Conceivable given this reporting from January 2026... www.reuters.com/world/europe...

By spending his fortune trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, Google co-founder Sergey Brin is illustrating why we need to tax billionaires. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sergey-brin-shows-why-we-must-have

"But it was Buckley that established the nation’s modern, muddled campaign finance system, and Buckley that allowed the Koch brothers to build a right-wing political money machine that rivaled that of the Republican Party itself." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Israeli officials are "using the word 'cleanse' to describe what they’re doing" in Lebanon. "They’re just bulldozing homes.”

In 1933, Justice Louis Brandeis said: “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” What he said was true 93 years ago. It’s even more accurate today. Let us choose democracy over oligarchy.

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

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An intense account from the frontlines of Ukraine by now-laid-off WAPO journalists. Avoid the WAPO tracking snare here. Archived archive.ph/kWytS

"Trump considers himself “the most powerful man ever to live,” & that he “did things other people couldn’t.” This includes destroying Iran & has nothing to do with U.S. security." "But first, he must inform Congress they no longer have any say in matters of war. Not now, not ever." Receipts.

Chinese green-tech businesses love Trump's Iran War as it turned slowing demand for their products into record demand. Looks like Trump is an accidental greenie. Source: t.co/HotuPyh8Bz

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

This vid from @jamellebouie.net to right the Supreme Court requires reform-level resolve from voters who won't countenance lawmakers who are, as @doctorow.pluralistic.net puts it, "useless, sellout, Epstein-poisoned leaders" that would doom us to "eternal torment in the Manchin-Synematic Universe."

We're headed toward a Congress where like 40 states send a single-party delegation, indistinguishable from just electing everyone at large and a population-based replica of the Senate. Thank you, John Roberts, for ushering in this nonsense era.

Mississippi Republicans quickly began pushing to eliminate Bennie Thompson's district in Mississippi after the VRA ruling. This would leave Mississippi—where nearly 4-in-10 residents are Black—with four white-majority congressional districts. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

An important take from @markhertling.bsky.social about the independence of @starsandstripes.bsky.social and its important role for our volunteer military and their connection to the people they protect and serve. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa... Flip past the [dumb] Bill Kristol bit.

GenAI is plunder, pass it on (a comic)

This one's worth the wind-up.

#ShareGoodNews - the curse of endless plastic can be lifted if we choose, as biodegradable alternatives become available. Petrochemicals were a phase - we can do better.

"Gretacene" /grət-æ-sēēn/ noun "Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine – and in so doing, catapulted Europe's energy transition into the Gretacene, with unimaginable defeats for the fossil fuel lobby." An awesome new noun and lemonade from lemons for global clean energy. pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/p...

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court has treated voters of color as obstacles to be navigated rather than citizens to be represented. This isn't just a setback, it's a structural demolition of the American experiment.

"Threatening to commit genocide is illegal. It’s indeed an act of international terrorism, & by engaging in it Trump has indisputably positioned himself as an international terrorist & a war criminal." This is a first-class, grade A, very satisfying rant worth every minute of a 7-day free trial.

This May Day, remember that the debate between “abundance” & progress is a false dichotomy, as this great article points out We can both eliminate absurd laws designed to keep the working class down while supporting unions & public programs (ie universal healthcare). See you in the streets 📣

Billionaire tax, y'all.

Not our fight but Canadians are good with this outcome.

"Price increases "are largely the result of the concentration and control oil companies have over the production and sale of gasoline.” With mergers like Exxon and Mobil since then, the problem has only been exacerbated." Great reporting on why CA gas prices are so high & a must-read for CA voters.

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

According to the International Energy Agency, data center energy use will nearly quadruple during this decade. By 2030, it will require the equivalent of 54 nuclear reactors to provide this much power.

lol www.reuters.com/technology/t...

A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

An interesting peek inside the courtroom today in the Elon Musk v. Sam Altman/OpenAI trial today:

#MayDay is this Friday! Please get the word out! Shop now. No internet or streaming a movie shopping, etc. We’ve got this!

Stars and Stripes getting in the reporting while they can before Hegseth <tries to> shut them down.

remember when Greg Bovino came to Minneapolis and it ate him like Napoleon in Russia

BREAKING: Iran's FM Abbas Araghchi says he was pleased to engage with Russia at the “highest level as the region is in major flux”, adding that “recent events have evidenced the depth and strength of our strategic partnership.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/i4gwgn

Props to Stars and Stripes for posting this story during #KingCharles visit. I wonder if the actual king has the spine to share this sentiment with the wannabe one.

The #ICE kidnappings and assaults continue unabated in California.

What Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett is referencing here is Obama's 2012 statement that, if he had a son, he'd look like Trayvon Martin Feels absurd that a prestigious law prof is out here making posts with layers to the disgustingness!

"it’s hard to imagine why a president would EVER need a White House bunker to use for more than a few short hours? What’s the situation where the West Wing complex is destroyed and yet the SecSvc thinks it’s smart to keep the president buried even deeper under the White House?" We need oversight.

We'll see how long ol' Pete hegseth allows this kind of reporting too continue at Stars and Stripes.

I still prefer @xavierbecerra.bsky.social - proven experience in Sacramento and DC, and while he has excepted about $40k from Chevron for his campaign, he did not make hundreds of millions in personal wealth from fossil fuel companies. He has been a public servant his whole professional life

"I had no idea where this mirror had come from or who had brought it into the sink area. I thought: How long will it be before this magnificent looking glass gets shattered, or just unmounted and carried away," writes Destry.

“Notably, labor unions are finally getting on board. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America members are increasingly training to produce modular and panelized housing components in factory settings” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

"She made him do it" incident #9038409384, aka the idea that somehow liberals or Democrats or the left by saying spicy things are entirely responsible for all the much worse things Republicans and would-be assassins of any political position do, and the latter are not responsible at all.

Amazing piece from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social from Feb'25 that's finding new relevance today--every day. Maintaining moral clarity in this hurricane of hate and division takes vigilance.

"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?"

It strikes me that if our lawmakers, law enforcement, and high courts just did their jobs faithfully to uphold the Constitution of the United States, unstable individuals wouldn't feel like they have to take the law into their own hands. Having a lawless prez makes us all a little crazy.

"Remember who did this. A bare majority of senators voted to hand your wilderness to a foreign mining company and its copper to China. In 2026 & beyond, make sure they answer for it." Minnesotans, you know what to do in November. We all have the assignment to flip the senate so this can't continue.