And that is how to live a life.

No matter how you feel about the whole Redistricting thing, the people of Virginia were allowed a say on it.

The people of California were allowed a say on it in their state.

Cry harder, MAGA.

Let's not forget that the Texas legislature did their redistricting without any input from the citizens of Texas. Virginia put it to a vote by the citizens of Virginia. Big difference.

These two editorials by the Washington Post expose how the Republican Party and Democratic Party are held to completely different standards by the media.

Texas gerrymander: “Not a threat to democracy.”

Virginia gerrymander: “Power grab by Democrats.”

J.F.C.

Me, too sis! Monthly pledge since 1989.

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.

Do not look away. #StandWithSPLC #Resist

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latest CNN average of public opinion polls on Trump's performance as president:

approve 36%
disapprove 63%

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My daughter. 😢

This is not what normal humans do.

@faithhoward.bsky.social

The Legacy Media is owned by the Epstein Class (=Parasite class) & will never investigate or report on any issue that shines a bright light on the nefarious activities of Trump or his BFFs

Dan Schulman is the new CEO of Verizon and he is predicting 20 to 30% unemployment within the next 2 to 5 years due to AI.

Not a typo. He thinks 1/3 of people currently employed will lose their jobs by 2030.

A sport not fit for man nor beast. Especially beast. Animals should not suffer for sport.

Later in the 1970s, Roger Freeman — a key educational adviser to Nixon then working for the reelection of California governor Ronald Reagan — spelled out quite precisely what the conservative counter attack was aimed at preventing: "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on the we allow to go through higher education. If not we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people." The two most menacing institutional sources of the same described by Freeman were obviously those two great public university systems charging no tuition: the University of California and the City University of New York. Governor Reagan was able to wipe out free tuition at the University of California. Source: Vietnam and Other Fantasies, by H Bruce Franklin

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite!"

I’m so sorry. As the mom of a trans daughter, I understand the fatigue. Sending love your way, and thank you for always fighting the good fight.

Wow:

More Corruption from the felon.

89 candles would have set off the sprinklers, so we settled for one — and one perfect slice of cake (with @bradtakei.bsky.social on ice cream duty). Thank you to every friend, fan, and fellow traveler who has made these 89 years such a joyous voyage.

I did it

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.

Stephen Miller wants a 30-foot steel wall on thousand-foot cliffs in Big Bend. The people who live there — ranchers, sheriffs, Native Americans, environmentalists — formed a coalition and are fighting back.

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Merci pour le recommendation.

Billie Holiday at a recording session in 1939. The film “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” chronicles the government’s efforts to suppress the song “Strange Fruit.” She never stopped performing it despite the relentless harassment. Photo Credit: Charles Peterson / Hulton Archive / Getty Images.

“Strange Fruit” was one of the first musical assaults on racism. It served as a declaration of war on injustice and a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. The recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978 and selected for preservation in the Library of Congress in 2002. /end

FAA Chief Dumps Millions in Airline Stock Months After His Ethics Agreement Deadline Bryan Bedford held a multimillion-dollar stake in an airline company his agency oversees.

Not enough people are talking about this.

The head of the FAA, the person whose job is to oversee the airline industry, failed to divest his MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR stake in an airline company his agency regulates.

Guards at Israel’s notorious Sde Teiman torture camp have admitted their colleagues use dogs to rape Palestinian captives there, according to a prominent Israeli analyst.

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I don’t think robots should be allowed to compete in women’s sports.

This is not stunning in the least. FFS.