Color me shocked

it's wild how the dominant political belief in the west is "people from other countries are BAD NEWS" in an age where every video of different people trying each other's food is like "I would like to meet the person who made this and give them a kiss"

This guy gets it

toby's got you @polphilpod.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2042...

There are a few zombie stats like this in the food/agriculture/sustainability space. One is the claim that smallholders produce 70-80% of the world’s food. The real number (for farms less than 2 hectares) is 30-34%. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

People don't get that I want a packing war. Oh, the sweet dream of their being 47 or 83 justices so no one loses bodily autonomy or human rights for a generation because one dies at an awkward time. Dilute their fucking power. Enough of this nonsense.

Despite Iran, Marco is laser-focused on regime change in Cuba.

to the extent Dems believe in anything, it’s process and moderation, two things wholly unsuited to this moment

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

when I say things like “this is downstream of Dems not believing in anything” people jump into my replies and say Dems believe in abortion, fighting racism, and LGBT rights, and the answer to that is: not according to the scoreboard

I did something like this during his first term, with one of my favorite ledes of all time. www.washingtonpost.com/news/politic...

Good coverage of yesterday's events in Selma and Montgomery. We may not have wanted to be in this play, but the this is where you go to learn from those who came before how to act when you are called to this stage. www.al.com/news/birming...

Seems to me that this is a great time for all of the 'vote or die' white people to be at the forefront of fighting for voting rights. Perfect time not to fantasize about what you would have done during the mid-century Black freedom struggle but to enact a 21st century version of it. Let's stay tuned

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

40 percent of Mississippi residents are Black and overwhelmingly prefer Democratic candidates and there are *checks notes* zero districts that represent their interests. But sure, the VRA isn’t needed.

There's something profoundly wrong with an industrialized, modern country when highly-educated and -trained people can't find work

FWIW, my PI sent me this. It doesn't apply to me since I'm almost done, but this may be useful to others!

One way to upset an online posting ecosystem is to incentivize reply guyism

The kids are all right

“.. The idea of a high-ranking government official receiving an escort from the SEALs for a recreational swim near the tomb is ‘horrifying,’ said William M. McBride, a Navy veteran and professor emeritus of history at the U.S. Naval Academy ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

Spoke recently to a friend of mine who runs a lab. This administration is profoundly, maybe irreversibly, undermining the foundations of scientific research in the US. We won't feel the effects right away but they're coming

More than 1,000 people gathered in Selma on Saturday for the first leg of All Roads Lead South’s National Day of Action for Voting Rights protests that oppose a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that organizers say weakens protections under the Voting Rights Act.

The gods speak to those with ears to hear and eyes to see

ICE use of Palantir systems now means agency officials effectively have a list of 20 million people readily accessible on their iPhones, increasing the speed at which ICE can find houses to raid and people to arrest. www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

I wonder if other countries are having a debate about whether or not to send their espionage trainees to the U.S. because the newbies will return full of false confidence about how easy the job is

Remember: farmers = farm owners, not workers, and most of the former are millionaires

“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”

Hours after ICE arrested Israel Makoka and his younger brother, Max, as they boarded their school bus in Diamondhead, Mississippi, Israel found himself in a living-room sized cell with 25 men and a single exposed toilet. He slept on the floor that night, using his shoes for a pillow. Their story:

They made fun of his accent and doubted the legitimacy of his election, and when contacted for comment doubled down, suggesting that his presidency of a Chinese American student organization while a grad student at the U of Maryland was somehow nefarious.

Finally, Ronald Reagan can rest in peace, knowing that children will no longer have to learn that some white people were the bad guys in that whole slavery thing.

Some of the people interviewed are three-time Trump voters who nonetheless consider themselves political independents who distrust both parties, in case you needed another reminder of what that actually means

Omfg. Study after study has shown that the reason 12-step groups work is because of the human connection. Literally community is the treatment for addiction. This “AI AA” bullshit is going to kill people who would otherwise have sought help where it actually exists: IN MEETINGS.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

in spite of every administrative roadblock this is going to keep happening, and they can't stop it

democrats appear to be broadly underestimating the base's anger right now. that's not really a problem for the midterms, purely in terms of electoral strategy (see @gelliottmorris.com's analysis), but i have a feeling it will be disruptive down the road in unforeseen ways

Not gonna dunk on this small account but this is such loser talk. No I don’t think the current Democrats are likely to take radical action, but we’re never going to stop informing people what the options are, and we have to keep doing the work get Dems there www.liberalcurrents.com/how-the-120t...

The big divide in today’s Democratic Party is not liberal-progressive or centrist-leftist. It’s fight-acquiesce.

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

Yeah, nullify this shit

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

Anyway, get to ground. It's always my *advice* [when I offer any]. Get hyper local. Find your people and fight where you are. This is where you can make the most impact and a real difference. Do this as much as you can, take care of yourself, and take care of your people.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

NEW: The Fifth Circuit would like to run the United States. The far-right federal appeals court and the district court judges below them are taking actions to control and influence what happens outside of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Harmeet Dhillon is absolutely going to launch a civil rights investigation of the Catholic Church for crimes of woke before this thing is over

I was forced to the back of the bus. This ain't theoretical for me. I lived this shit.

Ma’am 🔥🔥🔥 “The Congressional Black Caucus is going to be making its way down to Louisiana… Clarence Thomas… should find a piece of his Black self and come on down to Louisiana with us.” ~ Rep Kamlager Dove “We will force a House vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.” ~ Rep Pressley

Times have been worse than they are today in the U.S. Important to remember not because some people aren't living under terrible conditions right now but because it shows that things can in fact change for the better. They change if we change them.

FFS. Makes Charlie Brown look like an NFL star.

The number of people who still willingly book cruises and pay for the privelege of getting a virus you've never heard of while stuck on a death trap with overflowing latrines in the middle of the ocean befuddles me