You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

Yechiel Leiter, who is the Israeli ambassador to the United States, earlier today said that Bernie Sanders is not a Jew but instead a "a Communist, who may have Jewish pedigree". "That doesn't make him a Jew."

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

"Why doesn't the US have national health insurance?" Fascinating new paper from Alsan and Neberai out in QJE @qjeharvard.bsky.social finds: rise of private health insurance in the US was enabled by 'strategic, interest group-financed effort to shape citizen views and influence policy' #EconSky

It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.

Cornell just released this statement from its committee of Trustees investigating the incident where the President ran over a student's foot with his car. The statement extols the President and blames the students.

Bernie Sanders and AOC are more popular with voters overall than centrists like Gavin Newsom. So why is Third Way targeting popular political positions? Could it be Third Way is a corporate-funded mouthpiece?

Just read and loved The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @stephengrahamjones.com . I only moved to the US a few years ago and this is how I learned about the Marias Massacre. I thought I didn't like horror but turns out I don't mind it when I am rooting for the "monster".

Virginia should just proceed with the map anyway tbqh 🤷🏾‍♀️ reinstate the map their damn selves

chat is it good for a dictionary to be mad at you

Yesterday I got harassed in the NYC subway for the first time. A Chinese auntie spent a good while trying to convince me that I had to go watch Shen Yun. Apparently she has seen it five times this year. She saw me with an Every Brilliant Thing playbill and was like "oh, so you like plays ..."

You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:

Lol at people arguing about the framing of this post when the fucking problem is that the fossil fuel industry clearly wants Becerra to win.

They think that you’ll just move on after they dodged your question once or twice cause you have limited time. I’m more than happy to spend my entire time getting the answer to my damn question.

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

Matt just say the N word already.

There are so many Black self-liberation stories like this - just the coolest shit anyone’s done & I truly believe that if America liked stories of revolutionaries or rebels defeating elites as much as we used to act like we do we would have mined these types of stories more for film & television.

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

In case people think McMorrow's campaign is just alleging that El Sayed misled the public about practicing medicine (a thing he never claimed to do), here's her campaign communications manager claiming he doesn't even have medical credentials. He has a fucking MD and Public Health PhD

Eurovision voting has ALWAYS been dodgy. i talk about this on the Eurovision ep of Untitled History pod later this week. the difference now is that Israel weaponises the public voting in multiple countries. it doesn't break the rules. but it is so far beyond the spirit, it stains the whole event.

This is the very type of intentional racial discrimination that SCOTUS claims is still illegal even after Callais. SC is 25% Black but Norman says Black voters shouldn't be able to elect a candidate in any of the state's 7 districts

My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Thankfully I managed to be normal on this. I love all types of spicy food but have no interest in bizarre super spicy sauces just for the sake of it.

The progressive bloc in Congress, led by the same senator who is currently trying to block weapon sales to Israel, was the group responsible for rallying support for the first ever War Powers Resolution passed by both chambers of Congress— and it was about Saudi Arabia. The whininess is obscene.

As you can see, Arab Israelis enjoy full equalities, they even serve as public prosecutors

AOC is right to say this, and anyone who attacks her for it is wrong. And AOC should under no circumstances be labeled antisemitic.

Jewish people have described their own traumatic experiences of anti-Semitic behaviour by Farage. He has effectively called them liars. By inviting him, the BoD is taking his side. They absolutely would not do the same with anyone on the pro-Palestine left. It is blatant hypocrisy and it stinks.

Good points in this piece from Chris Rapley: "Not once in the history of human spaceflight has an astronaut been known to tamper with their life support system... Sabotage is unthinkable – socially intolerable... We are doing to our planetary life support what no astronaut has done to theirs. "

”Moderates” willingness to compromise with white supremacists bent on destroying Black political power destroyed Reconstruction and led to a century of Jim Crow. Democrats need to play hardball, not compromise with segregationists.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

when we say we’re living under fascism we mean we’re living under fascism

Never has an editorial screamed out for a "Now do highways and roads" response more than this one.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

Nayib Bukele has long targeted journalists with spyware and intimidated them into silence or exile. With this action against journalists at El Faro, which has done excellent work exposing Bukele's ties to gangs, El Salvador under Bukele continues its descent into authoritarianism.

Look, the Republican Party is pushing white supremacist policies to destroy our ability to change the system through democratic electoral politics. So it's time to stop giving their billionaire benefactors our money. Cancel ONE THING from a billionaire today. You can do it! #CancelParty

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

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“‘What’s happening right now is probably the swiftest disenfranchisement of Black folks since Reconstruction, due to disenfranchisement by racist gerrymandering. And they will lie and say that it’s for political purposes,’ said Democratic state representative Justin Pearson of Tennessee…”

Tomorrow is your last day to submit feedback on the so-called guidance the city so graciously gave us 45 days to respond to. You know what to do, right? Tell the DOE: No AI for kids, small class sizes, invest in teachers not machines, listen to parents. on.nyc.gov/AiFeedbackNY...

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.

was searching for something sciencey in the nyt archives and found a form of eugenics i'd never even heard of www.nytimes.com/1927/03/27/a...

Jack Smith got an indictment on election interference stuff, much of which was public knowledge. Garland's guys spent a year-plus not doing that because of Chickenshit Club brain www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/u...

hellgatenyc.com/nypd-shields... Thanks @hellgatenyc.com for your reporting on this

someone might want to inform NYT reporters that Sam Altman and Elon Musk are liars who don't actually support universal basic income (or any other social safety net provisions that take money out of their pockets)

NEW: Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

I've been accused of exaggerating or fabricating the things people say about drivers vs other road users before but a drunk driver deliberately driving on the sidewalk to try to mow down a child & multiple people replying to question the propriety of the child's behaviour is so fucking on the nose.