The Onion wants to make us submissive slaves to the New world order.

Correct.

Plenty of amazing Assemblymembers & State Senators supported this bill, including AB 1900 joint author Isaac Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social, co-author Sasha Renee Perez @senatorsrp.bsky.social & more.

We need more officials willing to stand up for the rights of all Californians against the billionaires

Nurses condemn California Assembly’s failure to advance CalCare California Nurses Association members condemn the California State Assembly’s failure to advance A.B. 1900, the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act, also known as CalCare, at a time when hea...

The California Assembly has killed the CalCare single-payer healthcare plan (AB 1900), despite CA Dems’s veto-proof supermajority in both houses & the majority of CA voters supporting it.

My fellow Californians, consider each rep & gov candidate’s CalCare stance when you cast your vote!

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges related to past use of paid informants The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges related to its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.

BREAKING NEWS: Iran says it will announce its position on ceasefire at a later date.

"Trump’s approval rating on the economy dropped to 30% in April from 38% in a March AP-NORC poll. A similarly low share of U.S. adults, 32%, approve of the president’s leadership on Iran, which is unchanged since last month."

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

Award-winning Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been in Kuwaiti detention since March 3 for simply sharing publicly available, verified footage. Journalism is not a crime.

Join us in calling to #FreeAhmed

“As long as you're an ally of ours, I'm not for conditioning weapons to Israel.”

Rep. Jared Moskowitz emphasizes he does not support conditioning weapons to Israel, even if they break international law in an exchange with Zeteo’s @premthakker.bsky.social.

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Mask vending machine at JFK

So great to see JFK airport still has mask vending machines, which have 3M Auras!

This isn’t 1930s Germany btw.
It’s 1900s, 1910s, 1920s America.
Eugenics is a huge part of US history.

Like... I'm sorry, but to win future elections, you need a good chunk of the people who sat out in 2016 or 2024 to vote for you, and I just don't think that sneering at them and saying it's their fault that things are the way they are right now is going to win them over, even if you truly believe it

The idea Booker is shouting confidently is that the candidates cannot fail—only be failed by ungrateful, shortsighted voters.

That’s uh…not gonna win over many already disillusioned people.

His message is essentially: “You should have sucked it up. It’s your fault we lost.”

In the absence of substance, this is all Dems like Booker can muster.

People have been begging the Democrats for a decade to give them something to vote FOR rather than just against.

This has been the response.

So if nobody needs that much they should forfeit their billions of dollars first

Wall Street has a new plot to cut our Social Security benefits.

The so-called “Six-Figure Limit” would cap benefits at $50K a person, or $100K per couple.

Billionaires claim no one needs that much retirement income — but we’d love to see them try to live on $50K a year in NYC, Boston, or LA.

New Lessons for Old Truths: Molly Crabapple's "Here Where We Live Is Our Country" By making the full and long-dormant history of the Bund readily accessible to lay readers both Jewish and not, Crabapple gives us another battering ram with which to demolish the hegemony of Zionist d...

“By making the full and long-dormant history of the Bund readily accessible to lay readers both Jewish and not, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social gives us another battering ram with which to demolish the hegemony of Zionist delusion.”

www.derspekter.org/here-where-w...

These fascists always do wild shit then act like the victims. These fascists got exactly what they deserved.

workers outside McDonald's with a strike flag and a mural on the ground that says ON STRIKE no mas sexual harassment

TODAY McDonald’s workers in Milpitas are on strike due to sexual harassment, wage theft, and illegal retaliation.

We're demanding not just the pay we're owed, but managers trained on sexual harassment and how to handle complaints, plus any employee who has engaged in sexual harassment removed! 🧵

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

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this is better than a resumption of bombing.

but now there's no defined end to this war. the gambit of a US blockade hasn't worked.

the best of the bad options now might be some informal agreement to reopen Hormuz and push other issues to the future, though a deal with Trump may never be possible

Graph showing that the era of mass supervision began in parallel with the more well-known era of mass incarceration

The U.S. has widened the net of correctional control so much that if the number of people on probation & parole alone were its own state, it would be roughly the size of Connecticut.

So much for the land of the free.

KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge. For much of American history, evading excise taxes on liquor has been nearly a national pastime. At the time of the Revolution, one historian has written, “nearly every farmer distilled his own whiskey and deemed it his inalienable right to evade the tax, and resist the collector whenever a favorable opportunity presented itself for doing so.” Gallus Thomann, Liquor Laws of the United States 58 (1885). Soon after the Constitution’s ratification, in western Pennsylvania, this evasion came by force of arms—in the Whiskey Rebellion, which President Washington put down only after assembling “an army larger than any he had commanded during the Revolution.” Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815, at 138 (2009). Just after the Civil War, in 1867, a select committee of the House of Representatives heard more than a month of testimony, and concluded: “in the manufacture and sale of tobacco, cigars, and spirits, and especially the latter, the most stupendous frauds are practiced against the government in the collection of its revenue.” H.R. Rep. No. 39-24, at 1 (1867). The following year Congress enacted comprehensive legislation to end those frauds, which among many other provisions included a ban on distilling spirits in one’s home. Now, almost 160 years later, John Ream argues that the home-distilling ban has been beyond Congress’s enumerated powers all along. We disagree with the district court’s conclusion that Ream lacks standing to bring his claims; but we hold that the ban is a necessary and proper means of collecting the federal excise tax on distilled spirits.

6th Cir., 2-1, holds that the ban on home distilling is constitutional as a "necessary and proper means of collecting the federal excise tax on distilled spirits.

Folks, we have our circuit split.

www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...

NEWS: The D.C. Council has preliminary approved a permanent bill that will allow the city to declare 8 p.m. teen curfew zones, on a 8-5 vote. Congressional review required, so it won't take effect until fall.

Big next vote is on emergency bill to extend the zones over summer.

Lovebirds that need to be shared again some now and then 😊😊 #thelegendofzeld #tearsofthekingdom

The post-AI-bubble regulation should start by making it illegal to do circular deals - money invested cannot be used to pay for services, money invested cannot be used for buying hardware, etc, etc. Hell, I'm game for making it illegal to invest in customers at all.

First saw this story over on Threads, and people really, really, really did not like anyone correcting misinformation about their misreading of the story. We seem to be moving to some sort of post-reality where people just want fake stories that reinforce their beliefs.

Weird way to say "yes" but this is admission of ownership.

Excuse me, what?