Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

The richest 0.1 percent of the global population are hiding nearly $3 trillion in offshore accounts to evade taxes — more than the wealth held by the entire bottom half of humanity. It would take about $93 billion per year to eradicate extreme hunger by 2030. Taxing the rich is a global necessity.

Absolutely astonishing observations from CETI scientists who happened to be in the right place at the right time and documented a sperm whale giving birth, supported by whales in her group. Related and non-kin females lifted the calf out of the water, buoying it up for hours after delivery 🧪

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

I was a very effeminate little kid and absolutely nobody tried to get me to transition, they just tried to get me to be More Manly. It's an entirely imaginary problem created from whole cloth by bigots.

Procedural liberalism on display. We support the murder of innocents, the immoral and demonic violence, but the President didn't fill out the right paperwork. The same logic that calls for higher police training budgets and more diversity among prison guards. Polishing the bars of the cage.

the Black Panthers were right

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

Related, it’s so curious that the rise of male entrepreneurial grindset hustle core 9-9-6 bullshit and the emphasis on early marriage and tradwives happened around the same time 🤔

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

My hot take is that at minimum a domestic violence conviction should carry a lot more of the shame and restrictions of a sex offender; it should ban you nationally from gun ownership, jobs in law enforcement, schools, pretty much any public sector work. It’s our clearest red flag for future violence

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

For years now, conservatives and liberals alike in this country have been having an aneurysm about completely imaginary leftists with “blue hair” while ignoring actual fucking fascists standing right in front of their faces. Every day those people sound more pathetic, idiotic, and delusional.

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

In this week’s newsletter I have thoughts on Ezra’s Klein value judgements about the “right way” to do politics.

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

i'm not "voting blue no matter who" for this sack of shit, sorry!

Noteworthy, I think, that the Democratic establishment are putting much more effort into stopping Mamdani than stopping Trump

100% of Black people self censor at work. Its a job site not your personal safe space, snowflake.

@cnn.com what the fuck

Oh hey there gonna use this as justification for ICE to harass / kidnap Muslims too huh 🙃

This is disgusting. Trans people have not "gone too far" by existing and getting appropriate medical care. The NYT article makes me sick.

Rep. LaMonica McIver being charged by Trump’s DOJ for “assaulting” a cop is particularly scary because it was all on camera with many witnesses and the administration feels comfortable enough to straight up lie with impunity and target a sitting congresswoman

A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

The next step for Trump is to send a US citizen convicted of something like child murder and rape to CECOT in El Salvador. It'll set the precedent to send citizens there while neutralizing outrage over it because of the heinous nature of their crimes. Then it'll any felony and then protestors.

It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

One thing that's really going to annoy me in like 6 months will be the flood of "Trump cut all these programs and the government seems to still be working fine!" op-eds that Very Smart Pundits will write, completely omitting how many people were hurt by the cuts.

This essay illustrates how the loudest proponents of “free speech culture” have contributed to normalizing state censorship. Read it. Some key points: /1

This is a reminder that you can oppose 1) antisemitism, 2) the Gaza genocide, 3) the October 7 attacks, and 4) the current assault on universities, at the same time, and with no contradiction.

Very clear from the last few years of griefing about "campus cancel culture" vs the current non-reaction to the persecution of students, that a lot of "free speech centrists" cannot distinguish between "actions I personally find annoying" and actual 1A violations. Or maybe they just don't care. 🙃

worrying that years of “campuses are dangerous hotbeds of intolerance,” “students are the enemies of academic freedom,” type narratives have been useful in massaging the public so we will more readily accept that snatching and renditioning students for speech is okay

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

I'm not going to get much pushback in this crowd :0

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

One article about a non-white soldier who won the Medal of Honor being deleted by the DoD is plausibly a mistake made by someone not paying attention. Every article about non-white soldiers being taken down and labeled as “DEI” is transparent racism and bigotry.

standing by to detect any noises from the harper's letter "campus wokeness is stifling free speech" crowd related to mahmoud khalil's arrest

America’s university presidents and leadership need to form a united front against the administration. They’re never going to be able to resist these cuts and this bullying alone but together they’d be a powerful pillar of the growing cross-societal resistance to the derangement of this admin.

Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight

Quite honestly, I don’t care if a “majority of people” think trans people shouldn’t be allowed to play sports. Supporting trans people is the right thing to do, and I’m going to do that.

they’re disappearing dissidents, i do not want to see one fucking sentence in your little op ed about “the illiberal left” or “the techniques of wokeness being worryingly exercised by the state” i swear to god

Normalizing racism was a major goal of the “free speech absolutist” movement and they’ve been wildly successful at their work.

Life is too short not to tell people you think the stuff they make is neat. Or that they are neat. Be feral about it, give compliments and gratitude and emojis and fucking whatever else. Silent appreciation helps no one. With that, I think y'all are fucking rad and I love everything you do.

The cloture vote in the senate on a trans sports ban failed due to united Democratic opposition (needed 60 votes). When it matters on legislation, Democrats still have not abandoned trans folks.

Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.