(alongside images of the US, megaphones, Liam Conejo Ramos’ bunny hat, and signs that read “NO ICE WAREHOUSE,” “SHUTDOWN DETENTION CENTERS,” and “NOT HERE/NOT ANYWHERE”) NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION STOP ICE WAREHOUSE DETENTION APRIL 25, 2026

The regime is purchasing and converting warehouses to serve as concentration camps for the people ICE and Border Patrol disappear off the street — but local communities are fighting back. Join us at @detentionwatchnetwork.org's national day of action on Saturday: www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...

Harvard Geneticist Proposes Neanderthals as Descended from Humans Humans and Neanderthals are so similar that Neanderthals provide no evidence we are closely related to some type of primitive non-human.

Harvard Geneticist Proposes Neanderthals Are Descended from Humans: Whatever our exact relationship may be, Neanderthals don’t show that humans are related to a primitive, non-human form. scienceandculture.com/2026/04/harv... #genomics #anthropology #archaeology #science #SciChat

What would you rather eat—dog shit or cat shit? Other choice, maybe?

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

Autism is when your Google search history is just different variations of "why do people...?"

Beyond the obvious differences, there’s this: Putin just *does things* (like helping Iran kill Americans), while never criticizing Trump, but the Pope is *saying* truthful critical things about Trump’s evil actions, which is intolerable and not ignorable.

We’re getting ready for a massive day of economic disruption on May Day. There are many ways you can take action, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...

Dumb (probably ignorant) way for nbc news to frame this. By comparing media members to Pharisees, Hegseth is comparing Trump to Jesus, whose disciples were also a “Jewish biblical group.”

It was a loooong night - but ultimately we were able to show some real strength by preventing a clean FISA reauthorization that fails to protect Americans’ privacy. They were only able to get a very short extension that runs until the end of April.

We still have a chance to get this right.

The Rookie is kind of a Texas film and pretty good.

I went to contribute, but it wouldn’t take the $ unless I gave employment info. Haven’t encountered that before. I’ll find another way.

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.

Taxing billionaires is not radical.

What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

Demand Representatives to Say No to AI Warrantless Mass Surveillance | Indivisible War on Terror-era legislation that authorized decades of civil liberties-eroding mass surveillance expires on April 19. Let your Representatives know you expect them to reject reauthorization without ...

TODAY: The House is expected to vote on reauthorizing a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens.

Tell your representative to vote NO and stop the regime from gobbling up mass surveillance data to punish Trump’s enemies and round up immigrants. 👇

Congressional Black Caucus to Support Spying Powers Used on BLM Activists - The American Prospect The Congressional Black Caucus will support the clean reauthorization of FISA Section 702, a warrantless surveillance authority that has been used to spy on African Americans.

It looks like some Democrats are preparing to help the GOP reauthorize a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens.

Zero Democrats should vote to allow the regime to gobble up mass surveillance data to punish Trump’s enemies and round up immigrants.

I see how this *should* be more democratic, but I'm not comfortable with it. Constitutional amendment would be hard to get, but getting around Constitution kind of rubs me the wrong way. So much unconstitutional stuff going on, with 1st & 4th amendment rights being trashed. Impeach & remove Trump!

First tanker makes it out of Hormuz amid US blockade and it's a Chinese ship The Rich Starry, a vessel owned by Shanghai Xuanrun Shipping, is subject to U.S. sanctions over its role in Iran's oil trade.

Trump’s blockade is getting an immediate test. A Chinese tanker has cleared the Strait of Hormuz. Will the US seize it? If the US does, is that an act of war? If it doesn’t, does the blockade collapse? This is a scary moment.

www.newsweek.com/first-chines...

Coercing Iran: Why Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Has a Short Fuse | Council on Foreign Relations The Trump administration’s calculation seems to be that the rest of the world is already feeling the economic pain from the Iran war—now it’s Iran’s turn.

While enforcing an undeclared blockade on Cuba, the U.S. allowed a Russian tanker to reach the island, apparently because Trump did not want a confrontation with Russia. Is he now prepared to risk a confrontation with Beijing if the U.S. Navy stops tankers ferrying oil to China? on.cfr.org/4sCcnm1

We have friends who were in Hampshire’s first class. They are good advertisements for it and will be sad about this.

Not a shocker. Maybe we’ll get WWIII out of this Iran business yet.

This is slandering Rowling. I’d be interested in hearing which points Kristol and Rowling disagree on that makes one a fascist and not the other.

Great news! And he had to concede. Mass demonstrations got the message across that he had to accept the vote. Let's get that message across in the US!

Stockman! Hadn’t thought of him in years.

NASA -- Artemis II crew

Iconic Photo

If this monstrosity ever became reality, it would have Trump’s name on it, literally. But it won’t.

I think it’s gonna be interesting.

Stunning reporting here that shows U.S. troops were left exposed in a known target zone with virtually no drone defenses. Now the soldiers themselves are calling out the Pentagon’s version of events as false.

Hegseth and Trump keep lying to the American people about this war.

4/9/1939: Contralto Marian Anderson performed at Lincoln Memorial. Daughters of the American Revolution barred her from performing at Washington DC’s Constitution Hall because Anderson was Black; First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt invited her to sing at the Lincoln Memorial.

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Cover of Viridine Literary Issue 06, Spring 2026, Magic. Pale blue background, Cover art "Dictionary definition" by Julia Biggs - a matchbox with loose matchsticks over a page of text, with certain words drawn around with rectangles and linked together

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