today I'll be keeping an eye on the May Day actions across the country and updating this story every couple hours. feel free to reply to this post with what you're seeing!

A glorious if anguished May Day to all! May we raise up the Maypole and party like Thomas Morton in 1627

Trump has now forced House Republicans to stand around him while he rants and raves for an hour and counting

The biggest Flock surveillance network in the area around Madison, Wisconsin's capital, is coming down. The Dane County Board pulled funding for Flock, which snowballed from the efforts of a small town to quit Flock due to repeated data breaches & ICE accessing cameras: boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...

Suspension of elections in order to rig them sounds like something Grant would've sent troops to quell in the 1870s.

Jon Isaacs openly using an interesting method of conducting surveys and polls making Bernie- or Warren-esque candidates seem like they’re delegates to a 1930’s Comintern Seems out-of-touch, desperate, and reactive as many voters are motivated to rebel against big monied interests

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I’m appalled by the 6-3 SCOTUS decision that guts the Voting Rights Act and allows for Republicans to intentionally diminish Black political power and representation across states they control. I’m disgusted by these acts and we must fight back www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW: Voters support multiple pro-worker measures to regulate AI. Strong, bipartisan majorities agree that workers should know if AI is being used to monitor their work and should have decision-making authority over how it’s used by their employer.

"Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $400 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks" Nino Paoli for @fortune.com

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.'

Horde of criminals embedding themselves deeper in the operation

The US is putting itself, its people, many other people into catastrophic situations This is a rolling emergency, playing out every hour, every day The list of offenses is so long and so hideous that it assaults our emotions and ability to make sense of it Abuse is intolerable and must end!

There still is absolutely no plan for how to finance & operate our universities without foreign students or restored federal funding, & the public still has zero awareness of the magnitude of this existential crisis, because our leaders have been totally absent from the public stage.

The Supreme Court's Republican supermajority, afraid of the blowback from declaring what remains of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, instead says only they know the one true way the Voting Rights Act can be constitutional, and nothing will ever meet their new standard.

SCOTUS rules that intentional discrimination required to find race discrimination under VRA, which is nearly impossible to prove. This will weaken VRA to point of irrelevance. Though Alito wrote majority opinion John Roberts has been trying to gut VRA for 40+ years since he worked in Reagan DOJ

BREAKING: Supreme Court weakens the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais. The vote is 6-3, with Alito writing. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent."

Looking forward to tomorrow!

Time to hear from that guy who was shotgunning beers trying to look cool with hockey players Oh he’s running his mouth about indicting the former FBI director, natch

Congrats to Yomif Kejelcha, an incredibly talented, generous, and entertaining runner I’ve enjoyed watching for a long time I can’t believe guys 😵‍💫 are running under 2 hours thanks in part to the new shoes, but also can’t believe Kejelcha was in the first duo to do it

Today's quick update [Apr 27]: - Darfur Network For Human Rights: SAF drone strike on Alhamidiya Camp in Zalingei, Central Darfur; casualty # unconfirmed. - Sudan Doctors Network: RSF in Elfashir detain over 2,370 civilians (incl women/children) & military in dire conditions. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Today's quick update [Apr 26]: - 4 people killed and 8 others injured in RSF/SPLM-N (Alhilu) shelling on Dilling, South Kordofan yesterday. - UNHCR: drone strike on aid truck in Tawila, North Darfur on Friday; shelter kits for 1,300 families destroyed. #KeepEyesOnSudan

It’s crucial that we show the most comically embarrassing predators on the planet that we will reflexively drop to our knees before them, otherwise how will we convince more of their buddies to come whimsically “invest” in burying their fangs into our city’s most precious assets!!??

I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.

This is so terrible. The third country removals are human rights catastrophes; South Americans fleeing persecution in their homes, then being dumped in Kinshasa and told they can’t stay and must go… somewhere. Preferably right back to where they fled.

