Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their…

From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favor.

These charges are insane fascist bullshit.

Legally, this is no different from Iran sinking a Disney cruise in international waters and then saying "it's all good, they were terrorists carrying drugs."

Which is to say, it's wholly illegal and has been for centuries. You couldn't even do this with a Letter of Marque and Reprisal.

They're not prepared for how woke AI Jesus would be

The shutdown will worsen hunger—which the Trump administration just stopped tracking Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits.

Shortly before the shutdown, the USDA moved to scrap the Household Food Security Report, the nation’s primary tool for tracking food insecurity, and in doing so, stripped away the very infrastructure needed to remedy rising hunger in America.

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’ A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’

A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. But it's not too late to save what remains.

grist.org/oceans/coral...

#Coral #Ocean #Environment #Climate #Science

Or it's the new beverage cooler or whatever that was that he was trying to convince Michael Hobbes was more than an expensive mini fridge.

Hmmm wonder why Peter is on fancy watch subreddits...

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

How Can We Share a Country If We Don’t Share a Reality? Note from the author: An earlier version of this piece appeared under a different title.

open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

Local News Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

Over the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with one of the largest federal investigations happening in Georgia, known as Operation Blooming Onion. So I partnered with Zaydee Sanchez to uncover the untold story of an unnamed victim at the heart of the case. 🧵

I knew Michael reading direct quotes from terrible people would offend some day.

Laugh at Trump’s ridiculous innumeracy, sure. But the commander of the world’s most powerful military is responding to relevant questions about the laws of armed conflict by claiming that the existence of drug deaths in general permits him to kill anyone he feels like, which is very serious.

We Must Stop This Civil War Before It’s Unstoppable Once we accept deadly violence as a normal part of American life, we’re done for.

I hesitate to even post this on the kind of platform fueling the crisis we're in.

It's almost certainly futile, as the algorithms don't want anyone to hear this kind of sentiment - which is a big part of the problem.

www.levernews.com/we-must-stop...

This is what backroom deals for powerful industries look like. Killing Americans and keeping them sick is just a happy consequence for a fascist regime.

{Corporation makes private reflecting shift in culture or whatever}

MAGA: "Why are liberals destroying everything I love?"

This is what happens when you deny the peace prize, bubs, you get war

Mariam Abu Dagga: Gaza journalist killed in Israeli strike ‘carried her camera into the heart of the field’ The 33-year-old photojournalist committed to conveying suffering of civilians with ‘rare honesty and courage’

Mariam Abu Dagga: Gaza journalist killed in Israeli strike ‘carried her camera into the heart of the field’

Can we stop with the all caps, guys?

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…

In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.

(Published April)

Fact-checking Trump’s claim that crime in Washington is ‘out of control’ Trump claimed DC crime is surging to deploy the National Guard, however, the city’s preliminary data proves otherwise.

Trump claimed DC crime is surging to deploy the National Guard, however, the city’s preliminary data proves otherwise.

"I’m sure we all agree that we ought to love one another, and I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings, and I hate people like that!"

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

2/ As reservoirs shrink and glaciers melt, people have increasingly drilled into a largely ungoverned cache of fresh water underground.

And as @abrahm.bsky.social explains, our sinking ground is actually a foolproof sign of this supply disappearing.

For the last quarter century we've been shown a parade of white dudes who were going to change the world and they have all, every one of them, reinvented feudalism.

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

i'm an accelerationist on the single issue of Trump trying to strip Rosie O'Donnell of her citizenship. it's important that this reaches the Supreme Court so that there's a clear historical marker of how stupid this country has become.

Yes

From Project 2025 and the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ — America did this to America This isn't just about one election; Americans have been voting against their own interests for a long time.

“The unpleasantness of our present is directly connected to the apathy and animosity that took control inside voting booths in the past. It’s an example of how the past is prologue, which then demands that we make the present ground zero for change.”