We don’t want billionaires.

We want everyone to have what they need to thrive.

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

Would you hate a country that dropped a bomb on your child's school? 🤔 Asking for a friend!

Everyone should not have to have a direct line to elected officials in order to ensure that we are not kidnapped by the government.

From @theferocity.bsky.social's book, Alive at the End of the World. Get it here: bit.ly/saeedalive

#poem #books #writing

And advice from my brilliant departed mom, whose loss left a huge crater in my heart when she died in 2010, "grief is a tunnel, not a pit. Keep going forward, even though it's dark, even though you're sad. It'll take a while, but you can get out. You will walk in the sun again. Keep going."

Colorado governor signal he'll commute sentence of election denier. Pressured by President Trump, Gov. Jared Polis said he is considering the release of Tina Peters, the last high-profile 2020 election meddler still imprisoned. His fellow Democrats are outraged.

File this under "Why establishment Dems keep losing."

If you won't act like an opposition party, we'll replace you.

LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him.

Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.

The Bygone Era of Supreme Court Support for Voting Rights Sixty years after upholding the Voting Rights Act, the Court has dismantled most of it.

Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.

We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.

New from me at @brennancenter.org:

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

One Nepo to Rule Them All David Ellison has finally won his entertainment empire. ‘It feels like he’s a midshipman and he’s now in command of the ‘Titanic’ — quite literally,’ one Hollywood producer said.

David Ellison has finally won his entertainment empire. ‘It feels like he’s a midshipman and he’s now in command of the ‘Titanic’ — quite literally,’ one Hollywood producer said.

Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

AIPAC is targeting me because they’re worried I won’t go along with their MAGA-aligned agenda in Congress.

They’re absolutely right.

Squid Games

""Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."" im losing my mind

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

The mother is an asylum seeker. Her 7-year-old is deaf and didn’t have his hearing aids when he was detained.

😩

Sephora Tots Are Coming Millennials created the wellness economy, and now it wants their children as customers.

Toddlers don’t need boutique skin care products—but the wellness industry is marketing to them anyway, @nancywalecki.bsky.social reports.

Interesting radial plan for apartments in Bern by Fritschi Beis Architeture

The shape is designed around exist tree locations on the site. Deck access means every apartment can be easily cross ventilated.

Nice interiors too!

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”

Brutal. This is what Trump did.

This is a great article and got too little attention when it first came out. @propublica.org is doing amazing work.

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

Steve-O got a ruptured testicle by letting one of his castmates jump on his crotch with a pogo stick and he is unquestionably more morally sophisticated than most of our sitting lawmakers

US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says Ukraine's president says Kyiv will only help if doing so does not deplete its own air defences.

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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

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T-minus three weeks until “why don’t women want to date them?”