I’ve been teaching my own kids about water & sewer infrastructure since they were born. Heck, I did a sanitary survey while pregnant with my soon-to-be HS grad! But all the lessons they really needed are right here in the BEST COMMENCEMENT SPEECH EVER from @neorsd.org

Donald Trump’s authoritarian second term has led critics to describe him as a fascist in the mold of Adolf Hitler.

But Trump’s reactionary politics are all-American — and the path to defeating him runs through reform of America’s antidemocratic institutions.

The phrase “freedom under God” captures the tension at the heart of the long battle over the Bible in this country in which there have always been two diametrically opposed visions of freedom...

@liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org via @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

BREAKING: Israeli settlers have carried out a ‘lynching’ of the co-Director of Oscar winning documentary No Other Land. Hamdan Billal has injuries in his head and stomach and is reportedly bleeding.

Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated on this day in 1983.

He became a target of right-wing violence for his courageous struggle against poverty and US-backed right-wing repression.

jacobin.com/2015/05/osca...

Elite universities such as Harvard, Princeton, Columbia or Yale, were created to train and perpetuate the plutocracy. They are not and never have been centers of cutting-edge intellectual thought or hospitable to dissidents and radicals.
chrishedges.substack.com/p/surrenderi...

Listen to our Editor-in-Chief @sengelberg.bsky.social break down the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices, and why the untrue statistic matters.

📽️: @carissaqmb.bsky.social

BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups

Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday, is being held at an ICE detention facility.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detain...

Leading Democrats say openly that they have no idea what to do. But the path is clear, they’re just unwilling to take it.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-fec...

Why did MSNBC cancel Joy Reid?
Some speculated that racism explains the firing of the liberal anchor. But MSNBC doesn't have a problem with Black hosts. They have a problem with pro-Palestine ones.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-did...

Every member of Congress should have to wear the logos of the corporations that fund their campaigns on their jackets/shirts.

Americans want government transparency, give it to them.

Thomas Frank dissects how Democrats abandoned populism, the rise of Trump’s faux-populism, and why the party refuses to embrace the working class. www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-the...

youtu.be/7I-VZaOMwpA Start around 18:42 if you can’t watch the entire video. #magicjesus

Let's talk about Sunrise’s protest last night at the DNC forum. Some pundits on this site are missing the mark (intentionally or not).

In order to win, Dems need to reject the billionaire influence that is shaping the Trump administration.

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Last night's tragic mid-air collision shows why we need to fund and staff critical agencies.

Last week, Trump fired the head of TSA and launched a hiring freeze that included air traffic control staff.

From air safety to pollution rules, Trump's cuts put our lives at risk.

Would that the Department of Government Efficiency dedicate its work to the most efficient way to feed, house, educate, and provide healthcare to all people instead of the most efficient way to cut public services so that it can tax rich people less.