Comic ✍️: Dixie, 2026 by David Horsey Get more comics in your inbox 👉️: signup.dailykos.com

Irony is dead

Reminder that formerly enslaved Black people started Memorial Day. It was initially called Decoration Day as they decorated the graves of Union troops. “As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free”

I'm sick and tired of holding kids' futures hostage so the military industrial complex can have its stock prices go up. I'm sick and tired of making good kids too young and too naive and too desperate to know the reality of US imperialism abroad do unspeakable and awful things.

I put a couple of dishes in the dishwasher so my household chores are “95% done” The remaining 5% of chores are putting up a new fence and planting a new garden and painting all of the upstairs bedrooms

Neither the ruling class nor the wars that they engender can offer anything that is worth trading your life for. Don't let them make you into another Memorial Day statistic. If you or your loved ones are currently serving in the US military, please contact the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487.

Another good thread, and folks who are following the press wording that the pope "apologized for slavery" yes, he did, but it's VITAL to add that this occurred IN AN ENCYCLICAL. That's an exceptionally binding statement, and to link it to AI and labor..well read Risam, the expert, for commentary!

"She said Virginia's "long-standing hostility" toward public sector collective bargaining is "rooted in a painful history of suppressing worker power, particularly Black worker power, across the South.""

yo

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

When your community removes a racist statue, do like Charlottesville and melt that fucker down. Because if you just stash it in storage, it becomes what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve” — ready for redeployment. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/s...

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this."

Under the New Pluralism, states will get to choose whether they will be swallowed up by data centers or by detention centers.

The day after Colbert’s final show, CBS Radio News signs off as well. The news program that became famous as Edward R. Murrow reported live from London rooftops during the Blitz, now silenced. Good night, and good luck. And Fvck you CBS.

We had been warned for decades of the ANTICHRIST! coming~~~ And what do THEY do when he got here? They elect him PRESIDENT! And not just ONCE!🔥🤬💪

This week Rep Eugene Vindman was 1 of 8 Dems to vote with MAGA to condemn trans kids His brother Alexander Vindman moved to Florida to run for US Senate & is on podcast condemning all Muslims Vindmans rebuking Trump doesnt excuse them for being right wingers who trash marginalized communities 1/2

WTAF??? and Eugene Vindman too??? The eight: Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Don Davis (D-NC), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), and Eugene Vindman (D-VA).

Interesting as this just came up on my Insta.

Big: Ukrainian forces have reportedly taken advantage of the chaotic Russian supply situation to mount a local offensive south of Zaporizhzhia, retaking the key town of Stepnohirsk. Ukrainian forces are now pushing towards Kamyanske, rolling back nearly a year of Russian progress.

In Spain, as in many places, the far right is growing. You can tell where someone sits on the political spectrum by how they describe the Franco years (1939-1975): as a wonderful era of peace, security and stability (these folks here), or (as my taxi driver said the other day) as a dictatorship.

Go Bahamas! ✊🏾🇧🇸

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Charlottesville residents: be sure to visit @jsaahccville.bsky.social this month to see the three finalists' proposals for Swords Into Plowshares art and to vote on your favorite design! @schneidergs.bsky.social in today's @washingtonpost.com details the alternatives. wapo.st/4a7DhvJ

A federal judge just dismissed the case against Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, ruling it a vindictive prosecution. Can he now collect part of that anti-weaponization fund? A judge even said it was lawfare ... From @politico.com: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Save this. We'll need it down the line.

Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general sells an herbal supplement that contains an ingredient prohibited by the US military and which health experts have warned can cause liver damage. Amazon has opened an inquiry into Nicole Saphier’s product compliance following an inquiry by the Guardian.

Trump's picks to be surgeon general continue to be a pageant of quacks and charlatans. The latest entrant is no exception. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A number of people I like on here being dumb about Flock cameras. They are a mass surveillance system used to track everyone's movements and put them into a searchable database for police. They were used to prosecute a TX woman for getting an abortion in IL. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Reparations just aren’t feasible unless you’re a felon...

Jasmine Clark will become the first Black woman with a science Ph.D. to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. https://scim.ag/4dDZe6P

All people arrested without warrant or harmed in any way by ICE should file for damages paid out of Trump's J6 fund. Judges should actively use that fund to finance such.

Why should I pay taxes, if all representation is gone, and Trump never has to pay taxes again?

Wednesday, May 20, 2026, Boulder City, NV at 5 pm the planning commission in item 3 Matters will hold a public hearing to provide a recommendation on the addition of approximately 88.5 acres located west of U.S. Highway for data center uses. Come voice YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT!

dear god they might just do it. taking out Iran isn't going well so Dear Leader needs another emotional support war to compensate

The perfect tourism plaque doesn't exi--

Yea! I voted for him but feared he wouldn’t win since his name was like 4th on the ballot. But it shows Mamdani was no fluke.

We’re going to invade Cuba in the name of fighting “foreign encroachment”

The transcript doesn’t do this one justice. You need to hear the text in this guy’s voice to really feel the burn youtu.be/IABt5VViupg?...

👇👇

LOL

Bluesky is such a weird bubble. People here are not eager to sacrifice their children to ba'al - something extremely popular in the group chat, on X the everything app, and in Ohio diners

This is the sort of thing that Stephen Colbert once called truthiness

I suspect things will not improve

Oh now we’re back to Greenland? I thought we were stealing Cuba now.

As Louisiana Gov Jeff Landry (R-LA) arrives in Nuuk in his new position as Trump's Reichsstatthalter in Greenland, Louisiana is ranked # 50 among the 50 states in economic performance, but # 1 among the 50 states in illiteracy. It's vastly outperformed by Greenland in every respect.

The New Apostolic Reformation has been staging Christian nationalist events on the National Mall since 2000. Today they finally got one organized & sponsored by the White House – the culmination of 25 years of work. My new piece explains what it means to them: open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...

In January, Greene County [VA] supervisors appropriated $137,515 which the sheriff’s office received as a federal grant to partner with ICE. "The ICE partnership is going great," wrote Maj. Josh White of the sheriff’s office." “We currently have 12 officers sworn in with the 287g program.”

😕 verified ICE operation nearby. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...