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It's still Ehlers-Danlos awareness month! I have hypermobile EDS, the most prevalent form. What it feels like for me every single day: Like my body is trying to murder me, I'm being electrocuted while my internal organs are being ripped out. And that's just the baseline. How about you?

Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

Trump went to war so that he could give sovereignty of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran.🤡

Omfg

“I guess they’re treating us like trailer trash, and most of us aren’t. ... We’ve done our work, and we just want a happy place to live until we die and not have to be worrying about if every other day we can still afford to be here." www.bangordailynews.com/2026/05/27/h...

“Understand right now, history has reached a turning point again. Not just Jim Crow 2.0—it’s freedom forever,” said Reena Evers-Everette. Her father, voting rights leader Medgar Evers, was assassinated by a white supremacist in the family's driveway in 1963.

The campaign opposing a November ballot measure that would reinstate Missouri’s abortion ban formally launched Wednesday, arguing Republican lawmakers are trying to overturn the 2024 vote that ended the state’s near-total ban through a “bait and switch” measure. #moleg #mogov

Good.

The actual story gets into this, but “doubts” doesn’t quite encapsulate the critique here. Historians, including the head of Washington’s own presidential library, have long dismissed this story as devoid of evidence and likely a fabrication.

This entire administration is an exercise in discovering why you need government and then scrambling to assemble an arm while cutting off another leg.

The real "takers"

Right now democrats are winning this years elections by default. They’re probably going to win by a lot but that’s a reflection of how much the gop sucks — not anything the Dems actually said or did

Obvious verification that blue maga mindset is also a bubble: “the most common response about Democrats is that they are weak and don’t stand up against Trump or for what’s right” abcnews.com/Politics/ame...

Oh no, this is going to seriously impact my current AI budget of (Checks notes) Absolutely fucking zero www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Gross.

Lies

But wait it keeps getting worse

So true, I also think about how much opening my cervix 1/4th an inch (about 1/2 cm) to have an IUD put in hurt (a LOT for hours). I can’t imagine what DAYS of having an infant foot sticking out of it would feel like. Every movement had to be excruciatingly painful, and she had to travel that way!?

And this

This is so fucked up.

4/ Waldorf came into this fight with more resources than most: Her father was a doctor. She worked at the hospital. She was highly educated and well-connected. Yet even meeting the hospital’s CEO, calling the governor and hiring a lawyer would not be enough.

2/ The standard of care would be to empty her womb. But the baby still had a detectable heartbeat, and stopping it would run afoul of Arkansas’ abortion ban. They needed to wait until she went into labor or showed signs of dangerous infection, or until the fetal heartbeat ended.

This is indeed false. The amount of AI slop turning up these days is impossible to keep up with.

Just a few of the reasons why we should elect Jeromie to represent MA-01 to Congress! Share why you think we should in the comments!

End the needless and wasteful wars abroad, and relieve the pressure crushing school budgets so we can give our kids a fighting chance.

Jeromie’s been the one in the classroom buying supplies out of his own pocket just so students have what they need to succeed. Meanwhile, politicians like the current Congressman sit idly by while we pour billions into wars overseas and still can't properly fund our own schools.

Endorsement alert! 🚨 Proud to announce that I’ve been endorsed by Indivisible Pittsfield! I remember speaking at Pittsfield’s first No Kings rally last year and looking out at the smiling faces holding signs, dancing, and fighting the hatred and fear in the world with love. 🧵

I'm sure they'll cut SNAP some more too

Glad Cory has started posting here. This is a great essay, well worth reading, on AI as a technology enabling a pathological urge to rid of all human connection.

Trump self-deals, lies and seems to fall asleep in meetings. The media treats it all as ‘priced in’ | Margaret Sullivan

They'll cover extractions and pull all your teeth out eventually. Because WHO NEEDS TEETH

Massachusetts cutting dental benefits for Masshealth is really shitty to do to people, especially now. Disgusting

I have a piece going up tomorrow about how Elon Musk's attack on Lupita Nyong'o should be understood in the context of the fact that he has actually committed a genocide against Black people. Sign up and it'll be in your inbox tomorrow. open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

BREAKING: According to folks on the ground, it was during this intense standoff that DHS transferred Martin Soto from Delaney Hall to Elizabeth Detention Center (EDC). Members of Congress are working to confirm if Martin is at EDC or has been transferred to another detention center.

Symphony has climbed again and is now #4 on @hbomax.bsky.social Friends!! Thank you to everyone who has watched and rewatched. Thank you for proving that you can release weekly stand up on YouTube and still have an audience for a larger scale special on a traditional/streaming platform.

Following 49 years of @wsj.com editorials condemning spending tax dollars on fripperies like foreign aid and public health.

I would love to see you at this event to learn about data centers and what they do to water and air quality — be well prepared in the fight against hyperscale data centers. mobilize.us/s/TGRtZ2

This Day in Labor History: May 25, 1943. White workers rioted at Alabama Dry Dock after Fair Employment Practice Committee officials forced the company to promote 12 black workers to skilled positions. Let's talk about hate strikes and how they are also moments of black struggle for equality!

Joe Arpaio: Yes, duh, I arrested based on how people looked and talked. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I've been saying for a long long time that immigration "enforcement" by local police is nothing but racial discrimination. No one has shown me evidence it's otherwise. thelensnola.org/2026/05/23/u...

It serves the rich and powerful, especially white men.

➡️ Police escalate mental health crises. In 2025, 116 people were killed after police responded to reports of a mental health crisis. policeviolencereport.org

➡️ Police violence is not tied to their safety. According to the 2025 Police Violence Report, the vast majority of killings began with police responding to suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported. policeviolencereport.org

➡️ The number of people killed by police has increased over time. Police killed more than 1,300 people in 2025. This is a slight decline from 2024, but still higher than pre-pandemic levels. mappingpoliceviolence.org

And use of force is still a serious concern: -Since 2015, the proportion of people experiencing use of force who were 65+ increased more than tenfold! -In 2022, 28% of people experiencing police use of force were women — a number that has more than doubled since 1999.

➡️ Recent data show that fewer people are experiencing police contact, but policing is still plagued with issues. For example, the system is riddled with racism. Black people experience police misconduct at 6x the rate of white people: www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/12...