Jessica Sleeth

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Another thing I learned in the town hall is that the events in Minneapolis are being well-documented because of the thousands of people who trained to become legal observers after the murder of George Floyd

Abolish ICE, Tammy. You can’t have “stronger controls” over an agency that operates upon the whims of a madman and his fascist handlers.

I'm done mourning my comforting, childish hopes for what this country might be, and I'm ready to accept who, what, and where we really are

Now there can only be grim determination for whatever must be done to once again reach a place where we can afford hopeful, flattering thoughts of ourselves.

Underrated skeet

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.

If you're looking for a tipping point to conclude "OK, the U.S. is now authoritarian," this seems like it.

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

Jesus Christ. Just horrific levels of crimes against humanity happening every day in Gaza. Our country keeps supplying weaponry to the perpetrators of this atrocity, which makes us equally culpable. May all those involved never know peace.

Gorgeous cover!

I had this exact alarm clock/radio in the late 80s/early 90s! It had a weird, long white antenna cord plug-in and played the most insane selection of terrible digital renditions of songs I’ve ever experienced. I miss her dearly

US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.

"The nation’s forecasting agency is in tatters as what could be a destructive hurricane season nears. Several current and former agency meteorologists told CNN they are concerned forecasts and life-saving warnings are not going to be issued in time." www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

I couldn’t stand your brand of center-right nonsense masquerading as a moderate democrat when I lived in Maine… and somehow you’ve managed to find new ways to be a disingenuous, DINO idiot since I left.

With every Hunger Games book, Suzanne Collins gets blunter about the messages readers keep missing She’s always been writing about philosophy and war theory — but now she’s demanding you pay attention

I’m assuming it’s this one because I read it yesterday and came away thinking that it was terribly written and incessantly reiterative like all of the AI slop I’ve been seeing on Facebook and Insta:

www.polygon.com/analysis/547...

I’d like that!

Yaaassssss! This is the way

I love The Library At Mount Char for just this reason

I don’t know who these “many people” are, but they are clearly living in a criminally ill-informed bubble if they are praising Senate Democrats for anything right now. They can’t “pass meaningful legislation” if they don’t have the votes.

This is the most backward, irredeemable administration of evil fuckwits… your standard dystopian fiction could never. This plot would have been deemed too heavy-handed and juvenile by even the most cut-rate publisher.

the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps

block the path

A reminder that women’s sports are kept separate from men’s not to protect women from always losing to men, but rather to ensure that no man ever loses to a woman.
I’m not making this up; that’s literally the reason.

“Democrats need to decide whether they want to fight for the things they believe in, or spend the rest of their days chasing polls but never catching them.” Hell yes, @notalawyer.bsky.social excellent newsletter today!

Just love watching clowns light our political system/economy/social safety-net/foreign relations on fire in real time. I appreciate all you do to raise awareness of how deeply f*%#&ed things are, though.

the thing about genAI is if it was actually useful or benefits the end user in any capacity, you'd have to pay for it. it'd be locked behind so many gates as a use privilege

but instead opt-outs are virtually impossible and it's force-fed down your throat like ducks being prepared for foie gras

The literal wealthiest man in the world donating hundreds of millions of dollars to a presidential campaign and getting rewarded with a government post where he can award his companies with contracts is the most cartoonish possible rendering of what people warned about after Citizens United.