I’m not crying because of 2400 year old play I just have something in my eye

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

If Americans were literate of their own history they'd call the Civil Rights Movement the "Second Reconstuction." If they did, the parallels between the end of the First Reconstruction and now would be so obvious even our media wouldn't be able to miss them.

A reminder that in the 1960s, the tax rate for people making over $400,000 a year (roughly $4.5 million today) was 91%. It was 84.357% in the MAGA much-beloved 1950s.

The highway system will collapse, but your gas will drop from $6.59/gallon to $6.41/gallon. Sounds like a deal.

This is basically, "the middle class doesn't have to participate in society; we should help wealthier seniors intensify problems with social security's fiscal solvency; i dunno maybe say corporations should pay you more? i dunno. You like this stuff, right, piggies?"

this is why, when we win, we gotta win all the way.

The point isn’t to convict, which is out of the question. The point is to make it as clear as possible to the public that this is an illegitimate court by denying them the pretense of staying above the partisan fray.

Harris/Walz would’ve won if those fucking establishment consultant hacks had just gotten out of the way and let them say “These freaks are weird!” every day for three months and you’ll never convince me otherwise

The Confederate Party is showing why the VRA was so necessary. The only thing securing basic rights for the Black population in Southern states has been a federal government willing to wield power on behalf of enforcing civil rights.

Solar/battery has never been cheaper and Illinois is home to one of the US's few successful EV ventures, but sure, let's keep propping up the environmental catastrophe of ethanol subsidies so that downstate "farmers" can continue not voting for you

i bought this book for my godson (itll be a few years before he can understand it), because this book left an enormous impression on me as a kid. its the first time i saw vaccination explained, as an army you inject in your body to fight off illness. i hope he gets the same pro-science vibe from it.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

A n attempted shoe bomber was caught and everyone had to take their shoes off to get on a plane for years. ChatGPT aids and abets a mass shooting and higher ed/business is still trying to unquestioningly shove AI down our throat whether we want it or not. What the fuck are we doing?

they are supporting and celebrating each others achievements and they remind each other that boba fett's breakout success doesn't make them less than

Decided to reread this laughable piece by Josh Gottheimer and I just now realized that he's attacking *Rahm Emmanuel* here for being insufficiently pro Israel

#OTD On May 10, 1960, USS Triton completed the first submerged circumnavigation (Operation Sandblast). Led by Capt. Edward Beach, the 84-day, 26,000-mile voyage followed Magellan’s route, proving nuclear power's endurance. It surfaced only once for a medical transfer to the USS Macon. #navalhistory

The "I don't trust the COVID vaccine because they came up with it suspiciously quickly" to "I heard of the Hantavirus 96 hours ago and have determined that Ivermectin cures it" pipeline

She's also wrong on the facts. America didn't "choose developers over people," we made it illegal to build housing in the places people want to live.

Happy mother's Day, make her a roast chicken.

There will be many Democrats who argue that undoing all of Trump's tacky, trashy monuments to himself — from the reflecting pool to the arch to ballroom, etc. — will be "too costly" or a "distraction." Resist this way of thinking. All of it needs to be changed back.

Remember, if your mother sees her shadow this morning that means six more weeks of winter

"He captured Harper's Ferry, with his nineteen men so few, And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled through and through They hung him for a traitor, themselves a traitor crew, But his soul is marching on ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSn...

I don't know whether @aoc.bsky.social can win a race for Senate (or President) in the near-future. But the Dems (and the nation) definitely need someone with this type of attitude and ambition:

When you think about it, Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) would also make a pretty good theme song to The Godfather.

RFK Jr cancelling all the mRNA vaccine funding and redirecting the money to finding a cure for...

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

The speed with which institutions abandoned their DEI initiatives belied their lack of commitment to them in the first place. And the same holds true here.

This is going to be met with a bunch of "that will never hold up in court" responses. Ok. So do it anyway. Force this administration to make its preposterous masking arguments in front of federal judges. Make them defend secret police on the record. Go on the offensive.

The Confederate Flag should be treated with equal disdain to the Nazi Swastika flag. I'm a Jewish grandchild of Holocaust survivors. I'm not saying it lightly. If I ever see it in the wild it should be on fire.

Rep. Justin Jones burning a Confederate flag during the special session on Tennessee redistricting Jones: “It’s a form of Jim Crow terror — this is about race. This is about power. This is about silencing communities that have historically been excluded”

Judge Colleen McMahon (74 years old) has an objectively better understanding of LLMs than every single person affiliated with DOGE, including (ahem, especially) Elon Musk.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Atari Desk from 1983. The Return of the Jedi Collector Glasses are my favorite detail.

We've had plenty of career politicians serve as Chief Justice -- former senators and governors, even a former president -- and yet none was such a nakedly partisan political figure in their role as Chief as John Roberts. He is a political hack and I'm glad hearing that simple truth makes him sad.

I’m just trying to imagine the coverage a Democratic administration would get if gas was $4.55 and Dems were like, ‘Sounds great to us!’ Fox would be asking when white folk would be violently storming the Capitol. Again.

Kavanaugh worked for Kenneth Starr! The whole shtick of getting to be a federal judge is: * do significant political work to convince them your political convictions are real * shut the fuck up in public * act shocked that people think you are political

Prediction markets are websites where insiders who know how things will play out monetize that knowledge without worrying about insider trading laws

School vouchers are a scam, inviting fraud, waste, and abuse. Thanks to Arkansas's scam school voucher program, this abusive 'school' received $300,000 of public funds. These funds should have gone to Arkansas public schools, where they are urgently needed. More: forarpeople.org/jonesboro-fi...

Wut

If you wanted to see Keith Hernandez lady and the tramp a hot dog & you weren't just watching the Mets game, you missed your chance.

Manic Pixie Dream AI "You gotta hear this one song. It'll change your life, I swear." *45 seconds of modem noise*

Of course you can still pass a reconciliation bill with massive tax cuts with 50 votes. The things Republicans want to do, you can do with 50 votes. Any progressive policy? 60 votes. It's insane. We just let the GOP rig things to their advantage again & again.

Bert and Ernie should have their own show. I don't want to have to watch Sesame Street to see what they're up to. I'm not 5

It should probably be reckoned with that “working class” has always been a racially and gendered gated concept but at least historically it referred to an actual subset of the proletariat. Now it simply means rugged maleness having been fetishized and commodified and sanitized.

It’s Orson Welles’ birthday, so it’s time to reshare the video of him putting on theater makeup live on TV, then thundering through the Falstaff monologue by memory after he’s completely transformed himself.

this is cold and heartless of me but one takeaway I have from the Vitamin K story is that we have gotten way too soft on needle hesitancy and need to swing the pendulum HARD back towards "you are little pissbabies endangering [yourself/your child] because this medical necessity involves a poke"

I am really struggling to understand the Bert Callais news as anything other than evidence of how the Big Lie ideology has fully taken root. It is no accident that he was at J6, just like it is no accident that the justice writing the opinion flew an upside-down flag that day

I'm usually pro jobs, but I could get behind firing a bunch of on-air people and bringing back some one-person baseball announcing crews.