In the past we had “Jim Crow“ laws. The next phase should be called “John Roberts” laws

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

huge fan of the billionaire i'm rooting for's answer being sort of weird and intense and thus convincingly authentic

in limited defense of michelle she is taking the L squarely, on the chin. like just absolutely clotheslining herself with the L. if people took their L's like this more often we'd be doing much better. L-taking should be a sacred rite

Can anyone guess which country will dominate the global auto industry going forward?

ESPN unironically teases a segment on the 22 year old Texas Tech QB who is headed to rehab for his gambling addiction and then tosses it to 5 minutes of NHL prop bets for tonight. I don’t what to say other than sports betting is a scourge and an epidemic among young men and needs to go.

American auto companies are deliberately hastening their downfall.

It’s the age of electricity and America isn‘t ready. Virtually every goal Americans care about requires making big changes to the grid. I’m in @nytimes.com today writing about why power bills are going up, whether AI is to blame, and what we need to do to fix it: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Chelsea manager gets fired, as all Chelsea managers do:

WOLVES

Kamlager-Dove: Stevie Wonder can even see how much this war is costing us. Prices have gone up, and this dude is wanting to spend $2 billion of your money every single day rather than help you. Fuck him.

The first trailer for Gina Prince-Bythewood's ‘CHILDREN OF BLOOD & BONE’ was just shown at CinemaCon. Starring: • Idris Elba • Tosin Cole • Viola Davis • Cynthia Erivo • Damson Idris • Thuso Mbedu • Lashana Lynch • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Amandla Stenberg

Last month in The Onion:

wrote about the hopelessness of watching people still love Kanye West in 2026. “If you’re willing to abandon your beliefs, then those beliefs were probably never yours to begin with.”

Chicago unveils new “Little Palestine” sign at Bridgeview. The area is home to one of the largest Palestinian populations in the U.S.

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

The Mother of all TACOs.

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

Look, people, it was either this or the status quo on trans people being allowed to (mostly) fully participate in society. You can see how it was an extremely difficult call.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

I'd encourage @booker.senate.gov's staff to put a pin in this post for when his presidential campaign flames out in late 2027 and they're all trying to figure out why.

There is a new committee determining the future makeup of Metro's Board of Directors—and I think it's time for Metro riders to be on the Board. If you want to learn more or share your thoughts, join one of Metro's upcoming listening sessions: thesource.metro.net/have-a-say-i...

Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

Inside Trump's head, early COVID press briefing, 2020:

I feel like the surrender of the global electric vehicle market to China is one of those things that will, with a couple of decades of hindsight, be vastly consequential. Scaling benefits, technology development, supply chains... A lot of incumbents that depend on export markets will be screwed.

In case you needed any more proof that the institutional transphobia and pro-genocide ideology reaches up to the executives of the NYT, here is their PR account issuing yet another blatantly false fact check.

You fucking loser

look I don't want to count my chickens or downplay the extent to which the right has fascist aspirations. but if the GOP had an unassailable, undetectable election rigging strategy - or the juice to openly do the detectable kind - you do kind of suspect they would've started here

that feels like something you say when you're wearing a wire

lmao the eurovision mascot is so ugly I literally screamed at this reveal

every now and then he hits one from the logo

This strikes me as much worse than a gaffe — like there will be political repercussions for Takaichi if Japan does not respond

Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is very very low level of job creation. If you adjust the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

lololol team USA better hide everyone

Trump is such an asshole he’s got the Irish guy defending the English guy

many people (me) have been saying that breaking car dealerships is key to breaking the back of state and local republican parties

Honestly pretty impressive to have the same name as the worlds most famous guy and become famous anyway

sksksk

LFG

BRING OUT THE TIGER

Bluesky really hitting on all cylinders right now because you can tell exactly what’s going on in both the Oscars and the World Baseball Classic

FUCK YES. It's such a wonderful script. Getting the chills. It's a great movie. It's a movie lovers movie. More than any of the other stuff up there. It's entertaining. It's beautiful. It is action packed. It's sexy. It's got lots to say.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

Ubiquitously advertised betting available through the computer you carry in your pocket via apps designed and managed by ruthlessly efficient data scientists and programmers seems like a mistake. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Sean O'Brien, come on down *TEAMSTERS CALL ON US DOJ TO BLOCK PARAMOUNT, WBD ACQUISITION