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watching the willful and steady destruction of respect and faith in all three branches of government is kind of depressing not going to lie

remember when michelle obama focused on encouraging childhood health and activity and republicans told her to shut the fuck up

Ahh, yes, the unpopular decisions like “black people don’t deserve political representation,” or “rich people should be able to control everything,” or “women shouldn’t be in charge of their bodies.” Truly a man committed to justice.

I DO NOT WANT TO 'CHAT WITH MY FILES'

you fucked up a perfectly good freedom of navigation is what you did look at it, it's got tolls

The actual problem is 1) Democrats have popular policies but the country never hears about them due to right-wing propaganda; 2) Democrats constantly blame themselves and their base for this —a message right-wing media amplifies, making the problem even worse.

can not imagine how americans got that impression john

Rutgers School of Engineering canceled a commencement speech by Rami Elghandour—an alum and executive producer of an Oscar-nominated film about Hind Rajab, a Palestinian child killed by Israel—because "some" students complained: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... His response (via X):

Look I'm no political strategist but it seems to me that when the President's chief financial advisor is going around gleefully talking about how great it is that everyone's spending more on things and that credit card spending is up, that would be useful for opposition political messaging...

I used to have political convictions but then I got scolded by John Roberts. That’s an important part of his job. Now I see that it’s time for me to listen and learn.

hark! a vagrant is really one of the greatest comics ever created, my favorite is still an outraged sasaki kojiro holding up a list of necessary components for a duel that just says - dudes - swords

Jorts don’t step on my sandwich. Jorts stop walking on my neck. Jorts don’t pee in the sink. What happened to freedom

again the original meaning of "meme" as Dawkins conceived it is useful here. people are killing their babies because their minds got "infected" by convincing-sounding bullshit that spreads easily from person to person www.propublica.org/article/more...

I can’t believe we’re still doing this. Knight Rider is actually the driver. The car is “Knight Rider’s Monster.”

We can’t nominate any Democrat who doesn’t put Supreme Court reform at the top of their list.

My grandpa passed yesterday. He said he lived a full live. He was happy with his family, his love, and where the paths he’d chosen led him. But what breaks my heart is he told me he had only one regret: Not seeing another Star Fox 64 remake before he went. Missed it by one day.

the core of MAHA really seems to be “what if everything that is good for you is actually secretly bad for you, and vice versa”

⚠️ Louise Lucus is one of the architects of Virginia's successful redistricting effort, so it’s almost certain this is politically motivated:

many are saying

I completely agree that Democrats should run on ripping out the diseased roots of corruption.

Disenfranchisement of Black voters is happening at a speed and scale unprecedented in my lifetime.

our younger son is six years old and when the pandemic came down - literally, as the NBA shut down and society ground to a halt - he was six weeks old and in the hospital with RSV it remains my scariest time as a parent by a large margin that people voluntarily turn down vaccines is infuriating

oh your eminence! i didn’t know you’d be stopping by today.

i’ll be honest, i am stunned by this. i did not think boats were real. wouldn’t they just sink in the water

Is this the Supreme Court judge whose wife keeps flying fascist flags outside their various houses? Or the one who got a bunch of debt paid off and taken on fancy vacations paid for by billionaires? Or is he just one of the ones who authors & joins opinions that upend the rule of law?

thank you, spider man

When you realize you could have done The Odyssey with a Boston accent

btw

There's nothing reactionary centrists love more than describing someone participating in debate as "shutting down debate." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

solastalgia | noun | sadness or melancholy due to environmental loss

"Maria" is working in the sweet potatoes in Merced county. "The potatoes that were planted in February have started sprouting. This new plant is cut at a precise size so it does not die when it is transplanted. At the end of the day my back & knees ache from the work." #WeFeedYou

conveniently those unpopular decision all seem to directly benefit the electoral fortunes of the Republican Party, as was clearly written into the text of the constitution despite the Republican Party not existing at the time

Free newsletter: Microsoft, Amazon and Google's $2 Trillion in AI investments are almost entirely circular, with OpenAI and Anthropic making up 75%+ of AI revenues and $748bn in revenue backlogs. The majority of AI demand is hyperscalers feeding themselves money. www.wheresyoured.at/am-i-meant-t...

