Don’t worry a cop who can’t resist running his mouth about the mayor and Democrats in uniform on duty can TOTALLY control his use of force against brown people off-camera

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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw helped name two contested ideas in U.S. politics — intersectionality and critical race theory. Her memoir chronicles the personal and legal framework for her thinking. n.pr/4ncrJge

Palantir quadrupled its DHS contracts to $81.3 million after Trump’s return to office. Surely it's just a coincidence that Palantir also donated $10 million to Trump's White House ballroom, and to the military parade last year and Freedom 250.

It’s not just about tequila and sombreros. Cinco De Mayo reminds us that victory and justice can be won against the greatest odds. La lucha sigue! Sí se puede! 3/

Today, many immigrants from Puebla and elsewhere struggle in American fields against modern day systems of racist exploitation. Farm workers today remain excluded from many basic labor rights, while immigrants from Mexico and elsewhere remain excluded from citizenship. 2/

⚡️ HAPPENING NOW — “THE DISTRICTS MAY NOT BE CHANGED BETWEEN APPORTIONMENTS….” Tennesseans are reading the law Republicans are breaking to steal representation from Memphis out loud before rules committee

Posting Mary Oliver for no reason whatsoever

Since 2006, Wake County has gotten $951.6M in North Carolina Education Lottery funds. The school district says it doesn't get the money directly. Instead, state uses it to pay for some items in Wake & county uses it to pay down school construction bond debt. #ncpol #nced #wcpss

In her Louisiana v. Callais dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the court, asserted that overturning Louisiana’s voting map had “spawned chaos” in the state. The League has filed suit to block that chaos. www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre... @lwvlouisiana.bsky.social

Really sums up a favorite right wing grievance: what's offensive here aren't my actions, but your accurate descriptions of them

Israel is illegally destroying homes and entire villages in Lebanon. One of them belonged to the family of Fayrouz Saad, an American citizen and career public servant. It is absurd that any American can see their taxpayer dollars go to the destruction of their own home.

Kang quotes Sam Altman, Tyler Cowen, Bryan Caplan, and Scott Galloway as legitimate "thinkers" about higher education. 🤦‍♂️

"The future of college as we know it may rely on the ability of people who have a stake in the credentialling economy to convince the youth that there is still value in classroom instruction" or, or, or — and hear me out — we stop viewing college as a credentialing system?

Congratulations to the pal @adambonica.bsky.social on being named a 2026 Carnegie Fellow. A well-deserved honor for a brilliant political scientist with a real commitment to the public good. news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...

Well this is unfathomably horrifying. The private predators have joined the public ones. abc7chicago.com/post/immigra...

Greg Gutfeld was adamant that right-wing domestic terrorism and violence didn't exist. He said January 6th was the only example. I've created a list of recent attacks, two are still awaiting trial (alleged), the rest were definitively motivated by right-wing ideologies.

“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion like tax rates.“ Same point applies to Musk. Pretending X, DOGE, USAID, etc. aren’t relevant just serves Musk’s ends.

2 minutes on the unprecedented firing of the *entire* National Science Board a couple of weeks ago, and what it means for American science and prosperity.

Another very successful ASAID program destroyed by Musk and Doge. This one was a very short term basic income assist in Somalia that helped people get themselves out of dire poverty.

Researchers looked at whether a tried-and-true poverty alleviation effort that gives cash and coaching to households, and is typically implemented in rural areas, could work in an urban setting. n.pr/3QREdO7

“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...

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Hitting my deadline. Here's "Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion:" flux.community/2026/05/rich...

This is a terrific way to think about this. Southern Baptists used to stand at the forefront of fighting for the separation of church and state and always portrayed Catholicism as the greatest menace to freedom in America, and then they just became what they feared.

When I lived in Costa Rica 30 years ago, La Nación was a credible but somewhat stodgy, establishment paper. I don't think that's changed. But its reporting displeases Costa Rica's MAGA-adjacent president, so the Trump administration—a global enemy of press freedom—revoked its board's visas.

Great post by @rickhasen.bsky.social on tonight's order in Callais. Hard to overstate the massive impact of the Court's original decision in Callais and now this order on its diminishing legitimacy as an institution.

WIRED was the Baskin Robbins of DOGE coverage - just scoop after scoop

In their-let’s face it-racist decision to destroy the Voting Rights Act, not only did the MAGA Supreme Court Justices Violate the 15th Amendment Disenfranchise Black voters And allow partisan gerrymandering They also let Louisiana stop an election THAT’S ALREADY UNDERWAY We Must Reform SCOTUS

A federal magistrate questioned how Cole Tomas Allen has been placed in near solitary confinement, with little access to visitors and calls. Judge Zia Faruqui said it was like nothing he’d seen with other defendants, including J6ers with prior offenses accused of political violence.

My university uses Google products and these same aggressive prompts bombard me and my students every minute as we try to use our unique human brains…what I had foolishly thought was the entire point of “education.”

The new piece by @robertdownen.bsky.social on Paul Pressler and the SBC is indeed incredible. It is a must-read and expertly details how and why the nation's largest Protestant denomination is what it is today, and how that affects the entire nation.

Hope the folks at the Times are happy with the role they played in platforming and legitimizing this know nothing bigot propagandist.

Visas revoked for journalistic outlet board members who criticized Trump allies. Very bad for First Amendment freedoms of the press & to speak truth to power. Fits alongside the attacks on Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, & tech researchers for their free speech. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/w...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

“In totalitarian societies, cultural and intellectual rebels are often confined to psychiatric institutions. In the Soviet Union, dissidents were often diagnosed as insane — and by the standards of that society, they were.” On where we might be going under Trump.

These people are boldface liars. How many unlawful maps have been kept in place because of legal pretenses the Court drops suddenly? Alito and the five horsemen of our time are a national embarrassment to the legal profession.

KBJ ALL THE WAY: “And just like that, those principles give way to power.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Or we could say, Stanford teacher training goes back to its default racism, decides that previous pro-BIPOC program was just a cultural moment, and not necessary.

Stanford has decided to terminate a teacher education program for Black, Indigenous, and people of color after the government accused the program of being discriminatory. The university unfortunately has caved to pressure from the government’s efforts to resegregate society. Shameful.

A federal judge told the U.S. government not to cut down more than 10 trees without first providing notice amid a legal dispute at a historic D.C. golf course that President Trump plans to renovate.

Developers hoping to build the 40,000-acre Box Elder data center campus in Utah say they need to build a natural gas power plant capable of producing double the electricity the entire state consumes in a year, increasing annual greenhouse gas pollution 50%: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/mass...

Internet is a basic need. Proud to announce that we are expanding NYC’s Neighborhood Internet Program, which provides free, high-speed broadband to New Yorkers living in affordable housing. Now an additional 2,000 NYC households will gain access to high-speed broadband across the Bronx.

Secret Service shot a kid today

The Trump administration is evicting hundreds of bison from federal grasslands in Montana, siding with ranchers and Republican leaders over environmentalists and tribal leaders.

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

They will smile the whole time they’re lying straight to your face. And the Trump tax cut for the wealthy is permanent by the way.

Fair taxation of the super rich and fair political representation across all groups are bulwarks against violent revolution.

The constant cat-and-mouse gerrymandering, among everything else, has truly numbed us to what a democratic catastrophe the US is. This is not a functioning country at almost any level.

Republicans in Congress have their eyes set on destroying priceless New Deal-era art to appease Donald Trump. Visit StopTheDemolition.org to join the fight to protect Social Security history!