Todd Finney

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."

Really meant,

"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

“Superman is too woke!”

Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Hours after ICE became the highest federal law enforcement agency in America history (and likely in world history), the Supreme Court lifts the last obstacle to ICE deporting people to any random country around the world, even in conflict zones or where migrants are enslaved.

they’ve gone from “clearly uniformed” to “partially uniformed” to “in no way identifiable” in like three weeks

Show Me Your Head, by Little Hag track by Little Hag

littlehag.bandcamp.com/track/show-m...

I once convinced Paul Giamatti that I was both born in Osaka and was Roy Orbison's daughter.

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

A person dressed up as an oyster giving the two thumbs up

May I present the mascot for the Halifax Oyster Festival, Pearl

Joni Ernst spins "we're all going to die" as Christian compassion Evangelicals in the MAGA era call empathy a "sin"

Ernst’s “we’re all going to die” comment wasn’t a gaffe — which is why she is refusing to apologize.

It’s part of the larger Christian right war on empathy.

www.salon.com/2025/06/04/j...

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

Martin became too dangerous when he became more militant & uncompromising.

Malcolm became too dangerous when he realized we need working class unity, even with wyatt peephole.

It was never either/or.
They were never truly at odds (fr, look it up).
It is always both.

I'm looking sideways at people who say we all have to be peaceful AND those who say everybody's gma has to pick up a Kalashnikov and run at Pennsylvania Ave.

We need everybody & every tactic. Stay in your lane, do your work, divest from the system, & live every day like you know what's at stake.

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

STEWART: “Trump’s gonna take a $400 MILLION jet from people he would expel from Columbia University.” #SwampForceOne ✈️

Reposting this excellent and highly relevant clip as I wait to watch Andor

#Andor makes me want to rip my heart out but also run through a brick wall but also punch a fascist but also tell everyone in my life how much I love them

The White House are such big Star Wars fans that they gave Trump a red lightsaber while trying to claim he's the good guy.

They used to do this covertly, but now that they're trying to make free speech illegal, they have to make it clear.

Actual antisemitism won't be policed. Criticism of Israel will be.

And considering the age we're in, it's not just that. *All* dissent will be policed. That's what this really is.

21st Century Fascism is Democratic A deep dive into the evolution of fascism. And how understanding that evolution is the key to defeating it.

Part of the reason that so many of us are spinning our wheels trying to figure out how to beat fascism and coming up empty is that the nature of fascism has evolved drastically.

To beat it, we need to keep up.

My latest. It is very long. Because this is the most important piece I've ever written.

So… this was supposed to be about Paul Revere’s ride, but the Senator just unloaded about the Trump administration and its Republican enablers. Far more newsworthy than I expected. (You can probably see me shifting to “crap, this was not the interview I prepped!” but the result was memorable.)

Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

Opinion | What America could look like a decade from now Political scientists and historians weigh in on authoritarianism’s impact on the United States.

I asked a number of people who study democracy and history where they thought the U.S. would be in 5 or 10 years.
Gift link: wapo.st/44bN4i6

Trump executive order to dismantle federal worker unions is an autocratic power grab President Trump dismantling collective bargaining rights from more than a million federal workers is pure political retribution. The administration has selectively revoked collective bargaining rights...

EPI's Heidi Shierholz on Trump's latest salvo--dismantling collective bargaining for federal workers:

"This is the behavior of an autocrat who grants rights to those who bow down to him and strips the rights of those who challenge him."

www.epi.org/press/trump-...

136. Setting the Record Straight on the Anti-Trump Injunctions President Trump and his supporters are mounting increasingly noisy attacks on lower-court judges. But their claims combine shameless hypocrisy with shameful distortions of the facts.

"If this many different judges in this many different courts appointed by this many different presidents are blocking this many policies promulgated by the same president, we ought to be able to agree that the problem is the policies—not the judges."

www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...

The human capital flight from the U.S. is well underway.

"no modern administration has insisted on this standard before, & the idea that foreigners who are here on valid visas should live under fear that their every political opinion might become grounds for sudden incarceration in Louisiana or El Salvador is inhumane and close to un-American in spirit."