A new NBC News Decision Desk poll shows that 75% of all Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israelis.
It also shows that 74% of all of Gen Z, total, sympathizes more with Palestinians than with the Israelis.
Video wasn’t working earlier but watch as the Surprise mayor flees like the coward he is.
Washington Post Editorial Board headline: “The Texas gerrymander freak out. What’s happening in Texas is not a threat to democracy.”
Washington Post Editorial Board headline: “Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss. The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it.”
The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas.
But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”
Decided to do a little more digging to learn more about those 2020 Biden voters who skipped 2024, why they skipped, and what sort of message might win them back, and found this helpful research by Celinda Lake from last year: waytowin.docsend.com/view/rnv5spt...
Report Exposes Hidden Fossil Fuel Costs Siphoning Off $12 Trillion From Society Every Year
"The economic case for fossil fuels has not just weakened, it has collapsed," said the head of 350.org.
The investment is the latest example of circular financing during the AI boom—the practice of tech companies investing in AI startups to help the latter buy products or services from the original investors.
NEW: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that key actions Trump took to delay solar and wind projects across the U.S. were illegal (me for @heatmap.news)
surprising roughly no one, Trump was never just concerned with people who came here the 'wrong way'
tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Blanche v. Lau, a case where Trump is asking the Court to make it easier to remove Lawful Permanent Residents
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“Ana Padilla, executive director of the UC Merced Community and Labor Center, said farmworkers have described instances of employers pointing out Border Patrol or ICE vehicles and saying they easily could call them over.” #WeFeedYou
Crucial from @davidsirota.com: If Dems win House, they must use power of the purse to stop Trump. Dems can't fear the politics of defunding. Trump is weak and this is an opening to reassert "congressional authority in a real way."
On the pod David explains this well:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Every major news organization should be producing and promoting something along the lines of "Erratic and volatile president threatens to restart his war of aggression against Iran and order massive assault on civilian infrastructure, a possible war crime. Who will tell him no?"
🚨 Virginia voters: If you are in line by 7:00 PM ET, stay in line! Do NOT leave.
If you arrived before 7 PM, you are legally allowed to remain there until you cast your ballot.
Every vote matters today. Please stay put and make your voice heard! 💙🗳️
#VoteYesVirginiaToday
ask yourself: what do these three counties have in common? the answer is decidedly not "there was mass voter fraud here."
Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs."
calmatters.org/investigatio...
Find out how you can participate in the nationwide day of economic disruption on May 1 and learn more about the strategy behind economic noncooperation at the upcoming May Day training call.
The El Gamal family will be released from ICE’s Dilley camp after ten months of imprisonment.
A mother & her five children have been held for almost a year.
The mom is dangerously ill, the children are sick & traumatized.
Public pressure helped get them released
Keep fighting to close the camps!
I had the opportunity to confront Pete Hegseth's bigoted spiritual mentor, Pastor Doug Wilson, and call him out on his history of hate, his misreading of the Bible, his hijacking of Jesus, and his cosplay Crusading.
It was worth it.
ICYMI- a lot happened with the California governor race today and there has been a major shift.
New polling shows Republicans still leading, with Hilton out front, but on the Democratic side, Becerra is making a real move and now tied with Steyer at 13%, the biggest jump we’ve seen.
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"It cannot be made safe. There's a whole slew of other products that look nice & function well but don't kill the workers who make them." Read @kaylayup.bsky.social's devastating investigation @inthesetimes.com on how the $30B engineered stone industry has created an epidemic of deadly lung disease.
Mayor Mamdani's new tax impacts 13,000 homes owned by the top 1.%, and will generate an additional $500M minimum in tax revenue for working New Yorkers.
Watching blue collar MAGAs panic over "higher taxes" is amusing. This Will HELP them. Here are the details:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/zohran-mam...
The #BraveOfUS speak out against injustice with loud voices and in clear terms. Concentration camps are places where civilians are held without due process and that is precisely what's happening here and now. #CloseTheCamps
I would love to place a moratorium on arguments about whether or not events are "unprecedented." A thing does not have to be *unprecedented* for us to be off the map of our experience, or for solutions that were applied in a different era to be ill-suited (or worth considering).
"I hope that this exhibition reminds people of our shared humanity. I hope that this exhibition reminds people of the immense potential of our care for each other and that it breathes new life into our imagination of what is possible."
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"It just felt like the floor had fallen out. Like all the support that I thought we had was gone. Maybe this is naive, but I didn't think that would happen in Massachusetts."
there is functionally a conspiracy to gaslight you into believing that, so it's understandable
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...
The Maryland legislature recently passed a big energy omnibus bill that is effectively a huge bag of smaller policies. It's difficult to even summarize -- there's stuff on permitting, plug-in solar, data center, on & on. @jamiedemarco.bsky.social has pulled it all together into a master list:
Ilhan Omar for US House 5th Congressional District is endorsed by the MRLF
Labor endorsed Ilhan Omar for US House fifth congressional district. Major cities in CD5 include Minneapolis, Brooklyn Center, St. Louis Park, Richfield, Crystal, Robbinsdale, Golden Valley, new Hope, Fridley, and Edina. Find your voter info at Mn votes.org and your polling place at pollfinder.sos.mn.gov
👉 The stakes are high for working people and for our democracy — we need elected leaders who understand our community’s needs and take action accordingly.
We proudly endorse Ilhan Omar for U.S. House, Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District ✊
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2026/04/18/d...
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Every class that screens Birth of a Nation should also have to screen this.
TODAY: Folks in Texas are protesting the Dilley ICE detention center, demanding the Trump administration shut it down.
Signs read: NO KIDS IN CAGES.
