Britain is facing a steep population drop. Yet racist xenophobia is resurgent. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/17/religious-leaders-letter-shabana-mahmood-refugee-asylum-plans

This is what it sounds like to me whenever someone decries “polarization” as the problem.

It’s not an administration It’s a criminal enterprise

Many school attendance zones in New York City, upstate New York, Westchester and Long Island are similar to 1930 redlining maps, the report shows. https://www.the74million.org/article/report-schools-across-new-york-are-the-most-segregated-in-the-u-s/

Ranked: The Fastest-Growing Countries by GDP per Capita by 2030 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-fastest-growing-countries-by-gdp-per-capita-by-2030/

“I do believe I’ll be ... having the honour of taking Cuba,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Whether I free it, take it – think I could do anything I want with it, you want to know the truth. They’re a very weakened nation right now.” […]

Spain conducted a far bigger genocide and attendant abuse in Africa and has similarly never acknowledged it. https://apnews.com/article/spain-mexico-conquest-indigenous-americas-de561ec7f6e00c332d60bbbc164db05d

NYC's numerous billionaires got yet another huge tax cut last year: "The report found Asian and Latino New Yorkers were more than twice as likely to live in poverty as white New Yorkers. Black residents similarly accounted for disproportionately high rates of those living in poverty." […]

Global warming denial and accelerationism are tribal badges of honor among Western conservatives https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/16/reduced-physical-activity-due-to-global-heating-rise-health-issues-study

Trump’s disagreements with Polis stem from his concerns about mail-in voting in Colorado and the prosecution of a county clerk who was convicted on state charges of tampering with election equipment in the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost and has falsely claimed was rife with fraud […]

Trump & Netanyahu are rampaging across the Middle East, killing thousands of civilians and creating an oil/gas crisis for the entire world. These 2 leaders are doing this to retaliate for Iran's ayatollahs killing thousands of protesters.

Prolifers are very angry at this judge for his ruling increasing US life expectancy and preventing RFKJr from further lowering US life expectancy. Trump won the bottom 18 states in life expectancy(the most prolife states), and lost the top 11(deep blue states). I have never once met a prolifer […]

Mahdawi has since come to see his U.S. naturalization interview as a “trap,” alleging in The New York Times that the federal government “dangled the prospect of becoming an American citizen, only for masked agents to apprehend me.” He graduated from Columbia last spring with an undergraduate […]

"The U.S. wealth divide has progressed to new extremes, with the top 10% of households holding more than two-thirds of the nation’s wealth, according to Federal Reserve data. The majority of the country’s wealth remains in the hands of older generations. And the wealth accumulation has hollowed […]

This writer doesn't ever mention the top reason for Australia's energy crunch: rampant grassroots global warming denial. Successive right-wing governments in Australia have pursued absolutely nonsensical energy policies, as have right-wing gov'ts in the USA and all over the West. Now it's time […]

“What if Iran attacks the US navy but accidentally hits the Chinese ships?” said Wu Xinbo, a scholar who heads Fudan University’s Center for American Studies and has previously advised the Foreign Ministry. “Why would we get mixed up in this mess? The risk is simply too high.” […]

Also known as algorithmic pricing, the practice is used by companies to tailor prices to individual consumers based on collected data, meaning that some people pay more for the same product based on personal information. “Too often, this means we’re paying more for the basics that we need to get […]

Since its launch in March 2003, NYC311 has been the nation's largest nonemergency government information hotline. The service has grown from taking 4 million calls in its first year to receiving 36 million customer contacts in 2025. NYC311 connects New Yorkers to nonemergency services from more […]

Like GOP voters in general( including their black slaves), Trump really hates to see black people voting. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/judge-rules-democrat-joyce-beatty-attend-kennedy-center-board-meeting-rcna263529

"After Tillis broke with the president on his marquee spending bill in 2025, Trump threatened to back a primary challenger to Tillis, and the senator quickly announced he would not seek re-election. Since then, he has adopted the persona of the Senate GOP’s internal critic, taking public issue […]

“I’m going to be one of those Democrats [who] say I think both parties have been feckless in allowing the growth of the power of the presidency,” Booker said on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union.<--Both sides?? John Fetterman and a handful of the most racist, right-wing House Dems do not […]

"Anti-immigration RN, which has traditionally fared less well in local elections, also celebrated scoring symbolically high in the first round alongside its allies."<--RN is not anti-immigration. It's a Nazi eugenics party. It's a racist party […]

“Trump is lonely these days in the world, no one really supports him,” said Henry Huiyao Wang, president of the Beijing-based research group Center for China and Globalization. “He’s really disturbed the world with the war in Iran and he’s in kind of a tight situation.” […]

Canton married a U.S. citizen. His adult children are citizens. However, he was not eligible for immigration sponsorship due to his past voting record. Canton said he believed he was a citizen, granting him the right to vote. Canton casting a ballot prevents him from seeking citizen status, even […]

