Not that it's OK for ICE to treat anyone this way, but this woman is a green card holder. She's a legal immigrant who did everything legally and she's been kidnapped by ICE.

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

SCOOP: double fine is unionizing

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

That’s exactly what Republicans did in Ohio and it worked out to their benefit. Democrats in Virginia need to do the same.

ok but we’ve learned laws don’t really matter anymore, the governor should just act and sign the new seats into law just like texas and florida. fuck it

I can't stop thinking about this video since I saw it last night

Shout out to the #LongCovid & #CovidConscious communities who warned us. They said: -keep masking in public spaces -invest in high quality indoor air filtration -don't declare the pandemic is over prematurely -demand single payer health care The majority of us didn't listen. It's a shame.

NEW: Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas (D), the force behind the state’s voter-approved redistricting plan, blasted the Trump administration for raiding her office as an act of political intimidation. “When challenged, they try to intimidate and silence the voices who stand up to them,” she said.

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand

If he knows they’re unpopular then he should be fine with the broad public disgust. The fact that he’s not and he can’t defend his work on the merits shows that he knows he’s wrong, he just wants us to thank him for fucking us over.

Making rich people feel unwelcome in places they like to party is probably a stronger agent for social change than anything our political class is trying to do

This is the 82-year-old state senator the FBI just raided because she successfully redistricted Virginia to match racist Republican redistricting efforts. They targeted her because she's ruthless and effective. They don't want anyone else to play within their new rules.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

There quickly comes a point at which reasonable investigation of a candidate or party leader on the left tips into deranged obsession. Their real crime is to challenge power. They must be demonised and neutralised at all costs. Armies of journalists are deployed to unearth whatever they can.

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

I want to add that class in the U.S. is only legible among white people. Black people have been the MOST working class segment of U.S. society for decades AND YET... Black people are consistently written out of the narrative of "working class" USians.

What if Native Americans killed all Europeans that visited and prevented them creating landing bases. What if Africans killed all Europeans that visited and prevented them creating landing bases. What if Asians killed all Europeans that visited and prevented them creating landing bases.

The fact that Kennedy compares his heroin addiction to SSRI use should honestly tell you everything this man knows about SSRIs He also is clearly unable to not center himself in anything he does. Cannot think of others. Incapable.

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

Long COVID advocates interrupted a recent research conference in Paris. We spoke with the two organizations behind the action that went viral on social media. "We will attack all the projects...that psychologize Long COVID," they said. thesicktimes.org/2026/05/05/l...

Something to consider when Platner talks about being an oyster farmer. Nothing inherently wrong with that as a profession, but based on what we know about his job, his family, his expensive education, etc, etc, it's likely he's a millionaire.

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“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

To me the most insulting thing about comparing Platner to Mamdani is that there was a nationally visible campaign orchestrated by bad actors saying that Mamdani allegedly makes Jewish people feel unsafe. The Nazi tattoo guy gets NONE of that smoke at all. Please make that make sense.

my dads VA doctor told him that his back hurts because he's sedentary and said that all veterans complain when really they shouldnt because they are all lazy and just sit on the bed and watch tv. i am so fucking mad. im legit seeing red. u have no idea how it is to be a black vet in this country

Farmers vote against workers' interest bc most of us aren't working class. Farmers are business owners. With inherited wealth & property. It's not that hard to figure out! It's not folksy, & it's not "economic anxiety." Most *small family farmers* in the US are millionaires w 6-figure incomes.

I get a LOT of "Haha farmer you voted for Trump & now you're broke" comments on YouTube so you can understand why my estimation of people's reading/viewing/listening comprehension is now set to Extremely Low

Look I know we're all mad 70-80% of farmers voted for Trump. But when you find a farmer loudly criticizing the entire profession for supporting Trump, you might want to consider "Huh. Maybe it sounds like they're one of the other 20-30%?" You know. Just. Mathematically that would make sense.

And it's a lie that knowingly plays on liberals' & leftists' biases. To believe that, you have to think millions of business owners somehow just didn't notice what happened to their own finances just 4-8 years ago. Come ON people

THIS Like. People can be stupid. But very few people are really, truly *that* stupid. "We were lied to" is an excuse folks are making now- after their decision's blown up in their face. When you hear "We were lied to," you are, in fact, actively BEING lied to.

Americans are taught Kent State was a brutal aberration- scared untrained guardsmen who went too far and were checked by public outrage. But Kent State was one of many massacres of antiwar student protestors in May 1970 - UNM, Jackson State, the (non-military) Hard Hat Riot - all met with impunity.

I love when adult animals play with baby animals like “oh nooo your greater numbers have enabled you to easily take down a much larger creature. this will be important later.”

ELON MUSK: every woman should have at least two of my children. well, every white woman. only native-born white people and billionaire white South Africans should be able to vote. let's drown trans people. EZRA KLEIN: guy's just monomaniacally focused on accelerating the EV revolution. admirable.

I’m a President now. @acog.org @acogd2.bsky.social

I was forced to the back of the bus. This ain't theoretical for me. I lived this shit.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

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.

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

Amanda Nelson said yesterday "'no war but class war' is the 'all lives matter' of the left" and I felt that deep in my soul.

Deciding the chatbot has consciousness because it says when I walk in with a tiny little waist and a round thing in its face, it gets sprung

What I especially love is pointing out that it is Gender and then hey presto, my comments acquire earnest men telling me that no, it isn’t and could never be Gender