Two weeks is a long time in US politics. Seems I was two years and one presidency too late.

I'm a WNBA player. Don't use athletes like me to exclude trans women. IOC's policy invites unequal scrutiny. We cannot choose our genes or chromosomes, but we can choose whether we protect the dignity of every athlete.

WNBA star Brianna Turner has written an article denouncing the new invasive sex testing requirements of the IOC.

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Spoilers

Their joy in being themselves makes the world a better place

Hamleh - New 7amleh Report: Meta Monetizes Settlements and Violence Against Palestinians April 13, 2026, 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has released a new report titled “Monetizing Occupation: Meta’s Financial Enablement of Settlement Activity and Violent Rhetoric Against Palestinians.”

"Meta allows Israeli far-right pages... to generate revenue, despite publishing violent, racist, & inciting content against Palestinians, & being directly linked to promoting illegal settlement expansion, as well as widespread violence & attacks against Palestinians."

7amleh.org/post/meta-mo...

The country's descent into fascism cannot be understood without interrogating U.S. policing. But folks across the political spectrum are allergic to this so here we are.

Screenshot from the PA Chamber of Commerce website advertising a free webinar that "empowers small businesses to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) for real-world growth and efficiency" on May 5 at 9AM EST for chamber members.

I recently learned that (PA-R) Senator Dave McCormick's wife, Dina Powell McCormick is now president of Meta. I also recently learned about the PA Chamber of Commerce’s partnership with Meta “leveraging AI for small business growth & efficiency"

Yep.

The peril of going soft on white-collar crime is in how criminal activity, left unpunished or addressed with just taps on the wrist, becomes seen as another routine way of doing business.

When near everyone gets away w/ scamming, the arguments against it—other than the moral ones—fall away.

BREAKING: 300+ New Yorkers have taken over the offices of Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer demanding no more weapons for Israel.

Tell Congress: Fund people, not bombs.

And a hard drive was extra

I remain convinced that one of the most important things the next Democratic president can do to avoid falling victim to a Biden-style vibecession is to mercilessly, relentlessly crack down on crypto and organized gambling. Just go full scorched-earth.

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

"In advance of this year’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump has systematically demolished federal guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 election." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Democrats have created such a leadership vacuum that we now have to look to the Pope for progressive values!

“A lot of this book is about solidarity at its core," says the artist and writer @mollycrabapple.bsky.social about her new book “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund.” "How it’s the only thing that can save us and stop us from this cycle of barbarism."

What was the Jewish Labor Bund? “They become in interwar Poland something that I can only describe as similar to the Black Panther Party in America,” @mollycrabapple.bsky.social says in a conversation with Hammer & Hope editorial team member @chenjerai.bsky.social about her new book.

It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either:

a. Incompetent
b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't
c. a & b

Is the Popa a Catholic? In this Ohio diner, they aren’t so sure.

two men are making a heart shape with their arms Alt: Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie from Heated Rivalry making a heart with their arms and leaning into each other. Hudson is wearing all black, and Connor is smiling in a brown, black, and white vertically striped shirt. They’re against a red background.

Me @ jacob tierney for giving us a perfect heated rivalry adaptation

Straight men loving on Heated Rivalry Part ?

Yes and Democrats need to stop letting their conservative ideological commitments get in the way of advancing an array of candidates who excite the base that does things like knock on doors, make phone calls, and organize people to vote

One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.

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

I hate to inform people but Palestinians aren’t perfect victims and some of them may even be annoying and running scripts because they were software engineers before they lost everything in a genocide

WTF!

Fuck all the grumpy discourse about Heated Rivalry fans not being allies because they don't like the lesbians in Bridgerton.

I am so over Bridgerton, not because I'm not an ally, but because it's fucking tiresome. But good god I love Deadloch which is chock full of amazing queer women characters.

Yes and yes

There’s a wave of attacks on the ruling class People have reached a breaking point. American consumer sentiment is terrible, registering at the lowest level ever recorded this week. Gas prices just jumped more in March than they have in any month...

Warehouses on fire, Molotov thrown at Sam Altman’s house, a data center supporting politician’s home shot at — attacks on the ruling class have begun.

Every attacker will now be deemed a terrorist, that’s inevitable.

But what the ruling class doesn’t want you to know is they made this inevitable.