Wyoming’s new six-week abortion ban was brought to Wyoming by a solid majority of women in Wyoming. They voted for stupid white men to police their own vaginas for abortion, miscarriage, IVF, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth etc […]

So many reasons why he moved from CA to TX. Shorter life expectancy. Confederate Heroes Day instead of MLK Day. Virtually no universities comparable to Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford and numerous other elite institutions in CA […]

Trump won the working class. Trump's approval is rock-solid above 40%. Those who claim they voted for Trump for lower prices were lying all along. They are horrible bigots. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/14/americans-struggle-affordability-despite-trump-claims

“The United States and Israel are destroying any form of coexistence dictated by international law,” demonstrator Sandra Paganini said. “They are dragging us towards a world war in which they are targeting completely innocent people who have done nothing wrong, intervening and destroying […]

The Right Wing Noise Machine, including local media in NYC itself, constantly pumps out the lie that NYC is a hellscape and that folks are fleeing to Confederate red states. It's complete bullshit. Life expectancy in NYC is at a record high. So is demand to live in NYC. That does price many […]

@judithbolyard.bsky.social get GOP voters out of our politics

The administration keeps taking extraordinary actions and applying extreme pressure to crack down on news content and entertainment that the president dislikes. Thus, critics called Carr’s latest threat “authoritarian” and “unconstitutional,” and some suggested that he did it for attention, to […]

GOP voters are delighted to pay tariffs to fund tax cuts for billionaires and corporations https://apnews.com/article/tariffs-trump-trade-275f146dbc591bab1730a911e04aa8ea

Ranked: The World’s Top Arms Exporters https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/worlds-top-arms-exporters/

The US military is heavily shifting to Elon Musk's xAI https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/13/not-built-right-the-first-time-musks-xai-is-starting-over-again-again/

Charted: The Energy Mix of the World’s 10 Largest Economies https://www.visualcapitalist.com/energy-mix-of-worlds-10-largest-economies/

While Italy slams the door on its diaspora, the country continues to deal with a shrinking and ageing population. https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/14/travel/italy-citizenship-law-restrictions-constitutional-court

Right Wing Family Values. The Worst Of The Worst. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/14/trump-migrant-detention-louisiana

Trump won the working class. Like Reagan, he's using the racism of most workers to bust their own unions and lower their pay and working conditions. Bigoted workers don't mind as long as they get vocal bigotry and hatred […]

Stars and Stripes first covered the U.S. military during the Civil War, and has been published continuously since World War II. It is owned by the Defense Department but is largely staffed by civilian reporters and editors. By Congressional mandate, it has operated independently since the 1990s […]

"The war's about to get wider and uglier," says Lebanese-Australian podcast host Mario Nawfal, reacting to the Houthi threat. So, if the Bab el-Mandeb is blocked (in addition to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz), global trade would face a massive shock. Together the routes carry roughly 30% […]

Republicans are going wild reneging on contracts and treaties. The full faith and credit of the United States is crumbling. https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/doge-bros-dei-nathan-cavanaugh-deposition-video-b2938464.html

@bsflynn.bsky.social no. There's no plan. There's no clever strategy. They are just dumb Nazis. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-says-opposes-removal-confederate-statues-rcna154420

"Well, I abandoned AIPAC more than a dozen years ago. It was an organization that had at one time been bipartisan in nature and really all about preserving a strong relationship between the United States and Israel. But about a dozen years ago, the organization began to lean much more to the […]

John Fetterman and his fellow Netanyahu-Trump fans are taking victory laps as a massive inflation shock and supply chain disaster slams the world https://theconversation.com/oil-petrol-gasoline-a-chemical-engineer-explains-how-crude-turns-into-fuel-278198

Very easy solution: raise the tax cap https://seekingalpha.com/article/4882274-the-social-security-trust-fund-is-rapidly-approaching-insolvency

Like Reagan, Trump has fought bitterly against cheap, clean energy. He put the US at the mercy of the Middle East. Then he started a huge war there, battering the US with inflation. Yet Trump’s approval remains over 40% […]

After the killing of Charlie Kirk last year, Trump administration officials vowed to go after leftwing groups and designated antifa, short for anti-fascist, as a domestic terrorist group, even though the president did not have the lawful authority to do so. Antifa is also not an organization but […]

Amir said he now had constant anxiety about Iran “turning into another Iraq”, a country the US invaded in 2003, promising freedom but delivering a civil war. Israeli leaders have also previously called on Palestinians in Gaza and the Lebanese people to rise up against oppression, only to later […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116225988775856162 One man did not do this. Every GOP voter did this. They are responsible for that Supreme Court majority dating back to the 70s which is so heavily enabling Trump. GOP voters are causing the horrible GOP Senate & House majorities, also […]

A United Nations watchdog on Wednesday criticized "intensified immigration crackdowns" in the U.S. and accused President Trump and other American leaders of using "racist hate speech" — both of which it said had "sparked grave human rights violations." […]