General strike in Portugal halted trains, canceled hundreds of flights, and closed schools as unions protested plans to entrench precarious employment, deregulate working ​hours, ease dismissals, and curb strike rights and parental protections. Also, includes 50 hr work week & no extra pay. #Labor

Buenos días, Nuevo mural de Alberto León en Barcelona.

Good evening (Secret Beach, OR; photo, Chas Shand)

Jfc

the "help, we can’t control our model" framing is a classic anthropic trope used to evade accountability. remember, claude didn’t emerge out of a financial, political, and engineering vacuum and extractive business model ofc… bottom line: it is human engineered and human- directed

A decade ago.

UPDATE: The department also appealed its loss in Maine, marking its eighth appeal out of eight losses.

Earlier this week, we reported how shortly after the NLRB whistleblower, Dan Berulis, filed his disclosure with Congress claiming that DOGE had compromised sensitive data at the agency, he found his brake lines cut. Fox and Cavanaugh aren't named in the complaint. www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

the thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.

Not enough people have seen the coyote rolling around being sweet

Wow it’s almost like the war with Iran was Vladimir Putin’s idea.

Trump and MAGA Republicans support the guy who ordered this Ukrainian mother and child killed.

I'm not going on Twitter, but this, lol.

Imagine that…

This is not going to happen, and Trump's ego won't let him move on and "declare victory." He's way more likely to extort the right wing media to avoid the comparison than actually get a better deal.

"Summer morning". Algernon Newton. 1942.

NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM. It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

Nothing I’ve ever done takes as much courage as it does for her to get up and go to school every day while the full weight of the conservative legal apparatus comes for her. And she’s not only still out there but crushing it. Happy pride, Becky. We’ve got your back no matter what SCOTUS decides.

Mathilde with pillows, figure drawing made with vine charcoal on toned Strathmore 500 laid charcoal paper, 18x24". Old one... About 75 min, I think. #FigurativeArt #FigureDrawing #Charcoalfigure #drawing #TraditionalArt #charcoaldrawing

"X, the social-media platform formerly known as Twitter, got shoved into SpaceX. So if you buy the shiny new spaceship company, you’re also buying a piece of Musk’s decrepit MAGA playground." And more!

Hell to the no, this is nothing but a MASSIVE bailout for rich tech Bros who made bad AI investments. No effing way. Energy companies? We can talk. OpenAI, Anthropic, and whatever bad bets his kids have made will NEVER break even. The US has enough debt already, thank you very much.

The residents of Froid, Montana, never expected the nationwide crackdown on immigration to make its way to their tiny town. But when it did they were determined to stand up for one of their own. https://to.pbs.org/43iVseh

Tthe White House has been warned by multiple executives that their shortage tanks were already “at dangerously low levels already,” three months into the war. Major price spikes could hit consumers as soon as mid-June. trib.al/etOJZTq

“The Founders would never have wanted… hang on, I’m being handed a note.”

New research report: As Driving Declines, So Does Democracy 29 states require a drivers license to complete an online voter registration form, but >7.5 million teens age 16-18 don't have one. 3 million of them are old enough to vote in 2026. www.thecivicscenter.org/research/tkp...

What these guys are really doing is dragooning the classics and the ancient world into the defense of their simplistic, and really very modern, ideas about "Western civilization"

President Donald Trump said Bill Pulte, his incoming acting director of national intelligence (DNI), will investigate elections that the president falsely claimed were “rigged.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“This is what I would call institutionalism of abuse of young women and children.” In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations www.propublica.org/article/old-... w/ @startribune.com

This is a large painting I made a few years ago Golden Sky 40x60 acrylic on canvas Have a great evening!

The title song from the AMAZING Jesse Welles's new album coming out soon. Give it a listen. Where we are now. We are so lucky to have such a songwriter with us. "The Masks Are Off" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCCW...

The Teapot Dome scandal involved $400,000 in 1923 dollars. Huge scandal, taught in every HS history book, almost the synonym for "corruption." In 2026 dollars, Teapot Dome was a hair under $8 *M*illion. With an M. Not a B. M. The scope of corruption under Trump 2--plus its nakedness--is epochal.

Good news just in time for Pride! Hawai'i Governor Josh Green has signed the trans shield law in the state. Hawai'i was one of the last blue states left without a shield law protecting trans people's healthcare. The latest from staff writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people in hospitals so that their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release. Now that rule has been dropped.

🏳️‍🌈 Tell Congress: protect LGBTQ+ rights and pass the Equality Act now. No one should face discrimination because of who they are or who they love. Add your name today: actionnetwork.org/letters/guar... #PrideMonth #EqualityAct #ProtectOurCommunities

Medicaid work requirements were always going to be cruel. Then, the White House intervened (likely) and made the definition of who can be exempt based on disabilities/health much stricter. This is going to kill people. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

George Santos, to NPR’s Bobby Allyn: “This story is going to get you a gun in your face.”

Study for Nighthawks - 1942 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104249

Ok, people: who's team bottles and who's team cans?

31% of Democrats polled said being transgender is "morally wrong". Five years ago it would have been a fraction of that. The propaganda is working, the silence from Democrats is deafening, & all of this is why every step backward can't go ignored for even a moment. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...

My kingdom for aggressive antitrust enforcement

An American friend visiting Ireland asked me recently how one learns where the deportation flights are going (including, thru Shannon). I said, you follow @gillianbrockell.com.

oh my God, are we really making black box arguments for a thing that humans programmed? we know *exactly* how it works, even if we can't reverse engineer how it produced a particular result.

The Trump administration's unprecedented Pentagon budget request for $1.45 TRILLION is both the largest inflation-adjusted dollar amount in history and the largest one-year increase since the Korean War. https://ampr.gs/4nXriGQ

CAP's Corporate Power Reset plan is a novel legal strategy that can effectively undo #CitizensUnited—here's how:

Waaay too fucking young. Also annoyed it didn’t list a cause of death (usually means COD is suicide, overdose or AIDS). Got to see get her perform once in an off the wall experiment w Tony Kushner & Kronos Quartet which did not work…but I respected artists of their level willing to try something new

Let them eat ballroom.

Big reversal at SCOTUS on a 5th Circuit ruling. And as @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social put, this is one less thing the next administration will have to clean up!

William Wolfe’s post is perhaps no better example of the racial politics—some critics would call it a white nationalist agenda—the former first-term Trump administration official has brought to the Southern Baptist Convention in recent years. open.substack.com/pub/hatecome...