The only thing this new provision accomplishes is to convert the current flat prohibition into a court order requirement—one that is easily met, given that a FISA Court order based on a mere showing of relevance (not probable cause) is sufficient under the bill. 12/18

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

This is why I have the unpopular opinion of HATING those cheeky "Make America Woke Again" or whatever, slogans. It feels subversive but it's actually amplifying and recalling the original message. Hell, tongue-in-cheek red hats of any kind are a no go at this point for the same reason.

misogyny, racism, & fascist ideologies ai systems encode and exacerbate that we've been telling you about for yrs never went away. it's just that governments & those in position of power said "we don't care about that. just adopt ai at whatever cost"

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

I am not a moral absolutist but I am very anti-liars. People who lie casually just cannot be trusted with anything. It does not matter how much they agree with people on a policy matrix, there is so much more to power than just policy.

No it the fuck was not.

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

NEW: In the morning, lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to a $580 billion transportation bill that would make federal highway funds contingent on states and cities killing off their automated license plate reader programs, i.e., Flock, in most cases.

this is just one more blatant example, and i’m glad some people are calling it out.

By the mid-1970s, we had accomplished many of the aims of the civil rights movement and we had enshrined abortion rights into law. Today, almost all of that has either been wiped away or is currently being rolled back as we speak. This is a radical moment in American history, and we must meet it.

I can say this for Alito his ability to be pissy little bitch is unrivaled peerless in the little bitch field

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Marginal tax rate at the end of a pitchfork is 100%

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away

Never thought I’d be living in a world so shitty that I’d find myself saying WHO CARES ABOUT UFO PICS RIGHT NOW

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

We is phenomenal and in my experience American readers are bored by it because they are trained in school on the literature inspired by it; & feel loke it's derivative (even though it was the progenitor!) but Zamyatin kicks ass and everyone should read it.

The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option

Little Shop of Continuing Horrors Until Morale Improves

What would the sequel be called?! - More Little Shop of Horrors - Little Shop of More Horrors - Little Shop of Horrors 2 - Midsized Shop of Horrors This might break me.

I take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

I write about people who became famous for saying and doing horrible things so I routinely get asked this question. "Did they really believe it?" Look, I get the curiosity, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what's in their hearts. They put evil into the world.

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got rid of for this year, and next. It could save rural hospitals, pay teachers, fix roads.

I wish every one of these judges would be forced to do a 9 month course of hormones mimicking pregnancy. You should have to deal with the vomiting, the fatigue, the mood swings, the body aches, the myriad other physical problems that manifest from this condition before you get to rule on abortion.

The new civil rights movement has to include reparations. It's well past time we as a nation acknowledge that our laws have consistently and persistently oppressed Black Americans for the purpose of enriching and empowering White Americans.

When you call misogyny misogyny, you're allying with the victims of it and maybe rendering the misogynists uncomfortable, and you're also telling the truth. Whose comfort matters? Matters more than truth? The Times and a lot of the mainstream has been telling us conservative white men come first.

04/28/2026

A senior staff scientist at Google’s artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind, Alexander Lerchner, argues in a new paper that no AI or other computational system will ever become conscious.

Omg he did the meme lolol

Personal plea to post stuff on craigslist and not just FB marketplace. We will never be free of Mark Zuckerberg if we do not use available free tools like craigslist, which existed BEFORE facebook, and instead only use these gated, corporate surveillance driven technologies. I'm begging, please

No greater relief in this world than getting a work email buzz buzz on my phone and checking it to remember that I literally just emailed myself something. Me to me, no reply expectations 10/10 feeling

it hurts everybody to take away benches because unhoused people use them to sleep. but you know who it hurts most? people who don't fucking have anywhere to sleep

and bathrooms, too. "but people will use it for drugs or make it dirty" then fucking provide them with needle dispensers etc and frequent cleanings. it's this way in other places in the world. Montreal has them everywhere. make it so people aren't desperate and the "problem" with it will go away

This article neatly explains the way that excessive wealth accumulation breaks a person's capacity to experience empathy. Something I've always suspected, but have never been able to articulate well. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

one required, but sadly enormous, shift in the way americans view things: recovering an understanding that a democratic government is a collective enterprise that should deliver tangible services and benefits to people

Working as a program associate for the Brennan Center was a formative experience for me - highly recommend to any recent college grads interested in pursuing careers in civil rights, law, and/or policy!

As a social scientist, I would hold a multidisciplinary conference on this before drawing broad conclusions, but as a preliminary TL;DR, yeah, this sounds right. Say it with me and support Dems who will campaign on it - "Never again a country without consequences." bsky.app/profile/asel...

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

That's two weeks to file of impeachment. That is the Congress's only job. That's it. Nothing else.