Would love to send this post back in time to ~2015 and see how people would explain the series of events leading up to it.

Scary news from Mali, where the Russian model of counterterrorism has proven no more effective than the French model. The fundamental mistake they both made was to treat Mali as an object to be acted upon rather than a society to be supported in finding its own solutions.

Genuinely incredible that there is a legitimate, government smashing, passing state secrets to foreign pedophiles scandal on the go and people are still holding a torch up under their chins to try to whip up fear about the scary left.

For business leaders, getting into bed with authoritarians “may offer big payoffs in the short run, but it can backfire spectacularly in the long run,” write Christopher Hartwell and Tricia Olsen.

It's hard to recruit new teachers or keep the ones we have when we pay them thousands less than the states around us. The NCGA must pass a budget that includes teachers raises and puts school funding above corporate tax cuts. #ncpol #education #passabudget #teacherpay www.youtube.com/shorts/8lB-4...

it’s just wild that this is legal

This may be uncharitable. But: 1) Jim Comey likely has funds to pay his exceedingly good defense team. 2) This is a shit show that provides cause to pry open all the bullshit in Todd Blanche's head. I was a Comey critic before it was cool. But this is his moment to have fun. Bring it.

Ignoring racism as a motivating force in society allows racists to advance their causes with a freer hand.

IMHO the biggest problem the internet created is people can't admit to being wrong anymore. It's like "I'm standing on business" nah you're an obstinate twit that thinks you know better. That whole "I'm not owned" Dril tweet is probably his most prescient.

On April 22, a group of roughly 40 settlers affiliated with the far right Halutzei HaBashan movement entered Syrian territory and asked the Israeli government to legalize settlement activity there. This was the fifth such incursion by Israeli settlers into Syria since Assad’s fall.

I'm sorry, it's my job, as a private citizen, to force Democrats to have a spine? But not their job, as people who volunteered for this position and literally get paid for it?

Have they looked at Trump’s social media the past few years? I just . . .

It’s fascism. White supremacy and fascism. And eugenics. And So Much corruption. But no national security or public health or environmental protection or constitutional government or a rule of law. Congress can (legally) end this whenever the fuck they want.

Very very good explainer for everyone's questions $2000 would change all of our lives. It's barely a drop for people earning millions every year. It's a no brainer

imagine trying to explain this to someone from 1776

In case people didn’t know: This is the leading scholar behind the very first big legal challenge to Obamacare, and is now among the leading theorists supporting Donald Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship as spelled out in the 14th Amendment. There’s probably a throughline there.

This REALLY worries me, especially as someone who already has trouble finding a pharmacy that has the stock to fill my regular prescriptions

A child. A child. A child. A child.

democrats: we're waiting for our good friends the republicans to wake up and turn on trump republicans: we're indicting james comey for an instagram pic and trying to get disney thrown off air cause jimmy kimmel talked shit about us

Realizing that with the rise of vibe-coding, people who do community or public facing work along w/ collectives or organized groups can expect to be targeted by app developers seeking a userbase they can then go to funders with. People need to be vigilant about data security in these cases.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

You can see this new indictment of James Comey as an outrage, which it is, or rather a patently illegitimate abuse of power. I see it as more evidence of his crashing out & collapse, more direct & absurd lashing out while he's unable or lacks the mental wherewithal to right his own political ship.

Oh, FFS. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/b...

This is remarkable in its "Nope, we're not doing this again" lighthearted dismissiveness. Between this and Hakeem Jeffries's statement that Karoline Leavitt can "get lost," today felt like a pivot to a flat refusal to cede even a single day of the news cycle to Trump's manifest bullshit.

We're so close to yet another Teapot-related oil scandal

The diplomatic spat unfolds as Ukrainian drones hit Russia's Tuapse oil refinery, causing a 'massive' fire https://aje.news/8awxln

From nicotine taxes to tourist fees and new disaster accounts, states are looking for new funding sources.

Ah shit, Gerry Conway died. He created the punisher & was very outspoken in saying "if you're a cop who wears a punisher logo, frank castle fucking HATES you." He said the punisher only existed because of a fatally flawed system, & so those most harmed by that system have more claim to the symbol:

Terrific take on the intellectually bankrupt use of "both sides" by the lazier members of the corporate media.

You are being robbed, America.

do y'all remember when using Wikipedia (an incredibly accurate and well-sourced database of information) was the scholastic equivalent of a war crime? now we've got education officials encouraging the plagiarism machine with no regard to how its impacting learning

Kenyans have lost the right to abortion and you’ll never guess who was behind it? White American men from fundamentalist organisations like the ADF. Also working on anti-LGBTQ legislation as the two go hand in hand healthpolicy-watch.news/womens-group....

Somehow Americans spend incredible amounts of time calling themselves leaders of the free world while also being oblivious to the concept of a world, it is a fascinating pathology

DONT PANIC EVERYONE The world may be running out of diesel and jet fuel and sulphur and urea and fertiliser and grain… but BP has had an “exceptional” quarter. Phew. So all this - the death, misery, price gouging and privation - is worth it www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

In a bombshell report, veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez revealed that Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch was likely constructed by Bradbury Stamm, a major U.S. government-linked contractor that “does not build individual homes." 👉️ bit.ly/48X5dBW

"Don't fixate..." set alongside "It's becoming harder to gloss over..." Listening to this alongside the readings from Morning Prayer... "What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?" 🙏

The Cheaper Home Batteries Program has now delivered over 10 gigawatt hours of capacity. That's a lot.  More than 360,000 households have installed this capacity, cutting their power bills and helping drive down energy prices for everyone.

I'm shocked, stunned, astonished etc.

Honestly if nothing else I do kinda think a genuine silver lining in all this would be if everyone just stopped lying about their obvious desires lol

When you tweet and don't research first.

It always amuses me to see Americans on here muttering about how bad British TERFery is (and it *is* ghastly!) as if it’s some sort of naturally occurring poison sprung from British soil, without acknowledging that it is mostly bankrolled by US Christofascists.

Northwestern University killed this woman. btw.

The owner of a local NJ diner I frequent lamented yesterday that his wholesaler raised the price of produce by $50 to $90 a crate (plus a flat fuel surcharge fee for each delivery). He said a big bump in prices is coming soon. I'm getting real tired of "winning". abcnews.com/GMA/Food/fre...

Same. Electric bill through the fucking roof this year. While Trump cancels renewable energy projects.

A huge scam: Trump’s DOJ is now using taxpayers as a piggybank to pay off his followers. 

They have spent $8.5 million and counting of your money to pay off frivolous claims, enriching his friends while corrupting our justice system.

It's time to build the ballroom It's time to hide the files It's time to cover the crimes of all the pedophiles

One earnest and sincere question I have for folks who position the restoration of "the social contract" as the way out of this: How can you restore a social contract among people who no longer experience a shared reality? This is not snark. I'm asking.

If Disney/ABC is foolish enough to cave like Paramount/CBS did, I will laugh and laugh. If we're accepting a new world where the American media landscape is divided with bigots and billionaires on one side and 75% of the American populace on the other, I know which side I'm choosing.

Family annihilator empire