Didn't bend, didn't cower, didn't even feel the need to stand next to Trump grinning awkwardly like it was normal. And now he's emerged unscathed with his job and his dignity intact and his reputation even stronger than before. Huh. Seems like this could be a model for others in power.

he is losing he is flailing and doing untold amounts of damage that we are all going to be cleaning up for years to come, but he is losing

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Anyway, here is a photo from MLK Jr's speech and he didn't have to pay anyone to show up.

They’re WONDERING? www.wired.com/story/palant...

It's just one week away. "No Kings" hopes for a major escalation of its anti-authoritarianism movement with a May 1 general strike, urging "no work, no school, no shopping" Online buzz has been light, but some major unions are on board. Can it work? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/may-...

This is correct. Best available estimates suggest that the destruction of USAID, in which musk played a central role, will kill over 14 million people by 2030, 1/3 of them children aged < 5 years www.thelancet.com/article/S014...

This administration is just hell-bent against generating knowledge about the world. www.notus.org/health-scien...

If our classroom activities comprise teaching students how to use a commercial product then we are not teachers; we are salespeople.

Thanks to the FTC spokesperson who suggests that @wired.com “Stick to computers.” But no.

“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes…you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

I spent 6 months working for a Swiss NGO researching the tactics used by Big Oil and how similar they are to Big Tobacco’s tactics, and I can tell you that the ones used by ‘Big AI’ are virtually identical.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

If I were trying to sell AI to the public I would be saying “it’s a useful way to write code faster and automate some tedious tasks that couldn’t be automated well before” and instead they’re running with “get on board or get left behind” and “we WILL eliminate your job.”

watching the Jersey Mike’s worker make my sandwich

"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."

Canada's most syndicated newspaper, the National Post, published an overwhelmingly positive review of the infamously racist novel Camp of the Saints today. The book is a standard in white nationalist book lists and is nearly only sold by white supremacist publishers. nationalpost.com/opinion/jami...

Eric Trump -- the president's son -- is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract

Tim Walz: "I was a 6th grade teacher for a while. I've been dealing with the Trump administration, so it's a flat thing."

Kevin Warsh announced to the country that he would not be an independent Fed chair deanbaker22.substack.com/p/who-won-th...

Instead of focusing on priorities people care about, tonight Republicans are using a procedural end-run to get around the will of the American people & stuff ICE & CBP with billions more of your taxpayer dollars.

PabloReports: What do you make of Stephen Miller and Tom Homan asking for all this money but then refusing to show up to the hearing today? Frost: That’s what happens when you have a lapdog as speaker.

I mean. They’d be innocent even if they WERE related, because that’s not how guilt works.

This Earth Day, I'm standing alongside UPROSE, Sunrise NYC, @nywfp.bsky.social & Brooklyn neighbors demanding to shut down dirty fossil fuel plants like the Gowanus “peaker plant.” (1/2)

i had to triple check that this wasn't from a parody account

Republican leadership intended to vote to gut the Endangered Species Act today… and then didn't have the support needed, so they pulled the bill. Happy Earth Day! 🌍

The President and his Administration have already failed twice in court trying to intimidate me, and he's still not letting up. Just more proof that he'll do anything it takes to silence those of us willing to call him out. I'm not backing down — ever.

ALSOBROOKS: I have the recording. I can play it RFK Jr: I do not believe that every Black kid should be re-parented on a wellness farm and I have never believed it ALSOBROOKS: Well you said it, sir, I have the video RFK Jr: I'd have to see the transcript

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF. Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it. The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.

Live from @theonion.com HQ.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

This is the drum to beat -- not Trump's obvious stupidity and his minions' sycophancy, but this: They. Are. Robbing. You. Blind. That's it. Just pick the examples out of a hat, and say this EVERY time a potential voters is listening.

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

2 days ago my maga neighbour was like "if the covid vax is so good how come you get it every year" so I made a super sad face and dropped my voice and confessed that I was addicted to vaccines and wife is not happy with me because I have been expressly told to stop winding him up but HOW TO RESIST

while teamsters and UAW get a lot of attention i feel like people miss out that the average working class person in the US today is (1) a woman and (2) working a service job

Outrageous. @chiosse.bsky.social was protecting one of his neighbors from eviction, as a result of deed theft — a plague in Central Brooklyn right now. There was no reason for NYPD officers to roughly throw him to the ground. It sure doesn’t make anyone safer. Release him now.

Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment. Read and share: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters: you brought this on yourselves you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster you earned this

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Trump thought he could steal the midterms by making MAGA minions rig the House maps. They thought blue states would sit back and do nothing. We proved them wrong. Thank you to VA Indivisibles and organizers across the commonwealth for this huge win and your commitment to protecting our democracy.

I love AOC.

The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them. We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.

Simple rule: the Senate should not confirm any appointee to any post who can’t say clearly who legitimately won the 2020 presidential election. Not just who was “installed”, but who won the vote and the electoral college.

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust. We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.