. These were cops. How deep is the rot?

Where’s all your money going when you pay your electric bill? It’s not going to where they say it is. It’s not building a better grid, but to a legal form of theft. open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...

Please join us and wish Doug Jones, Star Trek: Discovery's Saru, a happy birthday... send him a virtual hug (because he loves a good hug)! There's a new documentary about him that recently launched on Kickstarter.

The state of America in four panels.