I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

In another universe this is cool. Its not connected to privacy issues, stolen labor, misogyny, racism, or oligarchs. But we live in this universe and this sucks,

If you've been laid off and want to organize for the future: What We Will (wwwrise.org) If you're employed and want to organize for the future: CODE-CWA (code-cwa.org), Tech Workers Union 1010 (www.techworkersunion-1010.org/about-us) If none of these are left enough for you: IWW (www.iww.org)

Two different people have died while jailed at Rikers Island in the last two days. A spokesperson for @mayor.nyc.gov confirmed these posts are about different deaths:

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

lol any way 💅

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

can the WH tell me what crimes I need to do to get some of that $1.776 billion to cover my student loan debt

For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

I talked to a union local leader about the vulnerability of immigrant workers and they responded with saying that illegals should leave, and how his workers are doing their job and ICE is just doing theirs. Another example of why we shouldn’t romanticize unions and how unions are what we make them.

THIS SATURDAY IN BROOKLYN: Our cofounder Mariame Kaba is giving two different FREE practical workshops offering parents, caregivers, & educators tools for discussing incarceration & justice with children. The sessions take place within The Warehouse exhibit. Click the link for more info!

Please do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

Look, what are we even doing here? No need to actually have opinions; LLMs will decide what your opinions would be if you could think. No need to actually exist anymore; LLMs will auto/generate the memories would would have if you actually experienced anything.

AI is free you just have to know how to ask.

case workers for a benefits program that the feds are actively trying to kill are getting tech that's powered by a data center polluting a Black neighborhood in Memphis to onboard people to programs that we should just automatically enroll them in if we have state tax returns! innovation!

NEW: "We deserved much better, much earlier." RECOVER's first clinical trials are failing. And people with #LongCOVID say the federal research program ignored their concerns. One behavioral trial even tested...computer games. @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social's latest 👀 thesicktimes.org/2026/05/12/r...

FYI trans Americans with a Canadian ancestor can apply for expedited processing on their applications for Canadian citizenship!

This is an INCREDIBLE deal for some of the best NYC reporting you will ever read!!!

some really, really exciting news. we're hiring a two-year reporting fellow to cover higher ed in NYC but especially CUNY!! come work with me and dive into an amazing, complicated and under-covered beat

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

in the united states, taxpayers who aren’t billionaires are increasingly subsidizing those who are, and it’s not sustainable.

again, covid killed my healthy dad. fuck this insane piece of shit.

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

It was a political hire. We know this because Bari Weiss has almost no qualifications as a broadcast news executive— and her work so far shows that. Now that action is drawing scrutiny from press freedom groups who are also shareholders. @status.news reports: www.status.news/p/paramount-...

"If you ask almost any Amazon worker, they'll know someone who died because of Amazon greed. So I have the names of all our fallen coworkers whose deaths could have been prevented if Amazon acted responsibly." -Mitch 26, former Amazon warehouse worker

Just hours before the 2026 #MetGala, hundreds gathered in the Meatpacking District to watch people walk down a different red carpet in custom couture. The "Ball Without Billionaires" - a runway show co-hosted by fashion stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson and 'Abbott Elementary' actress Lisa Ann Walter

Lauren Bezos wearing a dress I might have bought at Sears c.2001 is a great illustration of how, even at fancy events, people with enough wealth to rent cities don’t want to advertise how much richer they are than the rest of us. (shout out @trufelman.bsky.social’s latest ep of Articles of Interest)

That's because they are in tension with one another. The people who want smartphone bans are teachers and parents. The people who want AI education are politicians and tech bros.

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

“White House considers vetting AI models before they’re released” Let me translate this headline “White House considers taking more bribes from billionaires” You’re welcome

There are many examples of someone making legitimate critiques of the Israeli government and being unfairly accused of antisemitism. Painting the literal Nazi swastika on synagogues and Jewish homes and a Kristallnacht memorial is very obviously antisemitism.

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

The very same man who sent workers to clean Ground Zero without adequate PPE, claiming there were “medically tolerable” concentrations of asbestos and dioxin in the air.

Times have been worse than they are today in the U.S. Important to remember not because some people aren't living under terrible conditions right now but because it shows that things can in fact change for the better. They change if we change them.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Who’s gonna tell him?

We will not get a second Reconstruction from people who don’t defend the first.

The city blocked off part of our neighborhood to tear down a building w asbestos. The teen said "Why did people use asbestos if it causes cancer?!" I told him people thought it was a wonder product and used it EVERYWHERE & told him how the same thing happened w radioactivity... and now AI.

www.axios.com/2026/04/26/a... this is one reason I am skeptical that the goal is efficiency/cost savings when "not having to deal with pesky workers who want stuff" and "keeping capital circulating among companies rather than ordinary people" are right there

Translation: they are proposing a bill that says you cannot under any circumstances use a computer for any purpose without allowing the United States government continuous monitoring and a backdoor