Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

looking forward to alito declaring that our grand colorblind constitution means that white voters can permanently gerrymander racial minorities out of political representation.

Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States

honestly at this point if you’re burning stuff outdoors anywhere in central VA, I hope your neighbors come over and give you a serious talking to

This is an important point to remember every time some yahoo politician who wants to defund the NSF reads the title of a grant in dumbstruck tones: "They're studying the venom of Gila monsters? What? Who's *that* for?" All of us, Gomer. It's how science actually works.

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

FYI, Cville folks & others!

Last month in The Onion:

I said a few months ago that soon you would see a power shift in Hungary and when you do, a bunch of people will come out of the woodwork to say it's a bad thing and that it is very important not to listen to them. This is that moment.

...says the man with the highest net worth on this rock spinning through the void.

*DAILY RECORD HIGH TIED* We hit 92° this afternoon in Charlottesville, tying the record high for the date of 92° set in 2024.

Of the Jewish senators, 7 out of 10 voted to block a sale of bulldozers to Israel. Michael Bennet Jon Ossoff Bernie Sanders Brian Schatz Adam Schiff Elissa Slotkin Ron Wyden NO: Blumenthal, Rosen, Schumer Says a lot about the political shift happening

Yet again, Senate Republicans (and their colleague Fetterman) have blocked Democrats’ legislation aimed at stopping Trump’s illegal war on Iran. Email your senators and urge them to keep fighting (or let them know how you feel about their latest betrayal): act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?" Say it with your whole chest. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

On campus, seeing vending machines suddenly always being out of stock, especially of things like pop-tarts and trail mix. Suggests students/staff are skipping more expensive meals from the campus restaurants for cheaper options.

DoorDash's head of public affairs said "no one is claiming it was a real delivery." I found a few people who were claiming that: Reuters, ABC, CBS, the AP, Fox, Newsmax, The Hill, the New York Post, and CSPAN, for starters. www.readtpa.com/p/a-real-del...

Black Lives Matter.

what a wildly unpredictable outcome! who ever could have known?!!

see “transgender mice”

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

This guy (@glutelord.bsky.social) is correct about a lot of the discourse around "looksmaxxing" and so much of guys' ideas of what men should look like, and he should keep saying it.

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

Easiest prediction in the world.

Absolutely righteous fire in here. “We certainly have an ambitious President and an ambitious Supreme Court. We certainly don't have an ambitious Congress. That fecklessness has costs that […] we (and this Committee) ignore at not only at our peril, but at the increasing peril of the rule of law.”

fuck these fascist fuckers (#?????)

The short thread:

this is what i meant weeks ago when i said so much of the aggressive surge in migrant policing felt like a boundary test, where a period of highly visible violence would eventually recede in favor of less visible and more "professionalized" migrant policing at a level beyond its baseline pre-trump.

This is honestly a fucking assault on democracy.

Why "tough on crime" isn't about being tough on crime, but tough on people, in one simple graph. ALL sorts of other government services--the ones conservative pols denigrate while wrapping themselves in Blue Lives Matter flags--play a huge role in keeping us safe. AND healthy, educated, etc.

this guy sucks

For decades, men from Milwaukee voided even the appearance of cannibalism. Jeffery Dahmer is taking a different approach.

I am extremely pro-vaccine and trust the science, but I don't know how I would answer this question! It is a double-barrelled question! If a student brought me this in a draft survey, I'd be like, star is a shape, so close, try again!

Slightly maddening when serious news outlets drag everyone down to Trump’s level by using language like “feud” as if it’s some reality TV spat. Pope Leo delivered a moral critique of American military aggression. That is not “feuding” even if Trump responded with a deranged personal attack.

Embroidered book covers, fashionable in the 16th and 17th century, the art of embroidering unique covers for books saw a comeback in late 19th-century England, via the Arts and Crafts movement.#womensart #WomensArt

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

It's giving, "We don't want anybody who is struggling in any way to have a good life. We want to control your needs and keep you miserable so our charity makes us feel better than you because remember...you need our help." I say that as someone who grew up on food stamps and visiting food banks.

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

The Constitution and a court order both say that the Everglades detention facility must allow people access to their attorneys. Instead of complying, guards are cutting off people’s phone access and beating people who speak up.

new communities like... *checks notes* women

The USDA is going to use Elon Musk’s Grok for a myriad of functions, including “scientific research”. I can’t see any potential drawbacks to using a bigot-coded AI that is fed and watered by scientific misinformation at the joint that oversees food safety. /s

my mom spent the yrs btwn the Camp Fire (2017) to retirement working at a small network of live-in facilities for intellectually disabled adults. a midwestern (iirc) hospital conglomerate bought the company out in ~2021; patient care and treatment of staff took a DIVE that never got better. for $.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

The country's descent into fascism cannot be understood without interrogating U.S. policing. But folks across the political spectrum are allergic to this so here we are.

me, 2006: what the fuck, capitalism? me, 2026: what the…fuck capitalism!

Not the first time even. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

[hair-tearing rage gif]

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

"Oregon's Democratic Governor Tina Kotek signed eight bills into law defending immigrant rights, as the Trump administration ramps up federal immigration enforcement..." ktvz.com/news/governm...