I grew up in Franklin, and if David French is just realizing this, then he is the least observant person ever born

Look what's here! Just in time to order for your fall classes! It's the affordable paperback version of *Plantation Goods* from @uchicagopress.bsky.social

The arc of the moral universe is long

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if our future actually valued stoicism, instead of what it really values, which is moaning and complaining and crying all the time, then refusing to extend empathy to those we exploit.

I'm still furious that Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg launched this war against Iran.

We're gonna have to update our rich guy signifiers from "has a yacht" to stuff like "buys tomatoes at the grocery store." Ohh fancy trust fund kid buying food instead of eating the commoner's Mystery Paste

Trump Claims Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Reinforces Need To End Journalism

We are now congratulating Trump for failing

tim heidecker describes how to turn piss into gold youtu.be/Exu1SEZE9Ug

JD Vance Still Waiting For Secret Service To Retrieve Him From Secure Hiding Area

Tucker is obviously setting himself up to be the redeemer figure in the “the Jews puppeted/betrayed Trump” MAGA narrative that is emerging on the right.

The "stick it to those liberals for ammuricah" ecosystem being somewhat funded by foreign interests looking to undermine America was something you already figured, but it's been surprising just how much the boat was being floated

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.

The rare “Memphis or England?”

From coast to coast, AAUP members showed up for May Day actions yesterday demanding a higher ed system that serves the public good: one that is affordable, protects scientific research, free speech, & academic freedom from political assault, & stands up for students' right to learn. #MayDay2026

clear goal of republicans in these states is to, in the words of carter glass, “eliminate every Negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”

we're gonna find out that the entire formidable Daily Wire audience was just a product of 1) a contiunous flow of oligarch money into buying algorithmic promotion for its content 2) conservatives inside meta, X and google pressuring the algorithm into promoting their content

if i were a shareholder of an american automaker id want to know why my ceos were so stupid and shortsighted that they not only didnt see this coming but actively fought it

it is funny to read this stuff as someone with a historical interest in the 1990s, a decade that began with one of the worst economic dislocations of the post-war era and was marked by genocide, catastrophic terrorist attacks, a resurgence of virulent racism, and fears of technological dislocation

thinking about the rod dreher illusion in light of the tucker carlson news. these guys only have the appearance of popularity because of a small number of rich patrons behind the scenes. they’re loud, they’re everywhere, but their ideas aren’t as popular as they’re made to appear.

Literally the day after we find out only 7000 people care enough to pay to hear what this guy thinks 👍

Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.

Here's a path that we advise institutions to *not* consider: Increasing enrollment while firing adjunct faculty and requiring remaining faculty to teach more students for the same compensation.

On the weekdays what you see on social media is episodic pissed off. Reacting to a story between emails pissed off. On weekends it's more like leisure pissed off, which tends to be much more deranged

every QAnon influencer, seeing this post: This is it. President Trump is speaking to us directly. The storm is HERE. Trump, posting: that's me in the picture

tim heidecker drinks the blood of the forsaken youtu.be/Exu1SEZE9Ug

We gotta fire the 5th Circuit into the sun dawg

I owe my position as Mayor of New York City to the power of working people and I will always govern with them in mind. 

We’ve delivered millions of dollars in corporate settlements to workers — nearly $100K each day we’ve been in office. 

We’re just getting started. Happy May Day, New York.

infowars is reborn

I honestly think Chaya Raichik and Riley Gaines posting about their huge medical bills is a sign their grift is starting to dry up. The worst thing to happen to some of these maga shitheads was Trump getting elected.

Multiple American business interests right now:

Meta AI stays asking the tough questions everyone had on their mind

Please be on the lookout for an Emergency Transmission from @timheidecker.bsky.social this evening on theonion.info. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

i genuinely wish the democratic national committee was as powerful, organized and ruthless as a lot of people seem to think it is

It's May Day! Workers from the Inter Faculty Organization (IFO) are out on the line with Unite HERE Local 17 workers at the Normandy Inn in Minneapolis, out on ULP strike because the boss won't come to the table. It's the same thing everywhere & we've got to fight back together! Solidarity forever!

Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

Ten Percent Of U S High School Students Graduating Without Basic Object Permanence Skills

Happy May Day! Today we remember the lives and sacrifices of the eight Haymarket Martyrs, who gave up their freedom, and some their lives, for the causes of freedom, anarchism, and labor. Since their execution, the Martyrs and many others have been remembered through May Day actions and 1/2

The U.S. Senate is far and away the least representative legislative body in the democratic world. It’s an aristocratic relic of a bygone era and has essentially no purpose in the modern world.

Happy May Day. They can’t kill us all.

Happy May Day comrades!

“What does a sane man do in an insane society?” “The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.” ~ Catch-22 BOTD novelist Joseph Heller 1923 #Booksky

Happy May Day from Chicago. There's a lot of events planned around the city today; right now interfaith leaders are gathering with activists outside 1 S. Dearborn Street, the Chicago HQ of Highlands REIT, a real estate investment firm planning to lease a vacant jail in Colorado to ICE.

May Day around the world in photos. Neighbors near and far in solidarity. apnews.com/photo-galler...