Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Very important to remember that Tucker Carlson is 'Steve King (R-IA)'-level of racist.

We are now into the second white reactionary “Redemption.” Let’s make sure we really understand what that means, what the country has lost. The struggle is not over. But the battle for democratic freedom will now have to be waged under far more difficult and unfair conditions.

That ship has already sailed.

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts

I love how when I write or talk about Russia and the Soviet Union as an empire, people are like "but America is an empire!" Yeah, America is an empire too. We can critique and understand the imperial practices of both countries (it is one of the benefits of comparative history...).

Here's a solution!

APPLEBAUM: Russian attack on Ukraine is also attack on EU. Putin long understood that when unified, Europe can resist Russian influence and corruption. When divided, Europeans find it far more difficult to turn down Russian offers of special treatment or lucrative secret deals.

Trump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat. It turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA's stock. The President's corruption is a national security disaster.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

I don't know what this man does for a living but he has to go on a speaking tour. I'm very rarely heard this kind of passion about what's been going on in this country. If we get a few more people like him we could be able to change a lot of things. At least I hope so

Parliament of Hungary NOW. No police lights and cordons, batons and pepper sprays, but a laser show, music, dance, and joy after Orban is ousted forever.

The gumption of the young journalists here alone is worthy of commendation, but I’m most heartened by how local reporting by local people breaks through: “It’s like, ’Yeah, your granddaughter is going through this...it’s something different than Fox News.’” #icymi

Finally home after a perilous quest 🎨 Sarah Graham

I took part in a discussion at QMUL with Dmytro Kuleba, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Ukraine, Philippe Sands KC, Björn Berge, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and by Andy Willimott, QMUL. Watch these clips to whet your appetite. Full recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_S1...

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

New Hungarian government has been inaugurated 🎉

Instead of protests, Hungarians gathered for the first time in a very long time to greet their new Prime Minister and welcome the new government.

"He kept speaking even when it felt like no one was listening—not because it was effective in the way he deserved, but because silence was not something he was willing to offer his people." On the life and radical work of Sudanese scholar Hamid Khalafallah: www.hidden-cities.com/p/hamid-khal...

Wilsonites are easy to understand. Society should be hierarchical: men over women, white over Black, and one very specific kind of Protestant strain over all other religions. Laws should empower one, punish the other. Their beef with liberals is they think equality and tolerance are theft and chaos.

Another thoughtful piece from Seva. The argument is largely built around the Russian 2022 invasion of Ukraine and why so many experts got it wrong. My one quibble is that IMO, and this is a more general issue, the literature on personalist autocracies is short on personality. 1/3

The sad truth is that what happened today in Tennessee is just the beginning. Maya Wiley joins April Ryan on The Tea to explain. Catch the show at 5pm ET on Substack: https://open.substack.com/live-stream/193428

Shell first-quarter profits up 115% from $3.2bn to $6.9bn. Will rise even more due to Trump's illegal wars. Bumper payouts for execs and shareholders; higher inflation, poverty, misery for us. 120,000 Britons a year die in fuel poverty, Must levy windfall taxes.

Trump destroys the economic prospects of his base with glee and indifference. And yet how many of these people will find a way to blame immigrants instead?

In the mind of Trump, nothing is better politics than beating up on an elderly Black woman.

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Listening to this today I couldn't help but think of 10 years ago when people in my circles were discussing ISIS using the visual language of videos games like Call of Duty to make their videos more appealing to young people.

Trolling, memes and deepfakes: How AI is thickening the fog of war reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/trollin...

Democrats just flipped Pearland, Texas. Quentin Wiltz has defeated Republican Tony Carbone in the mayoral race — turning a red seat blue.

NEWS: MAGA influencer Craig Long has been arrested in a human trafficking and prostitution sting in Florida, along with Ryan Yates, a Trump supporter who pleaded guilty in Feb 2024 for his involvement in January 6. Long posted this photo with Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. just a few weeks ago.

Imagine if Iran bombed and destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge in California, what would you call it? TERRORISTS The U.S bombed and destroyed the highest bridge in Iran, the B1 bridge, why do you call it “PEACE”? Bombing a bridge is a war crime under international humanitarian law

Our world is not divided by race, color, gender, or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender, or religion.

There is significant chaos this morning surrounding #Trump & his “Project Freedom” in the Strait of Hormuz. #Iran claims it launched missiles at a U.S. Navy ship, while the United States denies that any strike occurred….. Meanwhile, this sums up the fuckery….. #SheShed

Bailing him out would also be communism, but somehow not the bad communism.

These rural areas get about two radio stations. One is AM radio blasting by some right wing psychopath how Dems are Mao marching commies hell bent on indoctrinating their cows into Marxism and the other is a "Christian" station that amazingly finds ALL biblical passages match the GOP's platform.

The NYT is simply incapable of not sane washing the descent into fascism under the narcissistic mad king.

Beijing confronts Trump's actions: China resolutely rejects US sanctions on refineries over Iran oil links; says US measures “shall not be recognized, implemented, or complied with.” ara.tv/qdc4i

ITALY: Over 10,000 people take to the streets of Rome after the interception of 22 boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the kidnapping of 170+ activists who were on board.

SAY IT PLAIN: DeSantis is pushing to break Florida’s Constitution with “partisan gerrymandering”. 👀 Hakeem Jeffries: If Ron DeSantis wants a different map, “he should take it to the voters.” #StopIllegalFloridaMaps