For the record.

So much respect for this exceptional leader! Mamdani disputes Reagan claiming the 9 scariest words are “I’m from the government & I’m here to help,” saying: “9 more terrifying words are actually 'I worked all day, and can't feed my family.' Share everywhere! #uspoli substack.com/@rawstory/no...

This remains the consensus among experts--in finance, politics, academia, commentary--about the origins and functions of money. It follows logically that banks simply supply and help to circulate these instruments. It's fiction. Money's state and credit *origins* and *functions* are erased.

“As slave rebellions captured enslavers’ imaginations, they embraced another type of policing — one in which government institutions would play a more important role than the deputized enslaver acting on their own.” www.hnn.us/article/the-...

The "kids" are rocking it. Let's go!

"Wow. Okay." Can we put that on t-shirts, please?

Please consider this reporting from the New York Times in light of the commentary from historians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand

i dip into Emerson's "The American Scholar" essay for a reminder of this reasonably often

Can we stop the Weimar comparisons now?

Tennessee and countless other states have been speaking out against what is basically a Jim Crow session

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

GameStop’s CEO struggles to answer the question of how his company worth $12B can afford to buy eBay for $56B. This is amazing television.

“AI in education is the equivalent of paying for a gym that has machines that lift weights for you. I don’t mean it’s sort of like that, I mean, in educational contexts, it’s the exact same logic.” - @citationspod.bsky.social

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

On this day in 1898, Septima Poinsette Clark was born. She became a tireless advocate for education and civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr., called her the “Mother of the Movement.” Her motto was “literacy means liberation.” #WeTheMen

In the 1850s, the Mississippi River Valley was a global financial hub - think Silicon Valley and Wall Street combined. Natchez, MS was the wealthiest place on the *planet* for white men. Human bodies were financialized and bundled as securities and sold worldwide. A global financial revolution.

I teach this in my IP law class b/c when asked in an interview who owned the patent, Salk replied: "Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" He looked for vaccine solutions his entire life…including a quest for a vaccine to prevent HIV from becoming AIDS.

Great credit is due to the Bard College community of undergraduate anti-rape activists—organizing as “Take Back Bard”—who insisted on Bostein’s resignation even in the face of widespread indifference from the faculty and sneering mockery of their efforts in the New York Times. I admire them.

STRIKE: Ahead of May Day, Popeyes workers in Los Angeles are on strike due to life-threatening workplace violence, extreme heat, cockroaches in the kitchen, wage theft, and broken restroom, to the point we’ve been forced to urinate in a closet drain because it is the only place without cameras. 🧵

Very clear

Captured by @jonoallenphotography: Mãhina, a white humpback calf spotted in Vava’u, Tonga. 1 in 40K humpbacks are born w/ this lack of pigmentation. “Mãhina” means “moon” in Tongan. #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

And check out www.democracy2076.org

Just crazy that the *actual* king of England is explaining the limits on the executive branch under Anglo-American constitutional law — to the U.S. Congress.

The former director of Mossad, Tamir Pardo, went on a tour of the West Bank to examine settler violence. He said it made him "ashamed to be Jewish" and that "it reminded me of the events that happened in the last century against Jews." 13tv.co.il/item/news/po...

Hoo boy.

They should have called it Tulip.

Watch at your own risk. It's as bad as you could imagine.

Hold on to hat.

Data centers are just the newest iteration of an issue that has been generations in the making. More extraction from rural spaces. More pollution and decay. More hollowed-out communities. I have already seen how this story ends. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

See the whole thread—this is a social scientist likely targeted for his expertise on Iran and opposition to the war. There is a petition and a legal defense fund in the thread.

My contempt knows no bounds.

The Vatican's polling numbers in the key demographic of "people who fundamentally reject their ecclesiastical authority" are absolutely tanking right now. Because of woke.

When interviewing Trump and members of his circle, reporters should open with 2 questions: 1: "Why is it important to you to have power and influence?" 2: "Who would you consider to be among your closest friends?"

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed today in a targeted Israeli strike. The IDF fired live rounds and stun grenades at the Red Cross ambulances trying to reach her. She is the 4th journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. Photo via X @HindRFoundation.

Absolutely shambolic

the conservative reaction to the virginia results remind me quite a bit of their reaction to the 2012 presidential election, where they were offended that democrats ran to win

If it can be done in TN, it can be done everywhere. #BanConcentrationCamps! Tennessee becomes the latest MAGAt Party-led state to successfully push back against plans for immigrant holding facilities tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/25/s...

Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov will have his book on Zionism and genocide translated into 9-10 languages, but not Hebrew. He even offered to translate it himself, but not a single Israeli publisher would go near it. Not even the ‘leftwing’ ones. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I wrote about what it means that the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce released a report on campus antisemitism focused on my college, and yet they never bothered to speak to me, the one full-time Jewish Studies professor at that college. forward.com/opinion/8197...

Be sure to follow @pflag.org, friends. This work matters now more than ever.

But it sells subscriptions! Ask an *informed* historian about the relationship between state power and capitalist markets. Markets aren't organisms with discrete identities that are separable from public institutions, law, and decisions about enforcement. Markets don't "clear." Sorry, pure fiction.

Almost 500 attacks in March, alone. The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said that settlers and the Israeli army carried out at least 497 attacks in the West Bank in March, with 292 of them documented in Ramallah and the al-Bireh governorate www.newarab.com/news/israeli...

Travel pics.

So if Trump says the Iran War is over 12 different times does that count as Trump ending 12 wars?

Just got off the phone with the president. He told me a bunch of obvious lies but I’m going to post them anyway because I want everyone to know I just got off the phone with the president.

The Baldwin line about children gets so much mileage on social media that it risks becoming trite but I refuse to give into the cynicism because at the end of the day he’s 100% right

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