The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

Maybe someday people will figure out that journalism is not now, has never been, and never will be profitable. www.axios.com/2026/05/19/b...

In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.

Israel's murder of an Iraqi shepherd is reminiscent of SEAL Team 6's massacre of North Korean fishermen in 2019. Both the US and Israel feel entitled to go anywhere on earth and kill anybody.

One of my core objections to @deanbaker13.bsky.social is that he both remembers the past and believes we can learn from it. This is Anti-Americanism in its purest form. cepr.net/publications...

While we wait for the AI bubble to burst, it's worth remembering what the bursting of the last two economy-moving bubbles looked like cepr.net/publications...

It's important to keep in mind that you're constantly rotting, the only thing that changes when you die is that your body stops rebuilding itself

Pete Hegseth told Congress the Iran War has cost $25 billion. Hegseth lied — the US has spent at least $72 billion. My latest for @popular.info: popular.info/p/the-real-c...

About 2.9 billion men, or 70% of men on earth, are gay. Before the birth of Jesus 100% of men were gay.

"Couch potato" is the archetypal metaphor for laziness. Yet if you leave a potato on the couch it will sprout without soil, relying solely on its internal reserve of water. What is this if not grindset? Are we not all, now, relying on our internal reserves to grow, on the computer?

I watched the trailer for The Odyssey and was intrigued by its use of echo throughout, illustrating the trauma and psychological fragility of Odysseus, until I realized it was just open in two tabs www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_bK...

We've come a long way but it still seems like most big time charlatans are men. We need more Women In Fraud

This guy started a war that's wrecking the world because he was high from the recent kidnapping he did, and thought he could do the same thing and wanted to look smart and strong. Said war can't end because he now has to save face and that's more important than ending it. That's it

"Chud the Builder is our Rosa Parks"

All governments lie & all societies lie to themselves. But they do it in different ways. US lies generally are reality-adjacent. By contrast, Israel has developed a culture of up-is-down lying, with a straightforward denial of reality as the constant first resort.

Here's our updated story -- with a much better photo! -- on Richard Glossip's release from jail. His fight isn't over. But it's pretty amazing to see. (With @jordansmith.bsky.social for @theintercept.com)

Congratulations to Jeff Bezos on turning The Washington Post into an even cheaper-looking copy of Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire. You saw an overcrowded field of whiny young reactionaries complaining about the most mundane grievances and said, wait, wait, we can do that too!

This is a surprise, I don't think I've ever heard of any dogs who were religious

Good for NBC for engaging in basic journalism by reporting on the reaction of local Iranians to the US massacre of 150 schoolchildren. It's interesting to see a local school official putting what happened in the correct historical context: www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

Rich people buying elections is a bad story, as Robert Reich points out robertreich.substack.com/p/sergey-bri.... Rich people buying the media is even worse. Why is this hard for progressives to understand? Somehow, only campaign ads affect votes, but not what people see between the ads?

The advances in treatment for cancer — including ones like pancreatic cancer that were largely untreatable in the past — are truly exciting. It makes it even more enraging that the Trump administration is slashing research money for it. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/h...

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.

American 2026 Office Culture is providing tiny portions of healthy food encased in huge amounts of plastic

If AI is going to work at all, we'd better nationalize it now before it figures how to avoid nationalization www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

I always wonder who people like this think America has borrowed $36 trillion from. Like, the moon?

Yeah I'm DTF Delighted To Facilitate a neighborhood-wide discussion about recycling

As the inevitable freakout from Israel's superfans commences over Nicholas Kristof's column, remember that whenever one group of people oppresses another, this includes sexual abuse. There has never been an exception in human history & it would be weird if Israel were the first.

In 1988, 38 years ago, Noam Chomsky returned from a visit to the West Bank and Gaza and spoke about Israel's constant attacks on journalists: chomsky.info/198805__/

Today's the 4th anniversary of the IDF's murder of Shireen Abu Akleh. It's important to understand the hierarchy within the US empire: Saudi Arabia is allowed to kill US permanent residents like Khashoggi, while Israel ranks higher & can kill US citizens. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Pls read this important perspective on how money dominates politics & what can be done about it, by @deanbaker13.bsky.social. Overturning Citizens United (& even Buckley v. Valeo) would accomplish far less than people hope. We have to think more broadly. deanbaker22.substack.com/p/citizens-u...

I made this video ten years for the Guardian, about 5 months out from the 2016 election. Not many people took it seriously at the time.

Almost 50% of Arizonans who had SNAP benefits have been kicked off of the program since last summer thanks to Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”. This is an excellent article on the cruelty, which of course is the point.

I can't recommend this zine from Sojourners for Justice Press enough. I had a purportedly excellent education & learned nothing about David Walker or the significance of his 1829 screed/broadside/manifesto. Ty to @prisonculture.bsky.social for creating this. sojourners4justice.press/about/

May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, a good time to go get what should be a yearly-screening from a dermatologist. Here's my story about how I went to get my weird leg mole checked out in 2013 & it turned out to be Stage I melanoma: www.alternet.org/2013/10/i-wo...

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Thanks to the Black Zine Fair at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn, I'm now the proud owner/reader of this by @prisonculture.bsky.social, which in a gratifyingly esher-like way is a zine about one of the most impactful zines ever, from 1829

Hey, friends! Huge news! I'm doing a fun zoom call fundraiser for @chrisrabb.com for Congress with the great voice actor PHIL LAMARR and a bunch of other cool folks! It's SATURDAY at 2 pm ONLINE - donate and get the link here: secure.actblue.com/donate/purpl...

Incredible turnout at the Black Zine Fair in Brooklyn. Still two more hours! blackzinefair.org

Deeply important movement media work is horribly under-supported.

I appreciate people who just decide to do stuff. reasonstobecheerful.world/the-one-doll...

Literally no human being in history has "created" a billion dollars in value. All wealth creation is a collective effort. Anyone who thinks about this for three seconds will understand this, but some people do not put in those three seconds of effort.

Susie Wiles is so committed to Trump's slashing of research on cancer that she's coming to work to do it even after being diagnosed with cancer.

Modern technology could learn from older stuff that does what it's supposed to and doesn't bother you. My toilet just works and never sends me emails like "Good news! Flush® is now Floosh®"

In this May edition of Prisons, Prose & Protest, I share an exciting new Interrupting Criminalization project, recommend two podcasts about conflict resolution in movement spaces, several recent articles and essays, and more… open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

I hope to go to the Black Zine Fair at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn this Saturday the 9th, because I am fundamentally on the side of all of the world's cranks and weirdos who make zines blackzinefair.org

While I appreciate Marjorie Taylor Greene's antiwar stance, she remains out of her mind in many ways. Everyone will get their Social Security checks (unless the right succeeds — via nonsense like this — in destroying the program.)

Part of the Israeli elite believes their violence increases antisemitism around the world & celebrates this. Recall Amoz Oz's 1982 interview with an IDF colonel, who said the "sweetest fruit" of Israel's invasion of Lebanon was it created hate for "all those Feinschmecker Jews"

Good morning, if we ever develop any significant life extension technology, it will inevitably lead to the destruction of human society www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/m...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.