For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.
In my class on “The Spirit, the Church, and Hope” I walked the students through principles of mutual aid and asked them where they thought the church could contribute. Similar answers. We used Stephanie Rost’s work “Collapsed Social Work” as a starting place.
Americans should prepare to hide these people in attics and basements, like Jews in World War II. We owe it to them.
This is glaringly obvious to everyone except for the faces of corporate media, who desperately want to walk a red carpet
BREAKING: We’re suing to stop the DOJ from abusing voters’ sensitive personal information.
This scheme to stockpile Americans’ private voter data threatens our privacy and opens the door to wrongful purges.
BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
X suspended Gil Duran, author of this forthcoming book for calling Palantir and the recent manifesto it published, fascist
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
“a pretty powerful rejoinder to those who have insisted that the Court’s internal debates in these [shadow docket] cases are rigorous and deeply substantive.”
"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."
"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...
www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
Again: the gun you keep in the home for “protection” increases your risk of homicide by 3-fold, of suicide by 5-fold, and for men, risk of suicide more than 10-fold
The second you bring a gun into the home you’ve dramatically increased the risk of death for your family 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Sotomayor apologizing for politely speaking the truth about the right on the same day Thomas insults half the country is such a perfect commentary on the asymmetry in politics.
Cowering liberals think this is a manners contest while conservatives are waging an ideological war.
“People in the United States are more responsive to horror when it brushes up against us in some way. We are not unique in this regard, but we have too often had the luxury of exempting ourselves from reckoning with the damage caused by the US government and US corporations abroad. That pattern has created a social weakness fascists can exploit: yanking us around by our fears when it suits them, and battering us into moral resignation in the face of other people’s suffering.” — Kelly Hayes
"When I don’t know what to do, I often check in with myself about what I do know. I know that simply reenacting normalcy while the president threatens to wipe out civilizations is wrecking us." organizingmythoughts.org/this-is-no-w...
SAVE THE DATE MAY DAY 2026 A nationwide day of collective action Friday, May 1, 2026 WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES MAYDAYSTRONG.ORG
May Day will be a nationwide day of economic disruption, as we flex our collective power to demand an end to the oligarch-enabled Trump regime. The central action will be to engage in little-to-no economic activity on May 1 — that means no work, no school, and no shopping: maydaystrong.org
Image from The Simpsons of Lenny saying “It’s bringing love! Don’t let it get away! Break its legs!”
American Christians when they talk about the Pope
The administration "is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized database containing intimate details about every resident of this country."
We're suing for docs behind the database.
FPF's @laurenleharper.bsky.social has more in @theintercept.com:
Easy to break. Hard to fix.
A still frame of The Simpsons character Sideshow Bob doing a shrug gesture while looking down and to the right
Science cannot live by LLM alone, part 12,386.
Chatbots cited obviously fake papers about a fake eye disease that credited Starfleet Academy, the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation, and the University of Fellowship of the Ring.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The plan to demonize creativity, the arts and entrepreneurship while simultaneously shoving AI products down our throats that seemingly make 99% of things worse isn't going to work. We need the robots do the laundry while the people make stuff robots can't dream of. That's a good future.
A screenshot of an In These Times article titled “The New Antifascist Consensus,” with the subhead, “How organizers and everyday residents—now activists—are stopping ICE around the country,” by Shane Burley, dated March 23, 2026. Below the headline is a dense collage-style illustration combining black-and-white photos of protesters, memorial posters and police with bright hand-drawn shapes in orange, yellow, blue and green. Signs in the image read “Immigrants Make America Great!!,” “Abolish ICE,” “Justice for Liam Ramos,” and “We Keep Us Safe,” while large memorial posters in the background say “Murdered by ICE.”
People are stopping “King Trump's Private Army” ICE, across the United States, with rapid response, community defense, solidarity and care.
@shaneburley.bsky.social reports.
inthesetimes.com/article/the-...
Democrats rejected a resolution condemning AIPAC money in primaries at a meeting yesterday, also tabling resolutions on Palestine and war crimes as public support for Israel plummets. “The Democratic Party seems asleep at the wheel and is not responding to this [...] public opinion shift on Israel.”
Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have been methodically disassembling the ability of the Pentagon to say no to orders that are illegal or immoral. trib.al/TG8tBbo
Novels are just comics as made by people too lazy to draw the pictures.
Dammit.
#SpeirGorm
California bill aims to end spraying of crops with toxic "forever chemicals" [via @insideclimatenews.org]
Off-duty cop Mullen “said that more protesters in support of him were on the way, some armed with rifles, going on to say his goal was to ‘get all these kids in jail if they want to break the law.’"
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“Mullen ranked in the top ten for the city government's highest earners, making $336,518.”
