"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani

Palantir is known to have provided technology that facilitated the Gaza genocide. They are facilitating mass ICE kidnappings in the US. These actions alone should trigger a review of Australian contracts. This latest manifesto only adds to the concern.

When you learned about the Iran hostage crisis, did they teach you this part? In November 1979, during the crisis, Black hostages and women were released first. Ruhollah Khomeini said they were oppressed in the United States and not part of the power structure, so they weren’t seen as spies.

Hegseth's outrageous financial adventure is nothing we'd expect from a person of even average intelligence...but stupidity changes that calculus, and being desperate changes it more. Being stupid, desperate, and drunk would make an insider trade look maximally plausible. trib.al/LksFJtD

PA Dems deliver brutal rejection: Not one Pennsylvania House Democrat will back John Fetterman for reelection as a Democrat. His tRump flirtations, Fox appearances, and betrayals on key issues burned every bridge. His own party sees him as a betrayer. mcsp.short.gy/SMEH

The corruption is just stunning. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

John Roberts Created the Anti-constitutional Monster Devouring Washington From ushering in Citizens United to granting presidents immunity, no one in the capital is more responsible for Donald Trump’s destructive second term than the Supreme Court’s chief justice www.vanityfair.com/news/story/h...

Not a particularly reliable source, but, if there is any truth to this account, it is terrifying.

Haaretz argues that Rahm Emmanuel thinks he can fool Apartheid and genocide opponents by shifting slightly on how the US should aid Israeli slaughter. It remains to be seen if tricks like this will catapult this corrupt disaster of a guy into the presidency. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

US government agents joined Mexican authorities in carrying out a clandestine raid against cartel drug labs. 4 of them are now dead. President Sheinbaum wants answers as her office was never informed of the operation. America deserves answers too. www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.pbs....

Beyond the dispossession of the Palestinians, the creation of a latter day Sparta in the Middle East is an ongoing agent of destruction and regional instability. #Israel

"Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said on Saturday that a nationwide general strike is being planned for May 1 that will be modeled on the day of action residents of Minnesota organized in January against the brutality carried out by federal immigration enforcement officials."

Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

remember him on voting day

Good point. Alcoholic idiots are still in the Cabinet. Not to mention RFK, Jr. Who is working hard to kill as many Americans as he can.

Progress!

Antitrans group calls for the fascist US regime to go after the American Psychological Association (APA). Anyone calling on the authoritarian regime to go after those they disagree with has zero integrity. donoharmmedicine.org/2026/04/20/f...

8/ And Trump has already used America’s balance sheet as a political tool abroad. The Argentina bailout thread is the template: “save” an ally with U.S. taxpayer funds, socialize the risk onto taxpayers, and let insiders harvest the upside from the deal terms. bsky.app/profile/digi...

A new documentary on a CIA agent who recognized the harm done by the Agency as it othrrthrew democratic leaders to install autocrat. We are suffering the consequences today as the war in Iran threatens to explode into a world war. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

"For Donald Trump (his superpower) is changing the subject. I’m not saying he’s approaching political death. But he is stuck and unable to change the subject in what I think is a genuinely new way for him. And for his political prospects, it’s a very big deal." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-tr...

A masterclass on handling an illegal ICE stop. Per www.PAXIS.app, police need reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a valid warrant. If stopped: ask if you’re free to go. If detained, show documents, stay silent, refuse searches, stay calm. FIGHT ICE, FIGHT TRUMP: www.gofundme.com/f/PAXIS

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

As Trump's war on Iran continues, reminder that his own son-in-law Jared Kushner — who is leading negotiations with Iran — stands to profit from lucrative contracts with its regional rivals. War gives dictators like Trump (and his family) more power and more wealth.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

House Judiciary Dems will soon launch an investigation on this. Stay tuned.

The option of not platforming Elise Stefanik was also readily available to Jake Tapper this morning

👇🎯 An easy way to see which Democrats are wildly unfit for leading the party or competing for the presidency in 2028 is to notice who is still identifying not focusing enough on Doing A Popularism or not using Funny Words as the primary message & problem in 2026: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Again, if you want explain why trust in universities has declined in the last decade, & you don't benchmark that decline against contemporaneous declines in trust in <every other societal institution> in 🇺🇸, then you cannot identify variables internal to universities as the main or sole explanations.

Holy shit! Trump's decision to go to war against Iran has backfired spectacularly at home. A new NBC News poll shows just 33% of Americans approve of his handling of the conflict, with 67% disapproving — including a majority who "strongly" disapprove. Historian Stephen Wertheim put it sharply: 1/

BREAKING: New data shows ZERO oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz today, signaling what appears to be a complete shutdown of the Strait for the first time in history. The Strait normally carries about 20% of the world’s oil supply.

👇🎯 Tl;dr: Support the liberal arts & fund the damn public universities like we used to

Increasing numbers of Israeli soldiers and veterans suffering moral injury after serving in Gaza put the lie to the "most moral army in the world" IDF claim. As a result, those suffering moral injury are ignored and abandoned. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

Reposted from Facebook. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cqo... The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades on financial markets just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview by the US president was made public. Read more: bbc.in/4sIO0TW

BREAKING: A woman in the U.S. legally from Mexico for nearly a decade sues over the Trump administration's immediate change in Oct 2025 to work authorization renewals (employment authorization documents, or EADs), ending extensions even when renewal processing is delayed based on USCIS backlog.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

This Day in #History 1927 Actress Mae West found guilty of “obscenity and corrupting the morals of youth” in a NY stage play entitled "Sex". She is sentenced to 10 days in prison and fined $500, the resulting publicity launches her Hollywood career.

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

‘How dare The Atlantic accuse me of drinking on the job. I’m gonna sue you as soon as I find some Tylenol and a couple Bloody Mary’s…’

How does American politics really work?

TIL that while Colorado basin municipal water districts pay an average of $512 per acre-foot, irrigation districts pay an average of $30--and fully a quarter of all water diversions, all going to farms, pay nothing at all prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...

Two Restore Britain supporters, both in Rupert Lowe’s orbit, discussing on X about what to do with those who are mixed-race. Conversations that once had to be held secretly now held with little to no pushback. So much for the marketplace of ideas.

And for $20 million you can buy the naming rights to "wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Balmer"

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote. They found one. One. And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

16 years ago, Newt Gingrich convinced the Tea Party era GOP that they should double down in their fight against the (entirely imaginary) efforts to impose Sharia Law on the US.

I never thought we'd exist in a reality where the dystopian future forecast by the Terminator movies would seem quaint. They just had to deal with Cyberdyne, while we have dozens of corporations that are trying to build terminators.

Just getting up. Are we destroying a civilization this fine morning or negotiating the same treaty we tore up? is the waterway open or closed? Or all of that in the same gibbering sentence?

Online programs allow higher "education" to be transformed so as to remove what used to be the justification for college, learning. Without that troublesome "learning," the college degree can be obtained in weeks, reducing a college degree to a certificate. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/19/n...

The Iran war in four paragraphs.

In 2026 Billy Baker (or an AI?) wrote to the future about the decision of the few to let the AI genie out of the bottle, despite knowing how the story ends. And that ending isn't good for humanity, as science fiction writers have known for generations. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/10/m...