It’s time. Meet in Selma. Saturday, May 16th. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

Chicago teen battling terminal cancer dies hours after reuniting with parents An 18-year-old Chicago resident battling terminal cancer has died, just one day after being reunited with his parents following their release from U.S. immigration custody.

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

Republicans now appear poised to emerge with an advantage in Trump’s gerrymandering war after the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the Democrats’ voter-approved map. But plenty of caveats remain. https://bit.ly/3Pyez0x

“keep paying the dick forward”

Top nutrition experts question the protein push, saying Americans already consume more protein than they need, and there's no new evidence that people need to drastically ramp up consumption. https://to.pbs.org/49xi92c

“.. most months it’s the No. 1 consumer of water in the county.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

If we play our cards right, soon we’ll be able to send handguns through the postal service but not birth control or ballots

Officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.

RUSSIA BREAKS CEASEFIRE Russian attacks against Ukraine killed at least one civilian and injured at least 19 others over the past day, during what was supposed to be a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, regional authorities reported on May 10.

World on the brink of food crisis www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Alarming changes are being implemented in more than 50 national park sites in the Lower 48 states. A leaked memo directs park staff to weaken hunting and trapping regulations, threatening the long-term protection of wildlife and visitor safety. https://bit.ly/4umwvtG

I'm hearing there may be more nuance to this story, so I'm deleting the post in this screenshot for now because I like to be as accurate as possible. I'll link addenda to this post. tl,dr: This may be a screw up in billing instead of theft. I still have questions, but not full answers yet.

Always found this to be inspirational. 🦋🦋🇺🇦🇺🇦📎📎⚓️⚓️

A reminder whenever Trump posts these cartoons pretending to be on the front lines of any conflict: He sought and received five deferments and didn’t serve in the Vietnam War. He’s happy to wage wars, but happier still to have other people fight them.

Next week, the importance of personal ties will be on display again when Donald Trump, who regularly boasts of his own close connection with his Chinese counterpart, embarks on a two-day visit to see Xi Jinping in Beijing. by Joe Leahy & Demetri Sevastopulo

We’re going to need a longer Harper’s letter

Pedophiles R Us. Trump blocks visas for Costa Rica's leading newspaper because it broke a sexual abuse scandal involving the country's current president, who is a Trump ally, and like Trump, a pedophile.

gross

Exclusive: Israel built a secret military post in Iraq to support its campaign against Iran and launched strikes on Iraqi troops who almost found it early in the war.

In a state like Mississippi, which has no universal early-voting options and only limited absentee-voting options that most can’t take advantage of, knowing where to go on Election Day matters. Even small hurdles can add up and deter turnout. Mississippi’s 2024 turnout was just 57.5%.

The killings mark the third attack in May alone by the US military in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The Art of Hoping for a Deal

Black residents of Memphis should figure out what nearby white districts they can move into, in order to retake their political power. Then threaten to move, en masse. If anything can make GOP bigots reinstate Memphis as a Black district, it's the fear of having Black families moving next door.

“I got a chance to be a clerk for like three hours.”

Just a reminder that corporate media will happily launder any politician as long as they talk to them and play the game. You can carry out any war or genocide or kill literally millions of people and they'll slop up this bullshit for you if you give them a minute of useless, meaningless chit-chat.

Keep in mind the gop has expressly said this is what ice was mesnt to do

Some progressives believe Biden's "mental fitness" mattered in some objective sense while getting very upset by the fact that the press corps almost entirely ignores Trump's lunacy. Guess what? They were only pretending to care about Biden's mental fitness and you fell for it.

I believed then and believe now that the decision by Democratic elites to stab Joe Biden in the back triggered a crisis of faith among the party's most reliable voters.

No justice on the Georgia Supreme Court has lost an election in more than 100 years. That is in part the product of an election system that has shielded judges from competition and limited voter turnout.

Residents say a major data center project, backed by “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary, could endanger the area’s water supply and quiet atmosphere.

In the richest country in the world, you shouldn't have to sell your blood to afford groceries and rent.

NEW: The National Trust for Historic Preservation has filed it's response to Todd Blanche's wackadoo midnight motion to dismiss the injunction barring Ballroom construction (the one that read like a Truth Social post. They open by listing several lies Blanche told in his motion: 1/

We need something like this for Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and every county in every state across the country.

This was one of two “you’re all so utterly fucked” moments, the other being his statements that (while he ofc can’t speak to any specific NOFO), “some” of the pop centers should surely continue to exist, but the direction at NIH will be to have far fewer such things & more “bottom-up opportunities”

…For those who weren’t there, something I didn’t post about (because we pivoted from policy to pop centers and I wanted to listen closely) was Bhattacharya’s absolutely astonishing claim that research evaluating the health effects of public policy is out of scope for NIH-funded research.

More like this. Much more.

NEW: zeteo.com/p/texas-ice-...

Roberts $20 Million Bribery Scandal Justice Roberts failed to recuse from more than 500 cases argued at the Supreme Court by law firms that paid his household Millions. He wrote the Court’s ethics code, designing it to be unenforceable. Corrupt open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

Andy Ogles claims that Democrats are not Tennesseans.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

More performative premeditated killing by the Trump administration. The administration is happy to share these snuff films but won’t release the DOJ permission slip for this slaughter at sea—or even identify these “Designated Terrorist Organizations.”

A long read that I promise is worth your while and much more entertaining than reading the president’s social media feed >>>

China’s exports jump 14% ahead of Xi-Trump summit ft.trib.al/42GEQ6B

Our government is lying to us.

⚡️US falls below Russia in survey of global perceptions. The global perception of the United States has fallen for a third consecutive year, now ranking several spots behind Russia, a survey commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies Foundations revealed on May 7.

The White House ballroom lawsuit just escalated. The preservation group suing Trump says DOJ made multiple “false statements” in court and delivered this brutal line: “All of this may be standard fare for a social media post. But in a federal court filing, it is neither appropriate nor permitted.”