We speak with journalist Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI, about the Trump administration’s alliance with tech billionaires, efforts to regulate artificial intelligence technology, and rising local opposition to data centers across the United States.

Reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m...

Trump is “happy” to “do something” about Cuba—an island lacking fuel, power, and food—starting with its 94-year-old ex-leader.

Beatrice, color film Model: @beatricemorgana.bsky.social Kodak UltraMax 400 film Canon EOS-3 #BelieveInFilm

Sebastian Gorka’s anti-terror plan makes no mention of long-established threats posed by far-right militants and instead villainizes the president’s political enemies. “This administration is not paying attention to the data,” one expert said.

Fascists come for everyone, including fellow fascists. Trump, realizing he's dying, no longer cares about anything except protecting himself and his assets - hence, the bunker. Ditto the billionaires. They are manic and playing for all the marbles. They're eating into their own base now. Good.

Yea, verily, thou canst make this shit up.

Trump undoing refrigerant climate rules over the objections not just of environmentalists but of industry—even capitalism says “too much”!—& not for the sake of consumers, who will pay more, is what I call “extinctionism.” Wrecking the world just to wreck it, not even for a buck.

These deaths and so many others can be traced back to Donald Trump and his contempt for the lives of people across this planet. https://bit.ly/43o4yX0

I know, I am playing a goddess ! We call that type casting btw

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Well, looka here: www.axios.com/2026/05/21/d...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live Nirvana The Cure Jack White PJ Harvey Terence Blanchard Neil Young and Crazy Horse Rage Against the Machine Depeche Mode Adia Victoria The Pixies

"Mathias also tells the story of a movement that's grown alongside the Far Right... working to keep communities safe amidst a climate of extraordinary fear and violence" Such an honor talking to the great @shaneburley.bsky.social for @praeyesright.bsky.social politicalresearch.org/2026/05/19/h...

US indicts Cuba’s former leader Raul Castro: Why it matters https://aje.news/fiv3x3

A land transfer and the beginnings of a new border wall have militarized the southern terminus of the Continental Divide Trail and federal land throughout New Mexico’s Bootheel region. buff.ly/3CW3PEC

Maryland's newest state park, the 1,042-acre Freedman’s State Park near Gaithersburg, honors the legacy of the Howard family, who owned the land after emancipation from slavery, and became major contributors to Black communities in Maryland. marylandmatters.org/2026/05/18/a...

This is why it is incredibly important to take a stand and demand art and writing by humans. Creativity is about human connection.

There is no universe where what the Israeli gov is doing is not evil - the cold blood murder of innocent people - genocide funded by US tax dollars.

"A so-called 'safety report' on mifepristone, commissioned by HHS, is not due to be issued by the FDA until the fall, keeping the issue out of the public eye in the leadup to the midterms."

How about a little good news?

Our kids’ lungs are not a manufacturing experiment! 🛑 The EPA wants to let plastic 🔥 🔥 plants skip air pollution checks by calling it "advanced recycling." We see through the name change—it’s incineration. #CleanAirForKids #BeyondPetrochemicals www.wastedive.com/news/epa-pro...

"According to one study, this sudden removal of foreign aid could lead to more than 9 million preventable deaths by 2030. Now, new research published in Science suggests that the destruction of USAID has also unleashed a wave of violent conflict across Africa." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Intercept annotated the White House document to show how the U.S. government is bringing its war on terror home.

Carl Jung on the Power of Tarot Cards: They Provide Doorways to the Unconscious & Perhaps a Way to Predict the Future

Interview with @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

🧵 As PEN America's annual Freedom to Write Index marks its seventh edition, the number of writers jailed reached a new high in a wider range of countries, with at least 401 behind bars in 44 countries during 2025, compared to 375 in 2024.

A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be ‘a harbinger of what’s to come’ for public lands under Trump.

It’s the January 6ers who committed the gravest crimes whose records Trump’s DOJ now wants to wipe clean: https://bit.ly/4d9FUiE

For @zeteo.com, I wrote about the War on Terror achieving something closer to its final form as a 21st-century COINTELPRO.

How The Broligarchy Is Using AI And Corporate Democrats to Crush The Working Class Both corporate Dems & MAGA gladly take $$$ from Silicon Valley billionaires who are planning to use AI to achieve their fascist agenda. Here's how to rise up & stop them. thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-the-br...

Read this if you haven't, comrades.

The FDA relies on science to keep our food and medicine safe. Yesterday, its leader stepped down under pressure from Trump and his allies for not advancing industry-friendly policies that undermine public health. We need leaders who put science over politics. That includes the White House.

Gotta say, trying to discuss fascism and eugenics in America with political moderates makes you want to tear your hair out. Are they physically incapable of forming the words?

Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.

Imagine if America actually had radical left lunatics

The Santa Marta conference in Colombia was the first international diplomatic conference dedicated expressly to phasing out fossil fuels. Basav Sen writes on why that matters. inthesetimes.com/article/sant...

Of course they did. 🫠

This, so much this.

A technique inspired by the film Interstellar suggests a new way of communicating backwards in time, but it could help improve conventional communication systems as well

Saying that democracy died in Tennessee last week is incorrect & boring. Saying that Tennesseans are under attack by authoritarians (a minority of the actual population & electorate, who want to consolidate their own wealth & power at the expense of everything and everyone…) is correct and useful.

Monochrome Monday! With @loisplz.bsky.social Ilford Delta 3200 film Canon EOS-3 + 50/1.8 lens #FilmIsNotDead

The Trump administration’s motherhood agenda touts family values—while gutting the tax breaks, healthcare and childcare programs that real moms rely on.

Baltimore is full of women who show up and change the world baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-is...

No, this wasn't a one-off:

Best adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

Two of my favorite versions. Revisiting in advance of Nolan's inevitable IMAX orgy.

Comrades, you're welcome. ☕