I started learning French online about a 6 weeks ago. Now every iOS device I have is auto-correcting "the" to "thé" and je perds le boule.

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.

Three weeks before Memorial Day and they’re already whipping out the white sheets

Any candidate who says these things, and that people believe will deliver, will crush in the polls, and win the election.

Orders of magnitude worse than Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal, & simply not being reported the same way in the national press

Mike Davis would talk about this — how a 1/3 reactionary-authoritarian bloc has been reproduced across modern US history.

I got inside the "Great Israel Real Estate Event" at Park East Synagogue on Tuesday evening. Everyone's talking about what happened outside. Here's what I saw inside: ads for illegal settlements and defiant scorn for international law via @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/05/05/z...

Phillip: Here are some of the questions they have…. Van Jones: Why? Phillip: I think it’s a fair question to ask if there are any boundaries on their use of nuclear weapons. Van Jones: Why? lol

Two Fridays ago I was threatened at work by a man for just doing my job.

Breaking character: In memory of Ted Turner, the amazing letter his dad wrote him when he decided to major in the classics. Yankees just can't write this, my friends. www.bu.edu/arion/files/...

I would be more sympathetic to the people who are upset at the people who are upset about the real estate promotion at synagogues if they didn't like, straight up lie about the legality of settlement property in "the suburbs of Jerusalem" aka east of occupied East Jerusalem in occupied Palestine

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Those of us who know what Critical Race Theory is were appalled when reactionaries glommed on to the phrase to ply their agenda. It never stopped being a useful school of thought, and its authors never stopped being a hundred times more brilliant than their latter-day critics.

Non-midwesterners in Chicago be normal challenge

A vigorous, active FTC needs to be at the top of any new admin's agenda.

Still no response from @mayor.nyc.gov’s office.

A way to be an ally to Jews is to relentlessly point out that there are more Christian Zionists in the US alone then there are Jews in the entire world (many of whom are not even Zionists). The conversation about Zionism should be dominated by that rather than laying all blame at the feet of Jews.

Their very real demand is to boot every Black person out of any competitive academic positions and unfortunately the response from universities has been to profusely apologize for any Black people on campus and pledge to do better in segregation.

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

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This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

Stooges say calling Trump a fascist and comparing him to Hitler "fuel[s] violence." But Trump is a fascist; and far from fueling violence, examining the similarities between the failed Hitler State and the failing Trump Regime is essential to the work of preserving our democracy, as I discuss in PN.

So you’re telling me that there’s a leftist candidate in Maine that has never had a Nazi tattoo and we’re still going with the Nazi tattoo guy?

I know it's gauche to quote tolkien but genuinely the most interesting thing in his letters to me is this one from 1963 wherein he laid out in very plain terms what I think is THE fundamental thing that makes so much art have a life in your head beyond what you see on a page or play in a game

There it is. Any questions?

Yeah the rotisserie chicken amendment is neat! Unfortunately it was attached to the Farm Bill which locked in $187 billion in cuts to SNAP. So, yes, now SNAP can be used for rotisserie chickens but more importantly, this bill means red tape, cuts & tons of people losing access to food completely.

“We could see the largest drop in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction." Garrison Hayes, Ari Berman, and Pema Levy discuss the Supreme Court's death blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law that defeated Jim Crow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajPY...

To be clear as day, this is, of course, absolutely intentional. It has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime (with the notable exception of HW Bush). It's what the GOP does. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

My New One at Slate: Justice Alito is a Coward (and Possibly a Liar) slate.com/news-and-pol...

Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

160 years of unrelenting white supremacy and resentment.

This week in P-hacking

This is the billboard currently on the highway between Mar-a-Lago and West Palm Beach airport. Reporters Without Borders just released its latest World Press Freedom Index, which finds that the United States has dropped to 64th place worldwide in press freedom under Trump. rsf.org/en/index

Me reading the 87th anecdote about a rich person who says they earned it through hard work

Any acknowledgement of out-groups is a taking in the conservative mind. The in-group has theirs and that's what matters. If you have fewer rights they don't need to concede your existence.

In addition, it would not be a "2nd" one, as a fav professor, Dr. Bob Stuckert at Berea College, taught me back in 1989, this would be a 4th or 5th major one regarding rights for Blacks & others (Revolutionary War & aftermath; Reconstruction; 1920s/30s labor; 1950s/1960s). #WorkingToFix2026

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"If you want to talk about political violence, DHS... just this year, two of its agents murdered Americans in broad daylight." @premthakker.bsky.social slams the media's myopic view of the White House correspondents’ dinner attack zeteo.com/p/trump-whcd...

City honors man opposed to the Civil Rights Act

Top-notch alt text work.

Illinois friends, please submit a proponent's witness slip for this bill to repeal an anti-BDS suppression of free speech and protest. www.ilchr.org/slips

"Trump is very savvy in terms in terms of finding things that create anxiety, fear and anger... and exploiting those things to accrue power for himself, to accrue wealth for himself, to dominate. He's like a shark." Please check out my interview with PBS News here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKzf...

They are trying to repeal the great society on their way to repeal the new deal on their way to repeal the 20th century because they hate the 21st. They cannot win on a fair playing field. So they call any field not tilted in their favor unfair.

It is not enough to win elections. It is not enough to beat Trump. It is not enough to bring only some along. The only way to save our democracy is to realize we never had one. And that our job all along was to create a true one. And the only way to do that is to fight for all of us.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

Democrats will likely retake the House and maybe even the Senate this fall. What they *do* with that power depends a lot on the demands we make of them now and the promises for reform and accountability we extract. They -- and the media -- need to see the midterms as a mandate for real change.

I wish folks would see the literacy decline as a systemic issue.