“Congress wants to lock in Daylight Saving Time. But the evidence-based solution is permanent Standard Time.”

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Massachusetts is now the first state to certify a rideshare driver union after granting Lyft and Uber drivers' collective bargaining rights. This is the largest new private-sector union in over 85 years. 70,000 workers are now represented by the App Drivers Union.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Hawaii just passed a groundbreaking law directly challenging Citizens United and corporate money in politics 👀

The implosion of the GOP is only beginning. And it will accelerate. But we can't just sit by and idly watch. We need to keep pushing for accountability—and ultimately for impeachment and removal of the president and his cabinet (of which the vice president is a member).

American taxpayers are being robbed by a criminal who would make Al Capone blush

Call and write your Congress members directly today and tell them to amend permanent Daylight Saving Time back out of the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act, or use this form to send a pre-written message. Thank you! www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Cam...

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (and over a hundred more nonprofits) urge that permanent Daylight Saving Time is worse than clock switching, permanent Standard Time is naturally best for circadian rhythms and sleep health. #DitchDST aasm.org/sleep-expert...

ICYMI, the Utah State Legislature will conduct a study on the environmental impacts of data centers: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

Ranked choice voting came to San Francisco in 2004, and is now used in 7 California cities. It has delivered better representation, better campaigns, and savings for taxpayers. Our new report looks at how RCV is working in the Golden State. Here are some highlights. 🧵

A new Lake Research Partners poll used ranked choice voting to gauge support of 13 potential candidates for the 2028 Democratic presidential primary: 🗳️ Kamala Harris & Gavin Newsom lead an RCV simulation 🔢 63% support using RCV for presidential primaries ✅ 84% say ranking is easy Learn more ⬇️

ICYMI: Hawaii became the first in the nation to reduce the influence of corporations and dark money groups trying to shape the state's elections.

After this Thursday’s show, the Ed Sullivan Theater will go dark, and we’ll lose one of the nation’s funniest and most courageous, truthful, and gentlemanly critics of Trump and his regime. Farewell, and thank you, Stephen. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/farewell-and-thank-you-stephen-colbert

And I promise that this right here is the face of the enemy. It's us against the billionaires leveraging their vast wealth to destroy the social contract. He should be begging for a wealth tax and UBI as the compromise for what his actions are pushing society towards — pitchforks.

A small language change: Public Service Loan *Forgiveness* implies students did something wrong by investing in their education. Public Service Loan *Elimination* asks a better question: why should this debt persist at all? PSLF -> PSLE ☺️ @nateforutah.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov

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

"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

Awww my girl is so handsome 🥰

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

Utah’s shadowy MIDA (Military Installation Development Authority) is backing the 40,000-acre Stratos data center project. But why, if Utahns don’t want it? Journalist @schotthappens.com joins me with the latest, incl. deep insight into the way-too-cozy politics at play. youtu.be/wY9HUJFEEcs?...

BREAKING: A bill has been introduced in the House and the Senate to ban private equity from youth sports. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @deluzio.house.gov have introduced the Let Kids Play Act to bring down the cost of youth sports for American families.

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

A Shark Tank investor just got a three-person county commission to approve one of the largest data centers ever built and the people who actually live there found out about it the same way you did.

When outdated, obsolete dams are removed and rivers run free, communities are healthier, safer, and wildlife returns in remarkable ways. River restoration efforts are gaining momentum with bipartisan support! 👏 Read about 'America Undammed' below: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/c...

Other than discovering that I’m apparently John Oliver’s son, @lastweektonight.com’s deep dive into the shadow docket is really quite good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeq...

Here’s last night’s story about a shortcut to the Supreme Court known as the “shadow docket,” how it’s being abused by the Trump administration, and which Supreme Court justice looks like a preschool teacher who still hits. https://youtu.be/qKeq4CEZtm8

The audience is full of people who will not in any way benefit from AI, and will instead find it harder to find jobs, and the jobs they do find will pay less, or suck in other ways, and they will watch the rich get even richer. It's the system we must fix, and we all need to get to work fixing it.

➡️ @nytopinion.nytimes.com columnist @jamellebouie.net: With Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act gutted, the U.S. could move "away from its current system toward something that could give us fair political representation." Options include proportional representation & ranked choice voting.

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)

This is just the latest development in the endless, back-and-forth gerrymandering wars. A national shift to multi-member districts and proportional representation could stop this race to the bottom – once and for all. ⬇️ fairvote.org/our-reforms/...

See you next time Building Man ☺️

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Virginia just passed a law expanding the Commonwealth’s ranked choice voting local option pilot program and making it permanent. Rachel Hutchinson explains how this allows other VA cities to join Arlington & Charlottesville in improving their elections. @upvoteva.bsky.social @rankedchoiceva.org

Yesterday over I-80 in SLC, we and our good friends at SUWA protested Mike Lee and Celeste Malloy's efforts to remove key protections from Grand Staircase-Escalante. Our volunteers braved rain, sleet, and snow to advocate for GSE's protection! For more, see suwa.com @protectwildutah.bsky.social

Virginia just passed a law expanding the Commonwealth’s ranked choice voting pilot program and making it permanent! This will allow more communities to improve their elections with RCV. @upvoteva.bsky.social @rankedchoiceva.org https://fairvote.org/virginia-passes-law-to-expand-ranked-choice-voting/

A single-day protest on May 1 is taking its cue from the massive day of action that shut down Minneapolis in January by asking Americans not to shop, work or go to school

May 1st is a day of proactive, nonviolent refusal to participate in economic activity. In solidarity with @indivisible.org all our podcasts will be AD FREE on May Day. We encourage all independent media outlets to join us, and you can follow us at @dailybeanspod.com ❌👑💲

May Day is next week and there are many ways you can join the massive day of economic disruption, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...

Last March, millions hit the streets worldwide to say No Kings. Now, with May Day fast approaching, people are looking for what’s next. So on May 1st, don’t work, don’t go to school, and don’t give big corporations a single cent. Join the fight this May Day!

The corruption is just stunning. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

This week’s main story is about prediction markets – platforms where you can bet on basically anything, from the weather to the war in Iran – the legal and moral questions posed by their existence, and why someone needs to take Shayne Coplan sweater shopping. The purple isn’t working, Shayne!

Tax the rich.

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.