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If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States. Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay. Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

New on the Anthropic settlement from the @authorsguild.org : over 91% (!!) of eligible books were claimed as of the claims deadline (I would not have predicted such a high number!) Looks like the payout will be close to the $3000 originally estimated authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor. The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.

Feels important to uplift Rep Pressley's leadership. She puts in a lot of work on issues that others often don't see as a priority. I've appreciated her anti-criminalization work over the years. She's a worker.

"The fascist built environment is often not considered architecture as such but mere infrastructure. This is a huge mistake." — @katewagner.wehwalt.net with an absolutely crucial reminder here—read the full essay at The Nation.

“I spend a lot of time trying to encourage people to appreciate the solitary bees, just because they do so much…” love good bee news, earnestly delivered

Why aren't students protesting?

Folks if you’re in the DC/Baltimore area I will be discussing my upcoming book with longtime friend of the pod and comrade @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social at Red Emma’s in Baltimore Saturday May 23. Join us!

"Co-founded in Kentucky by guitarist/singer Rick Rizzo and drummer/singer Janet Beveridge Bean in 1983, and shored up by future Tortoise bassist Doug McCombs, Eleventh Dream Day began with 'the sound of a band that was on the verge of falling apart,' as Rizzo tells it."

As did I, as… did… I.

everyone involved in the dismantling of USAID should be forced to spend their lives watching graphic videos of what they have subjected people to in their callousness, clockwork orange style

This happened years ago with the death of Jeff Lockhart, and it should have led to the dismantling of this juggernaut of reckless corporate greed

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?

Solidarity with @uaw4121.bsky.social member Kennedy Orwa and his son, who were detained by ICE and forced to leave the country We stand with them in their fight for justice. Bring our union brother home NOW!

And compounding this is the fact that campus administrators are historically central targets of student organizing—in the Gaza protests, demands were often campus-specific. When the administration clamps down on you, then bends the knee to the fascists, the dynamics of protest change dramatically.

Three months and nothing has happened to her murderer and I doubt anything ever will. At least not until we get a functioning justice department. I really thought killing an unarmed mom in broad daylight would have lasted longer than a couple news cycle.

The best time to stop your imperialist project is before it starts so you don't kill anyone. The second best time is when you've invaded so many places and killed so many people that you're threatening the fucking Pope because he's the only one left.

You guys this raised TONS of money, unbelievable. Thank you!!!

What once would have been an impeachable offense at least once every single day.

fuuuuuuuck.

Trying to get a climate vertical funded for @thebarbedwire.com in order to report on the impending Corpus Christi water crisis and all the radioactive waste poisoning Texas, while national press decimates their coverage entirely cool cool cool www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

The US National Archives just made millions of records of Nazi Party membership searchable by the public for the first time. www.dw.com/en/were-gran...

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Um zu illustrieren, wie absurd es ist, dass es sowas wie Einweg-Wegwerf-vapes gibt: Man kann Websites darauf hosten. bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...

Lake Corpus Christi stands at just over 9% capacity, and Choke Canyon Reservoir, the city’s other primary source, is below 8% full. A formal Level 1 water emergency, requiring mandatory cuts across all users, could be declared as early as May.

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

Giving this a re-up because it’s released today and is the single best record I’ve heard all year, and Wendy was such a great interviewee www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

lol awhile ago i started making an alignment chart based on the fates i thought admin members would eventually come to based on their personalities. i don't think i ever posted it because i thought it needed a lot of work (it still does), but looking at the lower right quadrant now... 😂

The stuff coming out about the police chief in Pennsylvania that assaulted teenagers is wild and should be a national story. The police chief of Quakertown referred to “an evil sect” in emails AFTER the incident. Was the evil sect Quakers? Unbelievable stuff.

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

OF COURSE this piece mentions Casey Newton as one of its AI-using "journalists" and OF COURSE it fails to point out that Casey Newton's boyfriend works at Anthropic

i hope everyone around me on the subway enjoyed my look of abject disgust as i read this.

A few people have replied to my Artemis posts with links to Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon." Here's a story from Space.com about Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, currently en route to fly around the Moon, and his connection to that piece. www.space.com/space-explor...

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

Just gonna say it. @fightforthefuture.org is the only tech policy organization that showed up for Trans Day of Visibility this year. We work tirelessly to fight censorship and surveillance impacting trans folks & all oppressed people. And we need your support fightforthefuture.org/donate

Wearing a mask is such a simple way to protect your health in crowded indoor spaces, especially high-risk places like hospitals. It still blows me away how many people would rather get sick over & over again & potentially get long-term health issues from COVID & more, rather than wear a simple mask.

happy fucking trans day of visibility help me fucking survive and pay rent and bills

Award-winning historians @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social go in-depth on the relevant history in this amicus brief. This is the equivalent of getting a master class for free...

This is so cute that I'm not even going to let "the discourse" upset me.

DON'T MISS THIS! And if you haven't read The Viral Underclass, read that too.