I keep hearing that "The Body Keeps The Score" has helped to destigmatize trauma but it consistently describes rape victims in stigmatizing terms: - "Obese and aggressive" - "Lacking in self-protection" - "Frozen and uptight"

can we go one (1) week without a moderation fiasco on here

Maybe the investigation in Virginia is justified, but at this point, DOJ has lost public confidence that it is capable of operating in a nonpartisan manner. It comes the day after an investigation into a prominent Trump supporter was dropped. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

This is really fucking bad

Oh no did they vaguely inconvenience some of the richest people on Earth? Are the rich people sad? Did it spoil their visit to the latest island with the newest kids? Someone get these people another subsidy; they’re bursting into tears.

it's so important to add context to these gotcha polling questions. they're polling on this because the president did ask a child this question on camera yesterday, immediately after patting the child on the shoulder and confidently asserting that the child would never become a transgender woman.

😭😭😭

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Oh my god they are still whining about trigger warnings

they’re not even trying to hide the fact that they’ll use the FBI to retaliate against enemies of the administration anymore, are they? this kind of show of force? with this timing? hard not to see it as having something to do with GOP anger over the redistricting vote.

I love this picture so much

Other alternate headline. Ticketmaster is charging way too much for concert tickets with their dynamic price gouging and everyone is broke right now.

the level you have to fuck up to get the SAUDIS to tell you to fuck off - especially given MBS’ relationship with the Trump family - is truly extraordinary

A tornado watch, flooding in the building, and the Alabama legislature is pushing through to work on redistricting

I get what he's aiming for rhetorically here, but... one thing folks have not commented on a lot is that Zohran talks about *very complex concepts* all the time. And does not often dumb them down. He might explain them simply, but he talks about college seminar topics regularly. Obama did this, too.

Had to take this picture because the lighting was phenomenal. I’m titling it “The Queen of the Castle”

“rejecting war is one thing, but i draw the line at someone urging for peace”

"Jose" is picking cherries in the Bakersfield California area earning $6 a 20 lb bucket. "On average in an 8-hour day, if I work hard I can harvest 25 buckets. It's tiring work going up and down ladders to harvest the sweet fruit but it feeds my family." #WeFeedYou

Just leaving the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, a new exhibit featuring the printed Epstein files to advocate for the estimated 1200 to 1400 victims of Epstein’s trafficking and abuse. They gave me a pencil and highlighter with the exhibit name stamped on them.

I forgot how good this was. man does it absolutely nail a certain class of low-trust contrarian dipshit youtu.be/gAYL5H46QnQ...

The straightforward effect of adding more administrative burden on stores will be that fewer stores will accept SNAP. These are the equivalent of abortion TRAP laws, like mandating the width of a corridor.

as someone who enjoys talking shit, I too am a big believer in accepting the very easy-to-anticipate possible consequences of talking shit

Oh no, he's only a quarter of the way there

Not picking on this person, but I honestly hate this kind of criticism. It's the same as "and, you're surprised?" No, I'm not fucking surprised. I'm *documenting* the bullshit that's going on, rather than spending all my time cynically congratulating myself for knowing all along what would happen.

😹 they are so hoping trump sees their response

For @ms.now, I wrote about the Trump administration going after Smith College, a New England women's college, over allowing trans women to attend the school. The investigation not only threatens the school, but also the surrounding town, which I live in. www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

This Mother’s Day we celebrate farm worker mothers. These hard working moms toil long hours and set incredible examples for their kids. Your gift can help them fight for justice in the fields every day - including Mother’s Day. act.seiu.org/a/mothersday... #WeFeedYou #MothersDay

New from 404 Media: we've obtained a copy of the Chinese-language realtime deepfake software powering scams around the world. For weeks I spoke to these scammers, sent them photos of my face to build a deepfake. We reveal how it works. Impacts WhatsApp, Teams, Zoom www.404media.co/hello-boss-i...

Department chair meeting with associate professor asking for a raise and a better parking spot

Xavier Becerra just took the max donation from both of the Resnicks, the anti-worker billionaire Big Ag couple who own Wonderful Pistachios & POM Wonderful, and who shut down one of their farms to avoid recognizing a union.

