11/ Read our story at www.propublica.org/article/kids... Reported with @mayatmiller.bsky.social @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social

3/ Videos show how immigration agents have used these weapons: at one point, officers hurl tear gas canisters at protesters without apparent provocation. Then, with the street flooded in white smoke, a CBP agent shoots pepper balls before muttering “Fuck yeah,” and “Woo!”

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

A must-read thread 🧵

Reform candidate who said ‘Nigerians should be melted down to fill in pot holes’ wins seat Glenn Gibbins, the candidate for Hylton Castle Ward in Sunderland, has won his seat in this week’s council elections. Areas like these* voted heavily in favour of Brexit in 2016 metro.co.uk/2026/05/09/r...

Only in America can one party control the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, win the popular vote,and hold the majority of governorships... and still blame the other party for everything wrong with this country

United States of White Supremacy 2026 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

The great irony of the Welsh success of Reform, run by millionaire ex-public schoolboys, is that one the greatest Welshmen, & founder of the NHS, warned of this “How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies whole art of Tory politics” Aneurin Bevan

Which of these has the more ironic name? "TRUTH" Social or Fox "NEWS" #WordsMatter

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Protesters staged noise demo through the rich Seattle neighborhood of #Laurelhurst that lobbied against noisy helicopters flying sick and injured kids over their mansions to Children's Hospital. 🤪 It got a bit noisy.

It's called WHITE FUCKING SUPREMACY.

Mother Jones: The Roberts Court Takes a Page from Plessy v. Ferguson In destroying the Voting Rights Act, the justices echo the court’s darkest and most racist days. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Full episode. @tarapalmeri.bsky.social

Today, I’m launching my signature pancake and waffle mix “Thank You For Your Attention To This Batter”.

To the members of the Epstein Class, the lives of critically ill or injured children are a nuisance Noise complaints from Seattle neighborhood inhabited by the 1% force medical helicopters carrying children to land 1 mile away from emergency hospital www.fox13seattle.com/video/fmc-d3...

#NotTheOnion finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...

Penguin Random House has started adding Bluesky as an option of where readers get book recs when they send out their Reader's Lounge surveys. We're slowly getting there 🙂‍↕️ 💙📚 #booksky

Total shocker. Alito’s argument for why black people don’t need voting rights protections is based on fraudulent statistics.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

The price of gas at my local Shell station in Seattle increased by another 15 cents per gallon over the past four days. In case you're wondering, that's an annualized rate of inflation of 759%.

Destany Pete researched an Indigenous chokecherry recipe and achieved promising “in vitro” results on cancer cells. Her science project gained international recognition for combining traditional knowledge with modern laboratory experimentation.

I am CRYING. The youngest’s grade just finished performing their concert, and one of the last songs, they sang and did full sign language for. Youngest is non-verbal. For the first time ever, he was able to sing/sign with his class.

Question to the NFL: Why would the super bowl ever go to a jim crow state that intentionally strips representation from black people?

Two men charged over alleged filming of antisemitic TikTok videos in London

It’s really interesting being blocked by someone you’ve never interacted with and, being curious, you find childish crap like this. Mislabeling righteously angry progressives “Rich old liberals” to score points. “Dark hero” 🙄 who spreads the same ignorance that continues harms others.

Just keep sharing it. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NZ Think 💭 youtube.com/shorts/VKlXb...

France passes law on the restitution of cultural artifacts looted during colonial rule

Anyone still questioning why Farage's Reform did so well? The majority of the British public have no idea how politics work in this country, they listen to our press and its lies and believe every word. If there is to be real change we have to take on our media.

Ron DeSantis said Thursday that the immigration detention center known as “ Alligator Alcatraz ” always was meant to be temporary. “I simply didn’t tell the public because, well, you know… fuck ‘em,” he said with a laugh. “I still want $680 million from the federal government for up keep.”

These are the kind of fighters we need. It's going to get nasty, folks. Time for massive Civil disobedience. We need 100 million on the street or we're headed for Civil War.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

The @pressfreedomtracker.us has recorded nearly 200 LAPD press freedom violations involving journalists. On May Day, reporters were handcuffed and struck with batons. With the World Cup coming to LA, FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social challenged LAPD to prevent an international incident. Watch ⬇️

Russia is suffering defeats on all fronts, so what is it celebrating? Russians speak up about Putin's parade. They noticed that the ceasefire was requested by Putin for just one day and just for Moscow.

Just so we understand.

“The claims Alito, made about voter turnout in La in VRA case were based on misleading data analysis Alito’s claim was copied almost verbatim from friend-of-court brief by DOJ..to make argumt that the kind of discrim that once made VRA necess no longer exists” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Tennessee NAACP goes to court to stop "late-decade Congressional redistricting," and the law sure looks to be on their side.

Yup.

Excellent. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

😕🇺🇸 Yeah @marenmorris.bsky.social gets it

So absurd. And the same Republicans who voted to strip Memphis of representation will post about how much they honor and respect MLK in January.

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SEN. AKBARI: “HISTORY IS WATCHING.” Sen. Akbari reminded Senate Republicans majority-Black Memphis is sacred civil rights movement ground — they voted to strip representation from the city and dilute it with white power anyway. @tnsenatedems.bsky.social Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYFzyvL...

Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone.

NEWS: Virginia Dems have filed a motion asking the Supreme Court of Virginia to delay issuing its mandate striking down the congressional redistricting referendum. The filing states the Commonwealth intends to file an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court of seeking review of the decision.