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If you’re voting in the CA governor’s race, you should know the current front runner, Xavier Becerra, fought to sidestep the constitutional ban on executing intellectually disabled people —by trying to artificially inflate a Black man’s IQ. Sadistic. More: theintercept.com/2026/05/19/x...

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Incredible- Trump's $2 billion taxpayer-subsidized slush fund comes with a legal disclaimer that basically says "we are not responsible for any crimes committed with this money"

The $1.7 billion would be enough to give all of these thugs $1 million each, with $100 million left over.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Corey Minor Smith of Canton, Ohio holds a “Black Voters Matter” sign while marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on May 16, 2026. Faith leaders gathered in Selma Saturday for a prayer event as part of the “All Roads Lead To The South” protests. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector)

Lots of concerns for a blob of cells but not for the person that blob of cells becomes.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

If people can get through their thick skulls that it BENEFITS SOCIETY, GROWS OUR ECONOMY, AND LOWERS COSTS FOR THE GOVERNMENT WHEN CHILDREN ARE FED, EDUCATED, AND TAKEN CARE OF.

Imposing real, criminal consequences for the Hegseth/Miller/Trump drug boat murders must be a top priority for the next administration. It would be a catastrophic moral failing to let them go unanswered.

Alas, by an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court also clears the way for Texas to execute an intellectually disabled man in violation of the 8th Amendment. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

This is truly disturbing and yet causes barely a small ripple in our discourse. And where is the rest of the press corps ready to back up their peers. This is the press corp who goes to the WHCD and who most of the US gets their news from.

An ICE removal flight operated by Journey Aviation just landed in Myanmar--the second time this year. Migrants onboard will have been shackled for 19+ hours. Previous Burmese deportees were immediately sent to a nearby torture prison, per @jamesstout.bsky.social. gillianbrockell.com/three-craven...

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

it's worth reflecting on the crisis in Lowndes County, Alabama, in light of the Supreme Court eviscerating the Voting Rights Act Black residents wouldn't be forced to live in filth if they had political influence and a government that responded to their needs ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

You need to read the whole thread - and then get angry - and then find a candidate to work for.

@knitterkim.bsky.social I haven’t seen this movie either but I really trust David so this might be your answer

The U.S. killed two more people in a boat strike in the Pacific Ocean yesterday. One person is still missing. 193 people are now dead from extrajudicial boat strikes.

I need white people in hella white states to think about what they are saying when they insist redistricting blue states will solve the problem that Black people in Memphis just got disenfranchised. Redistricting Colorado is not gonna solve the problem. There's like 16 Black people in Colorado.

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are mass murderers. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

I've spent more than six months job hunting, only to continue to be unemployed, so I've decided to officially set up shop & put my skills & experience to work for others. If you have boring admin tasks you need done so you can focus on what you enjoy, get in touch. billiebookcom.wordpress.com

More premeditated killing outside of armed conflict. There's a word for that. 2nd boat bombing in two days. The Trump administration is keen to share the snuff films from these strikes, but is strangely unwilling to identify these "Designated Terrorist Organizations" or release the OLC opinion.

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

This is a cruel betrayal of the values our nation stands for. They are coming for SSI, and they are hoping you aren’t paying attention.

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

Another person has died in ICE custody. 33-year-old Denny Adán González died on Tuesday in Georgia. Authorities claim he died by suicide. González is the 18th person to die in ICE custody this year—this is also the 18th week of 2026.

The next reconstruction: - Expand the House to 700 Seats - Use MMP to create a multi-party system with PR - Use RCV for US Senate elections - End the filibuster + add DC - Limit the power of the Supreme Court - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Term limits and ethics rules for the court

Been sitting with how many Black Civil rights leaders bled and died to ge the voting rights act only for it to be struck down by this white supremacist supreme court. This is from bloody Sunday which catalyzed passage of the VRA. It's hard not to shed tears at what we've lost.

ostracization SOUNDS like it's the process of slowly being turned into an ostrich, but it really just means being excluded from a group. i guess there's two types of ostracization and only one of them is good. qwantz.com/index.php?co...

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

Just a reminder that you can order audio books from @libro.fm - avoid the big orange giant. Same ease of use. AND they donate to any local book store that you designate.

Regular reminder that we still need a lot of help in Minnesota and this is the best website to find out things you can do to help. (Though I also share fundraisers and such on here sometimes, I haven't been online as much lately.)

“Children and adults were laid on makeshift gurneys …These human caravans walked for hours in up to 104-degree heat in an attempt to reach medical treatment” Musk and Doge have so much blood on their hands www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

All adults and some children on ICE flights—some 50 flights a day now—are shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a chain around their waists. I have spoken to migrants and their attorneys who report being shackled for 50, 75, and 82 hours while being deported. Flight data backs this up.

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Yf thys skeet doth receive 3,000 reposts then the Tolkien Estate will sue Palantir.

Ok @davechen.bsky.social why am i hearing this from someone who is not you. Seems like a big f’ing deal, no?

I don't want Salah Sarsour to get lost in all the noise. Born in the West Bank, Sarsour was jailed by Israeli occupiers at 15, supporters say he was tortured. Just like today. After 30 years in the US, Sarsour is now sits ICE jail after being doxxed by Canary Mission and targeted by Marco Rubio

There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Don’t Cut Services. Tax the Ultra-Rich Instead. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/from...

This needs to blow up big.

"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced." This is how you do a just transition. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.