The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga or Robin Hobbs Farseer Trilogy. Get me writing some high fantasy y'all!
You watch Jon Ossoff speak like this about the actual stakes & then you watch Andy Beshear speak about Funny Words, & the abject poverty of the latter approach to Democratic politics in 2026 is so stark that you don't know whether to laugh or cry about the latter.
Yet another ICE inmate death is ruled a homicide by medical examiners.
Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.
Once again, the right is openly admitting that the entire focus on trans youth is to ultimately ban all gender affirming care for adults.
All the credulous reporters and institutions that helped launder this right wing project are responsible.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"Democrats need to break from this path and acknowledge that billionaires—especially those in the increasingly antidemocratic tech sector—are never going to side with them over the GOP." From @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2087...
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the fact that legislators are trying to say that computers are devices that require id verification and tracking to use should put fear into EVERYONE. FIGHT AGAINST THIS.
People who suddenly feel like their transphobic “jokes” and “fairness in sports” takes are a bad look while the government forcibly detransitions people don’t get to say “oh that’s not what I meant!” You did mean it! People told you what it meant and you did it anyways!
If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:
Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M
That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.
It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.
The average federal income tax for an individual is 14.5%.
But in 2025, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, paid just an 8% tax rate.
Meta paid just 3.75%.
Amazon paid just 1.37%.
Palantir and Tesla paid nothing.
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Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
Critically endangered crafts Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge. Arrowsmithing Basketwork furniture making Bell founding Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED Bow making (musical) Bowed-felt hat making Chain making Clay pipe making Clog making Coiled straw basket making Coppersmithing (objects) Copper wheel engraving Currach making Cut crystal glass making NEW Devon stave basket making Diamond cutting Encaustic tile making Engine turned engraving Fabric pleating Fair Isle chair making Fan making Figurehead carving NEW Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW Flute making (concert) Fore-edge painting Frame knitting Glass eye making Glove making MORE ENDANGERED Hat block making Hat plaiting Horse collar making Horsehair weaving Linen beetling NEW Linen damask weaving Maille making Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW Metal thread making Millwrighting Northern Isles basket making Orrery making Paper making (trade and manufacturing) Parchment and vellum making Piano making Pietra dura NEW Plane making Plume making Pointe shoe making Pottery (trade and manufacturing) Quilting (frame NEW | Rake making MORE ENDANGERED Rattan furniture making NEW Saw making Scientific and optical instrument making Scissor making Sieve and riddle making Silk ribbon weaving Silver spinning Spade making Spinning wheel making Straw hat making Sussex trug making Swill basket making Tanning (oak bark) Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW Thatching (Scottish vernacular) Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW + Tinsmithing Wainwrighting Watch face enamelling Watch making Whip making Wooden fishing net making 84.7
new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:
I spent two weeks looking into accusations that Hasan Piker is antisemitic. What I found was damning: prominent organizations and leaders have spread total falsehoods about him.
Whether he's antisemitic is for you to decide. But everyone should care when the ADL & politicians spread disinformation.
This is a favorite strawman of the Religious Right, asserting that the exact phrase "separation of church and state" isn't in the Constitution.
They ignore that there are only three references to religion in the entire Constitution, all three of which work to separate church and state.
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
[Via @itep.org]
Honestly, it should frighten the fuck out of every freedom-loving person that the entire institutional apparatus of a country - media, government, science - can be so easily turned against a tiny minority of innocent people. Because they can do it just as easily to you.
you're putting your journalism behind a paywall, handing 20% of your revenue to Substack, and requiring people to hand some of their hardearned money (which they're paying to you as a subscription fee) to nazis and sex traffickers in order to read what you have to say.
that is profoundly fucked up.
cc: @nytimes.com
While everyone is glazing the pope, perspective is crucial.
And a reminder: if you've got some extra coin to spare, toss some in the plate of trans journalists telling trans stories from trans perspectives, because the transphobic corporate media damn sure ain't going to do it.
She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023
MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie... MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.
MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.
Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started.
Just. Tax. Them.
And it's a bit concerning that he is a major investor in Substack.
Marc Andreesen is shaping media into his vision and some of y'all are just letting him. You are letting SS use your left leaning journalism to launder right wing extremism. It's making me nuts.
A new independent audit says that Google, Meta, Microsoft are all still tracking users even after they opt out. 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a user’s browser even if they opted out of tracking.
The companies all disputed it
www.404media.co/google-micro...
This was a good plan until we started pushing them to the left and they said no, you’re interfering with the money 😡
Disgusting that in 2026 when there's international fascist movements centering around the persecution of LGBTQ+ people that anybody would still work for and support the Harry Potter franchise.
That includes the assholes who thought they'd hide behind the audio book that funds anti-trans orgs
When a USAID whistleblower told Trump people that it'd be hard to pull together accurate info on Malaria since DOGE had turned off access to the whole team who worked on that issue, one of the guys shouted “See, this is why, just because it might work at Twitter does not mean you can do it here!”
This might surprise you, but everyone should be clear about how this works.
Even though Eric Swalwell suspended his campaign, California law doesn’t just pull names off the ballot. Once you qualify, you’re on it.
That’s the problem.
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