President Commodus.

Who could have guessed that allowing masked agents to kidnap people off the street would inspire violent assaults by impersonators? www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

I’ve seen some changes in headlines before but wowee

This is the way.

Peter Thiel relocated his family to Argentina, enrolled his children in school there, and bought property in an attempt to avoid the Antichrist he helped get elected. After rumors surfaced that Trump wanted to “drill, baby, drill” for oil on his forehead. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

This is What Toxic Masculinity Looks Like

Everything this fucking regime does is one of the worst things I've ever heard of in my life.

Brother you right! They are! White folks are ok with this. That remains the problem. If they want fascism gone they can have it. They don’t because they are fascism. White supremacy empowered by a state is fascism. And they refuse to relinquish power as white even to get the yoke off all our necks.

scam likely

The whole “info bubble” discourse needs historicization. Why did Black Americans found/read the Black press? The mainstream press legitimized slavery, then spent a lot of breathless time justifying lynching, Jim Crow, and then mass incarceration. So damn, yeah, folks want other info environments.

Next week from @npr.org: “Abu Ghraib was originally conceived in the interest of unity and harmony—and the hoods and wires were originally meant to be cozy.”

AI Will Kill Us All

Yikes.

“Videos circulating online showed Greenlanders giving him the middle finger, children refusing MAGA hats, and one boy bluntly rejecting a photo request after Landry asked, “Do you want a picture?” and received a simple reply: “No.”

the democrats should outsource their rhetoric to tween and teen girls, the most vicious word assassins in all of creation

When a democratic president is underwater on approval the media interviews republican voters and when a republican president is underwater the media interviews republican voters

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

This focuses on her interactions and spends most of its argument trying to deny racism by claiming MAGA had inroads with Men of color before Obama This is what I anticipated but the fact the Atlantic published it is ghastly White women specifically helped us get here and this is how

We are gonna be well into white women having the “but women are next” Meanwhile DEI and Affirmative Actions biggest beneficiaries have always been them. Project 2025 AND Project Eve explicitly mention them And women of color are women This isn’t “privilege” it’s abusers demanding comfort

“Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience … More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves.”

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

But he’s going to make some shameless grifters a lot of money and that’s what it’s all about these days.

I admire the hell out of these Texas Tech students, who held a funeral for academic freedom: pen.org/texas-tech-a...

Books I Need

The kids are alright

Stop being villains.

This is Amerikkka

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.

The University of Iowa paid this bigot 34k for an hour of anti-intellectual (and anti-higher ed) propaganda. It is embarrassing that he has a platform outside of right-wing message boards, let alone at a state flagship.

This isn’t like letting kids use a calculator, this is more akin to letting kids smoke. The whole point here is pushing an addictive product and getting kids hooked on it early—not educational best practices. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

If party representation were equally distributed in Tennessee without gerrymandering, Dems would likely hold two or three House seats. Still, that didn't stop Gov. Lee from calling a special session with the goal of eliminating the only Democratic seat left in the state. --- @tennesseelookout.com

This reads like parody. As this administration shreds the Constitution, takes aim at free speech, and takes a hatchet to democracy, your last act on earth will be . . . a book condemning people who advocate for "open borders" and "defunding the police?"

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

The Department of Holy War www.vox.com/videos/48756...

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Okay, so do "left-leaning" people get to have rights or not? Is it now taboo to have a "political stance" if you are not the government?

Once again wrote about the bad faith jurisprudence that defines the Roberts era

New from me at the @brennancenter.org: Once again, Alito uses disingenuous reasoning and bad data to take an ax to the Voting Rights Act.

In celebration of May Day and the radical history of the working class, we've put together this Class War Reading List. See you in the streets tomorrow!

Pete Hegseth has refused to rule out sending troops to polling stations during November’s midterms.

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

I’m giving this as a gift to all the people in the last year who have said “I think [XYZ use] is bullshit, but some of the medical AI applications seem to be impressive…" where radiology is the most frequent example

Here's a transcript of this portion of Trump's speech. Startling to see such unabashed, settler colonial blood and soil stuff being spoken from a WH podium in the 21st century. FWIW, roughly 20% of the population of the colonies in 1776 was comprised of enslaved people of African descent.

The white nationalist undertones in this speech have been dramatically underreported. Trump says the colonists had British blood, the 1776 revolutionaries’ “veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage,” and criticized the notion that America is an idea. Echoed Vance’s blood and soil speech from last year.