I Am Always Wrong

Trump DOJ seeking one day in prison for ex-officer in Breonna Taylor case is 'insulting': Ben Crump The Justice Department is seeking no prison time for a former officer who blindly shot into Breonna Taylor’s home during a botched 2020 raid that sparked a federal inquiry into policing in Louisville,...

The Trump administration thinks the cop who recklessly fired his gun into two homes during the Breonna Taylor raid should spend 1 day in prison.

For perspective, the administration incarcerated Rümeysa Öztürk for 45 days for writing an op-ed -- and only released her after a court order.

We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps

The New Humanitarian | Fogbow operations in South Sudan and beyond raise red flags for faltering aid system The for-profit US firm is coordinating air drops that critics say transgress humanitarian principles.

Sure. "Fogbow... is not a humanitarian organisation, but an organisation that aims to support humanitarians... it should not be expected to apply humanitarian principles but is trying to work within their boundaries." www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

it isn't the job of protesters to do comms for the democratic party, even if there was a King of the Protesters who could make that happen

Masculinity is so fake. A whole gender that doesn't have to wash the dishes because they might have to do a war? C'mon.

"Their vulnerability has nothing to do with the size of their hands and everything to do with their lack of power in society."

Last night, we were one of the first outlets to report the ADULT ban on gender affirming care for Medicaid recipients who depend on it to access it.

This morning, that bill passed 215-214-1.

It now goes to the senate.

It's a bleak day for transgender Americans.

This has been building for a while, though - maybe just boomeranging home now? - the Iraq occupation government was infamously staffed with incompetents and recent college grads.

“We need a Joe Rogan of the left” no we need climate Lenin

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

An illustration that depicts a police car, money, and hands holding gavels, among other things.

Baltimore Beat’s story, “After bail reform effort, Baltimore residents are being held in jail at higher rates than before” won a public service award from the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-be...

Inside the Heritage Foundation’s Plan to Crush the U.S. Palestinian Movement - The New York Times Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States.

If only there had been some media outlet that could have exposed this earlier, instead of, say, essentially shilling for it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Roughly one billion years ago, I worked on the ethics of warfare and peacekeeping, because there were interesting hard questions there. Now, we're pretending "is genocide bad?" is worth discussing.

Supporters of Kilmar Abrego Garcia outside the courthouse in Maryland

HAPPENING NOW: Hello from Greenbelt, MD, where a federal judge will hear arguments over whether the Trump administration can invoke the state secrets privilege to withhold information about what it has done to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return to the US.

I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org 🧵

Teachers Worry About A.I. for Students. For Themselves It’s Another Matter. - The New York Times Educators are increasingly using generative A.I. in their own work, even as they express profound hesitation about the ethics of student use.

"Teacher observation and evaluation are among the most complex and important tasks... Instead of outsourcing that job, he would prefer an A.I. tool that helped him maintain his school’s master schedule and search for substitutes — chores that routinely eat up hours" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

UK’s F-35 exports more important than stopping genocide, lawyers to argue | UK news | The Guardian High court case to test whether ministers have illegally supplied Israel parts that may be used to attack Palestinians

That's one heck of an opening paragraph. "Preserving the British role in the F-35 jet fighter programme takes precedence over the need to comply with UK laws on arms export controls, or any UK obligation to prevent a genocide in Israel..." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The way progressive White folks keep ignoring that most Black folks lived under authoritarianism HERE from the early 1500s to the 1970s in parts of this country & instead reach to Germany to describe our current situation is deep—

Do y’all not know the Nazis modeled their system on Jim Crow HERE?

Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house? | Protest | The Guardian When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrests

I don't have any snappy commentary on this (as someone who fairly regularly talks about climate change and/or Gaza in a Quaker meeting house...) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Law firms like Paul Weiss, which thought they had escaped punishment by agreeing to do pro bono work for uncontroversial causes, discovered that Mr. Trump saw their agreements as a blank check for them to do his bidding. As my colleagues have reported, the law firms discovered that they had agreed to deals that "did little to insulate them from his whims." One expert at Yale Law School said the "administration seems to think that they have subjected these firms to indentured servitude."

Columbia University, for example, agreed to concessions that included imposing new oversight over its Middle Eastern studies department and creating a security force empowered to make arrests. But that was not enough to restore the more than $400 million in grants that the Trump administration had canceled, or to prevent the administration from making even more demands.

I'm sorry but if you don't have enough fully functional neurons firing in your brain to have seen this coming from the beginning, I refuse to believe you can be trusted with any task or objective that requires more than a third-grade intellect.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...

I am catching up on the Tom King Wonder Woman run and... I have regrets.

Being a leftist is fun because it's mostly you and your buddies very loudly saying "this system doesn't work and if we don't do anything about it shits gonna get bad" only to be told "shut up don't be unrealistic" and then shit gets bad and those same people are like "wow I hope you're happy."

You don’t win politically by winning over your opponents, but by building a political bloc that can defeat them.

…what do people mean when they say “boys are being told they are bad” like I need specific statements and examples appearing in media. Because if it’s a case of the message is “girls are equal members of society worthy of respect” and there for boys are bad, I’m gonna pitch a fit.

I must be fucking NAILING this gender-non-conforming thing. Other day, I told a customer something was impossible and they didn't believe me until a guy told them the same thing. Today, had a dude squeeze my shoulder without asking as "apology" for cutting ahead of me.

NPR Morning Edition had Steve Bannon on yesterday, and PBS News Hour has Chris Rufo on right now. What the fuck is wrong with you??? What possible reason is there to platform these lying assholes???

Post on X from Bill Melugin at Fox News, saying "Drone Footage of the raid, courtesy of ICE. There is a video underneath showing half a dozen vehicles in procession, observed in black and white through a drone.

To give you some sense of how over the top this operation was, ICE gave Fox News DRONE FOOTAGE of the operation, showing a cavalcade of armored vehicles through the streets of Pasadena to serve a search warrant on a guy whose offense was stapling fliers on power poles with information about LEOs.