Dammit RIP Sonny

Idea: What if no amount of money can "root out racial profiling" because it is inherent to policing as an institution and function? www.propublica.org/article/mari...

Today marks six years since George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis. George was a beloved father, grandfather, brother, and friend. His life mattered and he should still be here.

Clinic on how to start a piece on AFBC

Goddamnit I have to hand it to Hans Zimmer, that’s the worldbeater summary

Inspired by Choose Democracy’s Resist List (choosedemocracy.us/resist-list/) against authoritarianism, the AI Resist List organizes resistance movements based on how they pressure different “Pillars of Support” that uphold and perpetuate the empires.

Incredible stat in the latest Democracy Perceptions Index: the United States' global net favorability has fallen to -16. That's 38 points lower than it was under Biden. It's 23 points worse than China. 52 below Canada. The US is now less popular around the world than *Russia*

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

Historian here this is literally about gutting the Reconstruction amendments especially the consequential 14th amendment piece by piece.

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Daily Memo: Hunger Strikes Begin In California ICE Detention Centers As Conditions Worsen Full report: lataco.com/adelanto-hun...

checking in for a brief moment on the Rededicate 250 blasphemy fest and yep, it's beyond parody

Today Trump "negotiated" with his private criminal defense lawyer—a man he made AG for this corrupt purpose—the theft of $1.8B in taxpayer money so that it could be given to far-right terrorists in open rebellion against America. It's the most corrupt act by a POTUS in history.

The theft of $1.8 billion in tax money by an unchallenged executive to fund his personal political operatives is exactly the kind of action that sparked the American Revolution.

really insightful and horrifying stuff from @thefarce.org

Just taking the world's most obvious thought and musing about what a billion dollars a day might do for, say, the capital of Mississippi instead of being dropped on Iran in a war that we started for no reason. And then lost

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Same vibe as the Homelander statue in "The Boys"

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

And how eager they are to do this. No shame.

The billion dollars for the ballroom is a curiosity. I'm sure that others observed that this amount of money must be designed for massive kickbacks. That it's happening so openly is fairly amazing

*upheld a ban on solar and wind* — these are what I call “Extinctionists,” those who’d rather burn it all down, including themselves, then confront their delusion.

This robot installs 80 panels/hour. One every 45 sec. 1,920/day ≈ 0.0008 GW/day per line. Sounds small. It’s not. Scale this across thousands of lines and #solar becomes manufacturing, not construction. 👉 10,000 lines = 8 GW/day. That’s HOW China is winning the energy game.

Happy May Day Brothers and Sisters

tiny little insects making northeastern suburbanites sick is just tailor-made for the conspiracy-verse www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A humorous artifact of the courts corruption. Barely anyone even mentions how obvious it is that the new and expanded “eve of election” doctrine doesn’t apply in this case since obviously it would hurt the gop.

The trumpet on "My Boyfriend's Back" by the Angels is played by Ronnie James Dio

The Blue Jays broadcast just went to an ad break playing Angine De Poitrine. It is 5:30PM on a Wednesday man you can't just be breaking out the Quebecois experimental microtonal math-rock during the baseball game

What happens to a peace settlement when its central provisions are systematically eliminated?

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

America, 1776 2026

Kudos to those defending freedom in Ukrainen. What an insane number to read, in a criminal war started by a war criminal apnews.com/article/russ...

This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years. More in my next substack newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow

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 Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Each comment in that focus group was worse than the last. Almost impossible to read and definitely a reminder of how we got here. And then the discussion of who they're supporting in the future was a bracing reminder that there is no bottom (in case you have been foolishly feeling optimistic

Not the Onion. Donald Trump has installed a 15 foot tall golden statue of himself at his Doral golf club in Florida. The statue appears to have been modeled on a statute of Kim Jong Un's grandfather of similar size and color found in Pyongyang, North Korea. golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports...

The best ability is permeability

List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org

Would this work?

Virginia is actually likely to follow the will of its voters, unlike Florida which made it impossible despite the clear wishes of the populace to restore the rights of all citizens

Fiddle tunes picked by domino at the Fiddler's Frolic Texas state championship. Awesome idiosyncratic feature of this contest. Double two means polka

Superb piece by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social dissecting the moment "it is normal now, the perpetual violence of the Trumpocene’s meaningless spectacle, the administration’s boat strike snuff flicks and invasions, the on-screen ICE murders and those we don’t see..." open.substack.com/pub/slowcivi...

Is the theory here that the President should never have to leave his palace?

Can’t wait for like, 500 articles that are like “as I dived under a table to hide from the shooter I realized I had to be even more sycophantic to the White House”

Solid argument for UBI, which keeps getting proven again and again. Given federalism, can be implemented in areas in the US with focused effort. Inherently anti-authoritarian also

Quality line