*slams head into desk repeatedly*

oh i can take that off your hands

We’re using the U.S. military to create volatility such that our president can engage in insider trading.

i’ll be thinking and writing to the universe about you 🖤

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Hundreds march through the streets of downtown #Chicago chanting, “U.S. out of the #MiddleEast!”

Mamdani Celebrates Passover at Progressive ‘Seder in the Street’

NYC Mayor Mamdani Celebrates Passover at Progressive ‘Seder in the Street.’ The mayor has observed the Passover holiday in several ways in recent days including a Seder for city workers in the evening at the Mayor's official residence www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/n...

the increasing number of Buckfast bottles is really haunting the narrative this episode #businesscasualshow

ready for the hour long anxiety attack known as “watching a new episode of The Pitt”

The realization that turtles all the way down came out nine years ago is hitting me like a freight train.

Constitution Breakdown #8: Jill Lepore - 99% Invisible This is the eighth episode of our ongoing series breaking down the U.S. Constitution. This month, Roman and Elizabeth discuss Article V, which lays out the process to amend the Constitution, alongside...

Interpreting birthright citizenship out of the 14th Amendment would be amending the Constitution- @romanmars.bsky.social & I talked about the country's history of constitutional amendment with Jill Lepore here: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/cons...

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I’m feeling so many things this International Trans Day of Visibility. Grief, fear, anger, passion, love, determination and on and on. But even at my most drained and scattered, I know that I am not interested in abandoning each other to oppression. Text only version bit.ly/4v2lu1V #TDOV (1/5)

Kuchus in the Balance: Queer Lives under Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill PhD Dissertation (2014)

"Yet the findings of this study challenge popular representations of Uganda as 'the world’s worst place to be gay,' rhetoric that denies kuchus’ agency and alienates LGBTI people from their non-queer selves and communities."
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Seeing a million people turn out and snake through a large city is very cool, I won’t deny that

but my favorite genre of post during these protests is “small town in a red state with the biggest crowd anyone has ever seen”

So on Saturday, go march. Be loud, visible, joyous, and defiant.

And don't leave empty handed. Get connected. Find out what your neighbors need and how you can help.

Together, let's build the country we deserve.

But we can't stop at marching. Visibility alone won’t dismantle structures.

To transform our country, we need to form strong networks, and keep taking actions both big and small to support local grassroots movements.

That's how we turn a day of protest into long term gains.

This programmer wants to use your phone to fight ICE Sherman Austin's text alerts are powering community defense.

“The government’s narrative is, ‘We’ve got to track these people down who are building these apps, interfering with federal agents, trying not to be caught.

My response is: ‘I’m right here. You have my name. You know where I live. If you want to do something, come do it.’”

Jane Fonda speaking at a protest at the Kennedy Center for the Committee for the First Amendment and Artists United for our Freedoms. 1/8

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych, banned from Olympics, speaks at United Nations Vladyslav Heraskevych was shunned by the Olympics, then invited to the United Nations. He never expected that would happen.

Vladyslav Heraskevych was shunned by the Olympics, then invited to the United Nations.

The Handala HackTeam may now know much more than US senators about what exactly the FBI director did in exchange for large payments he got from foreign interests including a Russian-linked film company, a Chinese firm and Qatar's government. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

anybody still on Co — Star?

Update: Oral arguments at the First Circuit in D.V.D. v. DHS — the third country removals case — are set for 2p May 13 in Boston.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social is Squonk tuberculosis?

oh my god i’m a squonk

Second US appeals court upholds Trump's immigration detention policy A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday endorsed the Trump ​administration's policy of subjecting people arrested in its immigration crackdown to mandatory detention without ‌the chance to be released on bond in a ruling that will affect numerous cases in Minnesota and six other states.

Second US appeals court upholds Trump's immigration detention policy reut.rs/4rYTHNg