How it started: Ronald Reagan rips the solar panels off the White House roof How it's going: The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is closed today as a fast-moving wildfire bears down on Simi Valley

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Airlines in Southeast Asia are running out of jet fuel, because White people in America don't like Black people in America.🤷🏿‍♂️ This whole thing would be funny if it weren't so deadly serious.

Because of the terrible and racist way that the US government was designed, that 36% has more political power than the world's other 8 billion people.🤦🏿‍♂️ 36% of the US, controls 100% of the US. The 5% of the world's population that is the US, affects the other 95%. And so everyone on Earth suffers.

The people of Taiwan must feel like everyday Americans right now, realizing that Trump doesn't care if we live or die, unless it's more profitable for him if we die.

Curious: how many non violent offenders are in Colorado prisons for non violent offenses? Do they get pardons too?

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

We're All Standing With Ted Lieu....

"Alex" shared this pic from where he's harvesting blueberries in Delano CA. "We make minimum wage and make a $6 bonus if we harvest more than 11 boxes. However there's not a lot of berries, so we struggle to make even the 11 required boxes." #WeFeedYou

happy P00P weekend series to all who celebrate

This is a form of psychosis. These people will burn the world if they have their way.

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Does it count as stopping a war if you were the one to start it? Asking for the stupidest president in American history.

This is exactly right. One message of the GOP's rigging of the system is that the ordinary means of democratic participation - voting, organizing, protesting, lobbying - are pointless. Convince people of that, and some small portion of them will conclude that violence is all that's left.

In the running for Worst Austinite Ever: www.austinchronicle.com/news/new-boo...

Codifying Roe, passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and holding members of this administration criminally accountable are important goals, but none of it sticks without Supreme Court reform.

This man, who controls unimaginable resources and money, is literally telling a machine not to worry about offending him He's like... talking to a coffeepot and loftily demanding that the rest of us follow him into the glorious future of talking to coffeepots

MLB team owners have an average net worth of $4.7 BILLION. That's $260 million a year. They'll each get an average $286,000 tax break next year. So why are streaming packages out of control? Why does a day at the ballpark cost an average $225? Greed. Tax the rich.

One thing this regime has taught us is that a president can do whatever the fuck they want if no one stops him. All that bullshit about "Don't worry, he can't do that because constitution" is being proven to be the lie it is. We are allowing our country to be dismantled by a mad man and his cult.

Cartoon by John Deering 💯💯💯🎯🎯🎯

A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”

The Washington Post calls Elon Musk "puckish." Next it will be for Trump: "droll" and "mercurial." Cheerful unpredictable billionaire fascists are just here for the lulz.

"Because vaccines work."

I use Claude a bit, so I'm likely more familiar with how Claude "thinks"/"talks" than most Bluesky AI abolitionists, and I gotta say the leap that Dawkins makes here is the equivalent of a child thinking that television shows are put on by tiny people living inside the screen.

WOKE POPE ROPES DOPE Pope promotes former undocumented immigrant to bishop—Trump be damned www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

We need a new Reconstruction

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

the formative supreme court for most of the political class was quite literally the one period in its history when it wasn’t terrible so there’s this view of it as a much more noble institution than it actually is

Give them this: Republicans have something they deeply, sincerely believe in and which they will pursue even at great political cost. Unfortunately, that thing is that rich people shouldn't have to pay taxes. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Banana republic is a term O Henry invented to describe Central American countries whose single-export economies are dominated by US imperialism, and I’m not aware of any of them having a head of state that put his ugly mug on their passports.

I've been led to understand from decades of US gun violence that there's a variable window of "too soon to politicize this" during which discussions of gun control are verboten. It doesn't seem to apply to advocacy of the illegal demolition of a White House wing to build a party room out of bribes.

Hearing from Trumpists and their fellow travelers today, I've come to realize that if we build a huge, gilded ballroom at every elementary and secondary school in America, our schoolchildren will be so much safer from the scourge of constant gun violence.

Trump says he “can't imagine any professions that are more dangerous” than President. I can think of one or two. Palestinian journalist, for example.

Our president has declared, "I'm not a basket case." Definitely reassuring. Is that worse or better than, "I am not a crook"? A better headline would have been, "Steaks untouched as hundreds of reporters pass on latest presidential bloviations and insults"

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Cardboard sleeves are placed around young grapevines to protect them from wind & sun damage while helping them grow straight. Now that the vines are stronger and established, Delano area farm workers are removing them so the plants can continue growing naturally. #WeFeedYou

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

So fucking corrupt. Another thing I’d like to hear more from how prosecutions, fines, of other remedies will be prosecuted by democrats if they take Congress www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

Wendy Vega Lores dreams of becoming a pediatrician. She finished high school in two years and began intensive prep to become a doctor. She has a pending asylum case. On her 19th birthday, ICE detained her anyway. She has been locked away for 10 months.

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Don't miss this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/prog... /1

Again: this should be a gift version www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...