"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

Please father your sons

“Headwinds surround Iowa Republicans. Reynolds, Iowa’s socially conservative governor, is leaving office with the lowest approval in the country. Iowa is groaning amid rising fuel and fertilizer prices, tariffs, and countertariffs that walloped agriculture exports.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/u...

In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/coun... I'm your boy: the anti-American, radically pro-transgender, anarchist.

Really not sure how a democracy comes back from "no, that statewide election with a clear result didn't count because we say so." When of course in my state we 1) didn't even get a vote and 2) the state police held guns to the opposition, including my representative, to get their bill passed.

apnews.com/article/redi... At some point you have to admit that this is already a civil war.

Election results 2026 live: Follow the vote counts and reaction - BBC News share.google/hK4vCOGPa8wH... The Labour Party in the UK has been so incredibly frustrating to watch as they attempt to become both more restrictive of individual liberties and less .. actually representing of labor.

We truly did not hang enough confederates

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... 17,500 people.

youtu.be/74NluS3jzTo?... I was a video synth artist for a bit, film school drop out. This is really good.

A new trade EU-UK deal could force the UK to restrict a carcinogenic herbicide currently routinely used on UK food crops. Glyphosate is used to dry out cereal crops before harvest, a practice banned in the EU since 2023. The WHO classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans” in 2015.

WALTER BAILEY: “Dr. King took a bullet in the neck. They were shot. Killed. Murdered. Advancing voting rights… it’s an insult to their legacy. To their deaths.” @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn SenJohnson BrentTaylorTN #Memphis

In July 2025, ICE claimed for the first time that a law passed in 1996 eliminated bond for anyone who initially entered illegally, no matter how long here, because one part of the law brands them “applicants for admission” and another declares that anyone “seeking admission” is ineligible for bond.

share.google/AP5ejn5EWDqP... Somewhere out there there's a witch feeling very satisfied that their curse produced results ... Lol.

important technical context for the fossil fuel phaseout conference Colombia just hosted - 50 countries, representing half of global GDP, in attendance, agreeing to plan energy transition

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... American Atlantis, mythical homes of jazz and the roots of RnB and funk.

Chat does this mean the economy is good

🚨Emergency Update 🚨 @theonion.com

www.psypost.org/the-gender-f... Yeah. This tracks.

Corn ethanol serves no purpose and is purely a handout to farmers. It costs more and emits more than normal petroleum. And it takes up half as much land area as all urban and suburban land in the US. If we replaced the land with solar, we'd get 3x as much power as the US uses.

Cephalopods deserve higher welfare standards in research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wasserman Schultz.. At least she just got gerrymandered out of her position.. same day as this.

It exercises *arbitrary power,* meaning power based in pure will, not reason. We see this undeniably in the shadow docket, where there is typically little or no reasoning offered for decisions, just the pure expression of the will of 5 or 6 unaccountable persons (also, no briefing on the facts!).

I'd go further. This SCOTUS isn't democratically legitimate, but there are other sources of legitimacy: legal/rational legitimacy is also available to courts that abide by the rule of law. But the Roberts Court doesn't even have that. It is *categorically illegitimate.*

As a Ukrainian journalist, I've covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking 🖊️ Nataliya Gumenyuk My country has been under occupation, dogged by corruption and war. Yet even I've been bewildered by the way the US seems to be fracturing www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

If anything hypocrisy and garbled reasoning are the most naked display of power.

It's not an intellectual argument, it's a fascist one. "We have the power and have no intention of ever releasing it." That's the Supreme Court's argument here, power, not objectively correct reasoning.

I don't know how widely understood it is that the US is now conditioning lifesaving, utterly essential health aid to African countries on access to minerals and other ~sweet deals. I probably only know about it bc of the @unbreaking.org team that tracks it. healthpolicy-watch.news/ghana-rebuff...

Quote by George Orwell: “There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the...” share.google/aZhNbKpUzDTi...

The VRA being shredded by the Supreme Court and FISA again being passed with 40 odd Democrats supporting yesterday.. If there is no hope of peaceful change and nothing but a supper of leather boot to look forward to for our children? What then?

FDR‘s conclusion: “During the past half century the balance of power between the three branches of the federal government has been tipped out of balance by the Court….in a world in which democracy is under attack, I seek to make American democracy succeed.“/4

I keep reacting to the current crisis in essentially the same way, except I'm not a broke college student, I'm the breadwinner of a family of three.

Still traumatized from 2008. I spent 10 years working brutal manufacturing jobs as an indirect consequence of that time. Can't wait for that to repeat except it being warehouse work or delivery.

Just going to say this once: Stupidity and wilful ignorance is not a good enough reason to vote for a fascist. There's no saving someone from their actual heart's desire.

I'm serious, the gulag archipelago is the centrist position when it comes to this shit. Fucking MAGA.

"Omitting mention in the news media of crucial facts is also paradigmatic of state propaganda," writes Jason Stanley.

www.propublica.org/article/trum... It's just evil, the kind of evil that deserves to be driven out of society, its architects jailed or stripped of their citizenship.. or both.

youtu.be/3tWWMaxLS78?... #modular

oh do news reporters know what it's like to be a public school teacher now

scitechdaily.com/researchers-... Yup, fibromyalgia and Ehlers Danlos here. This is how I am not in and out of the ER with flares.

www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/world/t... You hope to see this kind of headline, not in these circumstances but it's been a hope since childhood.

There was a moment where it looked like the macro people were right everything smoothed, it could still go that way. But also each individual industry expert is like "idk man"

This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaurs