Democracy Dies in Unilateral Disarmament
This stuff can end anytime by the GOP actually committing to democracy & institutional reform. What we can't have is the world in which only the GOP gets to do this stuff. Same with voter registration & ID:
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According to The Boston Globe: “It is not clear whether any medical staff or mental health staff arrived alongside police, or whether they were called by police while waiting for the suspect to emerge from the residence.”
there's currently a graduate student who's been detained by the federal government for two years for his political speech. you won't guess what his ideological affiliation is
"When I started writing about the climate crisis in the 1980s I was in my twenties, and I didn’t fully comprehend that there could be a force on this planet so steeped in greed & power that it would sacrifice the earth & its inhabitants for its own narrow interests. But there is, and it’s Big Oil."
Horrified by the news out of Louisiana today. Eight children killed in a senseless act of violence. My heart is with all of the victims and their families. Once again we’re forced to confront the question: how do we continue to let this happen? (1/2)
If you dig deep enough into the corruption of our democracy, down there at the bottom of the hole you find...a lot of oil
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You might as well just auction off the degree if you're offering a program like this in the age of AI wapo.st/41Kjr5j
the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism
these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.
I'm reminded of something Matt Sitman said long ago on the Know Your Enemy podcast...on the US right, nothing ever is just what it is. The layers of absurd fabulism are not a bug, but a feature of US conservative political culture, and it's long been that way. www.wired.com/story/maga-i...
"Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail"
"About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation"
“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”
“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least 3x… a pattern.”
The most corrupt regime ever.
It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
"Magyar has already turned off the money spigot for things like CPAC and the Matthias Corvinus Collegium. And he is sure to do more in the coming days." www.liberalcurrents.com/two-lessons-...
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
People hold signs that say “YES I AM READY TO STRIKE” at a 32BJ union event.
Mayor Mamdani speaks at a 32BJ union event.
Someone holds a sign that says “WE MAKE NYC HOME” at a 32BJ union event.
Mayor Mamdani chats with the 32BJ President Manny Pastreich.
34,000 doormen, porters, & building workers sustain 3,500 buildings across this city. The gap between the people who serve and the people they serve has gone on long enough.
I'll be proudly standing with 32BJ on the picket line. The people who power New York deserve better wages & safer conditions.
A toddler nearly died at an ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas. After more than a week in intensive care, she was sent back. Sarah Stillman reports. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code. n.pr/4mpWUEd
The SCOTUS case that cemented the fall of reconstruction, Cruikshank v. US, which emerged from the 1873 massacre, doesn’t come til 1876. But the Slaughter-House Case decision which basically started the legal system’s resistance to reconstruction is serendipitously handed down the next morning.
If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.
I recommend Charles Lane’s The Day Freedom Died for a view of how much American history pivots around the Colfax Massacre.
I remember when Menswear Guy got shit from people because he was descended from South Vietnamese refugees, which revealed some fascinatingly vile things people thought about South Vietnam, South Vietnamese people, and refugees generally.
President Donald Trump followed a bizarre rant against Pope Leo XIV with an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus Christ.
Vance has never “opposed” the war an Iran! He has publicly supported it from the beginning and every step along the way.
The idea that he privately opposed it and that should be considered his official position is absolute garbage.
There's a combination of stupidity and noxiousness in Trump's latest post that's just staggering.
I'm looking forward to seeing which conservative Catholic public intellectuals condemn this.
