The PEPFAR program saved lives at home and around the world. It has had a demonstrable, positive impact on the lives of millions. It did ground breaking research on an illness that killed far too many, undermining societies and cultures. It is the best of us. And these bastards killed it.

Really sick of hearing about these rural white voters / cult members. We all know where y’all stand, y’all have made that extremely clear. The rest of us would love to move on and work towards a better country and world for everyone.

Pride, Envy, Anger, Sloth, Avarice, Gluttony, Lust… oh wait (six seven)

It's always cool to see amazing people get attention for their awesome books (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

Kick rocks, witch.

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

What's happening here is that "conservative" is being used for white, just like segregationists claimed that Jim Crow laws applied to everyone equally but benefited racial majorities. I hope trying to gerrymander out Clyburn in a 47% district gets that across.

Lotta people in tech underestimate how much we hate you and your works and everything you do

Kevin Gonzalez has died just hours after reuniting with his parents, NBC Chicago/Telemundo Chicago reports: www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

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Once again. These smug, self-important assholes have devoted their entire lives to undermining multiracial democracy. It is ALL they will ever be remembered for.

This - the dismantling of multiracial democracy - is Roberts’ life’s work. It’s what he will be remembered for long after he is gone.

I assume the death toll would be even higher if he were actually attempting to do the job he is paid to do

The gold, 22-foot Donald Trump statue definitely isn’t a false idol. You can tell because Trump’s pastor friend said of the new statue at his Doral golf course, “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf.”

I feel seen

Roberts has always been the respectable face for white supremacy. He's worked his entire legal career to dismantle the voting rights act and eliminate Black political power. This was always the logical end.

I spoke to our son's entire 7th grade class just now+ talked about launching Elon Musk on a solo mission to Mars and *every last kid* belly laughed. You have to be the biggest loser on Earth to have 7th graders laughing at a mom making a joke about you. Infinite negative aura. The kids are alright.

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

White people disgusted by this racist display are making pithy jokes in the replies. I want acknowledgment that it’s physically painful to think about our black elders, in particular, enduring the consequences of a Supreme Court decision that augurs a return to the Jim Crow era.

"Federal agents are conducting a raid at the office of L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat who serves as Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore." Lucas, one of Virginia's most powerful lawmakers, was at the forefront of the state's redistricting fight

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Who’s going to tell him?

🚨BREAKING: Alabama lawmakers will convene Monday afternoon for an astonishing eleventh-hour special session to prepare the state to use a gerrymandered map that dilutes the power of Black voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Here’s the thing. I don’t want to hear from any more older white dudes until we figure out what is going on with them.

Straight up predatory and evil.

Historian here exactly. The Dems need to learn from the no quarters given political tactics and campaigns of the Republicans in the 1850s and 1860s when they managed to upend half a century slaveholder dominance of the federal government.

I teach this in my IP law class b/c when asked in an interview who owned the patent, Salk replied: "Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" He looked for vaccine solutions his entire life…including a quest for a vaccine to prevent HIV from becoming AIDS.

In 2004, I obtained mifepristone for a medical abortion at age 16 without parental consent. It required I stand shaking, unrepresented before a judge and argue for my own worth, intelligence, and future. If anyone thinks this is going down without a fight, they are sadly fucking mistaken.

Historians will note this is exactly what millions of Americans wanted, no matter the consequences: to retaliate against the country for electing a Black President by putting a huge racist in the White House who would constantly refer to every Black person he doesn't like as "low IQ."

Been thinking about John Lewis all day, may he rest in peace. It’s a small blessing that he did not live to see the corrupt prostitutes on the US Supreme Court gut what’s left of the Voting Rights Act that he literally shed his blood for.

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The president of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights group, said SCOTUS decision in Louisiana v Callais delivers “a devastating blow to what remains of the Voting Rights Act”. The ruling is "a license for corrupt politicians who want to rig the system by silencing entire communities."

What happened at the Supreme Court is about anti-Blackness and curtailing Black political power. Trump as a corrective to Obama. Anti CRT/ DEI as a corrective to Black Lives Matter and Black progress in education and the workforce. Anti-Blackness is America’s favorite manner of self-harm.

All of these smug assholes are so pleased with themselves.

The smug asshole pictured here - this is his life’s work.

This is what Du Bois meant when he said Black America stepped briefly into the sun and then fell under the veil.

So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

The dystopia of inequality--that high table for the lords and ladies; the dystopia of violence--all the federal guns suddenly on display; the dystopia of incompetence (they had one job: to keep a shooter out); the dystopia of normalization.

This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened

People who were here legally and just doing their jobs.

Holy 💩 - a former cop was stopped before a mass shooting…at the New Orleans Jazz Festival!! www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/u...

So this guy, who no one has ever heard of, is (appropriately) going to federal prison. Will there ever be consequences for Trump and his cronies and failsons, all of whom are defrauding the public and profiting off death and misery on a vastly larger scale?

You cannot make this shit up

Wow, that’s a lot of men in women’s sports!