The FBI is famously aggressive in going after people for "unauthorized use" of its seal (they threatened Wikipedia years ago!). Is Kash putting it on bourbon bottles allowed? (Also, freaking hilarious that The Atlantic bought one).

Only lost 2 bot followers. All other followers are real because bots don't need to know about product recalls because they can't be hurt by unsafe products. Checkmate. Not sure on who, but that's checkmate.

Of course, part of the reason she's able to do this is because, as she said, once the first article was published she was deluged with messages from other people who wanted to dish dirt on Mr Patel. I would assume this is the first in an ongoing series.

Call me crazy, but, you know, I sorta liked it better when federal law enforcement was not just a tool of political retaliation.

I just found out I exist not once, but twice, in the Tommy Westphall universe. Twice I have been a vision in an autistic child’s snowglobe. tommywestphall.fandom.com/wiki/List_of...

Accepting the vitamin K shot for my newborn was a no-brainer. There’s literally no potential downside. None.

during the hefat training for journalists i attended, the instructor provided guidance on what to do when a colleague is being targeted or accosted by hostile actors (think: january 6th). he advised something you don’t usually see: for press to stop documenting and to help their colleagues.

"Polling shows that Fetterman’s popularity among Pennsylvania Democrats has swung by an eye-popping 108 percentage points since 2023, from 68 points net favorable to 40 points net unfavorable." prospect.org/2026/05/06/w...

This entire administration and the billionaires supporting it should be properly seen as an attack on democracy with intent to kill it forever

Our Director @evangreer.bsky.social explains what we aim to accomplish with our Massachusetts social media bill. We want your feedback! Read the working draft of our bill here: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

Why does Dersh know the age of consent laws in the UK? Also, seems like a good reason not to sell pierogis to this guy.

That's right - because this is a global, far right power grab using violence and disinformation to leverage the ills of climate change and borders for the direct purpose of resource hoarding

Me am explain circular finance good here so you understand good. Thank you!

in my heart, today was thursday

and Republicans are doing it because they know they're going to get their asses kicked in the midterms. if you can't win, cheat

This man will not eat another pierogi till the end of this days.

no one talks enough about the class clown to serial poster pipeline

RIP to the last, and maybe only, leftist billionaire

at least tomorrow is friday

Even the Pope can't get decent customer service

swapping my day slanket for my night slanket like a modern day mr rogers

Fifty years since the end of the American bombing campaign over southeast Asia and the country of Laos is still littered with unexploded bombs that kill hundreds every year. We heard from locals and NGO's about ongoing efforts to remove the bombs. unicornriot.ninja/2026/the-ame...

Hegseth was already "drinky guy" in my oval office cartoons, now I gotta have "drinky guy two"???

EFF sees through the thin veil of internet censorship bills that claim to "protect the kids." Age-gating the internet is not the answer, and we're fighting back. eff.org/spring

I'm ok with him getting it tbh

an unlimited bibimbap glitch could fix me

Indigenous leaders and water protectors rallied at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district HQ in St. Paul to call for an immediate stop of Enbridge Line 5 construction that threatens the waterways of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. More: unicornriot.ninja/2026/indigen...

they definitely make policy decisions that reflect what they they think things should be. how else do you get to a decision that says "actually gender affirming care bans don't target trans people, they target the diagnosis of gender dysphoria"?

Israel killed the son of a chief negotiator in the talks over Gaza's future in an airstrike. He is the FOURTH son of Hamas' exiled Gaza chief killed by Israel.

Have you ever wondered how a PRINT dictionary is made? Check out our Word Matters Podcast: The Making of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 12th Edition!

oh my god this is spectacular data

NEW: 404 Media’s experimentation with Haotian AI marks the first time a journalist has managed to test this deepfake software to see how it really works. What did we learn? Haotian AI demonstrates its tool as a way to impersonate at least one US police department. And it's extremely effective.

oh did he

the way you handle this if you’re playing against the spurs is: you don’t if he’s hitting this shit you just lose, the end, try again next game and hope he doesn’t hit these