I’m afraid that too many people don’t understand just how terrible the Biden pandemic response was—and how it contributed to Trump’s return. I also fear that given how much this administration has dismantled public health, the appetite for looking back and identifying points of failure is low.

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incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

How many hundreds of thousands of Africans does a man have to kill by yanking foreign aid to get called racist around here?

Open reentrenchment of white supremacy, across the South, at a staggering speed.

The Confederacy rises again.

library BUDGET

Everyone say thank you to @prisonculture.bsky.social who raised the alarm on the proposed cuts as soon as the preliminary budget plans dropped.

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

This is President Trump's envoy to Greenland, the man tasked with convincing them to join America and enjoy its deep commitment to democracy

I know it's been said a million times but honestly, honestly, the US-Israeli war on Iran is genuinely one of the most fucked up things I have seen in international affairs in my life. It is genuinely shocking to me, in a way I think it would be bad to lose sight of, just how bad this has been.

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

"none of us can cancel everything but everyone can cancel something" is the heart of this. Sometimes it feels like folks on here are more interested in yelling at each other over the ways we're all struggling to navigate this system instead of figuring out what parts we can do.

oh God fuckin dammit

Construction crews in Arizona who are building Trump’s expanded border wall have bulldozed a portion of a Native American archeological site in the Sonoran Desert estimated to be at least 1,000 years old. The site holds special significance for the Hia-Ced O’odham people.

I wish people could understand. I once had a client accept a guilty plea - when I had absolute evidence he had not committed the crime - because they were going to make him sit in jail until trial.

And this is exactly why disabled and/or chronically ill people have been saying this was dangerous rhetoric all along—because nobody deserves/deserved to die of COVID, even those with preexisting conditions. Now the worst people on earth are undoing public health gains based on this thinking. Oops.

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

They're really stopping an election that's already under way to erase my people from the map.

This is so true. Every time I hear someone talking about how they can’t possibly do what they do without AI I want to shake them. Do what you did in 2022 or so! It hasn’t been that long!

I've been thinking a lot today about how much I treasure so many of my colleagues and their work in children's lit and so here's a very casual thread of some books I've really loved reading with my kids:

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

Some people said Don't Look Up was too on the nose and yet, well, here we are.

seems fake

After a year of unwavering persistence and unyielding advocacy by his wife and many others, Rodney Taylor has been released from ICE custody. This is a reminder that our voices DO matter. Never stop speaking up and making good trouble.

They cut school lunches and THIS is the bipartisan school funding bill they come up with? Fuck you.

“The sizes we’re talking about . . . they’re out of scale to anything we’ve thought about, ever,” said Matthew Moniot, co-head of credit risk sharing at Man Group. “Banks very quickly start choking.” Will the AI datacenter boom be the biggest financial house of cards yet?

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

So dark

this would fix us

It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.

THAT IS HOW YOU DO IT THANK YOU

God help me but I made a video to talk about two things I hate

i genuinely wish the democratic national committee was as powerful, organized and ruthless as a lot of people seem to think it is

Not participating in this event, but if you're on the fence about posting, give it a shot! I pitched during the last CP match and was able to find an awesome group of writers to form a group with. We're heading into our 6th month working together and still going strong! #ABCPit #CampRevPit

Lets be clear. This is about stealing an election, this time, with SCOTUS on their side. House Speaker says, “you’ve got to keep the grown ups in charge.” GOP doesnt care what the voters want. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A foreign country that gets billions of US tax dollars committed open piracy in the middle of the ocean, abducting Americans trying to bring aid to a desperate population. Instead of going after the kidnappers, the Trump admin is looking to punish anyone supporting the victims.

That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

A win is a win.

New York — Two years after students occupied Hamilton Hall (naming it "Hind's Hall" in ode to the little girl killed by Israeli forces), Columbia students & faculty are demonstrating on campus, honoring Palestinian scholars killed by Israel's genocide. Video: Sunrise Columbia

Jim Crow was in my dad's lifetime. Mass incarceration and the drug war continue in mine. The Interstate highway system and urban renewal destroyed -- and continues to destroy -- billions in heritable black wealth. And that's just the most prominent, state-endorsed, institutionalized stuff.

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

Haha (so fucking angry I can barely see straight 👍)

If you don’t understand by now, here’s the thing: the present Democratic Party doesn’t represent you. They’re deep in the pockets of corporations and billionaires who pay them to maintain the status quo and provide catharsis to you and people like you. Once you see it you’ll never unsee it.

The US government is basically acting like a robber killing hostages

Reporter: and did the event at the WHCA dinner at all cause you to question your previous stance on gun control Mike Johnson [panting]: I... don't... *wheeze* know anything about that