After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.” Things only got more bizarre from there…

At least 79 kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars.

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

A very Strength In Numbers-coded article today: It looks like Republican Supreme Court justices made a very rudimentary, but willful, statistical error in their effective invalidating of the VRA in the Callais decision. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-08...

I really encourage everyone who is fixated on the pipe dream of prosecuting ICE agents or whatever “when all this is over” to learn more about #ReparationsWON & the imagination & skillful organizing that went into winning something that actually supports survivors, their families & communities.

The violence & intimidation of ICE has no place near the World Cup! #NoICE Check out this national call to action #NoICEinTheCup:

but I dunno, it'd be nice if a journalist would make them say that. would really drill down on "oh, you'd love a strong Republican Party? why? how does that get you any of the political outcomes you want?"

Oh so we’re cooked then. If there’s two things in dire shortage right now, it’s adherence to public health measures and solidarity.

Oceanwide Expeditions has revealed that 30 passengers disembarked from its cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak on April 24, on the remote island of St. Helena, nearly two weeks after the first passenger died.

The VA has reportedly launched internal probes into workers who attended a vigil for slain VA nurse Alex Pretti, even emailing one employee a news photo of her at the event with her face circled.

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

🚨 Red alert 🚨 We're sitting at no. 1 over in Britannia with 3 days to go. FENIAN would become the 1st Irish language album to top the charts there. Poor Keir, Kemi, Sharon, and all the other heads who relentlessly support Israel as they commit war crimes will be sick if we're still there Friday.

Repost to make it die faster

Trump is threatening to end the lives of 1.3m people dependent on anti-retroviral drugs if Zambia does not allow the U.S. to loot their minerals, in today's "Things Are Sure Getting Kind of Holocausty" report. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This is the result of decades of organizing in the conservative legal community that’s been allowed to flourish in plain sight as anything but a committed ideological movement.

ICE just detained and deported Brian José Morales García, who has a birth certificate showing he was born in Denver, CO. This doesn’t stop until enough of us say it must. Please use @5calls.org app to tell your reps enough! Thanks to @nessadiosdado for the info.

The people who force us to live in a violent country really thought they wouldn't have to live in a violent country along with us. They thought other people would do the dying for them. When one of them catches one of the strays they put in the air to catch us, what are we supposed to do but shrug.

While we have your attention about the safety of journalists in harm’s way… Say her name: Amal Khalii. She was killed by US-Israel this week. She is one of 14 Lebanese journalists killed, and among nearly 300 killed in the Middle East since 2024.

In fact, people routinely use criminalizing language for chronically ill or high-needs patients. "Super-utilizer" echoes Clinton-era "super-predator" rhetoric. The idea that they "use up scarce resources" and surveillance + policing is a solution.

if you only create to refute the enemy, you have decided they are your primary audience

My best friend died an eminently preventable death after being ignored by doctors and nurses and accused of being a "seeker" (they had security toss her bags and throw out her medications). Turned out she had a pulmonary embolism.

What Bovino means: About a third of the population isn’t white.

it wasn’t just liam—

At around 3:30 am, Senate Republicans passed their budget resolution, which is one of many steps in their attempt to provide another $70 billion for ICE & CBP through reconciliation, which can’t be filibustered. Paul and Murkowski joined Dems in opposition. Collins voted yes. Over to the House now.

“"Of the more than 700 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire over the six months of the ceasefire… more than 100 were children."

THE JOBS LINE IS LIVE @clairerafford.bsky.social has heard from so many folks struggling to make it in this economy. So she's launching a text channel to build a bridge between people and jobs resources. Sign up for info on job fairs, trainings, etc. mirrorindy.org/mirror-indy-...

He’s now being held in Clay County, Indiana. Take action to demand his release: palestine.salsalabs.org/freesalahema...

Not great man feel like maybe we should try to do something about it

Mayoral candidate Vop Osili says "many of us" look upon DATA CENTERS the same way we look upon power lines, telephone lines and sewer lines QOD: Does your power lines and telephone lines require GIGANTIC diesel power generators in the middle of your neighborhood to back it up like a data center?

We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

While many know that the US sends billions each year to support Israeli violence against Palestinians, few know that additional billions in direct, unrestricted funding to the Israeli military and government comes from institutions much closer to home.

Results are out and the left wing of the Michigan Democrats had a near total sweep today in Detroit. Out of 8 endorsements by the People’s Coalition, for instance, all but one won the party’s endorsement today. A victory like this for leftists & progressives was hard to imagine just a few years ago.

A provision in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make Rosa María Carranza and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immigrant seniors ineligible. Her once secure retirement is in question.

Yesterday, Israel used a triple tap attack to kill paramedics in Lebanon. This means that they first bombed, waited for paramedics to come, bombed again, waited, and then bombed again. It was all caught on camera. There is no peace possible with this. www.instagram.com/reel/DXMzlFy...

Today is Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Since 1974, day is not merely commemorative but definitive in Palestinian consciousness. This year the occupation’s government has passed a law legalizing execution of Palestinian prisoners. Understand the struggle snd its demands: www.addameer.ps/media/5732

This Prisoners’ Day, we’re sharing a selection of pieces from the institute that document, analyze, and bear witness to the realities of Palestinian imprisonment. Your weekend reading list 👇 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...

I am hearing Amazon just fucked up a sports broadcast. Boo! They also worked a guy to death in a warehouse last week and then told a tearful worker who wanted to help give CPR to look away and keep working.

(Spoiler alert: basically the ending to All Her Fault)

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us. If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this. In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications. Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”

I’m excited to share that I’m working on a new book- KINGDOM NOW: CHRISTIAN ZIONISM FROM THE PURITANS TO MAGA. The genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran and Lebanon have reshaped the political order in the Middle East and around the world.

NEW, from @domguan.bsky.social— Chicagoland joined other cities for a "Fuck ICE" day of protest at the Broadview ICE facility on Saturday. Activists said the cheeky theme was designed to help build community outside the building where they have faced constant police violence and arrests:

Israel is also perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity in Lebanon.

I hope the couch makes him sleep on the floor after this

Thank you, public school teachers

We can be transformed by our engagement with people we come to understand through shared struggle. Some of you should try this.