Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

Corporate Dems need to learn to take a back seat and stop acting like MAGA-lite. We are fortunate to have several amazing Black electeds and candidates running for US Senate and US House—we don’t need corporate Dems erasing them.

Florida GOP gerrymandered its districts to dilute Black voters. But almost no one is talking about the response of Florida’s corporate Dems.

1. They’re running Alexander Vindman for Senate even though an extraordinary Black State Rep named Angie Nixon was already running

2. They’re running Debbi Wasserman Schulz for House in majority non-white CD-20 even though 6 Black Dem candidates are already running.

Both parties in Florida are telling Black people to take a back seat & it’s indefensible.

‘There is no scenario where Putin simply leaves. He can only be overthrown by force.'

“Justice Jackson told a gathering of the American Law Institute her colleagues' handling of the Louisiana case may have compromised the court's impartiality in political matters…” — To put it mildly. abcnews.com/Politics/jus...

As we see sincere post after post from MoC, here's the likely Trump version: This Memorial Day, we dishonor the suckers & losers who were stupid enough to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Only a measly 13 or so died in my illegal Iran war so far, so...problem? GOP MoC fine w/ this.

Would it really be surprising? I mean Zuckerberg also wrote/chatted this about the first Facebook users:

»ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard

ZUCK: just ask

ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?

ZUCK: people just submitted it

ZUCK: i don’t know why

ZUCK: they “trust me”

ZUCK: dumb fucks«

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-people-first-ever-mark-zuckerberg-harvard

@xs4me2 @mysk

#Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #WhatsApp #Instagram #PrivacyProtection

This is some headline.

"Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds."

#ageism #misogyny

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/25/films-more-likely-to-star-an-actor-called-chris-or-a-talking-animal-than-a-woman-over-60-study-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

25 May 1931 | A Czech Jewish boy, Ivo Rubin, was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 4 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

Neither the ruling class nor the wars that they engender can offer anything that is worth trading your life for.

Don't let them make you into another Memorial Day statistic.

If you or your loved ones are currently serving in the US military, please contact the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487.

https://crimethinc.com/posters/dont-let-them-throw-your-life-away-iran-edition

On this Memorial Day a salute to the news correspondents who’ve died covering the world’s wars. I want to pay special tribute to one of my closest friends, Natasha Singh. She was 28. Along with the AP’s Sharon Herbaugh she was one of 15 aboard a helicopter who died in a 1993 crash in Afghanistan.

So I'm not sure how I'm meant to remember Memorial Day now that the US has adopted the fascism most of our honored dead fought to defeat. It kinda feels like our rememberance should consist of apologies.

#USPolitics #MemorialDay #fascism

RE: https://ohai.social/@thejessiekirk/116534983179276849

I'm going to build a set of 12 knight miniatures with historically correct horses, armour and weapons for jousting, circa 1450.

But I'm going to have fun with the heraldry and have whatever medieval knights I like because I'm weird.

(Suggestions welcome but it's pretty niche.)

#Heraldry #Vexillology

#ai #AIDataCenter #datacenter #datacenters #ceo #ceos #greed #water #watershortage #NoBillionaires #BillionairesShouldNotExist #latestagecapitalism #endstagecapitalism #ecology #environment #pollution #HellPlanet #extinction #darkfuture

Released activists from Gaza flotilla:

“In one of the prison boats, 35 people suffered fractures to their ribs. People said there was at least 12 sexual assaults that took place. People were tased."

"Me personally, I was kept in cuffs, where I can’t feel my hands anymore. I was kicked in the ribs multiple times.”

~Alex Colston, Sumud activist kidnapped by Israel

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/22/headlines/deported_global_sumud_flotilla_activists_describe_torture_and_abuse_by_israeli_captors

#USPol #EUPol #GlobalSumudFlotilla #IsraeliCrimes #news #palestine .

Politico reports Ukraine is increasingly using its Lima electronic warfare system to make Russian drones and missiles miss. Developed by Cascade Systems, Lima jams and spoofs satellite navigation, feeding weapons false coordinates and widening their deviation. More than 400 units have been supplied, with the system used against Shaheds, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and glide bombs. #Ukraine