Let's be clear: The Trump Admin's vendetta against the SPLC is a sign of how impactful their work is.
The SPLC has been at the forefront of exposing some of America's most notorious hate groups, like the KKK. The fact that the Trump Admin feels threatened by that speaks volumes.
So now there's about a dozen films that you can't legally watch because a drug company decided that the money they would make from selling or licensing them is too small for them to bother.
Anyway, sure, Apple should buy Disney. Whatever.
Fun Trivia: the original 70s STEPFORD WIVES film is unavailable in any current format because in the 70s a lot of companies with too much money diversified by buying film companies. Most soon realized what a bad idea that was, but Bristol Myers held onto the rights for some reason.
60 SCHOOLS
The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.
“we are deliberately killing the immunocompromised, disabled, and chronically ill”
Folks, Bernie has been fully captured by the TESCREAL bundle.
Sir, as a labor advocate perhaps you can instead talk about the data workers that make it look like there is something "super intelligent" and "smarter than humans"?
We are so open, in fact, to viewpoint diversity & campus speech & mirror-gazing that we are again, tomorrow, hosting our worst lying authoritarian critics on campus to lie more about all that we do wrong & paying them handsomely to do so. No other societal institutions do this on a regular basis.
Well would ya look at that...turns out we can't depend on the billionaires' vanity side projects to sustain innovation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/s...
🎯
You may choose to throw up your arms and say "Well, genocide everywhere! We're all dirty! Might as well just accept it!"
We choose not to.
And you can call it whatever you want to try and dissuade us, but the fact is you can't shame someone for a decidedly moral stance. It doesn't work.
Not really, & it's only you liberals who are obsessed with "purity" as an unattainable goal. Genocide is happening all over the world with US support, so we just throw up our hands & choose to do nothing? No, we commit to countering it as we can.
"I got smacked as a kid and it didn't do me any harm!"
Yes, it did, my friend - you think it's okay to physically assault tiny people who are weaker than you with no power and actually look to you for protection. You are, in fact, really quite harmed.
Find another way to feel like you're worth something. We don't owe it to you to stay oppressed.
The system that propped them up was built on oppression, genocide, rape, imperialism and everything else horrible. Because of that they're not entitled to continue having it. This is what they get.
I'm so tired of this "false sense of victimization" these weak men feel.
"Oh no, women don't worship. Women don't want me. Women are too independent. Women should be sex toys. Women shouldn't have rights."
Like fuck that. Only weak men are screaming victimization.
National Library Workers Day: Libraries Work Because We Do. April 21, 2026. ALA-APA logo
It's National Library Workers Day, our favorite day of #NationalLibraryWeek where we celebrate the hardworking, dedicated professionals who power possibility in our neighborhoods, our schools, and our places of higher learning.
Thank you, library workers - libraries work because YOU do! #NLWD26
Oh wow, this is huge. You used to have to go to the Library of Congress to get most of this.
Correct, and the companies are pocketing $166 billion in tariff refunds after raising prices and ripping us off.
this is in no sense how it should have happened. but it is precisely because we find ourselves in a situation that requires war, death, and destruction to get well positioned political actors behind accelerating energy transition that we should demolish fossil capital as decisively as we can
As the editor of a book on this list, allow me to say again that book banning is a catastrophe for freedom of speech in America. There is no silver lining. It's all harm.
You can fight back by calling your reps to demand they vote against HR 7661, which is effectively a national book banning bill.
The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.
Yeah a big reason why I’m on Bluesky and not Twitter is my account got suspended for like a good month on Twitter after arguing that Black people don’t carry a genocidal hatred of white people.
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature.
Eight children were murdered in the shooting.
futurism.com/future-socie...
“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.”
That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
Siri, please define “piracy”
U.S. Navy destroyer repeatedly warned an Iranian-flagged cargo ship to stop over a six-hour period on Sunday before firing on the ship's engine room, disabling the Iran-bound vessel to allow helicopter-borne Marines to board and seize it, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. When the crew of the Touska, the Iranian ship, ignored the American warnings, a destroyer fired its MK 45 gun into the cargo ship's engine room, Central Command said. On Sunday, Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit were conducting a search of the vessel, which is now in American custody. 1 hour ago
One of the most blatant examples of sane-washing I've ever seen from the NYT.
This was an unarmed cargo vessel in international waters, crewed by noncombatants!
