Hey what’s up guys (can you say “guys” anymore due to Wokeness?), welcome to the Washington Post’s new podcast, “You Were Right To Unsubscribe”, which we are also releasing in video form for reasons unclear even to our loved ones who would presumably enjoy seeing us. Let’s get into it

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

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

love her

My brother shared this in the family whatsapp so coming to a work place near you the best email ever

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

There are many stereotypes abt Black ppl. Most of them negative. But the ultimate truth about our legacy is simple. The legacy of the African American is that we won rights for every demographic. Every domino that fell, it began with Black liberation struggles. Freedom of movement? We gave you that.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

To sum up: the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were passed to remedy a century of attempts to disenfranchise and unperson African-Americans by any possible, often through voting-related tricks and tests and barriers. They worked -- for a while. But then..../1

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

alito and thomas think the creation of majority-minority voting districts is itself discriminatory. but the goal of the voting rights act wasn't to usher in an era of harmony by eliminating all racial categories, it was to alleviate discrimination by whites against blacks, particularly in the South

Getaloada this #BrokenTimes headline. It poses a question, answers the question with data, but then speculates a different answer this time, for its bête noire, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

y'all if you're crying you're bawling. if you're sexing, that's balling.

Roberts Court is just racist Bob Loblaw

mad about Jason Isbell not being on that list but OUTRAGED about Tom Waits (and I wish I’d seen more ballots with James McMurtry). (my genre is apparently haggard sad-eyed guys who crack my heart open) (hahaha wait i also married one!)

The 1st Amendment wasn't written so we'd feel free wishing each other a happy birthday. It was written so we'd feel free saying sharp and difficult things, such as stating plainly that the president of the United States is a convicted felon who is trying to destroy American democracy.

The good news is, there are a lot of experienced, trained professionals on hand who can quickly gather all the appropriate facts and tell us exactly how this is bad news for the Democrats in the midterms.

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

I would watch a reverse heist movie where people stole from a rich guy's hypersecuritized mansion and gave the artwork to a public university's special collections

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

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colon whitehead gets it (and this piece is hilarious, gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

Thus, today's election is not really the end of an authoritarian regime. Rather, it is the first step in a much longer unwinding process. It is massive and absolutely necessary first step — one that anyone who believes in democracy should celebrate. But it's more a beginning than an end.

Orbán's best bet for regime survival — for returning to power — wasn't staging a doomed January 6-style putsch in the face of overwhelming defeat. It was retreating, and doing everything he can to preserve regime elements that would allow for a return to competitive authoritarianism in the future.

“The pain” isn’t evenly distributed and the knowledge it lands most on those without social power is a big part of why people are okay with the racism and fascism.

Listen up: I am one of those rare sex assault victims who actually took the guy who did it to court. It was a local scandal that put my initials on the front page of the local paper (not my whole name because I was a minor). You have no idea what happens to women on the stand or in the press.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

I was gonna say, man watching this took me WAY back, and I felt the same way I did as a kid

I had to learn basic UNIX commands and the horrific vi editor just to send a goddamn email

we have got to get it together, in like twenty-four hours the astronauts are back

Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ https://theonion.com/chuck-schumer-the-american-people-deserve-a-president-1835697625/

This bribe is more than 4x bigger than all the money that changed hands throughout the entire Teapot Dome episode.

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

NEW — Iran had already presented a 10-point plan. Then Trump wakes up today and threatens to blow up Iran's "whole civilization" if they don't bend. And then, just an hour before his deadline, he announces a ceasefire, citing Iran's "workable" 10-point plan.

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

this is probably why SEL learning has been restricted and banned in so many places--don't teach kids not to bully, you don't need friends you need MINIONS

you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

this is an excellent on but I still prefer the slyer and more austere Beckettian satisfaction of "Harvard beats Yale 29-29"

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...