Anybody who has to “hold their nose” to vote for ANY candidate opposing the GOP needs to fuck all the way off into the ocean. Didn’t you get enough of this shit in the last 3 cycles?

Humpback whale creates a rainbow: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Where’s the fury about rightwing antisemitism? The newspapers that call out leftwing antisemitism publish antisemitic cartoons and champion politicians with a record of antisemitic statements. So who is holding *them* to account? This week’s column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

HAHAHAHAHAHA

MOAR BREAD BOOKS PLEASE

Just spectacular. Exactly the same threat the guy tried pulling on Alastair Darling in 2009. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

WATCH AND LEARN: The Tennessee House of Representatives removed Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, Charlane Oliver, Gloria Johnson, and Aftyn Behn from all committee assignments. This is an old tactic from the Reconstruction playbook. It denies political representation to the of people in Tennessee.

This is EXACTLY who you fucking voted for, you ignorant prick. And he fucked everything up for four years the first time just to ensure no one thought any differently. That's how stupid you assholes are. 🖕

My wife is obsessed with @chanda.blacksky.app’s new book and I am so excited to read it when she is done.

Holy shit this piece will melt some eyeballs. Writer argues Dems need to take drastic, even once-unimaginable tactics in response to Voting Rights Act being gutted. He writes: "Patience is the enemy now" and we have to stop asking people for it. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

Two police officers from Gratis, Ohio, an all-white town per the US census, showed up at a majority Latinx public school in Cincinnati—50 miles away—to search for kids for ICE, disguised as a “wellness check.”

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#Poetry #Painting It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help

Survivor of Jeffrey Epstein breaks down in tears describing the moment she learned her name was revealed while the rich and powerful remained protected by redactions Roza: I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times.

🍊 #oilpainting #art

What a Royal GFY to CBS deadline.com/2026/05/late...

I had some thoughts about the broader context of the modern SCOTUS, why it's out of control, and what we can try and do about it.

very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.

Radicalized data from the Trump Admin.

If I grow up I want to write this well www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...

From the order:

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🚨 ICE awarded a $12M immigrant-tracking contract to a tiny vendor whose “lead computer scientist” was represented by a stock photo also used by therapy and life-coaching sites. After The Lever asked questions, the executive vanished from its website.

THAT'S RIGHT, MOTHERFUCKERS, I WON A WEBBY AWARD. Here's my 5-word speech. #webbys

Chicago teen battling terminal cancer dies hours after reuniting with parents An 18-year-old Chicago resident battling terminal cancer has died, just one day after being reunited with his parents following their release from U.S. immigration custody.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

THIS!

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Hantavirus is no joke 😂 That's why I've started washing my hands after touching rat feces 🐀 What are doing differently to fight hantavirus?💪

Think I've done a pretty decent job of adapting to all the Americanisms I have heard over the years, but the "stepping foot" vs "setting foot" one still gets me

$18M Laurelhurst Mansion Owner Just Wishes There Was Some Way to Not Live Next to Noisy Hospital: tinyurl.com/yc3pa26c

my fav part is how the artist they commissioned for the piece was also like"what the fuck are you on?

My hand to God, I often wonder how many of our problems would be alleviated if the entire internet somehow went down for a few months.

I’m fine with just sinking the hantavirus boat. In fact, I have less moral objection to it than I do to us bombing Iran and Lebanon.

Total shocker. Alito’s argument for why black people don’t need voting rights protections is based on fraudulent statistics.

America has learned nothing from Sean Connery.

Ukraine’s President decree: “Allow a parade to be held on May 9, 2026 in the city of Moscow”

I made saag last night with spinach and radish greens and it was fantastic! Next will be these mustard greens (and purples).

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

Rep. Roger Williams on the SAVE America Act: "We want the right people voting"

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Earth eclipses the Sun as seen by Artemis II on Orion. Satellites showing off as usual...

Dog experiences the beach for the first time . 😍

Did I ever tell you about the time I propositioned Sir David Attenborough? I met him at a book signing in '06. I was thinking about what a wonderful man he is and how his genes should populate the world. Out slipped "I would love to have your babies". Rather than calling security he chortled. 😍