where's your big stick now bitch boy

The US is blowing its entire inventory of latest-generation deep strike cruise missiles on a war of choice against an adversary it barely considered important enough to mention 6 months ago.

It’s #MosaicMonday in 🇦🇺 so here’s the cockerel-headed man of Brading Roman Villa. There’s been much discussion about this. My favourite interpretation is the villa owner, living in disgrace in Britannia, is making a joke about the emperor Constantius Gallus (cockerel in Latin) who exiled him.

“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“

Experts fear wicked wildfire season. The number of acres burned so far this year – 1,631,840 – is more than twice the 10-year average year-to-date. Meanwhile: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

1A/ Here's more on the Forest Service massacre with terrific resources about how to find info about the impacts in your region AND how to fight back: Read & share! morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/mapping-th...

This is one of the most important stories of the week that you probably missed. The trump admin is basically taking something that belongs to all of us & giving it to political hacks & corporate donors. It’s an outrage & we should push back hard.

it is funny how a lot of analysis of Trump says "well this has rape-y vibes when you squint" when his allies are just like "no he should sexually assault the strait"

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

Got an email from Adobe saying that they were nearly doubling the cost of my creative cloud subscriptions and adding a bunch of Gen AI dogshit I didn't ask for! If you don't want to get charged you have to log in and downgrade to a "standard" plan that's just the fuckin apps.

Great piece by my friend @helaineolen.bsky.social on why more people in CA are going to Mexico for vet care. Why we let private equity buy everything only to drain our bank accounts is beyond me. Truly rapacious and inhumane in every way. nymag.com/intelligence...

With Trump planning to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants, it seems that infrastructure week is finally here.

The thing is, these market pumps can only outrun actual, physical supply for so long. If we had a pressure plan that might work if it only had one, two or three more weeks to it, it might make sense to just try to fake everyone out...but yeah, no. Buying time for a train that ain't coming.

At this point, you can basically just use these announcements to remind you when futures markets are opening in Asia.

I know this is the oldest game, but can you imagine if Obama had threatened a mass casualty event in an unhinged rant that ended “Praise be to Allah” — on Easter no less — and the Times thought it wasn’t the story of the day?

Pointed enough to make them feel good about themselves. Subtle enough to keep them out of any kind of trouble.

Background: Orbán is an entrenched but wildly unpopular oligarch and authoritarian. He is facing an election that he will decisively lose — unless he can manage some trick. This obvious false flag (which he will now blame on Ukraine) should not fool anyone. (1/2)

they prematurely declared air supremacy, then lost a fighter jet for the first time in decades, then lost a bunch of other aircraft during rescues it’s a colossal fuckup amid an illegal war but sure I bet those bombs really “lit up the silhouettes of the surrounding mountain”

is it me or is this the most blatant propaganda ever written

This is one of my favourite Greek vases, known as ‘the tuna seller’. It paints a delightful scene that resonates through the ages to today - two old boys having a chat while one, the fishmonger, prepares tuna steaks for the other. 🏛️ Museo Mandralisca, Cefalu 📷 mine #AncientBlueSky #Art #Archaeology

The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of Trump’s second administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/4e5vZLL

Here is my thread on Trump's budget request, which I'll update throughout the day. He calls to cut domestic discretionary funding to the lowest level in the modern era. Trump's budget reimagines Americans' relationship with our govt, and proposes a country that does less to help people get by.

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

Civilization is built on labor not ownership. Most owners know this, most workers do not.

I love journalism. I think journalists get a ton of unnecessary shit on sites like this one sometimes. It’s a hard industry, especially now, and it requires choices and associations that aren’t always easy or nice. But this administration has been a disaster for press freedom. Come on.

I’m sorry, if you’re a journalist and you’re still going to the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck off.

Claude is down :/ so I’m just running my sink

Tricia McLaughlin, as DHS spokesperson, justified the deportation of an Army veteran because he was a "repeat offender" who had bounced a check and broken something. Meanwhile, her husband got a $220 million federal contract under incredibly suspicious circumstances. I bet it was his first offense.

Do they plan on using them on protestors and immigrants? Out of control. Do not fund these actions! theintercept.com/2026/04/03/l...

There was once an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship and sailed his a bunch of families to Union controlled waters & got everyone free. Then he fought as a soldier in the Union Army. Then he was elected to US House of Representatives. Robert Smalls was born 187 years ago today

"The detention came just days after Annie Ramos, 22, a college student with no criminal record, and Matthew Blank, 23, celebrated their marriage with family and friends. Sergeant Blank, who enlisted more than five years ago...is set to begin training at the end of the month for deployment."

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

Awful www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

Sorry. No room for bike lanes.

After he was eviscerated by that podcast ran by the two white wine moms you'd think he'd have at least workshopped a better answer than "uhh. well, um. well you see. he's a horrible person. but. well. i mean. look. i loved taking that photo with him. i'm working really hard. i'm a birthday boy."

Honestly even if you're the most pro-Israel Democrat on the planet, how can you not be mind boggled by how pathetic Cory Booker's answer is here? He keeps getting asked why he won't call Netanyahu a war criminal, a really really really easy question, and he keeps...just flailing? I don't get it tbh

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, biking in New York City. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

I was wondering where I'd seen Kat say this...and it's in my interview with her. duh. "Jewish people are consistently some of the greatest allies in the fight for Palestinian rights. Our futures and our faiths are so intertwined."

The president is clearly threatening multiple nuclear strikes. I don't see why we're not discussing impeachment proceedings or, in lieu of that, military activity intended to prevent such an attack. I'm generally of the opinion that we believe people when they tell us, then act accordingly.

"we have to take care of our own" says JD Vance, Vice President under the same man who said this literally 3 days ago.

Newsmax reporter. Check the dates.

"Oil crisis", bigger vehicles, sprawl, zoning that induces car dependency, and we never learn our lesson. Over and over again, we cater to a single industry, bankrupting taxpayer and private household budgets to uphold the century of the automobile by force and willful ignorance.

I've also noticed this shift, which was inevitable under Trump. At the end of the day, the US has produced a society that can oppose the war, but have no real mechanism with which to end it given the weak political opposition, material consequences of direct action, and broader individualism.

The United States has: - dropped two atomic bombs in combat - fire bombed cities full of civilians Yet, Trump has promised he will unleash destruction on a level that has never been unleashed before. He has promised to unleash destruction beyond Dresden, beyond Tokyo, beyond Hiroshima

So APD now has a “training center” complete with its own off-the-books jail and a fleet of damn near unaccountable robots. Not even Robocop was this dystopian.

Just as a reminder:

Capitalists: Well u see under communism there's only one kind of French fries and they're in a big white bag that just says "FRENCH FRY" and also they don't taste good and what they're made of is barely even potato Also capitalists:

That tour is now a guaranteed departure, and like ALL of our orchid tours will generate a donation to support the great botanical conservation work of our friends at @bsbibotany.bsky.social. Full tour details here on our website: (2/2) #BSBIcorporatesupporter mariposanature.com/tours/botani...