REI co-op members won't be silenced! On Wednesday, longtime members set up camp outside the Seattle flagship store in solidarity with @reiunion workers, who called for a boycott of the Anniversary Sale, which runs through Monday, May 25.

Russia hacked into real users’ Bluesky accounts to post fake content, the social media platform said.

Just finished Haunt Sweet Home by @sarahpinsker.bsky.social and can't stop smiling! What a fun read!

See you today, Nashville!

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)

Americans agree that corporate money in politics has gone way too far. This year, Montanans have a chance to do something about that.

Instead of trying to earn more votes, Republican officials across the South are executing a systematic effort to dismantle Black political representation in Congress through gerrymandering. It's time for broad reforms to end this kind of gerrymandering for good.

I just remembered the fireflies are coming soon. The fireflies!

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Justice Samuel Alito has fossil fuel stocks making up nearly a quarter of his personal investment portfolio. And he just voted to put a major climate accountability case on the Supreme Court’s docket after recusing himself from virtually identical cases for the exact same reason.

Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.

A win! Florida will shutter “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility.

Callais wasn't a surprise ruling. It was the finish line of a decades-long campaign to gut minority voting rights. And Republican legislatures across the South sprinted through it before the ink dried. But could it backfire on the very politicians it was designed to protect?

Orphaned hippo Bumpy just can't get enough of his keepers, following them everywhere and making sure he's always got one to nap on.

Happy change of government day, Hungary!

In Opinion The Pentagon’s $25 billion estimate for the cost of the war in Iran “gets a lot of attention, but it’s more of a headline than a real number,” the economist Justin Wolfers writes. “My math suggests the Iran war will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and very possibly trillions.”

Wages are not keeping up with skyrocketing inflation. Prices are going up on everything from rent, to groceries, gas, utilities and more. This is a cost-of-living crisis. We can start providing some relief by giving workers a raise NOW.

I've never heard earned wealth phrased this way, but she's right about it.

Consumer sentiment continued to decline this month, reaching a fresh record low as the war in Iran drags on, keeping energy prices elevated. https://cnn.it/4wAL5Qz

It is 2026. We have had one (1) president who was born after 1960. He left office a decade ago.

The Colorado House and Senate have both passed what would be the first comprehensive surveillance pricing ban in the country. Now Governor Jared Polis just needs to sign it.

Fucking racist complains people are mean to him for being a fucking racist

Crazy stat I just told @chrislhayes.bsky.social: Memphis has had its own congressional district since 1923 and now Republicans splitting it three ways to intentionally dilute Black vote

Exclusive: Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites since the war began, according to a Post analysis. The amount of destruction is far larger than what was previously reported.

“8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will” was the slogan of the workers who were killed in Haymarket Square while on strike in 1886. On the anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, we carry their strength in our fight for economic justice and workers’ rights.

In 1933, Justice Louis Brandeis said: “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” What he said was true 93 years ago. It’s even more accurate today. Let us choose democracy over oligarchy.

A team of scientists from China and the US have studied the makeup and behavior of plastics from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and found they are contributing to global heating, according to the study published in the journal Nature. https://cnn.it/4ulDMKm

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

And remember this is the same administration whose officials discussed live military strike plans in an unsecured Signal group chat. This isn’t just incompetence it’s a pattern of incompetence!

Attempts by elected officials and the courts to undermine our right to vote fly in the face of the principles of American democracy. Equal access to the ballot is fundamental to our nation.

May Day 2026! We marched to demand workers over billionaires. Now we work to make it happen. Organize a union in your workplace if you don’t have one. If you do, contact your reps to learn how you can step up to be a shop steward at your worksite or get more involved.

On International Workers’ Day, America’s unions celebrate the strength and solidarity of the labor movement, and we’re committed to building global worker power and justice. Solidarity forever ✊ #MayDay

Meta's tax rate for the first quarter of this year was negative 23%. That's in large part because Zuckerberg's company received a tax benefit from the government of $8.03 billion.

The Voting Rights Act was won through generations of organizing, with labor standing shoulder to shoulder in the fight. Today’s ruling weakens that progress and further silences Black and Latino voters. Voting rights are workers’ rights. We will keep fighting to protect both.

I agree with @seiupres.bsky.social: The rich and powerful change the rules when a diverse working-class movement rises. But power doesn’t come from a court – power comes from our unity. This May Day, workers will be in the streets to make our voices heard and show our solidarity.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais is not the end of the fight - it is a call to action, and we are answering it. RSVP now for an urgent conversation with legal experts from both the ACLU and LDF, and the clients from the case: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

BREAKING: Progressives in Congress just introduced a raft of bills to put money back into Americans’ pockets and kick big money out of politics. Half of Americans say it's tough to afford food. 44% say they can’t afford healthcare costs. 49% of households don’t make enough to cover essentials. 🧵

Bus Lane... or SCANDAL? 😱

Our 2026 Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect report is here. 380 U.S. workers die EACH DAY from hazardous working conditions. That’s unacceptable. A safe workplace is a right, and we’ll keep fighting to make that a reality. aflcio.org/dotj

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

If only the government showed up for people like it shows up for big corporations…

Here they are: our two top Iran negotiators. No diplomatic experience. In way over their head. Both with massive financial conflicts of interest, their fortunes tied to the Middle East dictators that make them rich. What a disaster.

Talarico is an important counterweight to growing Christian nationalism.

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 77% of Americans blame Trump for rising gas prices — including 55% of Republicans and 82% of independents.

Letters reveal a decadeslong strategy, starting with targeted programs for needy kids then expanding benefits to all families, by politicians, church officials, and activists who all believe that the separation of church and state is illegitimate. (Published Jan. 2025 w/ @newyorker.com)

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.