Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
Texas is losing $3.2 BILLION in tax revenue over the next two years to the tax incentives it's handing out to data centers, and this is probably an underestimate. Meanwhile, the state is struggling to fund things like education and disaster response.
I’ve read 3 on the Horror list so far!
#KingSorrow @joe-hill.bsky.social
#NeverFlinch @stephenking.bsky.social
#TheStaircaseInTheWoods @chuckwendig.bsky.social
All excellent reads! I’ll use this list to find a few more. 😄
#Booksky
Prairieland Thread 🧵
Conservatives are currently pursuing a national strategy to ban grace periods for ballots sent through the mail. The U.S. Supreme Court will issue a ruling that could eliminate grace periods across the country.
It’s time to pull out your sunglasses and slather on some sunscreen: Temperatures across Maryland will soar through the middle of this week, just as pollen counts skyrocket. buff.ly/TbXNhPD
Missed the last episode of Stories From The States?
Click the link below for a look at when ICE enforcement collides with the First Amendment.
@rcfp.org @tennesseelookout.com @anitawadhwani.bsky.social
Occasionally the children in my class will all begin talking about one particular grave that has been whispering to them. When they write essays mentioning things such as: 'what the dead man told me', it seems amiss to not pay that particular grave a visit. – Joanna Vickers #VOH
Article header image showing a ranch-style gate opening onto a broad mountain valley at sunrise. A bleached longhorn skull is mounted above the wooden crossbeam, silhouetted against the bright sun and golden clouds. Rolling hills and distant blue-gray mountains stretch across the background, with dark trees in the foreground. Overlaid text reads: “Fortress Yellowstone,” with the subheadline, “The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world,” by Joseph Bullington, published April 6, 2026.
“What’s happening now in this part of the world is wealthy people are trying to buy up large swaths of land and turn them into exclusive resorts."
Joseph Bullington reports from Yellowstone.
inthesetimes.com/article/yell...
“The anti-trans advocacy group, Do No Harm, has broadened its horizons from focusing on trans people to attacking any organization they claim is biased against white people. Since March, the group has filed several lawsuits against institutions over policies and programs they deemed discriminatory.”
For weeks, I spoke to Chicago-area immigrants held in a Michigan detention center months after they were arrested without warrants ––– or ordered deported.
Inside the center, the conditions are hard to bear, they said.
blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/10/i...
Praying mantis / rice-pounding grasshopper pointing at something (that may or may not be a mob of Mexicans)
The Thai word for a praying mantis, ตั๊กแตนตำข้าว, means "rice-pounding grasshopper." And the Navajo word, naakaii náásééł, means "Mexicans are coming as a mob." This may come from an old belief that if you ask a praying mantis where the Mexicans are coming from, it will point in the correct direction.
A painting of a bird beside the text "i can't be the only one who sees this shit"
We live in an age of miracles
"A Cancer Treatment That Does More Than Scientists Thought"
by @katherinejwu.com
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
What did you do to cookie monster?!!!
SNAP work requirements don’t boost jobs, but drop participation, research finds | via Kevin Hardy #ksleg
It's BS you need to love yourself first.
Even if you hate yourself now, love them fully and fearlessly🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
I want a world where someday you'll love yourself
and live proud, just as you are
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
There are so many "faces backlash" stories.
But what really did the person face? Being asked to do better? Being told "hey, marginalized people take issue with your actions."
Or "you use your money and status to do shitty things so I don't want to give you money/platform now."
🤨 Hundreds of Chinese workers marched in Russia’s Komsomolsk-on-Amur over unpaid wages.
The protest followed disputes at a construction site near a Rosneft refinery.
🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
Gee. Wonder why they wouldn't trust the US? //Sarcasm
All US delegation members ‘have left Pakistan’ None of the US delegation stayed behind in Pakistan following talks with Iran, a US official says, leaving nobody in the Pakistani capital Islamabad to pursue back-channel discussions. Top US officials including Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, as well as the rest of the technical team, departed Islamabad alongside Vice President Vance, the official said during a refuelling stop in Germany’s Ramstein Air Base for Air Force 2, carrying US Vice President JD Vance back from the talks. Speculation had risen that one or both of Trump’s envoys might stay behind to pursue further discussions, after the marathon talks failed to produce any substantive progress over the conflict with Iran.
Officially no more talks whatsoever, as the US has left no one from its delegation in Pakistan to continue to pursue back channel engagement.
Should be a very eventful week ahead...
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
Every time there is infighting and right wing backlash to Trump they keep pivoting to this to reunite the base.
Yes, we need to push back against this stuff. But also take note of what else is happening whenever they push this.
Shout out to the everyday folks adding antifa to their bios ☺️
Biometrics hate dishwashers.
MAKE ART DO SPELLS FUCK THE SYSTEM [COLLAGE OF WOMAN SMOKING IN FRONT OF A RED MOON WITH MOTHS AROUND HER
Today's plan
A screenshot of a politics article headline reading, "Fox News posts more articles on trans people than any media outlet in the country. Even queer ones." The subheadline says, "The findings bolster what Democrats have long argued, that it's actually Republicans who are obsessed with trans people." The article is by Molly Sprayregen, dated February 10, 2026.
Fox produced more articles about trans people than any other outlet in the country. More than The Advocate, more than NBC, more than the Post. And that's just one outlet. Kant found right-wing publications collectively dwarf mainstream and even LGBTQ+ media on trans coverage by enormous margins.
oh no this is still bad imo. we did this in australia *years* ago: the outcome was, it's up to the observer to decide who "looks like they're under 16" which ofc, because the world is run by child molestors so it's not actually designed to protect kids in any way against child porn...
yeah this is bascially just carte blanche to arrest all trans women who haven't finished chemically transitioning. after they've made HRT harder to get. especially for young girls who were on blokcers before. it's really bad. it's really, really, really, really bad.
