“Cotton-picking hands” aimed at a Black man in 2026, and Republicans still have the nerve to ask why Black voters want nothing to do with the party of bigots. 📌 A host referred to Hakeem Jeffries as having “cotton-picking hands,” and Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans responded: “Yes to that.”

Meanwhile in Russia: famed film director, former State Duma member Vladimir Bortko asserted that Russia can restore Internet access and defeat Ukraine in 2 weeks, but only if it uses tactical nuclear weapons. He claimed that millions of Russians concur. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyWI...

The University of Nebraska is home to the only federally funded quarantine unit in the U.S. and a separate biocontainment unit that can treat people exposed to infectious diseases. n.pr/4twfDA5

Rep. Harriet Hageman insists that there is no racism on the right and that the Aryan Nation, Nazis, and KKK are all "far-left groups": "They've never been associated with the right, they've always been associated with the left." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

This is an oil markets/oil industry publication, covering the oil shock we're about to have. Please repost this. www.icis.com/chemicals-an...

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So grotesque and awful. And these companies won’t stop until there are genuine consequences for their depraved indifference to the harm they cause.

There are dumber products with no use than AI. Robot dogs, for example. On the security issues, physical danger, and design flaws of these surveillance nightmares. (23:52) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8W...

recently I ate at a KFC in Guilin and they put tons of mayo on everything in fact I can once again confirm that there’s a ton of mayo in food in East Asia

this isn't correct lots of eliminated Humanities departments were overfilling classes and effectively subsidizing STEM programs that cost universities money it was never about majors it is about what they could effectively fundraise for which includes this AI bullshit

There may be a plan for that. 🤣

If anyone’s interested. SUDEP.org I had no idea how many people, especially young people die of epilepsy. I will be putting David’s story on there next week. I will not let his death be forgotten or disregarded. #RaiseAwareness

These people realize that Elon wants to cut social security and medicare right? youtu.be/PTOVLIxJ-EM

“Mildly” positive? Is that like being “mildly” pregnant? We are so fortunate that there are many, many excellent health professionals across the country doing their jobs well. But the ongoing incompetence at the top from HHS is embarrassing and dangerous.

Are we sure Chad Bianco is a “former” Oath Keeper? Because here he is defending the white nationalist militia group again.

"Foreign actors exploiting Alberta separatist debate to stoke discord, researchers say" www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Why is everything so stupid now?

5/8/1821 — b. Ella Gibson Hobart, American, author, educator, army chaplain. Editor,writer for U.S. freethought nwsppr ‘TheMoralist’(1890s). Became an atheist; wrote“The Godly Women of the #Bible, by an Ungodly Wmn of the 19th Century”(1878) #womenshistory #womenwriters #WriterSky #atheism #religion

This one is quite revealing: The Nebraska secretary of state has done so much to disrupt the normal functioning of elections, and STILL he is being challenged from someone with a more MAGA flavor. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Trump lashes out at Fox News, accusing the network of undermining MAGA and the Republican Party — and claiming that MAGA Republicans “hate Fox.” He blames Fox for making it hard for Republicans to win elections.

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?

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Have you called your mother? freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

The University of Michigan has sent a legal threat over a yearlong pause that would prevent water hookup to a proposed nuclear weapons research and AI data center. www.404media.co/university-c...

Reefer Madness

The fact it apparently needs everyone to say nice things about it like fairies lest they lose their spark really not disproving the “ai is a demon” theory innit

🚨While it’s fun to mock his idiocy, what Ron Johnson is doing here is advancing a very dangerous conspiracy theory. Because there are unhinged people who will believe this and act accordingly.

Kasparian continues her slide to the racist right.

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How can he possibly stay safe without a ballroom?

Of course she's saying this at the incubator of Christian Nationalism--Hillsdale...

Gee that's a shame...

Protesters staged noise demo through the rich Seattle neighborhood of #Laurelhurst that lobbied against noisy helicopters flying sick and injured kids over their mansions to Children's Hospital. 🤪 It got a bit noisy.

I know this isn't a quick fix, particularly in Virginia, but remember: SCOTUS probably isn't riding to the rescue. Rights and liberties increasingly depend on state courts. You can help: *Clerk in state courts! *Practice in state courts! *Try to become a state court judge!

there's no marcomentum, stop trying to make marcomentum happen.

LOL...sucks to be her. Serves this Dolores Umbridge wannabe right. (and yeah, the same goes for JKR) www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...

On the reasons for the rural/urban divide in voting. The current divide is very recent: Democrats and Republicans were much closer within my own lifetime. (20:18, Elephants in Rooms) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuhQ...

President Donald Trump handed a nearly $7 million no-bid contract to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to a contractor he said had worked on his private swimming pools — but the company's own website shows no expertise in swimming pools whatsoever.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

As extreme politics have normalized, young people have grown up not knowing any other way. For months, I've spent time getting to know 10 college students who literally do not recall a time in America without Trump. My latest for @thewesternedge.bsky.social www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-age-of...

Nine women were finally set to testify about how Tennessee’s abortion ban endangered their lives—until state Republicans abruptly halted the trial days before it began. msmagazine.com/2026/05/06/t...

Six months ago, the federal government indicted me, my friend Andre, and four others for protesting ICE. Our trial is this month and we are facing up to $250k in legal debt. Please help us win our case and protect all of our rights by donating to our legal defense: tinyurl.com/katandre

Pandemic Accountability Index, posted yesterday. RFK, Jr. admitted before Congress his son has long Covid. Had he and his handpicked lunatics not demonised vaccines and masking, perhaps his son would have been spared. Eugenics comes for everyone. www.panaccindex.info/p/rfk-jr-gav...

Outright lying again. They’ve committed both of those crimes, and “reasonable suspicion?” Of what? Not being Caucasian?

America is not “a nation that calls to God in prayer.” It’s a nation where people are free to pray, worship, or reject religion entirely without government telling them which choice is “American.”

#ProLifeMyAss Geez, the utter stupidity & disregard for life... WaPo: "Trump-appointed panel calls for slashing FEMA in half In its final report, the FEMA Review Council also recommended shifting leadership of emergency response and recovery to the states."

ICE agents storm Disney cruise docked in California and arrest multiple staff in front of passengers: reports