Goddess, I Love Her!!!

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

I cannot emphasize this enough: everything we are seeing right now with voting rights, and especially the racist gerrymandering we’re seeing in the South, makes complete sense if you remember it was all in Project 2025. This was part of the plan. It’s white supremacy and too many ignored it.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

To all the white Republican professed Christians across this country: To hell with you... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-hell-wi...

Happy Mother’s Day to Renée Good. Today, we honor her memory, her courage, & the ultimate sacrifice she made. She should be here with her babies today, but her legacy lives on in the people she loved, the lives she touched, & the continued fight for a more compassionate & just world. 💐

I had no idea the founding of Mothers' Day was an antiwar movement. From Letters From An American: "Mothers’ Day was not designed to encourage people to be nice to their mothers. It was part of women’s effort to gain power to change society." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

The US did NOT contact airline passengers who flew with people known to have been infected with hantavirus. Cool cool.

This is what Mother’s Day means to an imbecile whose mother never loved him. Sad.

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

A Georgia couple who terrorized a Black family at a child's birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs, guns, and death threats were sentenced for a hate crime. Joe Torres got 20 years; Kyla Norton got 15.

Because of course he did. newrepublic.com/post/210174/...

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

I could not have said it better!!!❤️💯

More lawyers looking to be judges unable to answer the most essential question:

The parallels between Russia and the US. I love listening to McFaul, well said Sir!!

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Casualties of Capitalism

open.substack.com/pub/wonkette... Liar living in an alternative reality!

Pope Leo has appointed Father Michael T. Castori, SJ, as Bishop of Honolulu. Father Castori currently serves as rector of the Arrupe Jesuit Residence at Seattle University in Seattle.

I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.

“If someone told me as a boy: One day you will see your nation vanish from the world, I would have considered it nonsense, something I couldn’t possibly imagine. A man knows he is mortal, but he takes it for granted his nation possesses…eternal life.”—Kundera www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-o...

This is amazing. Brilliant way for people to comprehend the enormity of the files with these visuals. Glad the survivors were acknowledged with the bright light of the candles 🕯️

So the real question is never can we afford it, it’s what we choose to prioritize….

Don't forget: my old Yale Law classmate Clarence Thomas refused to recuse from Jan. 6 cases despite his wife's involvement in the plot. And he's taken at least 100 gifts worth over $2 million while serving, including from GOP donor Harlan Crow. He's a disgrace to the Court.

This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

US: “Do you think they were listening in there, Stacey?” stacey abrams: “I believe they heard me. I don’t know that they’ll do what they know they should do.” Stacey was in Tennessee to testify against the racist redistricting of MEMPHIS. @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

Status of GOP plans to gerrymander Dem VRA congressional seats: FL: Already targeted 1 VRA seat & 3 non-VRA AL, LA: Planning 1-2 each in 2026 TN: Planning 1 in 2026 GA: Reportedly doing 2028—could target 2 MS: Could target 1—unclear whether for 2026 or 2028 SC: Unclear TX: Could do it in 2028

NVIDIA’s JENSEN HUANG, on California’s proposed wealth tax: “I don’t mind paying taxes.”

WATCH: “How are you proposing a map and you don’t know anything about it?” 🤔 Sen. John Stevens shamelessly pretends not to know 🤷🏼Memphis is majority-Black as Sen. london lamar grills him about racist Republican 9-0 congressional maps. (because for lawsuit reasons they can’t admit it’s about race)

JONES: “It is wrong, Cameron. And history will not look well on what you do in this moment.” Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social confronts Speaker Sexton after he presents a new map stripping Memphis of representation, diluting it with white power while gaslighting it isn’t about race🤔

what kind of shithole country gifts Dear Leader a billion-dollar taxpayer-funded Epstein Dance Hall™ while schoolteachers have to scrounge and crowdfund to buy chalk and erasers? how fucked up is that? thank you for your attention to today's extremely angry post. link is here: bit.ly/4tjyuhw

Republicans picked the perfect place to vote on stripping Black political power in their state: the Old Capitol, where Mississippi voted to secede from the union in 1861, and where lawmakers met to establish Jim Crow segregation against its Black population. trib.al/ORccS1R

Activists in NYC projected a message on the side of Jeff Bezos’ $120 million penthouse ahead of the Met Gala. “Shame on you, Jeff Bezos.”

And that's just based on the unredacted documents they've released. There are probably even more.

We are not the same…

Democrats convert empty warehouses into shelters for the homeless. Republicans turn them into concentration camps to torture people without due process. The two parties are not remotely the same.

Cartoon by Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

No low is too low for a tech bro with a net worth of a quarter trillion dollars who is petrified of running low on billions.

The people saying that gutting the Voting Rights Act has nothing to do with racism are the same people who say overturning Roe v Wade had nothing to do with women

Not a great sign that President Trump’s judicial nominees seem incapable of stating that President Trump is ineligible to run for a third term.

REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social : “This is a power grab… they’re spitting on the graves of all that work, saying we’re going to allow Black political voices & representation to be dismantled across the South- following marching orders of the White House. We’ve gotta fight back.” @GovBillLee

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

I’ll never truly believe that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris lost to that vile piece of shit and I’ll always believe election fraud, voter suppression, illegal gerrymandering, and Putin’s Russia interference are responsible for that.