the old anarchist quote about how “if voting mattered they’d make it illegal” actually is true! And they are trying!

#NY10 poll shows Brad Lander crushing Dan Goldman -Lander 57% -Goldman 23% Lander has the endorsement of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Goldman has the backing of Gov. Kathy Hochul pix11.com/news/local-n...

This comes during a really difficult stretch for him as an immigrant on temporary protected status. He’s now trying to secure gear and rebuild his freelance/staff career. If you can, please consider supporting or sharing. www.gofundme.com/f/support-go... (2/2)

Ruling blocks detentions at three federal courthouses except in rare cases amid protests over tactics

“Roughly three-quarters of those children… are likely U.S. citizens”

This is the problem with Drake. The soullessness of his bars allows the worst people to see themselves in his work. If he made free the slave music, the hearts of the enemy would be convicted. But the Enemy sees a friend in him. Imagine the opps trying to see themselves in this.

Important and illuminating conversation

Pretty convenient that so many Black Americans live in tightly packed residential patterns. You know, just by chance. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

What an incredible look at the diverging paths of an American institution!!!

As Israeli settler attacks on water sources multiply across the West Bank, Palestinian communities that have farmed the land for generations are being forced out. "If this continues, we will barely be allowed to drink," a resident tells Mondoweiss. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/how-... #Palestine #Israel

The real answer isn’t that students decided to shut up. It’s that universities, and a hostile federal government, have expended massive resources trying to ensure they do.

The cut would impact both disabled adults who live with low-income family members and older SSI recipients who live with their adult children on tight budgets. As many as 400,000 people could have their support cut or eliminated, per the Social Security Administration's estimates.

I read a very compelling argument that when this weasel chewed through a cable and unexpectedly shut down the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile particle accelerator in April 2016, that’s when our reality went haywire. I have yet to hear a more persuasive explanation. Not even really joking.

Allowing an exception for rotisserie chicken and rotisserie chicken only really drives home the cynicism at the heart of all this.

This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

“Alito defangs the law by unilaterally cancelling out congressional fixes to it — primarily, that plaintiffs bringing claims of racial vote dilution no longer have to prove that the legislators drawing the maps did so to purposefully discriminate.”

Children as young as 4 years old are subjected to frequent hearings and forced to provide updates on their cases, in some instances without legal help, and in such fear, they wet themselves. trib.al/LXzTEZx

Residents proved their tap water carries sewage and bacteria. Federal funding dried up anyway. https://capitalbnews.org/cahokia-heights-water-crisis-sewage-tap-water/

This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.

Remember when the final episode was about how they initiated runaway climate catastrophe via unrestrained capitalism, heralded by keystone species extinction that was handwaved away in the name of "progress" Then it was strongly implied they all died Ha ha ha

THE REAL NEWS NETWORK: Israel kills journalist in Lebanon after “hunting” down her and a colleague therealnews.com/israel-kills... @therealnews.com #photojournalism #journalism

My coworkers rock 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾

I was at Jan 6 and a lot of people who weren’t there knew a lot more than me and my journalist colleagues that day because they weren’t pinned to one specific spot with one view and they weren’t dealing with the stress, either. Lotta ppl missing the point which is that good journalism during

The Gilded Age robber barons have gone down in history as the epitome of private avarice, but at least they believed in democracy The tech lords today are weakly committed to democracy at best—and at worst, they’re millenarian nutcases who would dispense with government altogether. trib.al/JVhzKmi

The 85-year-old widow “was chained by her wrists and ankles to other inmates and loaded onto buses and a plane ‘like a potato sack.’ After two weeks in detention in Alabama and Louisiana, she said, she feared she might die.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

The underlying memo is one of the most jaw-dropping things I've ever read re: higher ed. Some actual sentences: "Upon the conclusive termination of all designated teach-out programs, no degree culminating student research within the TTU System will be permitted to center on SOGI topics."

The former HuffPost reporter was arrested in Kuwait City last month and reportedly faced prosecution over social media posts about the Iran war.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has proclaimed April 2026 as Confederate Heritage Month. The proclamation does not mention racism or slavery—just the importance of gaining "insight from our mistakes and successes." Historian Kevin M. Levin describes it as a sign of "a cause in retreat."

New: Kash Patel's FBI launched an unnecessary raid on the home of a former Capitol Police officer, based on Jan. 6 conspiracy theories from right-wing media outlet The Blaze.

With love, Nikkia Rowe brings local honey, healing, and beekeeping education to the masses. baltimorebeat.com/sweet-stewar...

The political freakout among some corners about a small number of government run grocery stores aimed at addressing the hunger of the poor is wild to me, in part because all over the country there are ways you could get groceries for free, and even delivered to u for free. Food pantries, etc…

The Police Benevolent Association is suing the Civilian Complaint Review Board in an effort to return to an era of secret police misconduct records.

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says

This is heart-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Shoutout to The Atlantic reporters for publishing these massive scoops instead of waiting years to put them in a book.

🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

The Louisiana man who fatally shot eight children Sunday, seven of them his own, had been hospitalized in recent months for mental health issues, according to family members.

Begging the Steelers to stand up for themselves

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

18 months. 14 newsrooms. 70 journalists. 1 groundbreaking investigation into a global surveillance empire whose phone-tracking software has targeted world leaders, corporate executives, journalists, activists, celebrities…and maybe even you.

OPINION: "In an era when image authenticity is often questioned and with the capabilities of autonomous, AI-driven imaging, NASA’s choice to train astronauts in photography has placed meaning over convenience and prioritized their human perspectives and creativity," Sisson writes.

Did a cabbage write this!

My latest. I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer. One way media can fight back against male violence: If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more. You’re her killer. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

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Central bank bosses enlist for war game to gauge threat of Lehman-style bust

Despite casting violent criminals as the primary target of Trump's Memphis task force, the operation has swept up more than 800 undocumented immigrants. Only 2% of the arrests were for violent crimes. w/ @mlk50.com

I recently ate lunch with the internet’s favorite unc Mr. Tendernism, who told me you’re never too old to pursue your dreams “I don’t know how to pronounce old. You can still do anything that you want to as long as you put some effort behind it”