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obsessed with this poem by Yuki Tanaka

In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court's majority ruled to demolish the Voting Rights Act's remaining protections, Louisiana and Tennessee have already signaled that they'll redraw their congressional maps with the clear effect of shutting Black voters out.

Lets be clear. This is about stealing an election, this time, with SCOTUS on their side. House Speaker says, “you’ve got to keep the grown ups in charge.” GOP doesnt care what the voters want. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Dominique Fortin, Montreal artist who works with elements of portrait, symbolism and abstraction in her work. #WomensArt #Beltane

BREAKING: Congress has ended the record-shattering DHS shutdown — without solving any of the policy disagreements that led to the 76-day shutdown.

The most corrupt family in American history. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What is happening in Louisiana right now is both a redistricting power grab and a dry run for authoritarian election subversion this Fall. The governor has declared a state of emergency to suspend the congressional elections because he doesn't like the current map.

Fab poems in translation @robmunb.bsky.social 💜✨

Hegseth ‘dangerously exaggerated’ US military triumph in Iran, Senate hears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on.

A majority of Americans say their financial situation is worse than it was during two recessions. Any more questions on why the GOP wants to keep people from voting?

If you are in one of the 40 states without a state voting rights act start lobbying for one NOW!

@pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social have written extensively on voting rights and SCOTUS. Read their definitive piece on the court under Chief Justice John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“We could see the largest drop in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction." Garrison Hayes, Ari Berman, and Pema Levy discuss the Supreme Court's death blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law that defeated Jim Crow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajPY...

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Jhee-skaw-yaw There once was a great worm that was like a serpent called the Ustutli (oostootlee)

"This decision will jeopardize maps for congressional seats, state legislatures, city councils, school boards – every level at which communities of color have fought for true representation," writes @slakin.bsky.social.

🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

What an evil piece of shit. I cannot wait to take over.

Warren: “The Financial Times reported that your broker tried to buy hundreds of shares in a BlackRock fund invested in defense companies just before the war began. The law clearly prohibits the Secretary— Hegseth: (Interrupts & likely perjures himself)

Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) tells @macfarlanenews.bsky.social the lawyers who filed the Comey case should be sanctioned. Ivey: I think the lawyers who are pushing these kinds of cases really should be held accountable.

The Sandy Hook families are seeking emergency relief, asking for resolution in several courts, because this obviously harms their ability to collect the $1.4 billion they're owed from Jones and InfoWars. We're hopeful they will resolve this immediately so we can take over and pay these families.

An important update: Texas courts created such an unprecedented situation in an emergency filing last night, no one knows who is in charge of InfoWars, and therefore no one can pay rent. Since no one controls these assets right now, it does appear InfoWars will shut down tonight at midnight.

"Why is it controversial to step in when someone’s getting bullied and try to stop it?” —Billie Eilish Kudos to Billie for speaking out and for standing up to the bullies. We could use a lot more of that these days.

Corporate control of US media has been a crisis for decades but the ongoing right-wing takeover of social media platforms adds a terrifying new angle. Particularly when you realize that for the past 5 years over 50% of adults reported getting some or all of their news from social media.

Absolute truth from Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich. We warned you. You did it anyway. At that one moment, all you had to do was check the right box for a thriving, peaceful and successful life. And now every decent American is under complete, life-threatening assault.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkbVwQwR/ There are a LOT of reasons why I am in awe of Taylor Swift. But her business acumen is in the top five. Her savvy stands to make millions for literally hundreds of artists. She negotiated her contract to benefit them ALL. Who does that? Uh…the Queen of Pop does.

Bit of a problem how huge swaths of our court system prioritize partisanship over ordinary functions. This is a bankruptcy sale of a business. Happens all the time. The sole cause for years of extraordinary procedure is that the business is part of right-wing extremist media.

Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot

No catch. No church. Just free groceries. A S.F. nonprofit is blessing shoppers at independent stores across the city — and plans to keep going: missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-n...

Betty White's refusal to remove Arthur Duncan from her show because of his skin color ultimately led to the program's cancellation in 1954. #history

What are we even doing here anymore? Just straight up bribe the guy and be done with it amazon save us all from the embarrassment. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Is this illegal?

Love the confident gaze of this woman in Gustave Klimt’s charcoal drawing from 1891, done in his early ‘realistic’ style

How White Supremacy Returned to Mainstream Politics This report provides a guide to identifying and calling out the white nationalist ideas that are infiltrating U.S. political discourse. www.americanprogress.org/article/whit...

Powell: "My concern is about the series of legal attacks on the Fed, which threaten our ability to conduct monetary policy without considering political factors. These legal actions by the administration are unprecedented and there are ongoing threats of additional ones."

This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.

So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

We've spent an estimated $25B on Trump's war on Iran. Now Trump and Co. want even more money to fund the war. But healthcare? Cut. Food stamps? Cut. Education? Cut. Cancer research? Cut. Environmental protections? Cut. And of course, taxes on the rich? Cut. Obscene.

RYAN: Before the war starter, there was clear intelligence that the base was high on Iran's target list and internal analysis that said the site is indefensible. Yet you sent our soldiers there anyway. True or false? HEGSETH: Are you just gonna play gotcha? RYAN: Six of our soldiers are dead

CROW: Does Mr. Parlatore represent foreign governments or persons in his private law practice? HEGSETH: I don't know CROW: You don't know? Somebody who is sitting in your meetings as a special adviser -- you don't know?

Here’s the thing. If both racial and partisan gerrymandering is perfectly legal, then you won’t live in a democracy. You live in a country where politicians pick their voters not the other way around. It’s pretty much that simple.

Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

This newly insane, unprecedented legal stalling does nothing but delay our deal with the receiver to take control of InfoWars. We now expect new traps in Alex Jones' amoral war to deny paying the Sandy Hook families, but we're freshly surprised by the U.S. legal system's appetite to put up with it.

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

The president of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights group, said SCOTUS decision in Louisiana v Callais delivers “a devastating blow to what remains of the Voting Rights Act”. The ruling is "a license for corrupt politicians who want to rig the system by silencing entire communities."

HEGSETH: Their nuclear facilities have been obliterated SMITH: Whoa whoa. We had to start this war, you said, bc the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying it was obliterated? HEGSETH: They had not given up their *ambitions* S: So Operation Midnight Hammer accomplished nothing