Operation Metro Surge was nothing but a show of force to intimidate states that voted against Trump. Thankfully, Minnesotans showed the country what standing up to authoritarianism looks like.

🚨 BREAKING: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has just fallen to its lowest level since August 1983- 340.3mb. That's a 42 yr low. No matter where you stand politically, it's a remarkable statistic: America's emergency oil stockpile hasn't been this depleted since the Reagan era.

If you live in #VA-06, vote for @bethmacy.bsky.social. Here’s why 👇🏼

We’ve reached peak Idiocracy.

🔥 @jkbjournalist.bsky.social: "Future prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges should study how institutional failures, secrecy, deference to power, and unexplained discretionary decisions can undermine victims’ rights and public confidence in the justice system." 🧾 t2m.co/MouxhKSK

Trump caved to Iran on his 80th birthday while desecrating the White House and spending $60 million of our money while people are hurting. I’m so glad everyone who voted for him got what they wanted.

🚨BREAKING: ICE attacks Delaney Hall ICE protesters with pepper spray and pepper balls on Day 21 of ongoing protests and a prisoner hunger & labor strike. "Just because protesters were daring to stand in a public street," our @jtcestkowski.bsky.social reports. WATCH LIVE ⬇️

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were given access to voter files in two counties in Texas and North Carolina, according to an Axios news report. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Russians have struck the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and are burning down one of Ukraine's oldest Orthodox churches‼️ The roof of the Dormition Cathedral is ablaze. The cathedral itself is a significant part of our history, it is older than Moscow.

Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A little preview of Independence Day.

1. Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.” A Popular Information investigaiton reveals that it's a GOP front group. Following along for receipts. 🧵

BREAKING: Judge Angel Kelley (Biden/MA) blocks Interior Secy. Doug Burgum's "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" order at nat parks nationwide. Feds must restore race, climate & LGBT mentions www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

#OTD in 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia that laws banning interracial marriage were unconstitutional. That was in my lifetime. Richard and Mildred Loving's courage expanded freedom for millions. We must never take that victory for granted.

PBS News live streaming shithead's name coming off the Kennedy Center Love the petty 😂😂😂 www.youtube.com/live/2u7RCg6...

Some of the efforts being made in Belfast right now to protect people, because the government can't or won't, will be familiar to Minnesotans.

The Advocate spoke with four survivors who dedicated their lives to changing the world since a gunman killed 49 people in the Orlando nightclub mass shooting.

It's hard to find money for social well-being when you are busy using the military for piracy and looting the U.S. Treasury.

Watch Bellingcat's @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social on CTV News explaining the disinformation campaign targeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Fake videos appearing to be from media organisations, including Bellingcat, have been shared across social media. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGDq...

"Burning gas to generate electricity requires layers of billion-dollar costs that drive up energy bills... and these costs are rising — the cost to build a new gas plant jumped 66% from 2023 to 2025." www.selc.org/topic/methan...

The richest man in the world is doing everything he can to encourage violent racist pogroms within an ally’s territory. Here to explain how your response to that is cringe or excessive are @washingtonpost.com and @nytimes.com.

Divide $240 billion by the population of the US (~343 million) and it comes out to about $700 per US resident. It's like the admin has initiated one of those covid stimulus packages, but instead of it being dedicated to protect the US public, it's for DHS.

The Trump admin insists they review every refugee case based on its merits, & that it has nothing to do with race.   Look at their own quota system: nearly 100% white.   So much for merit-based.

Mexico wipes out farm debts for tens of thousands of small producers. Claudia Sheinbaum’s government will forgive or restructure debts owed by small farmers, fishers and rural producers to Mexico’s former agricultural finance agency. Peoples Dispatch buff.ly/Keld79w #ShareGoodNewsToo

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And all those "how DARE the people in the Biden administration not be forthright and honest with us about Biden's real mental state???" seem pretty quiet about asking the same of the people in the Trump administration, no?

✊😎 Dave Matthews: “​I will never stop calling for an end to the violence in Gaza and the West Bank and Lebanon and for that matter the Congo and Sudan and Ukraine or the horrific violence against immigrants and their neighbors in our country” @dmbofficial.bsky.social

If there was any doubt before, there can be none after this week: The Supreme Court is going to give states free rein to discriminate against minority voters — even in some of the most egregious cases. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Gerry Trudeau biography y’all. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

More than a biography, this is a radical analysis of a deeply disturbing, computational way of seeing the world. This mindset and its manifestations have on democracy and the public sphere, and argue that what we should do is to “embrace the woke-mind virus as a counter-revolutionary act.”

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If you've never seen Silkwood, stop everything and sit down. One of Mike Nichols's best films--and it remains maddeningly difficult to obtain, for no good reason.

Rededicate 250 proffered a "persistent myth that the US was founded as a Christian nation. Its sponsors should take the time to read the notes of the Constitutional Convention and other seminal documents which are devoid of references to the Bible or God’s laws." www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...

Asst. Secretary of Defense Zimmerman tries to defend Trump, making a fool of himself in the process... Well done Rep. Adam Smith!

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Defense Sec Hegseth speaking via video at this event, closing his remarks w/a story about George Washington praying at Valley Forge. Note: Washington was a person of faith, but historians have long dismissed the story of him praying at Valley Forge as a fabrication. religionnews.com/2025/09/29/c...

Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants

No matter where they are, #Republicans rile up hatred in order to get power or stay in power. What do they have to offer #Iowa or 🇺🇸 that DOESN’T include #fear-mongering or #immigrant-bashing.?

#Virginians gave input on congressional maps; most voters (Looking at you #Florida #Texas, #NorthCarolina) couldn’t virginiamercury.com/2026/04/29/v...

I have seen no coverage of this in the Anglophone news media.

I’m dropping art today Though the world feels like it’s collapsing in on itself, the art that’s emerging right now is astounding, moving and dystopian AF. I love every second of this. Choreographed by Damien Jalet Directed by Romain Gavras Music Storm I & II Yung Lean and Genera8tion

✊🏼! At least 15 of #NorthCarolina’s 115 school districts have canceled classes for #May1. The most recent announcements add #Gaston & #Cabarrus counties as well as #MooresvilleSchools to the cancellations & #Charlotte-MecklenburgSchools & #KannapolisCitySchools in the Charlotte area.

Trump #DOJ hoping that nobody cares about holding #ICE agent who killed #ReneeGood to account. They are mistaken. 🇺🇸 cares.

Excellent, on-point 🧵 by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social with @billmckibben.bsky.social cameo..

We need you to help us crash through that finish line! GOTV for #Redistricting #Virginia! We can’t do this without you. Join one of our final phone banks! #VoteYes #FightBack 🧵(2/3) Mon, 4/20, 3 pm ET with special guest Rep. Lauren Underwood www.mobilize.us/activateamer...

We need you to help us crash through that finish line! GOTV for #Redistricting #Virginia! We can’t do this without you. Join one of our final phone banks! #VoteYes #FightBack 🧵(3/3) Monday, 4/20, 5:30 pm ET with special guests Jess Piper & Michele Hornish www.mobilize.us/ruralgroundg...

This Administration started off by attacking the Episcopal Bishop of Washington for asking the president to do justice and love mercy. Y'all thought they'd stop at the Anglican Communion?