This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is. The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

I’m sorry, but what the FUCK is this bullshit? He already provided proof of work authorization when he was vetted and hired. Is the school board also demanding answers from the agencies that performed his background check. They’re rewriting the public record in plain view.

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

College professor here. Fuck this. Your friend's daughter's professor is a disgrace. I'm going full Amish this term. Pen and paper. In-class discussions. No prideful buttons.

I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.

this is one of my ultimate “could never get away with this today” movies genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious

texas legislators filed an anti trans and anti abortion bill before they filed a single piece of flood relief legislation

I have been doing some daily poetry writing with some internet pals this month and I guess I'm subjecting you all to some of it right now. A Test

I should be asleep, but can’t stop thinking about a striking sanitation worker I met today. He told me about the time a trash bag full of human shit burst in his face, and he had to spend two days in the hospital to ensure he hadn’t contracted any dangerous diseases. He makes $19 an hour.

We’ve reached the “building concentration camps and funding secret police to arrest enemies of the regime” phase of America fascism. It would be super useful if the nominal opposition party would say that to the American people!

The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'

At drink and draw tonight one of the winning prompts was “half man half fish half sexy”, and NO, I know what you’re THINKING, I did not come up with this prompt, my collaborator did. And oh my god. People nailed it.

this argument has at least two readily apparent fucked up implications imo one's silly: Bruenig seems lowkey cool w grave robbing & corpse defilement? but one's v serious: people who are disabled, youth, or otherwise face questions about their capacity to make choices can be forced into childbirth

Writing about Adriana Smith with such callousness and disregard while ignoring the obvious connection to breeding slavery sounds about white.

Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.

We up!

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Never let oppressors tell you how to protest

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

It is the end of AAPI Heritage Month and tomorrow will be the start of Pride Month. The perfect movie for this transition period is FIRE ISLAND, an incredibly funny, perfectly modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice which includes this great reenactment of MY COUSIN VINNY: youtu.be/lNchouL-TrQ?...

Under 65 years old? No Novovax COVID vaccine for you this year. As expected, the Republicans have enabled RFK Jr. and his coterie of antivax grifters to take away your right to make your own medical decisions in consultation with your doctor. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/h...

lol humans

Fans of loud music, get some good earplugs and wear them to shows. Tinnitus and hearing loss are not really that fun

I wrote "The Trial" on June 11, 2021, the day Darnell's Frazier—an 18 year old Black girl— received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for her video of George Floyd being murdered by those cops. Today, though, I share it because I’m struck by how it applies to Tyre Nichols as well.

I was just looking at photos of Gladys Bentley’s white tuxedos and here we are. LOVE. And that hat!

1,120 people were abducted by immigration authorities over 6 days in Florida. “Dozens of local, state + fed agencies participated – including over 250 members of local + state law enforcement + the National Guard.” What’s that saying about ‘all cops,’ again? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Countries are going to start requiring Americans travel with yellow cards with full immune records

This is not an esoteric or academic point: there is no way we get Trump without the electoral college (his first win), the Senate (which failed to remove and bar), the two party system (which makes a big coalition impossible), or the Supreme Court (which has supported him throughout).

It’s very important that we hold two ideas at once: Trump has taken us outside the constitutional order, AND that the constitutional order delivered Trump. The American political system is incredibly outdated, unrepresentative and undemocratic—it needs to be changed.

this is criminal

It's May Day! I grew up steeped to love the day both for its role in the labor movement (via my history prof dad) and the ancient rites of spring such as leaving May baskets outside of friends' doors (via my mom, kind of a druid). Let's fight for our rights & let's celebrate springtime and whimsy.

The US used to have free to low tuition until schools couldn't discriminate based on race

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

Sinners. Monkey Man. The Woman King. Everything Everywhere All At Once. Polite Society. RRR. Snowpiercer. Attack The Block. I need a lot of films to be like this: a memoir.

If this makes you happy you've been walked to a dark as hell place. And I am sad for you.

Sinners dropping just 6% in its second weekend merits a much bigger headline than its $48 million opening. It is actual box-office news--news as in "This never happens." Just a giant thing, for Ryan Coogler and for the future of original material.

i think “abducted by ICE” is not at all editorializing and factually accurate.

I've written hundreds of thousands of words about politics, which is strange because I hate politics and would much rather talk about Mercator projections vs. the true size of countries.

Female cinematographers are far and few between. Per the annual industry report the Cellulod Ceiling, female DPs shot just 12 percent of the 250 top-grossing movies in 2024. So, when a high-profile male director hires women it’s a big deal; when he keeps hiring women it’s a big fucking deal.

Sinners is a two and a half hour movie that feels like a tight 90

abolishing ICE should be the normie consensus position

if i have to choose (do i have to?), smoke all day.

It was never about DEI, it was always about white supremacy.