the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people despise them and what they make

Good morning good people ☀️

WALTER BAILEY: “Dr. King took a bullet in the neck. They were shot. Killed. Murdered. Advancing voting rights… it’s an insult to their legacy. To their deaths.” @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn SenJohnson BrentTaylorTN #Memphis

Shell made nearly $7 billion in profit in the first three months of 2026—double the previous period. BP's Q1 profits also doubled to $3.2 billion. While millions feel economic pain from the disruption of the Iran War, oil and gas companies are making massive sums of money.

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

This is the scene at the Tennessee Capitol as we get closer to a final vote.

"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."

Happy May Day!

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

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The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

They're calling it the last true example of bipartisanship in America: "Damn, he was fast as fuck huh?"

It's important to remember that, yes, sometimes good things still happen. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Thanks Barret ur right 🌍

It's always the ones you most suspect

“They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.” - Iggy Pop Happy Birthday to "The Godfather of Punk", born on this day, 1947 in Muskegon, MI. Musician, singer, songwriter, actor, punk legend and one of the most influential figures in rock history.

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

Anti-abortion extremists in Texas are using the courts to take aim at abortion pills. But they keep relying on plaintiffs who turn out to be controlling, manipulative, and abusive.

"My reps are conservative so I'm not gonna call them about issues." Yeah? And let them just go unyelled at by you? Come on.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

A) we don't own anything now B) the stuff we don't own doesn't work and can be taken away at a moments notice

@mayor.nyc.gov: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."

Mamdani: Democratic socialism viable anywhere. “...this is a politics that can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country – that’s the working class, and it’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of [public policy]..." www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...

mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally

. It real funny how Congress keeps failing by the exact number of votes needed to not do a single damned thing. .

(And All republicans voted to keep the deadly gravy train rolling, including bill and Marsha)

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

My theory on Starbucks: it caters primarily for that not insignificant sector of the market that likes the idea of coffee, but doesn’t actually like coffee.

I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.

Together, we are telling a new story of our city. New York belongs to all who live in it, not just a privileged few. And if we succeed here, surely it can be done elsewhere.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Corporations want you to think they're raising prices because they have to. The truth is that they're also raising prices to the point where they now have the highest profit margins in history.

Greta Thunberg is right.

I grew up in a rural, deeply red conservative area. Part of what drove me to the left was listening to the disgusting jokes "liberals" would make when rural hospitals closed. I was lucky and had educational and professional opportunities, but I'm not special or unique, I came from there too.

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

This is an SNL sketch Trump says U.S. will blockade Strait of Hormuz share.google/GGTefPUHmXCX...

A wonderful 38ft mural of the late great KURT VONNEGUT - who left us 19yrs ago today - in his hometown of Indianapolis.

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Big O sketch [ twitch.tv/genczilla ]