Now just ask yourselves what happens when you let abusers write the laws to govern us all

Hear them out:

Don't look away. Anti-Black racism is the biggest problem we all face, yes, even from the most selfish fucking view. We must eliminate the white-supremacist power structure NOW.

YES!!! “My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

interestingly under callais the only black lawmakers who could escape constitutional scrutiny are those elected by white voters, which is a pretty clear statement of who gets to be a legitimate political actor

the way to think of this is that it is the judicial version of “you’re the real racist for noticing my racism or even thinking about race”

“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”

Short thread but I 100% agree with it. Sexual harassment by a person in power shows that person is an abuser of power.

Many people think of politicians' sexual harassment as a personal failing or private or adjacent to their real job or a character flaw. But it *is* how these men relate to power, not a distraction but a crystallization of their self-understanding of authority. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

People who are PAID to do politics should STFU if they are only "raising alarms."

Until you know have every single fact, there are literally infinite possible futures. This means there is always hope. Unfortunately, I may not hold enough facts to solve the world's biggest problems, but no matter what, I hope to inspire those smarter #UniteForDiversity #ProtectTheVulnerable

we should talk more about the fact that portland police funding per capita is much closer to the US average than our police officers per capita

Seriously, fuck this. I'm so sick of our profession's cowardice. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:

data centers and stadium funding really are starting to feel like areas where centrists are walking into a public opinion buzzsaw

The widespread corruption of this administration and aggressive efforts to decrease Democrats' chance to win elections are in overdrive — but that is because the current Trump admin/GOP leadership understands the clock is ticking down until their powers will be constrained and, hopefully, ended.

my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep

Even with ALL the advantages in the world they don't want to compete. Weak incompetence. They know they're nothing without an unfair advantage.

There aren't even enough of us in the country to be any real threat to WM's jobs on a mass scale. The goal is OBVIOUSLY all white everything no matter what.

The New York Times treats Republican lawmakers like hapless bystanders rather than willing co-conspirators in the illegal war with Iran.

I like that he lumps “tax experts” in with “radical opponents”. Like the worst people who could be speaking up right now are experts in the field who understand the underlying economics. ACK! Don’t listen to them! Listen to me, the sports columnist!

"What Portland is at risk of experiencing is completely without precedent."

"Radical opponents"? You mean 50 years of economic research that consistently finds sports venues of all forms, location, and funding strategies fail to pay off. No worries, "what Portland is at risk of experiencing is completely without precedent." THIS ONE WILL BE DIFFERENT!

"Your local Target store could soon look different" if it does, I'll never know about it.

I put together a state-by-state breakdown of the Southern rush to crush Black representation. Infuriating

It's been a year and four months since I've been inside a target, so I wouldn't even know if anything has changed. My boycott is still going strong.

The DOJ targeting the 44 Black kids at Yale Medical School as “discriminatory against whites and Asians” makes me sick. Asian people taking part in this is sickening to me. Love to those handful of kids. They have worked so hard smh. This is all just sick.

hey bestie! have you voted yet? get your friends together for a ballot party and carpool to the nearest dropbox to you at sos.oregon.gov

194 people killed by US military boat strikes. No trials. No public evidence. Ever. Some were fishermen. It took 20 journalists 5 months just to name and identify 13 of the dead. This isn’t a drug war. It’s the blatant execution of poor people. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AFeRtpmL6Qba...

The group Win With Black Women is launching a grassroots campaign in response to the rollback of voting rights. The mass mobilization movement will start on May 16, when thousands will descend on Alabama. https://capitalbnews.org/black-women-mobilize-voting-rights-alabama/

Voters in Oregon are not demanding en Masse that we institute a Reaganite tax revolution in our state. This is the wet dream of the small group of right-wing and corporate insiders who think they can bully it through and nothing more. People want the exact opposite.

What kind of bubble do journalists & political consultants live in where they think that there is a mass, popular call to destroy social and environmental programs? This is just the same corporate bullshit astroturfing that’s been happening since thr 1980’s. Only suckers & liars talk like this.

I'm so old I remember when money could not be drawn out of the Treasury unless appropriated by the Congress

Let’s not doubt Trump reportedly agreeing to take $1.7 billion of our taxpayer money rather than $10 billion is any less of an egregious abuse of power.

FRIDAY

“Women are facing an economic apocalypse. Democrats have no plan for them. Republicans have a plan, & it’s a one-way ticket back to housewifery. The girl bosses who once promised us we could have it all are now selling the same uncritical AI takes as the men.” Sobering by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

It’s unacceptable to cut the nearest fire engine to the CEI Hub, particularly as we head into a hot, dry summer. So I’m offering an amendment to chop from the top to restore that and an emergency medical response team.

The article states that "Alito does not own stock in either ExxonMobil or Suncor Energy." Alito doesn't own individual stock in Exxon, but he does have up to $100k in a high-yield ETF where Exxon is the third largest holding. As the coalition letter shows, his conflicts are broader than that.

Rainier, St. Helens, Hood, Jefferson, Adams, Baker.

All the seven dwarves except Straighty.

what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only

AbFab I Me Thee Rest We

I don’t talk much about real life publicly but I want to congratulate several of my comrades who recently gave fire public comment on data center moratoriums in their towns. A small group of folks collaborated on research, messaging and delivery. They did great. ❤️

👀 Amazing victory!

If good people stop trying to do the right thing, how the hell are we going to have a future. Anti-Black racism is the biggest problem and it MUST BE ELIMINATED

As someone of almost all Scottish-English-Irish heritage, let me just say FUCK THE ENGLISH WORSHIP. FUCK THE ANGLO-SAXON HERITAGE EVIL BEING SPOUT BY THE US GOVT

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Incredibly surreal moment to be on The Dig, and with so many huge and impressive lefty candidates❣️ Democratic socialist candidates nationwide are rising up and offering a real vision for a better world. What if we could afford the things we need? What if we didn’t have to worry?