Bezos' next suggestion: Make voting progressive too! in 1960 HL Hunt wrote speculative fiction book about "the concept of 'graduated suffrage,' by which votes are apportioned by income and age, with as many as seven “bonus” votes going to the richest citizens." www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

He speaks in gibberish becuase he's building a Tower of Babel. "Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” Genesis 11:7 bsky.app/profile/kare...

"most news media are hanging on to the wrong symbolic image to interpret & discuss Don Colossus [it] makes me even more alarmed about the utter failures of the liberal, secular world to combat the right-wing’s very explicit fusion of empire, technology, Christian dominionism, & White Nationalism."

Here's the thing. I have a feeling that men who get caught using AI will not face the same social/professional consequences as women/ minority writers who get caught doing the same. See: The plagiarism scandals from the past, and the men who still have journalism/commentary jobs despite it.

This is what cuts to US foreign aid look like to a refugee: In the dust, we share stories like bread, breaking them carefully, so no one starves alone. But even stories are growing lighter now, as if grief has taken more than food, as if it has started eating the memory itself. -MOHAMED MINANI

AFTER THE CATEGORIES They came with lists, not names... They did not hear how Kakuma Refugee Camp breathes at night, how mothers count their children like prayers whispered in the dark, afraid one might disappear between hunger and tomorrow. Full poem in images & ALT text IG: @mohamedminani

This certainly strikes a chord: Leiweke is snapping up "a number of minority stakes...at the behest of Canadian rapper Drake"

Back in my day, we used to pay $5 for a footlong. Thanks Obama!!

From Trump's call with Simon Bolivar: "That's not what I meant by a United States of South America..."

"One dynamic that defines authoritarian regimes is their explicit hostility to an independent civil society." www.npr.org/2026/05/12/n...

I recently learned from a military buddy that he's referred to by enlisted soldiers as Kegseth...

“If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me.” ― NoViolet Bulawayo

In the shadows of AI is an exploited labor force in Kenya. In the shadow of social insurance reform in Kenya is an AI designed to raise revenue off the backs of that same exploited labor force. AI is being deployed as the laboratory of empire. Every damn time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ylE...

EL CLÁSICO IS OURS AND WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!! 🏆

“I said the sanctions [2017] were going to grind the Venezuelan economy into dust and have huge human consequences, one of which would be out-migration,” -Thomas Shannon undersecretary for political affairs, State Department under under Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/w...

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 238 of The Continent Old global norms are collapsing. Writing exclusively for The Continent, Graça Machel shares why Africans have the moral authority to build a new world order. bit.ly/238_TC

33rd New York African Film Festival is live! May 1 - 30th at cinemas across NYC africanfilmny.org

"Kilcher only learned that Cameron had used her facial features so directly after an interview clip of the director began circulating on social media last year... Cameron stands with the Neytiri sketch: The actual source for this was a photo in the LA Times, a young actress named Q’orianka Kilcher"

Paul Cuffe Is Me is a music video inspired by Paul Cuffe, a Black & Wampanoag ship owner, abolitionist, and entrepreneur born in Massachusetts in the late 1700s. Director Anita Allison is making a film to tell his story. Donation info: paulcuffestory.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4c2...

I'd like these people to get just one of the voice notes from young refugees I receive whose trauma is so clearly boiling their minds as they ask for help b/c there's no food for their children anymore. That is who Elon Musk put "through the wood chipper" And it makes me burn with incandescent rage.

Horrifying. I've been in many conversations about the ripple effects of USAID's destruction. Some are not carrying the urgency of this stat. It's imperative we center these deaths and related collateral damage in all our strategies. Otherwise, we're just compounding the atrocity.

This is an excellent piece. And while the original intent of the author was not to say that "Alito wets the bed" I am using the same magical thinking in Callais to determine that, yes he does. I just wish he didn't line his bed with our constitution.

This is why they had to destroy USAID because extortion was not what Congress intended. And this administration only understands foreign policy as extortion - see Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Palestine, all of Africa, Ukraine... shared prosperity is not something they understand or desire.

Great read, by @soccerpolitics.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/o...

This is the best news I've heard in ages. Who doesn't love a Socceria opening up down the street, brought to you by one of the best taquerias in NYC. And just in time for the World Cup! greenpointers.com/2026/04/22/t...

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it." ― George Orwell, 1984

it wasn’t just liam—

I'm fascinated by the evidence of cultural variation among groups- "The work of Kristin Andrews, a professor of philosophy at the City University of New York, focuses on social cognition and animal minds. Like humans, she says, chimpanzees have their own unique cultures that differ between groups."

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Over the course of 10 years of activism, Maryam Shojaei has been arrested by Iran’s morality police, helped change FIFA policy, and watched her brother, Masoud, captain Iran’s national team. We spoke to her ahead of the World Cup. nyti.ms/3QlBfBi

"My sister and I were released after three hours because somebody knew we were related to the captain, and the state knew that would be difficult. But Mahsa Amini didn’t have that luxury... So that’s why I believe that it’s our duty to tell these stories." www.nytimes.com/athletic/719...

Lots discourse here about people's perceptions of the economy and affordability. I think part of the story is that people just feel slapped in the face at every turn. $2,730, $1,940 and $1,120 for a ticket is more than a full month's rent and people aren't buying it www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...

Siri, what is a republic? And did we ever debate that as a concept prior to 50 years ago? Did anyone ever die to turn that ideal into a reality? Perhaps in Port-au-Prince? Or Boston? Or Johannesburg? Never mind. Nationalism has always worked. Let’s do that.

All of this. Especially the "sell me a VIP ticket to the demolition" part. 🛠️ Hatshepsut his ass, so people only rediscover he was ever president like 1000 years from now. www.youtube.com/shorts/T7T9a...

Is this the highest achievement of American soccer coach ever? www.nytimes.com/athletic/720...

Must watch folks! This panel was off the chain!

🧵1/ Hegseth once again does not know what he’s talking about when he’s talking about Jesus.

Just hold it, hold it! What are you doing??? there's 30 sec left and you're ahead!!! Oh, never mind. I was wrong.

This is happening tomorrow night. Make the World Cup, Our World Cup. Link below to sign up for the virtual call. action.ourcopa.com/events/our-c...

I don't care if it rains or freezes 'long as i got my plastic jesus Sitting up there on the dashboard of my car I can drive 100 miles an hour As long as I got the almighty power Riding right next to my pair of fuzzy dice

This is the whole game. They want people to think he's "commander in chief" of the executive branch. Like some CEO of a proprietor owned corp. But he's only commander in chief of the military. For the rest he's a steward of Congress's will as enacted in legislation.

The language of economic policy is designed to obscure... 'Structural adjustment' suggests repair, improvement, and optimization. 'Widening the tax base' evokes democratic participation... These are the euphemisms that dress violence in the rhetoric of necessity" - Ivan Mayabi

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Jamelle Bouie doing Originalism better than any self-identified Originalist ever has. Also, this is just a great video essay. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf6R...

American Myopia strikes again. Does he think the Catholics in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Iran don't want the Pope speaking up on their behalf? Also, read some Aquinas bro.

As every school kid knows: Saint peter piper picked a peck of pickled plutonium

Bible-knowers know: Book of Armaments, 2:9-21 'Oh, Lord, bless this thy hand grenade that with it thou mayest blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin, and people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals...

Trump admin reverses course and allows the Yankees to play at Yankee Stadium. Bigotry always makes you stupid.

"If you… try AI on some real-world tasks, it does really badly…" Pick your poison. If you're a business hoping AI will help make business decisions, then Grok will bankrupt you twice and the others will lose you lots and lots of money. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/a...

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...