I stand, stoop, shuffle around, lay, sit in awe, daily, of the terrible things going on via the monsters in the USA genuinely, impressively horrible and traumatizing. Wretched and disgusting

‘In a 2-1 ruling, Appeals Court Judge Eric Tung, (a Trump appointee) found there’s no such right to be free from exposure to tear gas. ‘No such right exists in the Constitution,’ Tung wrote. ‘Nothing in our constitutional text or structure evinces such a right.’” www.opb.org/article/2026...

🌼 Great news, Washington state just approved the creation of a Child Care Workforce Standards Board. 🌼 We are so happy for Washington! OCPP is a fierce advocate for workforce standard boards. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4soBTuV #laborrights #orpol #orleg

Reposting this FAQ from @boltsmag.org, "How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE," with answers to questions like How are state and local governments helping ICE? How can state governments restrict ICE? How can local governments and communities restrict ICE? boltsmag.org/how-state-an...

After watching localities spend decades using environmental and safety regulations to block multi-family housing and actual infrastructure we need, it’s nice to at least see those regulations also being abused in the service of blocking DHS/ICE

A federal judge dismisses DOJ's lawsuit to force Arizona to disclose its voter rolls, siding with (Dem) SoS Fontes. Her ruling ends with, "The Court will dismiss the Attorney General’s claim with prejudice because amendment would be legally futile." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Looks amazing. I’m gonna read it all, all the sections.

the US Executive Branch is just allocating money however it wants prospect.org/2026/04/24/c...

Creatively horrible things happening all the time! Makes me feel so good inside

The US govt is asserting its desire for wantonly killing at will - Gaza, El Salvador, Ecuador, Lebanon, Somalia, Trinidad, Iran It wants Canada, Greenland, Cuba A thrashing, rabid, mass-murdering animal - a deathdealer that self-brands as a peacemaker, just to add a psychotic flourish

two important pieces of context here: 1. The Madeleine is a major feeder school for Central Catholic and they had an APPALLING racist incident last year involving a new right wing principal brought in by the Archbishop to replace the one who resigned in protest over his transphobic school polished

US people that make and drop bombs on other humans and families are worthy of judgment and condemnation It’s bad! Barbaric! Absurd! Shouldn’t be happening. This is not how humans need to be going about things.

This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened

47,000 Oregonians have lost food stamps thanks to the MAGA Republicans from Trump down to the grassroots of the party The Oregonian says “it” (the bill) “set out to do” this The reality is *humans - they go by the title *Republicans - set out to actively harm hundreds of millions of people

After more than two decades documenting Portland’s cycling culture, policy fights and everyday riders, BikePortland.org founder and publisher Jonathan Maus is easing off the pedals.

A key to bringing the working class into politics: publicly combatting scams and fraud widely reported by multi-racial survey respondents $1.6 million is fantastic and there’s likely over 100x that going unaddressed Thanks to AG Rayfield’s team - ideally we’d give them more resources to fight more

Joanne B. Mulcahy, Lewis and Clark professor of creative nonfiction, is a great writer I’ve been reading two of her biographies: the one below on Marion Greenwood, and another called Remedios about Mexican-American curandera-artist Eva Castellanoz who has lived much of her life in Nyssa, E. Oregon

The “Right to Know Who’s Policing You” has its first reading in front of the full City Council on Thursday, Apr. 30 at 2pm. Come out and testify in support! Sign up at the link below. www.portland.gov/council-cler... #NoSecretPolice 1/2

An absolutely fantastic piece of reporting and writing I might title this: “How addressing homelessness using snake oil” is working out for Portland

Cornell ILR (Industrial and Labor Relations) leader Cathy Creighton issues a statement on the resignation and tenure of Lori Chavez DeRemer at US Dept of Labor Guardian has a report on the ending of what can only be described as a disastrous and despicable tenure www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Very excited to listen to this Molly Crabapple and this exceptionally inspired work, along with Portland’s David Naimon who does a singularly incredible job with these interviews

I should be writing my dissertation, but instead I'm writing about the @nationalacademies.org being compromised. McNutt here saying that THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES will NOT ENGAGE ON "PARTISAN TOPICS" such as "vaccines" and "climate change". What happens when R's decide they don't believe in gravity?