“Taxes are how we build the world for each other.”

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

Any candidate who: - takes AIPAC money - supports Bibi’s genocides in Gaza and Lebanon - shies from prosecuting Trump’s unprecedented fraud - doesn’t go after the oligarchs for pillaging our nation - doesn’t address the corruption of SCOTUS, Congress or MSM …can forget about earning my vote.

This is gross. Bit by bit they are robbing trans people of their humanity. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ Submit comments by May 22.

Anyone Jewish or Muslim or atheist or simply non-Christian has no dflifficulty taking this as the implicit threat it is intended to be

Trump performed fellatio on a microphone and talked about Arnold Palmer's penis and raped a woman and most likely, allegedly, raped girls with Epstein and that's all fine and dandy with MAGA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

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They are 100% gonna try to do Jim Crow and segregation again. If they succeed, they'll start testing the possibility of reinstituting actual slavery.

Pretty good way to pay and incentivize foot soldiers to do your bidding, even if it crosses lines. This is basically how warlords control territory in the absence of a functioning law and order state.

🚨 “A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Texas issued the subpoena demanding information on every minor who received gender-affirming care since 2020.” Gender affirming care is health care. 🏳️‍⚧️ Health care is a right. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

¡Viva España!

“What we need, as messaging is absolutely unrelenting demands that Democratic elites use their power in office to crush fascism.”

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “They assume my ambition is a title — my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, single payer is forever. A living wage is forever.”

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

If Republicans can't win legally or peacefully, they will cheat. That's what their King and Daddy Trump taught them. Buckle up. It's going to get far worse, and I fear more violent.

Democrats really should sue CBS for big bucks, as @brianbeutler.bsky.social proposed here. open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

Call them what they are. What we all know them to be. What they know themselves to be. Fucking racists, antisemites, misogynists, etc. And don’t forget fucking 🤡s.

Rosen is right, blah, blah. Yes. But where she and other Democrats fail is in their tone an approach. Rosen, in this instance, is *appealing* to Hegseth's non-existent better nature. She is *asking* him why he chooses to be "hurtful." She is *imploring* him to consider that "words matter." 🧵

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

Trump says ‘I’m not a rapist, I didn’t rape anybody’ and Norah O’Donnell doesn’t mention the E Jean Carroll case or the jury finding him liable for sexual abuse or the judge saying it could be said Trump did ‘rape’ her in the ‘commonly’ understood sense: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

ALL YOU FASCISTS (Bound to Lose) Music Video Bette Midler youtu.be/uBj57ivPsxQ?si… via @YouTube

Not to be overly alarmist, but everyone should be worried about DOJ’s indictment of SPLC. Here’s why: joycevance.substack.com/p/whats-wron...

A win! Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ Gender affirming care is health care. 🏳️‍⚧️ Health care is a right. 🏳️‍⚧️

19 April 1943 | Groups of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began the uprising against Germans. Their heroic battle lasted 27 days. Today we remember the bravery & sacrifice of people who chose to resist against impossible odds to die in dignity & save the human spirit. More: https://t.co/OoVGtqwWPu

The May 1 general strike is in less than two weeks. I believe it has to succeed for American democracy to have a fighting chance Our feeds should be flooded with posts like this, but they aren’t I’m a little concerned

We’re getting ready for a massive day of economic disruption on May Day. There are many ways you can take action, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...

Despite Israel’s genocide—these 7 Democratic Senators voted AGAINST a resolution to block sale of weapons to Israel 🔵Blumenthal (CT) 🔵Coons (DE) 🔵Cortez-Masto (NV) 🔵Fetterman (PA) 🔵Gillibrand (NY) 🔵Rosen (NV) 🔵Schumer (NY) Vote these 7 fascists out. A record 40 Dems voted to block. Vote failed 59-40

A heart-breaking moment captured in an SS photograph of a group of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in or around May 1944. A child found a flower & is giving or showing it to an older boy. All the people in the picture were murdered in a gas chamber moments later. #YomHaShoah

We should remember every name & learn about the #history, but we also need to confront our idea of mankind with the remains and stories of #Auschwitz. We should remember this human tragedy of the Holocaust to create a better, safer, peaceful, and more responsible #future. #YomHaShoah

𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄 - $𝟓𝟎𝟎! For High School Students - when it comes to fighting corruption, let your voice be heard! Deadline: May 15 Apply now: details at museumofpoliticalcorruption.org/essay-contest/ #HighSchool #EssayContest @civicyouth.bsky.social @CivicEducation

Philly has such cool public art!

Believe women.

Wise words from Spain's Prime Minister: “The momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What is needed now: diplomacy, international law and PEACE.”

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

A war powers resolution will not be enough. Yes. We need to assert congressional authority and stop this illegal war in Iran. But, Trump is clearly an unstable warmonger at odds with the will of the people. Removal is the top priority. No more war criminal in the White House.

To be fair it was a tough decision at the ballot box

"What do you want him to do?" This. This is where you start. You start with this and you go forward from there.

It remains truly incredible how the three central issues of the 2024 presidential election were inflation, Joe Biden’s mental/physical unfitness for office, & the <checks notes> Democrats’ ongoing support for genocide & other war crimes.

Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli Novak

Olympics ended sex testing because it was scientifically flawed and discriminatory - it's back, with a ban on trans women www.wearequeeraf.com... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

On today's Supreme Court ruling. tobiasbarringtonwolff275915.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

In this op-ed, Attie Lee reflects on growing up in Appalachia, unpacks myths about gender, and examines the science behind identity—showing why trans people cannot and will not be erased. https://mrf.lu/6Nn2

Our most fearless journalists these days are our cartoonists.

Watch #NoKings 3in Philly here! www.youtube.com/live/74QfYvk...

Headed out to a No Kings protest today? Know your rights before you go and share with your friends and family attending!