You wanna invest in prevention? Stanch rampant inequality. No-one in CA should be without healthcare, housing, food. No schools, hospitals, libraries, or parks should be struggling. Pay for it by taxing CA’s billionaires
A trans woman was tracked and monitored using AI technology at a Knicks game just for being trans.
This isn't 1940's Germany this is right now
www.wired.com/story/madiso...
BREAKING: “I made a mistake, and I am sincerely sorry,” Philz Coffee CEO said after having ordered Pride flags removed.
I say again, the power is with the people!
www.advocate.com/news/philz-c...
A 93% spike isn’t a ‘trend’ - it’s a stick-up. Gas is a ransom. Carbon is a conflict mineral. Fossil fuels are war. Renewables are the only real declaration of independence.
Stop being vassal states. Move decisively to cut the cord.
Office of Mission Acquisition Solutions (OMAS), Strategic Buying Center (SBC) Mission Support One Bravo (MS1B)
Office of Acquisitions (OA) | Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
An email from HHS - I hope journalists will check it out:
Vendors, We have an upcoming HHS Acquisition Solutions Day (May 18). This is a key opportunity for industry to stay connected to what’s happening at HHS and how the OMAS mission is evolving. Link : tinyurl.com/OMASSolution....
Exactly one year ago today:
“Memphis is now being asked to believe that becoming a hub for artificial intelligence will secure its economic future. But economic development that does not center environmental protection, public health, and equitable access to opportunity is not development. It is extraction.”
Had me dying. Clip via @alexgoldennba.bsky.social
the US Navy is "urgently hiring" morticians
“Look what you made us do” is abuser bs
I got a chance to talk with the splendid @anatosaurus.bsky.social, who laid out out why the message of moderation from reactionary centrists is lethal and explained how to build a better country by reframing our public conversations.
Yes
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.
Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.
(🎥 Al Jazeera)
Psst. Orthodox Easter is this coming Sunday 4/12. Discount peeps for everyone!!
The Iranian embassy in Iran quote tweets Trump's insane 'Fuckin Strait tweet with the comment: "This low level of civility and intelligence shown by a leader of a country is regrettable; the shameful fervor with which intentions to commit war crimes are repeated is staggering; and the fact that the Divine is invoked regardless of ill intentions clearly exposes deep fanaticism. Apologies for sharing this language." Trump's tweet reads: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
my entire timeline on x is now just iranian embassies demonstrating a facility with the english language that puts everything i've ever read from the trump administration to shame
Today's newsletter focuses on the power of distributed organizing and presents some new analysis of our data collected at #NoKings 3 last weekend. danarfisher.com/2026/04/05/t...
Yes. I just finished Daniel Immerwahr’s “How to Hide an Empire” and was ROCKED by how little I know about my country
GATLING GUN AND GUN CREW. Every American feels a natural sense of pride when he sees the class of men who are behind our guns--tall, handsome, splendid fellows, with lofty brows aud thinking faces. These men are the product of free institutions.
FILIPINO PRISONERS OF WAR CAPTURED REAR SAN ROQUE. When at rest these people rarely stand or sit down, but, on the contrary, squat like animals, this peculiarity being one of the indications of their low state of civilization, The whole nation is not worth the life of one American soldier.
GROUP ON FILIPINO BOYS AND GIRLS Some of these children have the African cast of countenance, but there is no tinge of negro blood among them. They are distinctly Malay with occasionally a mixture of Papuan blood. As American citizens they are hardly up to the mark.
Title page of the racist 1899 coffee table book “Our Islands and Their People.”
Most Americans are oblivious to the fact that the US helped "liberate" the Philippines from Spain in 1898 and then decided to keep it as a colony in one of the most racist & bloody conquests in US history. Just read the incredibly genocidal captions (see alt-text) in this popular book from the era.
Everything feels just so incredibly chaotic right now.
We’re living through what experts call a polycrisis
Last month, we broke it down in this series. It feels like a good time to resurface it 🧵 1/
A page from the book 1984
Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.
The Supreme Court has once again ignored the facts, allowing kids to be subjected to harmful, abusive, and discredited attempts to “convert” their gender identity or sexual orientation by licensed medical professionals.
Children should NEVER be forced to endure these cruel practices.
isn't it amazing what you find digging through old News Papers
i think this is exactly right and it is part of what i was trying to get at last week when i wrote about the narcissism of the president and his allies. they fundamentally do not believe other people are real, and do not understand the decisions they make.
Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.
Bingo card for No Kings 3 challenging you to encounter: An old friend Big rig horn Straw hat flag Food trucks Rainbows “Shitler” on a sign Inflatables A new friend Musical instrument
May we keep one another safe. And, dammit, I hope a mighty fine time is had, so here’s your bingo card!
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This is NOT ice being deployed to “help tsa”.
SFO confirmed this was a planned operation (a “routine abduction” I guess 😡)
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I’m just trying to rent a heavy duty cleaning apparatus thingy for a few hours, but the T&Cs are like agreeing to be severed
finally, there is also a long and storied history of corruption drama hearings in the histories of democratic systems, including our very own. they create a participatory spectacle that facilitates political accountability.
