To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

We are in real big trouble if we let tech bros steamroll us into believing efficiency + innovation can replace care and human connection Work by humans is better not because it’s the most innovative, but because we are fundamentally social creatures and care and connection are how work gets done

The money was always there for the good things.

Hobbies > punching down on vulnerable people who are just trying to be people and live

happy pride 💕

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

Former human rights lawyer here: under international human rights law, bombing or gassing a medical facility is a crime against humanity. Last night, the NJ state police gassed the medic tent at Delaney Hall over and over and over again until medics had to abandon it and flee for their lives.

vaginas are normal and nothing to be ashamed of, but posting info about your partner’s vagina on social media is grounds for immediate divorce what a weirdo

This. We should talk about his weaponizing the federal government against political enemies, but she’s a rape victim. This isn’t silencing political enemies this is retribution for a woman having the nerve to speak up for herself after experiencing violence at his hands.

It’s worth pointing out that the only time we call victims “accusers” is when the allegations are sexual assault or domestic abuse.

The way the media keeps calling E Jean Carroll an “accuser” like she didn’t already win her day in court is shameful.

Um. Do not put your activist questions or plans into an AI chatbot.

I like this and all but think he should’ve name called Paxton back

It’s world mask week so here’s my reminder that masks (high quality respirators) work to prevent viral transmission, being less sick is more fun than being more sick, and protecting your health is worth it. Check for your local mask bloc for free quality masks www.celebrate845.com/worldmaskwee...

Super practical solution from the transphobes- undergo fertility testing and produce documentation of your sperm count or egg count before you can walk into a public restroom.

That’s fine I didn’t need to sleep tonight

Maryland and Baltimore are a contender here

You just aren’t evolved enough to understand why further damaging the environment, pushing misinformation or disinformation to the masses, causing job losses, causing people to lose critical thinking skills, and undermining democracy are good actually.

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

Turns out you can teach your kid parts of speech using Mad Libs so I’m basically an English teacher now

“The previously mentioned $8 billion burden for 2025-2027 assumed the 6% incidence of long COVID with symptoms lasting up to three years. This is likely still a conservative estimate, since many who developed long COVID five-six years ago have continued to have symptoms with no clear end in sight”

There are other search engines + web browsers beyond Google. A reminder that AI is optional on DuckDuckGo with a Baltimore graffiti spin (not endorsing DuckDuckGo specifically but you don’t need Google to use a search engine instead of a perpetually wrong propaganda machine)

it's kind of incredible that middle-aged Republicans saying "if trans ppl are allowed maybe I'll put on a dress and molest high schoolers in the girls locker room" made ppl afraid of trans ppl and not Republicans

Having bad after wrong after hallucinating experience with generative AI (to state nothing here of the environmental consequences and theft of folks’ IP) and then being told get on board, it’s inevitable, is so freaking bizarre. We actually can just reject bad things.

I don’t know maybe we should just stop having schools and hospitals and bridges and roads and clean drinking water and ambulances and fire fighters and parks and election officials and treated wastewater. Maybe we should not pay any taxes and we just won’t be able to leave our houses because

“by previous administrations” lol how many administrations were there between Trump 1 and Trump 2?

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

This world where politicians vote their conscience after losing a primary and after allowing RFK to unleash eugenicist havoc on us pisses me off. But keep losing and voting better, I guess?

"I ask all of you to think of it, graduates and families alike, let yourself dream of a future in which we can harness this amazing new technology to eliminate entry-level jobs entirely. Indeed, that work has already begun, and that future is now." /college kid booing intensifies "Wow okay,"

Inbox: The 5,000 strong faculty of Penn State, including faculty members across all departments, full-time and part-time, and at the main and satellite campuses, have unionized with SEIU Local 668. The union says its the largest public sector win in 50 years.

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

“Tennessee lawmakers made a deliberate choice to silence Black voters...We are at the dawn of a new Jim Crow era. People fought and died for the representation that lawmakers across the South are so casually eroding" - Derrick Johnson/NAACP tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/14/n... @tennesseelookout.com

This is actually true, imo. And also, COVID reminded people of their own vulnerability, the porosity of their own skins and bodies, their mortality and they HATED it. They still hate it. Thats why they scream about masks, about COVID and any reminder of that vulnerability.

Who are these Democrats who are constantly talking about climate change (at the expense of other topics) in 2026?

Sickening.

Boomer parents who laugh-react at their own text messages should be banned from texting.

Alabama jailed a woman for endangering her fetus. Then jail staff forced her to give birth in a cell with only other incarcerated women coming to aid her and her baby, according to a lawsuit.

I have been teaching gender studies at a public university for over 20 years & all I can say is my students are neither coddled nor cocooned. The persistence of this mischaracterization of college students in the US says more about the people writing these stories than the typical college student.

I can’t get past the audacity of writing and publishing this sentence on the heels of the gutting of the VRA. “One obvious move would be for the Democrats, who have hemorrhaged working-class voters, to abandon their stubborn support for politically radioactive racial preferences.”

I mean that effectively rules out Cleveland Clinic for me as a place I’d trust to receive care…

Also where the fuck are their state and local lawmakers to stop this

Thanks for tagging me folks. Just to let everyone know that this isn't an *increase* in the library project. This just brings the proposed budget back to FY26's level. It reverses the Mayor's preliminary budget cuts. HOWEVER, it does not meet the 0.5% benchmark AND it does not keep up with inflation

Support grassroots organizers on the ground in these states. They are going to need your help with statewide races and close district races too. Dig in and say you believe that people in these states deserve better.

More & more eligible low-income people are losing SNAP because of H.R. 1’s bureaucratic hurdles, including this mom who has tried for months to get her family’s benefits back while working & caring for 2 young kids. Keep in mind: SNAP benefits average about $6 per person per day.

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

Mothers in Gaza cannot have simple, unguarded moments with their children.

This is their plan, eliminate SNAP and Medicaid but it won’t stop with that. They will come for social security and Medicare and anything else people need