The likelihood of another US-Israel bombing campaign against Iran or a US military action against Cuba just went up.

"Sunshine and Haze", (1915) -Charles Courtney Curran–

Both a disaster capitalist crime syndicate and a death cult masquerading as a gov’t.

you would have thought the craft had two keels—one cleaving the water, the other the air—as the boat churned on through both opposing elements at once

Once again, @michaelharriot.bsky.social w/ the 🎯. “The activists of the civil rights era made a new democracy where none had ever existed . . . The ‘land of the free’ did not exist before Black people emancipated America.” www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-second...

This is so corrupt, blatant large scale theft of taxpayer monies. "93 Democratic lawmakers filed court papers accusing the Justice Department of having “colluded” with Mr. Trump and asking the judge to throw out the case herself."

I still remember the incredible primary source quote I had to leave out of my dissertation because I lost the citation to it. But to lose a citation, you had to have had it in the first place, because you read things. If reading the sources in your field is too much, I don't know why you're in it.

Gerry Conway hated that cops and military had co-opted the Punisher logo and started an initiative crowdsourcing art from People of Color that incorporated the logo with Black Lives Matter, and the funds went to a local chapter. Rest in peace.

"The need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

All Cats Adore Boxes

Pure unadulterated racism

The California hub is part of a broad set of initiatives we’re taking on to grow ProPublica. We’re also expanding our D.C. bureau, launching a flagship podcast, a new business investigations team and YouTube team. More to come! 8/8

they posted like this when beyoncé won a grammy for best country album

For Vendetta? 😂

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

The rich people of today only have two ideas: 1. Let’s kill everyone 2. I need a bunker so after we kill everyone I can emerge from underground, spread my wings like a peacock, and continue to be rich

People died for the right to vote. People died for the right to vote. People died for the right to vote. This is not ancient history. This is my parents' generation. Today the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. We cannot forget what it cost to get it.

Jim Crow was in my dad's lifetime. Mass incarceration and the drug war continue in mine. The Interstate highway system and urban renewal destroyed -- and continues to destroy -- billions in heritable black wealth. And that's just the most prominent, state-endorsed, institutionalized stuff.

5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.

More needful medicine from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @truthout.org. Highest and most grateful recommendation!

He is the 17th person to die in ICE custody this year and the 55th person to die in immigration custody since Trump got back into the White House. We will include Carbonell-Betancourt in our next weekly update of our database. May he and all who have died rest in peace.

ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.

America’s defense secretary is fixated on a fringe, violent version of Christian Nationalism.

BREAKING: Meta to cut 8,000 jobs, 10% of workforce, in major bloodbath next month, per NYP

Years and years of "what is a woman" discourse only to settle on a definition that includes 15-year-olds.

Eviction, healthcare denial, food scarcity, overwork, imprisonment—all these things are violent.

And if your idea of narrative derives not primarily from books or movies or TV shows but from games in which you ARE the main character, then main characters who are not behaving the way you imagine you would are really going to baffle you. That's how we get to "It's bad that Dr. Robby turned mean!"

I'll just add that if the way you're taught to read texts when you're young is predicated entirely on "relatability" and right v. wrong rather than on empathetic leaps of imagination and the exploration of mixed motives, you're not going to be well prepared to encounter icky things like ambiguity.

⚠️ Trump promises mass pardons to staff before leaving office, per WSJ (www.wsj.com/politics/pol...)

In their third report on the subject, researchers reach the same conclusions that have twice bedeviled the anti-wage hike sector of the restaurant industry: California’s $20 an hour fast food minimum wage, instituted in 2024, did not reduce employment.

For years, we were told the biggest threat to free speech were college students being upset by professors or fellow students making insensitive or bigoted comments. Now that states are banning entire concepts from curriculum, it's crickets. sanangelolive.com/news/educati...

A university shows what its mission is when it soothes donors and mollifies a tyrant instead of upholding its ostensible principles. A university with a $16 billion endowment is a hedge fund with a school attached for tax purposes.

A writer and advocate who once again faces massive, systemic outrage with brave vulnerability and turns it all into a great gift. Highest and most grateful recommendation!

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

Paul, from the Ironworkers, is addressing the crowd. He denounces the war in Iran and again calld for a day of action on May 1. "I know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna put my fucking tools down," he says. He leads several chants, ending on "working class ain't nothing to fuck with!"

Turning 24 today! 🧙‍♂️ Shares of my art are very much appreciated 🌛

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Wrenching, beautiful, and indispensable (as usual). Highest and most grateful recommendation!

Portland 💪🐟

reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent"

A $3.5billion data centre is to built in Makarewa, just outside of Invercargill. It will suck up 220 million litres of water a year, be the 2nd biggest draw on electricity in Aotearoa, and generate one hell of a hum. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #DataCentres #Resources #Water

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI: