Trump slashed funding for researching infectious diseases like hantavirus and made deep staffing cuts to the CDC and other agencies that coordinate outbreak response. His disastrous decision-making cost us during the last pandemic — and continues to put us in danger. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

Had enough yet?

If citizen's united and the SCOTUS says that corporations have the same rights as people, then why are people allowed to own or own stock in corporations? Wouldn't that constitute slavery?

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

I think this is a first. A travel advisory for the USA from Amnesty International for the #FIFAWorldCup2026. www.amnestyusa.org/blog/2026-wo...

Great Repetment Theory in action

Breaking News: President Trump is said to be in talks to send Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Holy shit. I don’t have words for how corrupt this is. Keep in mind, the Ukraine whistleblower is still anonymous. And Gabbard kept a whistleblower report from Congress about a call between foreign intel agents discussing someone close to Trump and Iran. @andrewbakaj.bsky.social

CNN really knows which stories need to be behind the paywall and which ones are important enough to public interest to allow anyone to read them:

We overlook in the conversation of renewable energy that it is a boon to national security. It spreads out the energy infrastructure making it hard to destroy. Its easy to bomb a natural gas power plant but when every house and parking lot has solar panels on it, you can't wipe out the whole grid.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

Holy shit, that Fox News drunk just fired THREE more generals. I counted 11 in my video from last month: youtu.be/tHpzuhJW-h4?...

Incompetence at the top of the FBI has devastating consequences.

An old debate that keeps popping out. youtu.be/l1n2fkt8fLI?...

"hey boss, how can we make breaking the law sound noble and brave?" "say they're undeterred"

It must be *infuriating* to TSA agents, who are NOT getting paid, to see lazy ICE agents, who ARE getting paid, lounging about the airport and doing nothing to help either them or passengers.

Looks like Paramount is going to own BET now too. Wonder how that will affect programming? Aside from the fact you now will have to be paying full cable rates for a single streaming app. (oh but keep an eye out for that BET loyalty rate.. i.e. the limited time sucker you in rate)

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

It seems to be mostly going under the radar that the US is on the verge of causing mass deaths and starvation in Cuba due to its oil embargo. www.nbcnews.com/world/cuba/c...

Hello?

a fundamental thing about trump is that other people literally do not exist to him. he does not perceive them to be real.

Saying the quiet part out loud as the Authoritarian attempts to control the truth. #25thAmendmentNOW

Trump pardons allies who boost his crypto coin. Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating. Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business. The list goes on. We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.

The degree to which this administration is evil would be comical if not for all the lives they impact.

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Please PLEASE search what 250 means in Chinese. I can't think of a more truthful trademark than this! I pray they print it everywhere and make a household slogan.

While the US and Russia deplete their weapons reserves, China sits back and continues to build its own…..

I wouldn’t ride in a robotaxi. I might do one where the robotaxi drives to pick you up. Then I get behind the wheel and drive and then it drives off in its own afterward. My logic here is that I can trust self driving more than most other drivers but not more than I trust my own.

While cruelty has always been the point of Trump's whole Administration, nothing highlights that more than dropping a nearly blind elderly man 5 miles from nowhere in freezing weather so that he die alone, afraid, and abandoned. This is Trump's America. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s funny how all the grifters who spent years ranting about protecting women’s sports are now completely silent about Trump’s comments on the U.S. women’s hockey team…

Yep, I cringe at the "culture" argument every time. Like, which country never had oppressions/protests/rebellions? If I learned one thing from living in 2 vastly different countries and getting a PhD in comparative politics, it's that humans all react similarly given the same stimuli.

An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

The coverup continues.

Ask yourself: why would this administration want to delete references to Medgar Evers’ racist assassin being a racist? Why might that be? I challenge anyone in this administration or Congress to defend this.

interesting that these people — and fellow travelers like bari weiss — insist on large, expensive security details. they are status markers, i suppose.

Prosecuting lawmakers for their speech is a clear assault on the most basic of American freedoms. Fortunately the grand jury stopped this in its tracks, but it should never have gotten this far.

so funny to remember news reports last year about "trump fires BLS people because they kept making numbers he was unhappy about" and now see serious reporters be like "BLS numbers seem better than expected, what are the implications of this..."

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

I’m am convinced that Trump is going to bomb Iran just before superbowl halftime in attempt to take away ratings from the Bad Bunnny halftime show.

Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since President Trump returned for a second term. n.pr/3O3LRna

From a Sports Illustrated editorial about the US presence at the winter Olympics: "The strongest evidence that ICE agents are not here is that Italians protested and nobody shot them. " www.msn.com/en-us/sports...

🚨🚨Poland to examine “increasingly likely possibility that pedophilia scandal was co-organized by intelligence services” in Moscow. Read the full story below. 🖇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

For those keeping score at home:

DHS, ICE and CBP lie 100% of the time: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss

This is a cover up of a murder, led by our own federal government.

"We'll take our stand for this land & the stranger in our midst..." Powerful. Brutal. Inspirational. A loving tribute to Renée Good, Alex Pretti & the good people of Minneapolis. Plus, it name-checks all the villains: the Puppy Killer🐶, Pee-Wee German🇩🇪, the Orange Atrocity🍊💩 & above all: ICE🧊🚫 1/