Instead of engaging with me and others about the poor conditions, ICE sent in an armored vehicle and a line of armed agents that only poured gasoline on the fire. Civilians were tackled and restrained, and agents fired pepper balls and spray into the crowd. 2/4

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Yes, this nation was 'less divided and polarized' when white men in both parties ran everything. That is not in fact a good thing. Backlash to racism and a revival of Jim Crow should absolutely leave us polarized because not only white men should hold power.

People treating short form social media like you have some sort of responsibility to engage in posting combat non stop is, I think, indicative of some broken brains.

Same

In 2025, HHS issued stop work order for federal research lab that studies Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens and fired its director. This lab was a world leader in accelerating development therapies and vaccines for Ebola and other viruses. 1/ www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

I feel like there's a lack of awareness among my fellow white people that no Democratic presidential candidate has won a majority of white voters since the Civil Rights Act passed LBJ underestimated the fallout by several generations

It’s all just *so* fucking stupid. It’s not just that none of these people have read the stuff they’re talking about, it’s that they aren’t even interested in it! They don’t care about any of the themes or ideas or characters *at all*! It’s all just bad faith horseshit

Every step taken by the federal government to promote and advance scientific research in the US, which has been the mainstay of US economic growth and strength since roughly 1870, is now being reversed in order to retard or suppress scientific research. This is a conscious policy.

Today will be an amazing day Today will be an amazing day Today will be an amazing day

Bad day at work? "I want a little treat" Good day at work? "I want a little treat" Payday? "I want a little treat" Paid all the bills? "I want a little treat"

Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.

i believe a better world is possible but god times are rough

Removing the gas tax doesn't target fossil fuel companies. If anything, it helps them by making it more likely consumers buy gas.

I was meant to vacation all over the world and not worry about anything. That was supposed to be my destiny

Roe V. Wade

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms and mom-like figures out there! You're everyday heroes! 💐

If we play our cards right, soon we’ll be able to send handguns through the postal service but not birth control or ballots

Now all she has to fall back on are the millions she has from her highly profitable family business, all while retaining the fame and notoriety which were the only reasons she sought office in the first place. So noble. So selfless.

Notice how the bigot and antisemite aspect is totally overlooked to laud her for the bravery of giving up her political career,

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

An ICE goon pulled a gun on a New York teenager and beats him. However, they realized they had the wrong person and abandoned him injured far from home.

It's all racism and restoring Jim Crow and the last week proved that beyond any shadow of doubt.

oh my god -- Sean Duffy on Fox & Friends this morning announced that he spent parts of *7 MONTHS* (more than half a year!) on a roadtrip with his family to celebrate America's 250th anniversary

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand

at this point, all these spam calls for personal loans can be considered harassment. and I can’t even report them to the govt, because who gon do something about it?

One party always spends money like a drunken sailor, the other always cleans up after them.

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

Mark Zuckerberg built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Now the water pressure is gone. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are routine.

It’s really nice that the Temu Taney Court recognized that he felt down about failing to overthrow democracy one way so they gave him another shot.

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

If racism is no longer a problem, then why are all the states rushing to redistrict after the Supreme Court ruling all in The South? And all the people pushing to redistrict all White? 🤔🤔🤔

I personally love to read shit like "U.S. Pauses 'Project Freedom'" in headlines. Not all good jokes need to be complicated.

It should probably be reckoned with that “working class” has always been a racially and gendered gated concept but at least historically it referred to an actual subset of the proletariat. Now it simply means rugged maleness having been fetishized and commodified and sanitized.

California is blue and therefore is constantly targeted with fraud claims, but available data suggests healthcare fraud is far more prevalent in Texas and Florida than in California. Not something you'll ever hear on Rupert Murdoch TV, of course. BTW, why does Rupert live in California?

This talking point is now repeated as gospel truth across the MAGA right. Legal filings and public evidence make clear that the SPLC was warning about the 2017 white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally - not sponsoring it. Which is of course obvious to anyone outside of the MAGA media cocoon.

what kinds of “restaurants” have been asking Todd Blanche for ID

On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP.

Multiracial democracy in the American South has briefly existed twice in American history, both times enforced from outside, and both times has lapsed the instant the rest of the country lost interest.

This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

conservatives on the Supreme Court believe it is perfectly fine to use race and ethnicity when profiling and apprehending potential immigrants but not okay to use race and ethnicity when drawing voting districts to ensure diverse democratic representation

The opposition thrives on your hopelessness, hoping you will give up the fight. But no rigged system is permanent. History shows that authoritarianism always fails when enough people simply refuse to back down.