I just saw the updated app last night, and was so massively pissed off. Yeah, yeah, first world problems, but there is something to be said about huge companies buying out smaller companies and then turning everything to shit because what's the alternative for those with that particular tracker.

United States Representative Chrissy Houlahan shares how the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, proposed by Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith, changed the military forever. #WeAreAmerica250

If you’d told me 15 years ago that in 2026 Donald Trump would be the Republican president and that I would be reading papal encyclicals muttering “fuck yeah, this Pope really gets it,” I would have laughed in your face. And yet here we are.

I love this. This is important, particularly if you are Black and/or a woman. They do not take us seriously. If you are concerned and presenting with any symptoms of a stroke and they blow you off ask "What makes you think it is not a stroke?" Make them break down why.

Heather Cox Richardson tells the story of the Constitutional Convention, where 55 delegates constructed the framework for a new government. #WeAreAmerica250

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

I call them traitors.

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Let's put the result of this ridiculous lawsuit in the simplest possible terms: The good news is Elon Musk lost. The bad news is Sam Altman won. In "other" news, we now have access to a whole lot of cringey texts, emails, and private diary entries, which confirm they are both massive creeps.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

JD Vance: "There's a lot of fraud in the federal government. It's unbelievable how much you've been fleeced by your own government." Yep, and what's not going into vanity projects, and his stupid war of choice, is all going into right Trump's pocket!

I am just gonna say this outright: Our elected leaders, whoever they are, need to start doing what Mamdani does with these videos that show exactly what he is doing to make everyone's lives better. They need to be out front, daily, telling us what they're doing to provide for our fundamental needs.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

I mean, we can recall governors, so why not presidents? And for that matter, why not congress people and senators? Might keep them from ignoring their campaign promises and categorically denying the will of the people they are supposed to serve.

A must-read thread 🧵

Correction: You CANNOT "earn" a billion dollars. AOC correctly has a low opinion of those who exploit the intellectual, physical, and emotional labor of others, and then turn around and insist they "earned" their profits from the exploited labor.

Make Hantavirus Great Again. Leave it to RFK Jr to allow a disease with a severe mortality rate (35-40%) to run rampant in the petri dishes of the sea.

I Fully Endorse this Idea….

“Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.” —Tommy Douglas, the guy who got Canada Universal Healthcare

In the last 6 months, Amazon laid off 30,000 employees. But Jeff Bezos was able to find an extra $10 MILLION to sponsor the Met Gala. Funny how the employees who make him rich are disposable, but flaunting wealth at fancy parties is a priority.

💊 Americans are dying in waiting rooms — forced to skip life-saving care — while we pour billions into endless wars. This is the brutal reality. It’s time to choose: Our people or their bombs. Fund healthcare. Save American lives. 👉 Please share if you agree. #HealthcareNotWarfare

I just passed by some Bay Wheels bikes with Google ads on them. They say "A better kind of help." I initially read it as "A better kind of HELL." 🤣

An agenda for Supreme Court reform: - 18 year term limits - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Binding ethics rules - Congressional limits on what the Court can rule on per act of legislation We need to change the composition of the Court, but also its role. The Court has far too much power.

Which is the backwards country now, United States?

Evangelical religions have "doctrines of shame" that make ppl feel perpetually inadequate. Progressives (understandably) shame them for their xenophobia and racism. This is why Trump. He loudly and proudly tells them they don't need to feel shame for their basest of impulses. Shame is the key.

Who the fuck has to show ID to walk into restaurants?!?

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Hey, hey, it's MAY DAY. You know what to do... No School! No Work! No Shopping! #TaxTheOligarchs

What a great concept

US forces may be withdrawn from Italy and Spain in addition to Germany. Trump is isolating the US from its long time allies, and from the world, leaving its population vulnerable to attack. I argued for years the US was an empire on the decline, but being in the middle of the end of empire sucks.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

We can't have health care, or housing, or clean water, or affordable groceries because this regime wanted to look like big boys.

Musk: "Your questions are definitionally complex, not simple. It is a lie to say they are simple.” Musk is both an idiot and an obfuscator, and my guess is this response employs a little of both.

A string of seven lawsuits filed Wednesday alleges OpenAI could have prevented one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada’s history, had the company not overruled recommendations from its internal safety team.

Chinese EVs are more affordable (e.g., $10,000–$30,000 vs $54,500 to $57,000 for American) and technologically better (superior battery technology) than those produced in the US. But they're banned here. How much you wanna bet Musk has convinced Trump to ban them to protect Tesla?

I have never been a conspiracy theory person, but with the shit this regime is responsible for, and the fact that they never stop lying, makes me think that there's something fucked up behind every single thing they say and do.

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This is what happens when you send complete idiots instead of skilled negotiators, people who think that everyone else is stupid and they are smart, when the reality it that they are the ones who are desperately stupid.

Another staged assassination attempt? Let me guess. He thought it would boost his cratering popularity? #WHCA

A billion dollars a day on a war of choice. Well over $5 billion in damage from retaliatory strikes. An ask for $1.5 trillion in "defense" spending. But we can't afford healthcare. Or food. Or to keep our drinking water clean. They are stealing our money for vanity projects and wars.

The ears of every state or federal prosecutor who's ever worked an Embezzlement case just pricked up. If you ever wondered how Donald Trump could transfer the cost of his Fürherbunker to taxpayers while personally pocketing millions, this would be Step 1.

Whoever called the faction of the press who still want to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner the ‘Access of Evil’ I salute you

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Abolish the electoral college so that candidates win by the actual votes of the people and not random nameless delegates.

Kegsbreath. J. Edgar Boozer. Secretary Brainworm. President Ineptstein. Welcome to the United States of Asshats.

The new FBI

Trump always appoints questionable people. Former Secretary of the Navy John Phelan never served in the military but did fly at least twice in Epstein's plane. His successor, Hung Cao, claims to have been “blown up” in combat. But there is no Purple Heart or other evidence to support such claim.

"As these physical markers have moved westwards, so too has an unmarked zone in which any Palestinian person or vehicle is considered a threat and a legitimate target." Let me repeat that... "...any Palestinian person or vehicle is considered a legitimate target."