“If Democrats win, Congress will do its job again” is a wild message from the current Speaker of the House

I really resent being told America is about to become a totalitarian state because a few shitposting socialists won their primaries while this guy holds more power and influence over the federal government than they ever will.

A billionaire, in other words. We started presuming that billionaires were geniuses when we should have been presuming they were criminal thugs.

We Could Still Save Millions of the Kids Musk Condemned to Death

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

My brother, if we win the Democratic Party primaries then we ARE the Democratic Party

This is exactly grim calculus I’ve been bracing myself for — mass acceptance of seething & suffering of the unlucky millions of people who are harmed by a new technological “convenience”

it fails every time, but they keep trying it if you serve Diet Fash, the people who like original recipe Fash will prefer that, and the people who find all Fash disgusting will stay home

funny how that works

I kind of hate the fact that everything I said at the end of "Gravity's Rainbow Over Palestine" about how Netanyahu would pursue unending war and destruction continues to be correct

Oh God, I've been trolling through Ground News for a video, and... it's really bad guys. Did you know the NYT "leans left" while the WSJ is "center"? Did you? Did you know that the Economist which just had a cover story about how best to fight "Gen-Z socialism" is "center"? Did you know that?

Ian Fleming might have made the world’s first trillionaire this evil, but only Philip K. Dick could have made him such a pathetic drug-addled loser, desperate for attention and adulation but incapable of human relationships, and now terrified to go out in public.

Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

UBI would solve so many problems but we don’t have it because it would solve the wrong problems, according to the people who hold the most power

Ah but you see strangers on the internet told me no landlord would do this gothamist.com/news/57000-r...

Terror and retribution are a core part of how the Trump administration has governed. DOGE whistleblower had threatening note taped to his door and his brakes cut after Elon Musk accused him of lying. www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

These guys absolutely understand the game they’re playing

Holy shit, I just saw I Love Boosters. This is one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen go see it immediately. I am not joking.

New episode of Literate Machine -- "Anti-Life or How Capitalism Will Die (with Math)" youtu.be/M-_W1qVE9Ks?...

This is perfect, no notes www.tumblr.com/theonion/817...

Ups to Bezos for highlighting the exact plutocratic loopholes we need to destroy. BILLIONAIRES PAY THE LOWEST TAX RATE • Working Americans pay 25%–30%; billionaires pay just 24%. • Bezos paid a 15% effective rate in '18 ($0 in federal tax in '11). @gabrielzucman.bsky.social on how we fix this.

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

Welp, they’ve indicted Raúl, so now they have the pretense to abduct him apple.news/AiW0JebLkS_e...

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Dennis Hastert was a Republican Speaker of the House, the longest-running Republican to ever hold the position, and he was sentenced to prison for paying off children he sexually abused. Nobody associates this with the Republican Party because they’re the “law and order” party, because they’re white

When Microsoft launched Copilot on Excel, they had to issue a warning that it couldn’t be trusted to do maths.

Another form of clientilism basically. Dems also do coalition management too, but as observed in the post below, the respective political economy of both parties has radically diverged, so too have the tools to do so.

I think if you use the word deficit, it's always right-coded, which is why this is a bit of trolling. But amazing that the greatest city on earth was sweating the cost of what we're wasting in a weekend bombing girls' schools in IRAN.

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

This is what we're doing now

But if we give poor people money, they will do less crime and also join the military less frequently for the financial incentives Then who will die in the oil wars or provide the prison slave labor????

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” But the current right-wing govt backtracked.

New episode of Literate Machine: Mooks youtu.be/2RbfPHY30-E

Fucking maddening: youtube.com/shorts/jBJxX...

The party of “free speech” continues in consistent form

He will have massive billionaire support around him, like Vance, but he still sucks and now with more blood on his hands than Vance. It's really important for people to know the horrors he's personally responsible for in Cuba, which—best case scenario—could lead to a massive wave of refugees.

The attack-the-academy movement was never, ever about freedom and diversity of thought in the academy. It was always going to play out this way. It’s never been “nobody should dictate thought,” it’s always been “WE should dictate thought.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

JP Morgan's report on tipping points is both extremely terrifying and extremely weird how they aren't screaming in 72-point font AND THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO KILL FOSSIL FUELS jpmorgan.celero.site/s/ab29c67c/c...

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

We've reached chief corporate bullshit when they're making a film hagiography of Milton Hershey, a vicious strike breaker who founded a whites-only orphans school Pennsylvania and made chocolate that tastes like vomit.

The wealthiest 1% own 50% of stocks and the top 10% own 87%, per Federal Reserve. The bottom 50% of Americans owns only 1%, but we hear about the stock market constantly in media (even NPR and MS NOW). Seems like we could hear more about the opportunity costs of not providing universal health care.

In his 1967 work "The Society of the Spectacle", Guy Debord wrote of "[the] pseudoneed of maintaining the reign of the autonomous economy." And here's an old David Pope cartoon. #auspol