They try to keep their jobs so they can have the healthcare that they deny us and die with a dignity that non-politicians don't get to have. Both parties are not interested in governance, it's enriching themselves. The only way this stops is if y'all stop falling for it.
Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the world outside of China. It has a heavily militarized police force, and is also the headquarters of Flock.
Somehow, the perpetrators of two murders in the city's largest park, one in 2021, and the other in broad daylight two weeks ago, are still at large.
A reminder that there is a cottage industry of pundits, academics & "influencers" depicting themselves as Knowers Of Electability™ - but they know nothing and neither do I, you, or anyone else.
The Democratic-voter-as-electability-pundit idea has been an absolute disaster. Just stop.
don't you dare come for me if your profile picture has you looking ungracefully bald
A beautiful #TreeSwallow guarding the entrance to its nest hole in a standing snag at #FernhillWetlands in #ForestGrove #Oregon
#birds #birding #birdwatching #pnw #ornithology #pnw #swallows #nesting #ECK #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #WildlifeRefuge #vögel #pájaro #oiseaux #oiseauxsauvages
I'm watching the Jimmy Savile documentary on Netflix and it's remarkable how much it's actually about how Thatcherism hollowed out public institutions such as hospitals so that they came to rely on the largesse of private entrepreneurs who, now being indispensable, were able to act with impunity
A color, macrophoto of a Robin perched on a branch in Virginia, during late April, 2026. The capture was taken during rain and the photographer snapped the photo at the split second a raindrop fell on the top of the bird's head, making it appear like a "natural" crown. 📸 Dawn Denise Boyer of Gloucester, Virginia
#WonderfulBirdWednesday
Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑
04/2026
#Birds #Nature
#FlawlessTiming 🌟
#FMSPAD
#SomethingThatFlies
#Birdsky #Wildlife
#Photography
#BirdPhotography
#Macrophotography
Imagine a sudden illness lands you in the hospital. You can't afford the medical bills that pile up and aren't enrolled in Medicaid.
Retroactive Medicaid was designed for exactly these moments.
But a new federal rule will cut retroactive coverage from 3 to 2 months for most enrollees.
Let's not forget why this White House, especially Stephen Miller, hates SPLC.
It helped expose Miller as connected and collaborating with white supremacists in the media to spread the white supremacism he learned from the internet.
#retro 📺+
Just "liberal" LA supporting the technofascist police state.
Democrats love this shit
when you watch a video about a book it's almost like you read a book.
youtu.be/YFHlwawvYG8
Promotional graphic for an In These Times article titled “Fortress Yellowstone.” The background shows a ranch gate at sunrise with a large horned skull mounted on a wooden fence, mountains in the distance, and golden light across the landscape. Overlaid text reads: “The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world.” By Joseph Bullington.
“Once their streams are polluted [in the Amazon], they cannot live in the community anymore,” explains Maria Ivete Bastos dos Santos, president of the Union of Workers and Rural Workers of Santarém.
Billionaires harvest spoils of empire into Montana.
inthesetimes.com/article/yell...
National Library Workers Day sign
Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚
I’ve lost track of how many times something just like this has happened. The rules seem to be that you can say Congress certified the election, but not that Joe Biden won it
It’s in keeping with the basic idea of the original Colorado River Compact, which was to manage the basin’s water through some negotiation and compromise, rather than strictly following the letter of the law. But the legal foundation of prior appropriation hamstrings negotiations at every turn. Farmers account for the overwhelming majority of Colorado water use—almost a third goes to cattle feed alone—and thanks to how the system was initially designed, their prices are absurdly subsidized. One recent study found that while municipal districts pay an average of $512.01 per acre-foot, agricultural irrigation districts paid an average of $30.32 per acre-foot. Fully a quarter of all Colorado water diversions, all to farmers, cost nothing at all. Such a subsidy is difficult to unwind.
TIL that while Colorado basin municipal water districts pay an average of $512 per acre-foot, irrigation districts pay an average of $30--and fully a quarter of all water diversions, all going to farms, pay nothing at all prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...
Palantir's 'manifesto' has been described as an 'AI-driven threat to humanity's existence' and 'technofascism'.
Karen Bass is proposing a $124 million increase to the LAPD's operational budget. This would bring their total budget to north of $3.6 billion
Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.
climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...
Stadiums and arenas are ground zero for implementing and normalizing new surveillance technologies. Angelenos should read this and know that this surveillance is here too.
LA city budget:
cops: $84 trillion dollars
lawsuits for cops: $100 trillion dollars
housing: -$12
all electeds: why is homelessness a crisis in LA?
Ahead of the 2028 Olympics, sex work has garnered more attention and surveillance.
For @lapublicpress.bsky.social I spoke to one of the few sex worker-led mutual aid orgs that fills an important service gap that neither charity nor government services can meet. lapublicpress.org/2026/04/la-s...
The group, “Veterans Against Fascism”, was arrested after staging a protest inside the U.S. Capitol against Trump’s & Israel’s illegal war with Iran
So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.
The Art of the Deal.
quick reminder about the last time a president ignored Congress to do a war
When I think about California's gubernatorial race, theres one thing everyone needs to know about Democrat @xavierbecerra.bsky.social:
As California AG, he demanded the HHS secretary use an existing law to lower medicine prices - and then as HHS secretary he literally refused to do exactly that.
