86 47 8+6+4+7= 25th Amendment

Will the speed with which Republican leaders in the South queued up to demolish Black-majority congressional districts after the SupCt’s Callais ruling this week finally be enough evidence to show well-intended people who say white supremacists are a dying breed how very wrong they are?

Massachusetts residents! Please call or email your reps and ask them to SUPPORT the freedom to read bill H.3495. Especially if you aren't in Camberville (but even if you are)! 📖📚 Here's an easy tool to help you contact your rep:

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

From last night: Minnesota Still Cleaning Up after Pam Bondi's Trophy Stunt emptywheel.net/2026/04/18/m...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

Something I’ve been struggling with for the last six years is reality conflicting with my well-intentioned belief that most people want to do good. I think I’m close to reconciling it with a new idea that says most people want themselves to do well, and hope the community doing well is a byproduct.

Lebanon is not the spoiler. Lebanon is under attack.

Inspiring words from Donald Trump.

To those still in government, let this serve as a reminder that this administration will have zero loyalty to you, regardless of how many principles you compromise. If the outcome is predetermined anyway, you may as well just uphold your oath of office and be a real public servant.

Some folks may remember back in 2023 when climatologists practically gasped to learn that ocean surface temperatures had taken a big leap. A couple of days ago, that measurement was the highest ever recorded for this date.

Having been denied entry to the Church by Israeli police, Cardinal Pizzaballa held a service in the open to bless the entire city of Jerusalem:

Look what just came in the mail! Unlike the half-assed "scholarship" that partisan law profs have been rushing out in an effort to undermine birthright citizenship, this book by @unlawfulentries.bsky.social was sixteen years in the making. And it shows. Get your copy. You're going to need it.

From USAID cuts, to food stamp cuts, to health subsidy cuts, to ICE terror, to expanded polluting fossil fuel development, to illegal military actions, and the below-noted chaos, Trump 2.0 is a killer regime. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Iykyk #Chicago

🧵30 Years Ago Today I Was Almost Murdered What a long, strange trip it's been On March 19, 1996, I died. Well, at least, I thought I did. This is a story of life, death, and the girl who lived open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

Essential read: a statement from Cardinal Cupich. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Thread from someone who knowssssssssss:

If you learned something from this thread and wanted to help, I would appreciate if you helped a family in #Gaza.

Someone needs a picture of this orchid.

JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.

in which i discuss the reuben, a glorious sandwich and the pride of omaha and the patriarch reuben, disowned by his father for being a slut buttondown.com/theswordandt...

hey want to help people harmed by people like Epstein and Maxwell and Trump and Clinton and Wexner and Chomsky and Gates and Musk and Prince Andrew and Summers and Tisch and Brin and Chopra and and and and all the other perpetrators and complicit motherfuckers this is a good place

just a reminder that I wrote up some readings you might like to help you think about "hope" as a concept - one distinct from optimism. it's an attitude more than an emotion. www.patreon.com/posts/hope-1...

Epstein survivors are sharing the most important ad you’ll see today. Please watch. Trump and his administration are trying to cover up this scandal, but we are not moving on from it.

Re-upping because a bunch of stories broke at the same time, and this one shouldn't get lost in the shuffle. Thread:

BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings It's a 2-1 ruling Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump) Minority: Douglas (Obama) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

it's done, it's up. I decided to go with the silhouette for the shirt design because I think it reads faster. All proceeds benefit MIRAC (Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee) www.bonfire.com/exodus-23-9/

ps if u want a sense of why people seem so zealously to believe themselves to be pure, just, & right while carrying out acts of unimaginable cruelty, do i have a book for you bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

"This goes beyond abolishing ICE.. we must fundamentally overhaul D.H.S... if we are to have just and lasting peace in this country." "The war on terror has become a war against ourselves. That must come to an end. Enough with the military gear and mass surveillance." #NHPolitics

Please, everyone, don't forget about Georgia Fort's arrest. bsky.app/profile/thel...

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

Black Hart of St. Paul on University Ave

💥Nothing has changed. "A person was shot in an incident involving U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona on Tuesday, according to a Pima County Sheriff spokeswoman." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

@durbin.senate.gov abolish DHS. There is no reforming it. You have been a senator for longer than DHS existed. You were there when it began and you can end it. Now.

Call Schumer's office today at (202) 224-6542. Then get on the phone to Jeffries at (202) 225-5936. 7/

Like it or not (I don't), they're supposed to work for all of us. Call them and tell them to abolish ICE. 👇

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Does everyone have a warm bed? Does everyone have enough to eat? Does everyone have a place to be safe? Whose getting snatched in the night? - Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"

Consider: What can you offer as resistance? Be creative! Then offer it. This is a great example.

It’s time to defund ICE.

I spent the morning at the San Antonio immigration court. It’s out of control. Crawling with ICE - arresting legal immigrants showing up for court appearances. I asked one officer who they are prioritizing. His answer: everyone. I need to share with you what I saw.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...