manchin and sinema were just the rotating villains. the real problem is dem leaders like schumer, pelosi, jeffries who cling to the rules and tradition instead of doing what the people keep voting for democrats to do. but folks like the below run interference for them.

Wow, "trickle down" really works for them.

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

Trump is openly a "spheres of influence" 'Realist', however crude. He will concede Ukraine to the Russian sphere but expects them to stay out of the Americas and the Middle East. Thinks Europe can defend itself. Less risky than the "roll back Realism" that NATO has pursued over the past 25 years.

Canada not addressing actual class-based economic issues per usual. This is what happens when a banker is a lesser of 2 evils. The NDP should be foaming at the mouth, smh.

which stage of democracy is this

#OtD 30 Apr 1883 author Jaroslav Hašek was born in Prague. Whilst most famous for writing the satirical anti-war masterpiece The Good Soldier Svejk, Hasek was also a soldier, an anarchist, a PoW, a drunk, a dog-stealer, a cook and much more stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1025...

Nato's just a street gang, not a defensive military alliance.

Damn

The Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority approves a 12-month moratorium on supplying water to data centers, blocking service to facilities including a planned $1.2-billion University of Michigan project. Read more: https://planetdetroit.org/2026/04/data-center-water-moratorium-ypsilanti/

Ok this is really cool. Researchers at the Institute of Materials Science of Seville have created a hybrid device that can generate energy from both sunlight and rainfall. A single raindrop can generate a potential difference of 110 volts, enough to power a small portable device.

"To name it [after its Old Testament monikers] is to claim it," as the old saying goes.

The two takeaways of the Great Gerrymander War of '26 are: 1) No one whines or pouts like a Republican partisan. They fuck around, then go to straight-up tantrum when any finding out occurs. 2) Shit is ridiculous. In a real republic, electoral districts would be set by non-partisan entities.

"Win" and go home might be the most likely outcome.

Maybe he could actually govern like he means it.

If what you are for is a return to the status quo under Biden/Harris, then you're toast, probably even in the Dem primaries.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI: "It is sad that for too many Americans when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, they have to turn to a history book."

This is looting of a government by its leader and his family in such a bold and open way that a Boss Tweed or Huey Long would have stood righteously opposed and explained to underlings that they should dare. It's stealing in plain sight. And everyone involved will need to be one day prosecuted.

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives." www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

this is just fox news culture war bullshit that frames folks who work in academia or entertainment as the elite in order to deflect anger away from billionaires. once you accept that the nyt is just a bog standard republican paper, it falls into context and makes perfect sense.

You must vote in the Dem primaries so there is a strong nominee, the best in decades, rather than a retread hack from the DNC. Someone worth putting into office, in other words.

"Large measure?" Oh sure, blame the foreigners. The US has enough home-grown hard right activists and donors (and a feckless opposition party) to account for everything that's happening.

The lyrics 👏https://x.com/sanambna/status/2042709664475811864

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...

It’s fairly telling of the order of things that Canada almost immediately defaulted to the government taking a financial hit to provide gas price relief, without paying for it through a windfall tax even being floated as a serious possibility.

In the words of the late, great Molly Ivins, “I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one”

Strikes me that the lifetime of Hampshire might also be seen, retrospectively, as the length of a certain American period.

Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.

Early in the Lost of the Sea treaty process 40+years ago, the US got freedom of the seas and innocent passage through straits (what they wanted) and blocked everything else. Now they may lose that because unilateralism can work for others, not just superpowers.

See also: Gowan and Men Without Hats. I really enjoy CBC’s weekend show with Bill Roach. He’ll play lots of East Coast and Canadian artists.

A message for Nova Scotia.

Dawn, Day, Dusk

Amia Srinivasan’s “Sex as Pedagogical Failure” should be required reading. Whenever a man in position of authority pursues a subordinate woman, he is changing her trajectory in that space forever. The research on how much even “consensual” affairs hurt the women involved is jaw dropping.

Ever wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311.    311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small.    So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.

Stumbled across some rare blue eyed soul this morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTr0...

Untranslated headlines in German are much clearer than New York Times headlines in English

College coaches have got their way (for now) thanks to their soul mate in the Presidency. There is nothing these coaches hate more than athlete freedom because coercion is the governing logic of college sport. Limiting transfers was always their top priority. www.on3.com/news/donald-...

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."

Like clockwork.

Stephen Lewis, a longtime politician and diplomat, has died at 88. Days earlier, his son Avi was elected leader of the federal NDP.

Yes, the 'security dilemma' is standard fare in first and second-year university courses. Needs to be more widely appreciated.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

WTF are we doing here?!? Sanctions for the victims and moral support for the aggressors who have their sights on us as well. I hate having morals while my country is on the wrong side of history!