“The deployment of the software comes amid public backlash that the Reno Police Department has made potentially thousands of unlawful arrests using the technology.”

WIC used to have bipartisan support because even Republicans said "Well of course we want to make sure pregnant women and babies have enough to eat, we're not monsters," but now they say "Screw those freeloading babies, we've got a gold-plated ballroom to build"

Syndergaard is such a perfect avatar for the MAHA movement – a guy who probably cost himself several hundred million dollars via his persistent belief in quack medicine, most famously the time he refused an MRI while playing with a partially torn muscle then pitched again and fully tore it

Folks, is it a problem that the Head of HHS clearly doesn't believe in the germ theory of disease?

incredibly depressing that the reimposition of jim crow districts across the entire south is getting nothing more than generic horse race coverage

A historic Varina encampment once used by U.S. Colored Troops is being reborn as a hub for food justice and farmer empowerment, as 61 acres of prime farmland are transferred

Turns out it is possible to make financial aid simpler for students! The FAFSA is working, more students are applying for and qualifying to college, and qualifying for aid. @donmoyn.bsky.social was nice enough to have me guest author for Can We Still Govern donmoynihan.substack.com/p/good-news-...

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

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I saw these headlines and thought "oh well some jerk wrote a form letter to a kid's letter that's dumb" but no it appears that one of the worst people in Congress took time out of her day to talk shit to a 10 y/o and tell him he should be more worried about debt and school propaganda than climate

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

We've removed major hurdles to building affordable housing —  a move that will get homes up nearly 2 years faster. We’re in a race to tackle our housing crisis, because working New Yorkers can't afford to wait.

Pahlavi criticizes Trump for sending mixed signals on Iran

I think this is true. When the GOP breaks the rules, it’s (obviously wrongly) seen as a Dirty Harry antiheroes who break the rules but get stuff done type thing whereas Democrats breaking the rules is seen as a hypocritical hall monitor and/or women and minorities not knowing their place thing.

Jacek Yerka, Polish (1952- ), Złotoujście, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 81 x 70 cm, private collection

If his job was to represent the rest of South Carolina, he would be Senator Clyburn.

It's not a given that just any Democratic majority turns back the tide. It matters who we send to Washington. The Democrats with the biggest war chests in my race are either opposed to or silent on impeachment, prosecutions, and Supreme Court expansion. Support candidates who will fight for them.

Or just doesn't have any firm coherent political beliefs.

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

yeah, this is the other piece of it: "claiming victory and refusing to give anyone else a win" is a key component of the iranian regime, especially when it comes to the united states and israel for domestic reasons they can't really do what he wants here even if it would help resolve things

he's incredibly happy to declare victory and go home as long as the people he picked a fight with are willing to give him a face-saving public win out of it but this isn't a trade dispute and iran is a) very angry at him and b) actually winning when it comes to the strait of hormuz

the big problem trump has on iran is that they won't follow the usual trump tantrum playbook: 1. trump throws tantrum, causes crisis 2. trump 'negotiates', opposing party gets 90% of what they want 3. opposing party says "wow mister trump you win", everyone is happy(ish) iran won't give him 3

it feels like internet traffic as a whole is collapsing in a lot of areas and I do wonder how much that has to do with AI certainly the demographics that visit these sites are the kind of folks who would spend all day gooning to grok

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

One does wonder just how much all that Hungarian filthy lucre running through Orban was subsidizing.

Am entire government run by people who a) believe their own hype about how good they are at b) selling propaganda c) to other people who think they're immune to propaganda. This kind of circle jerk would be hilarious if it didn't have such deadly and disastrous consequences.

We didn’t “rebound” from Vietnam or Watergate. They rotted public trust necessarily and contributed to growing division, antidemocratic and hegemonic abuses, set the stage for a period of austerity and neoliberal exploitation. How do these dumb motherfuckers even remotely believe this.

when i first started reading hardy boys it was in the early 80s in jamaica. when the books would reference things like jalopies and soda shops, i thought that these were things in america that we didnt have in jamaica. i didnt realize that the references were dated to the 20s/30s

i think the Republicans are going to live to regret mostly redistricting out the very elderly black centrists who were most skeptical of the procedural radicalism which would have diminished their structural power.

This is why I was so blessed to have the late great Gwendolyn L. Ifill give the Commencement speech when I got my Master's Degree at American University. She had the best line: "If I have to write a story about you, it better be a good one." youtu.be/QvYxuCt7sig?...

Something that speaks incredibly well to college students today is we gave them a tool to cheat on literally all their class work and their response has been “yes we will cheat but we still hate this thing”

Being clear-eyed about what Republicans are trying to do doesn’t mean preemptive quiescence, and indeed if you’re advocating that you’re on their team www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/lawl...

...damn.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

Samuel Alito cited erroneous racial voting data in his ruling opinion that effectively ended the Voting Rights Act. So why does it feel like the data was correct?

... I did not know Palantir hired an actual Mosley to run their UK & Europe operations. That's on the nose.

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Virginia was a setback But the math still points to a pro-democracy pickup The South is rising up — protests in Tennessee Alabama & beyond And a national mobilization in Montgomery is set for May 16 The movement is growing and here's how to join on my Publisher's note on @contrariannews.org -TN

Can someone please explain to me why Kristi Noem is still living on the taxpayers’ dime in a Coast Guard house on a D.C. military base? She was fired TWO MONTHS ago. She better start packing her bags.

leftists will smugly decry liberals for not burning down the ballroom whilst also not burning it down themselves

i really do love The Wire Season 3 as this story of two men — stringer and bunny colvin — who are trying to rationalize "the game." stringer in particular trying to make it a truly capitalist enterprise — one that sets aside the old world of territory and reputation in favor of pure profit seeking.

Any "leftist" taking MTG's side over AOC's is either an op or the biggest mark at the carnival

I hope she is sitting in her mold castle having just the worst day because of this

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Anyway, I learned from being dunked on by the ABA's social media account that Robespierre resigned a judgeship due to opposition to capital punishment Which is hilarious

Thomas Paine wrote that capital punishment was a relic of the anciene regime and that Louis XVI should be imprisoned and then exiled to the US once the war was over. For this he was later imprisoned by the Jacobins.

The funniest vibecession explanations are when people are like “There’s no disconnect from the real economy! You’re just looking at the wrong metrics!” and you’re like “Oh okay can you show me the right metrics?” and they’re like “No 🤪”

This, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.