This is so depressing!

That’s my senator!

Just openly monarchical shit happening!!! Wasn’t it THOMAS PAINE who said “For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever” Yes, yes it was, in COMMON SENSE (1776)

Let them SINK

What's stopping Massie from caucusing with the Dems until Jan 2027?

"Only about 12 percent of trustees at American colleges & universities have professional experience in higher education. If it seems odd to imagine 88% of the directors at, say, investment banks having no particular expertise in investment banking, that is the situation in the field of higher ed."

Invite me to the strategy session for getting financial and other reparations for ICE terror. An actual opposition political party would be calling people together now to work on this. They would be preparing the public for this now.

Trump just stole $1.8B. He’s going to give it to his business, his kids, and people like Flynn, Eastman, Giuliani, and the Oath Keepers. He’s doing this without court approval or Congress. This is a crime, but there’s no one to prosecute it because the DoJ is in on it.

What do you call it, New York Times?

A cabal of cronies, at the order of the president, has just stolen $1.8 billion from the United States. The President has, in essence, shot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue; a crime so blatant none can deny it. What we do next as a nation is up to us.

Just to be real clear, TSMC was started by Morris Chang, a Hong Konger who immigrated to the U.S., attended Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, became a citizen, but his career stalled out when TI wouldn't promote him further. So he left and started TSMC in Taiwan. *Racism* stole our chip industry.

And ... @raskin.house.gov goes there, possibly before I made this point. newrepublic.com/article/2105...

A beautiful thing.

COOKED.

Tactical loss, strategic loss, political loss, humanitarian loss.

With Commissioner Under Pressure, F.D.A. Opens Door to Flavored Vapes Addicting children to tobacco. That’s one hell of a way to make America healthy again. Also: can we call it open corruption instead of “a win to top donors”?

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

The most insulting thing in all this is having to pretend there's any reasoning going on. It's just a fundamental principle of all these justices and the Republican Party that the Consitution isn't written to give Black people power, which requires ignoring or twisting the 14th and 15th amendments.

Not every article needs historical context, but it this one cries out for a brief overview of the history of Jim Crow disfranchisement and the efforts of the CRM to gain equal suffrage, culminating in the Voting Rights Act, which was renewed and fortified for decades after its initial passage.

Every syllable of this. So absolutely refreshing to hear the truth spoken. A political party tries to court your vote. And an authoritarian regime tries to keep people from voting because they know they cannot win.

A bit of cheerleading for you: Even some gerrymandered seats are not 100% certain to go the way the GOP wants in a wave election. In the last five midterm elections, the incumbent's party lost 9, 13, 30, 40, and 63 seats. Do you know how many turnovers Democrats need to flip the House? Three.

This piece takes a both sides approach to the national debt, and doesn’t note that the Republicans and many pundits only highlight this issue when a Democrat is in power, despite the fact that debts has mostly accrued under Republican presidents. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...

Congratulations again to our scholarly orgs. The case is likely not closed and idk if the NEH will recover, but it has been clarifying to defend the humanities and their worth to society.

How did the “deep cuts” happen? Are any political leaders or political parties responsible for them? If so, might it be worth mentioning this? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/c...

Terrific post! Drawing a dotted line between the Met gala and Mamdani’s attempt to highlight garment workers. Not so far apart after all…

Basically uni managers are trying to be impressive to right-wing anti-intellectuals, who are the people with money and power

This thread! So wonderful. Masterful messaging from Mamdani. Bring on the socialist utopia we’ve been dreaming of! Or at the very least, respect for garment workers everywhere.

In education we have been riding this unicycle for decades. The solution to problems created by educational technology will never be more educational technology.

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.

“The Voting Rights Act “was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent. “Only [the American people] have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the members of this Court.” The New Republic

LBJ on signing the Voting Rights Act into law in August 1965: "Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory won on any battlefield."

Link to full text:/5 millercenter.org/the-presiden...

VRA was reauthorized, of course, in 2006 by 390–33 in the House and 98 - 0 in the Senate and signed by GWB. I don’t people know the extent to which the Roberts court is substituting its judgement for Congress’.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

We must call them concentration camps. We must because Americans need to understand the urgency of this growing disaster, & that just letting a few cute kids out will not be enough. But don't listen to me. Listen to some of the smartest communicators alive explain why far better than I ever could.

Too true!

a handy list you can use to find outlets near you (h/t @laminda.bsky.social ) go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

'She also documented how few women were in federally sponsored clinical trials for AIDS drugs... That was significant, she told The San Francisco Chronicle, because “the clinical trials are the only way you can get treatment.”' Long helped save so many lives.

Lovely statement on what it means to lose Hampshire College…. From a town official.

This was a very satisfying watch

This is how you do it!

Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection

I take it that this is the “punch” that Trump supposedly countered. Why not take Trump’s genocidal threat to be the punch, to which the Pope responded?

Yeah, the central demand the US is making of Iran, the core sticking point, is "please god just go back to February and let us forget this all ever happened"

monster. a true monster.

We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer,” she wrote. “Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.”

Now do the Department of Defense.

The only reasonably reaction, from one of my senators