"Do Americans really know how much the world hates us? The global romance with America turned sour years ago. Now the world's ready for a divorce" DO YOU? www.salon.com/2026/05/31/d...

An Israeli air strike has hit the Al-Baqbouq area north of Tyre in southern Lebanon, sending massive clouds of smoke into the air. The attack left several Syrian workers injured.

Thank you Grampa Jody 🙏💙🍻🎸✈️ @jodywagner.bsky.social go.bsky.app/2Yn52LY

New album just dropped.

Gift Article: Edward & George DeGrange were sent to an orphanage for Black children. Though only slightly different in skin tone, that difference shaped their futures under segregation: Edward eventually passed as white, while George lived as a Black man. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u... #PINKS

THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......

Trump’s new gaffe 'worst thing he’s said by far' — because it as true: DC insiders #AlterNet

Anti-voting group released a sweeping new “model laws” handbook that urges lawmakers and election officials to restrict mail-in voting, eliminate same-day voter registration, conduct mass voter challenges and empower officials to deny/delay certification. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

These piece of shit, racist motherfuckers. All the GOP has to offer is racism. That's it. That's all they stand for. That's what "Make America Great Again" has always meant - "Make America White Again." And for 30% of the US, that's all they need to hear in order to vote consistently Republican.

Alabama asked the Supreme Court for permission to abandon court-ordered maps and go back to using ones the Court ruled were in violation of the Voting Rights Act, just three years ago, in the wake of Callais. Today, the Supreme Court said yes. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Mississippi Legislature no longer has to redraw its state supreme court maps to create a majority Black district after a federal court vacated an order requiring the 38%-Black State to create a new map that complies with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. buff.ly/uPtqbCp

A Shark Tank investor just got a three-person county commission to approve one of the largest data centers ever built and the people who actually live there found out about it the same way you did.

Didn't the GOP bring the California redistricting fight all the way to SCOTUS and they were sent packing? #USDemocracy

From FB:

Kash Patel is reportedly furious and threatening to sue anyone who calls him “J. Edgar Boozer.” It would be a real shame if this went viral.

"There is no way to explain why black Alabamians in 2022, when the election was almost 5 months away, it was too late [to institute a court ruling re redistricting] but ... white Louisianans when the election is ongoing, get an assist from the Supreme Court saying it is not too late." Marc Elias

This gives me some badly-needed hope:

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