Obama and other liberals keep saying that they want a "strong GOP". Well, this is what it looks like: a brazen and gleeful rejection of Black people having anything worth respecting or defending and alignment with an openly white nationalist agenda that holds nonwhiteness in contempt.

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

The Trump regime has released their 2026 counter-terrorism strategy, declaring their focus will be on "identifying and neutralizing pro-transgender groups", comparing them (us) to cartels and Islamic terrorists, in order to "defend the homeland".

he is spiking your electricity prices

Classic

"Some of us were too quick to believe in a final cultural/political victory, confident that even as Republicans used their power to preserve emblems of the Confederacy and banish discussion of slavery and racism from schools, they were fighting a doomed rear-guard action." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Roberts has always been the respectable face for white supremacy. He's worked his entire legal career to dismantle the voting rights act and eliminate Black political power. This was always the logical end.

Maybe he meant they're not political actors in the sense that we can all see right through their bullshit performance?

The straightforward effect of adding more administrative burden on stores will be that fewer stores will accept SNAP. These are the equivalent of abortion TRAP laws, like mandating the width of a corridor.

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

Welp.

Meta is racist and it attracts blatant racism

"And today, the Supreme Court supermajority they spent decades building is fulfilling its purpose, while the administration advocates a white supremacism more shameless than anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes." 🔥

banning smart glasses is actually the compromise option here by the way, as my preferred option is simply to find this man and [content redacted on advice of my lawyers]

"people live in houses" is a part of the discourse that's frequently missing except insofar as NIMBYs try to deny it

Google again tells us who they are: a company that treats user consent as an obstacle, and data as theirs to use as they see fit. This is the logical endpoint of Google’s monopoly. So PSA writers (and everyone else) - don’t entrust your work to big tech. shorturl.at/f5EYn

The Russian government is charging and convicting LGBTQ people of "extremism" solely for advocating for their right to exist in Russia. This is a preview of what the right wants to do here in the US. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/under-new-...

Reminder that the Trump regime is still blowing up suspected “drug boats” — killing 185 people since September. But no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it. This is murder. We must not lose sight of this lawlessness.

Blaming somebody who hasn’t been in power for 16 months is getting really old…

It’s so easy to want to call him a toddler, but that’s unfair to toddlers. He’s a completely vile and despicable dirtbag from equally contemptible parents, who is also a sociopath, narcissist, pathological liar, fascist and criminal. As well as a toddler.

A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

But I was told we needed to tone down the rhetoric

Kinda burying the lead here, NPR

I've joked about the possibility of human experts ending up being the better *and* the cheaper option to LLMs, but I also kind of meant it.

Is there any other show on TV where the host spends half his time getting angry at the audience for not laughing at his jokes or laughing at the wrong times?

Godzilla #NovastarArt

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 this week. It was a slap in the face to the countless activists who fought for the VRA — and those who died for it. But we cannot give up. Here's how we should respond.

Banning gAI will (very slowly, unfortunately) become the norm, that is and always was the one true "adapt or die". Given enough time, an "infinite content machine" is not desirable anywhere and is bad for everyone, it's just Spam 2.0.

Yep. It isn’t 2023. Telemedicine abortion remains broadly available everywhere: •Domestic providers can switch to a miso-only regime; slightly less effective but still extremely safe •International providers will still mail mifepristone uninterrupted The field has been planning for this moment.

clear goal of republicans in these states is to, in the words of carter glass, “eliminate every Negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”

"Democracy is on the ballot" during the campaign and then they govern like this.

I'd sooner believe America is held together by popsicle sticks and glue than any company or country willingly making investments on us besides Israel.

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

Literally wtf is that guy talking about

With very ominous language, Justice Elena Kagan says that today’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais ends the Supreme Court’s “now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” 6-to-3 vote in favor of white voters who challenged a Black-majority district in La. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This court will go down in history like the Fuller court that oversaw the implementation of Jim Crow while perverting constitutional protections against racial discrimination. History will not be kind to them at all.

BREAKING: SCOTUS rules that each individual white Christian male constitutes a separate congressional district.

it’s simple. Dems need to 1. prepare retaliatory gerrymanders in every blue state now that the VRA has been overturned 2. pack the court (and prosecute Thomas/alito) in 2029 I will only even *consider* primary candidates who support both of the above going forward

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.'

the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country

Always lovely to wake up and discover that the Supreme Court was like are you a person? nah

got accused of "hacking my switch" so i think its safe to say i did a good job at making this look realistic LOLL

Also Mike Johnson: my son keeps tabs on my porn consumption. For reasons.

You ever think about how the Mafia boss in The Rocketeer has higher ethical standards than everyone who attended the WHCD

Terrific take on the intellectually bankrupt use of "both sides" by the lazier members of the corporate media.

Parasociality isn't just being a huge fangirl, it's also feeling like you personally need to punish someone who is not your responsibility. This has turned into a completely out of control cudgel using progressive language They already were attacked at a con booth this weekend. Wtf is going on here

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

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it's still pretty wild to me that pretty much ALL press outlets inherently assume this FCC "router ban" isn't some shakedown. Nobody that's gotten "conditional approval" has had to actually explain what they've had to do to get it. A bribe? A backdoor for ICE? Who knows?