reminder that this "settlement" is literally just a crime

vance is such a fucking asshole

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

The insurrectionist pedophile in question is Andrew Paul Johnson and it is public record that he tried to silence his victim(s) with promises of Trump millions for J6.

Just imagine the level of criminality that compels a President who was already personally granted full immunity by Supreme Court for anything related to 'official acts' to think that's not enough, he must *also* have his DOJ release all civil claims against him, two of his kids, and his company.

Students booed AI hucksters at University of Arizona, University of Central Florida and now Middle Tennessee State University too. For all the media obsession over Fair Harvard, these schools are much more typical of the college experience, so maybe we could get a Big NYT Thinkpiece on this?

It’s because it’s not government policy. It’s not a legal action. It’s not a political move. It’s a heist. You’re watching an armed heist in broad daylight and the man leading it is asking you to be happy about your money being stolen from you and your family

It isn't "racial pride." The manifesto, which I'm reading right now, is a total slop-bucket of neo-Nazi accelerationism with misogynistic rants and multiple sections that are completely unfinished. It lionizes Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in a NZ mosque in 2019. nymag.com/intelligence...

the republican party is an explicitely pro pedophile and a pro war political party

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

i genuinely don’t know if we’ve seen a more corrupt administration and president in history

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

"Republicans blocked a law to keep your taxpayer money from going to convicted pedophiles"

He's said this a few times, so apparently he actually thinks this is a clever gotcha. It's like saying Democrats weren't protesting Burger King or The Lion King.

Minnesota Becomes First State to Ban Prediction Markets, Feds Immediately Sue gizmodo.com/minnesota-be...

the fuck it will

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Since a $400 million library bond passed in 2020, Multnomah County has rebuilt or refurbished all of its locations. Its East County location opened Saturday, impressing visitors with its size and wood decor. But for officials, it's what's inside that marks a shift for the library.

Have mostly moved to Startpage for search www.startpage.com

Primary day is here! I've been gagging and crying but no regrets here! Make sure to drop off your ballots before 8pm.

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.

And this is why they are so desperately trying to entrench themselves in education and government. They’re hoping to create generations of captive users who have no other choice but to use their tech if they want to read, work, write or think

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

GOOD

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

Christian Nationalism tenet #4: Look, we're not racists and have nothing against Black people, we're just saying that the radical leftists who are forcing us to share public space with Black people are advocating for the "mongrelization" of the pure white race that made America so great.

Memphis Press-Scimitar, 21 December 1945. "[Gerald Smith] wants to preserve 'Christian Nationalism' without domination by the Jews or any other minority group. And he wants America First--with Mr. Smith leading the 'crusade.'"

Seems to me that this is a great time for all of the 'vote or die' white people to be at the forefront of fighting for voting rights. Perfect time not to fantasize about what you would have done during the mid-century Black freedom struggle but to enact a 21st century version of it. Let's stay tuned

9 years was not an excessive punishment. Peters was a county official who used someone else’s security badge to let a fellow election denier access the whole county's voting data. That is an extreme breach of public trust for the purpose of undermining our democracy; harsh deterrence is vital.

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

Yes, yes, going back to the days of Louisiana elections before the Voting Rights Act will bring back "fairness" to the system. Yes. Sure.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

I'm begging for one article--just one--that is "Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These urban voters in Harlem say `We told you he'd screw everything up, why didn't you listen to us?'" Just one. Just one "diner" interview in a place w a density above 1 per 1000 sq mi and < 95% white.

I just introduced my niece and nephew to Strongbad, Trogdor, Charlie the Unicorn, and Badger Badger Snake and they are utterly charmed. They can’t believe this is what the internet used to be. They are nostalgic for it.

Before the speech. > “And then, basically, students and faculty looked deeper and found out that he had all these mentions in the ‘Epstein Files’ and that (his ex-girlfriend and business partner) Michelle Ritter had an open case against him,” said Zelinka. tucson.com/news/local/e...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

One of the first things I heard in recovery is that addiction is a disease of loneliness. A fucking robot isn’t gonna help with that.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

I was born in 1982 and for an hour a day, instead of Social Studies, we would watch Roots from beginning to end. We had to write a paper on it order to even pass the 5th grade. Now they’re BANNING it. This shit is insane.

As family homelessness hits record highs, school districts are offering parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night

I have a feeling that the Progressive consultants have finally started paying attention to the Reconstruction talk On Here because AOC and Jeffries both using this framing in the same week feels a bit on the nose (laudatory)

Hours after ICE arrested Israel Makoka and his younger brother, Max, as they boarded their school bus in Diamondhead, Mississippi, Israel found himself in a living-room sized cell with 25 men and a single exposed toilet. He slept on the floor that night, using his shoes for a pillow. Their story:

I’m trying to imagine any Republican governor in America doing the equivalent of what Jared Polis just did. This is why Democrats lose.

Zohran Mamdani becomes one of the first mayors in the US (and among a small handful of prominent US officials generally) to recognize the Nakba — the mass expulsion and forced displacement of 700,000+ Palestinians. Connected directly with a Nakba survivor:

One thing you can do to make a small difference that adds up over time is, if you're in the position, to hire trans people and refuse to hire bigots. I've done both and it's super fucking easy. You just tell the chuds you're not interested in hiring any shitheads.