Wow.

Jesus was too woke and the new pope is a corrupt liberal. Here’s why I’m converting to Catholicism.

Everyone in the White House involved in any way with that vile, sickening racist Trump post must be fired immediately: everyone in the communications department, everyone in the press office, every deputy chief of staff, everyone involved up and down the line. Not one more tax dollar for this filth.

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

Just say women. This is taking forever.

it just strikes me as a bad idea to pick fights with an astronaut.

An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀

This is Just to Say I have ruined the workplace with my very presence and which you were probably using for bro time Forgive me it’s like a Montessori preschool in here now

as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed

I gotta say, I’m seeing the most Live Laugh Love women I went to all girls high school with in Ohio posting anti-ICE Instagram reels and demanding people pay attention to the threat of fascism

no noah, i wrote that post because i think you are a weird antisocial loser and i want you to know that

My latest in @newrepublic.com: an urgent plea to recognize the humanity of DC residents, their longtime second-class citizenship and need —should democracy not already be lost forever—for statehood. “Washington, D.C., residents are the most powerless canary in the most authoritarian coal mine.”

This is a dark moment for our democracy, but it is far from the first. I've been reflecting on how we need not only strategies for this moment, but mindsets. I offer four ideas for those here, and hopefully some inspiration from those who came before. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-hard-w...

Some enterprising souls have already posted a parody website (h/t @danhon.com) americabydesign.fail

/5 By the way: in case there is any ambiguity, or someone is tempted so say "Ken seems to be" or "Ken is arguably"..... I am absolutely mocking a federal law enforcement officer for getting hit in the body armor with a sandwich. You can quote me. I am 100% doing that.

“capital put under armed occupation because regime henchman named Big Balls got the absolute piss beaten out of him by a child” would probably get cut from a Zucker brothers movie script

Maybe it’s just me, but I will say that I find the normal, Washington D.C. reportorial voice and attitude—worldly, knowing, ironic—off-putting when writing about a child rapist.

It is hard to grasp but large masses of Americans are both racist/xenophobic AND not racist/xenophobic enough to applaud what Trump is doing. It's goldilocks shit, they want a level of racism/xenophobia calibrated exactly to their personal preferences, and you just can't make that policy. Don't try.

"I'm coming up against a spiritual struggle today, something people less privileged than me have had to deal with for their whole lives, which is how to live among millions of evil people. I should define what I mean by that." www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...

The NYT's Zohran story is not only idiotic, but after a decade of Donald Trump, it is quaint: Does anyone care anymore about (alleged) embarrassing indiscretions in the past when the current President is a legit monster?

Hot take: Not only are work requirements for Medicaid bad, tying health care to work at all is cruel and we should be doing it less not more. Everyone deserves health care. Everyone.

I see some discourse about ditching the former Twitter, and so I'll remind folks that the best reason to there is that it's a fucking Nazi bar and we all deserve better. I'm on social media to enjoy conversation with cool folks. Bluesky does a bang-up job of that. The former Twitter doesn't.

do you ever think about how this is all happening for no reason at all?

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

I think it's that feeling of elites playacting and killing time and clinging to the past when we could come together and look for a new way forward - just look, not necessarily even find one - that hurts so much.

Thought of what I think is a good slogan: Born Here, Belong Here

The internet-winning prize for this week has to be shared among @thelostmuppet.bsky.social @oldjavaguy.bsky.social and @elkmovie.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/thel...

Good morning! It’s a perfect day to realize that the politics you’re used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h... This may not seem like a big deal to most people, but these programs make it possible for older adults to not have to rely on nursing home care which ultimately taps into Medicaid dollars. Pennywise and pound foolish.

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

It's not that Elon is so much worse than Zuck or Bezos, it's that Elon is vulnerable and the others aren't. Tesla is Elon's only real business, and it's falling apart on its own. If we all help it fall apart faster, and take down Musk, the others will notice. Call it billionaire domino theory.

One thing life gave me is resilience. Resilience is, far and away, the single greatest factor to anything good that I have in my life. Someone recently asked me what I want for the kids in my life. It’s this. Resilience. Because life ain’t fair & you gotta live it anyway.

At the moment, high-end trousers are mostly made in Italy, which typically retail for around $500. Why can't we have a US factory that tries to make something for less? The US should subsidize the training of these workers, even if they're immigrants. Help create education programs for tailoring.

all of the talk of “reshoring (low end) manufacturing” and “bringing back the american worker” is a smokescreen for a plan to impoverish as many americans by forcing as many of them as possible into backbreaking, low wage labor. it’s discipline for an unruly populace.

Yeah. A lot of what is happening here is a Ponzi scheme. The Amway cleaner IS nice on maybe toilets. But people don’t get excited about clean toilets so the Ameay guy promises it can clean your whole house and make you a ton of $$. If I focus on toilets, it’s both true & not true enough for them

okay one more: tom cotton looks like the gomer pyle they locked in the attic

President Trump's EO on DC is thoroughly anti-home rule and insulting to 700K DC residents who live in close proximity to a federal government that continues to deny them the same rights given to other Americans.   Statement: bit.ly/4j8veB3

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Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

Lots of good reminders in this piece that, historically, advocating for changes to customs, laws, beliefs that are unjust is an uphill battle but worth the effort as it emboldens other to join in and create momentum.

Oh. And what is the move if the Supreme Court—who let's all remember is a gang of bribed far right extremist ideologues that already ruled that Trump is immune from prosecution for breaking laws—says everything he's doing is perfectly lawful for presidents to do?

Let me fix that for you: the pundit habit of treating Hanania and Rufo and people like them as worthy of engagement has helped mainstream them and transform the GOP into openly racist groypers, one of the most counterproductive and off-putting choices of the last 20 years of media figures

From Nov 2023 to Jan 2024 I worked on a tool we called the AI sandbox. Our goal: let federal software devs test out AI tools in a safe way, to discover if they have any use. Renamed GSAi, the tool has been claimed by DOGE. It is being rolled out on an alarming accelerated schedule.

“the president gave our WW3 plans to an epic bacon ketamine addict with no impulse control” okay man, I guess at this point I don’t know what I’m supposed to do about it. “adderall incels asked AI and it said nobody needs books anymore” well, I already called my senator and he said it’s fine