You know what, I think there was a movie version of the opera that started like this, and that's exactly how they played and staged it. And like the closer to the ballroom the camera got the more things looked lived in and alive, and it was like travelling back in time to see what led to it.

You ever get so overstimulated by the fucking white noise machines at work that your brain decides to play the opening music from La Traviata with a super spooky low volume setting to lead into a gradual crescendo like you're wandering a previously happy mansion that's all haunted & mothballed now?

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

The same week that Leo Garcia Venegas was detained for a third time, a top immigration official told a border security conference that arrests “where we thought they were an illegal alien but they were actually a U.S. citizen” had “happened zero times.”

🚨New Bright Line Watch report on the rule of law in the US - joint w/@rickhasen.bsky.social's Strengthening Democracy Project at UCLA Law The most comprehensive expert survey to date - 21 federal judges, 113 elite lawyers, and 193 law profs brightlinewatch.org/erosion-of-t... 🧵 on findings below ⬇️

Alamo Drafthouse apparently thinks I like horror movies now, and since this is patently false I am a bit sad. I love my son, and he's the one that loves horror movies.

sufficiently large polygons are the domain of lovecraftian horror

"UNUSUAL OFFER"?? No, headline writers. "Charges Dropped Against Indian Billionaire Accused of Bribery, After Offering Trump A Bribe."

JD Vance announced the suspension of $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California as part of his new role as "fraud czar" for the Trump Regime. Meanwhile, Trump has pardoned multiple convicted fraudsters, including several who gave money to his campaign and Super PAC. Remember this.

trump destroyed america as a superpower and then claims that we can only have what's now a lost dream if we believe the lies that will make it all worse

“The reversal came after the Indian billionaire, Gautam Adani, hired a new legal team led by Robert J. Giuffra Jr., one of President Trump’s personal lawyers.”

Always a great sign when your child's primary care provider graciously offers to let their specialty care provider the chance to "write this up in a paper," right?

You: Please act normal you need these people to like you. Me: Ok! People: Hi! Me: The first gun control law in US history was a 1611 prohibition against giving guns to Indigenous people and all subsequent American gun laws have been intended to disarm BIPOC communities to preserve white power.

BREAKING: JD Vance announces that the Trump administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements owed to the state of California.

Stay safe while mowing.

John Carpenter's Pretty in Pink

I've entered a Lego sweepsteaks for a vacation to NZ to visit the land of my people (Hobbits) and bop around NZ for a week. And get Lego sets, but that's like tertiary to my interests here. I will not win, but I enter any contest to get to go to NZ I see, as a matter of principle.

Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

NEW: NAACP on Supreme Court allowing Alabama to redraw map to dilute power of Black voters "We are witnessing a return to Jim Crow. Anybody who is alarmed by these developments—as everybody should be—better be making a plan to vote in November to put an end to this madness"

"The study highlights that insulin-sensitizing agents and GLP-1 receptor agonists (commonly used for metabolic conditions) are showing promise for improving both mood and cognitive function." Holy shit??? This is a potential game changer. Now we just need these meds to be affordable.

If your family member collaborated with the Nazis and you still have looted art on your walls, you, too, are collaborating with the Nazis. There is no time limit on collaboration. Your silence and lack of action to do the right thing makes you no better than your Nazi relative.

Supreme Court Breaks Another Election To Make Sure Black Voters Are Disenfranchised Again, I feel like I'm going crazy here, but the obviously extremely partisan Supreme Court has struck again. I will repeat some of the basics, because it's hard to believe how blatant all of this is. In November,…

How the fuck does the Texas district even have fucking jurisdiction except in the right wing argument of "all the judges here agree with us so we want it to"???

Microsoft's complicity was specifically called out by Francesca Albanese. Albanese was sanctioned by the US for the temerity to author a report on the cooperation of industry in Israel's war crimes.

Name changed to reflect the reality it’s a hormonal/endocrinology issue and not cysts. The hope is it will help studying and finding solutions to PMOS. Patients were consulted over changing it.

Good morning you wild animals!

ABC Shows A Backbone In FCC Fight, Shows FCC Manufactured A Controversy Surrounding James Talarico ABC/Disney, like most major media companies, has spent much of its time during America's bout with authoritarianism being a feckless wimp. The company was quick to ditch its already fleeting embrace…

I like to live dangerously. So I bought a ring on Amazon haul that said it's copper, but looks gold. Now we'll see if Amazon sells shitty copper that's maybe cut with something unlisted.

My new neighbors keep revving their motorcycles and blaring their radios at fucking 11pm and I might snap. It's become a pattern for them.

NEW: SCOTUS majority gives Alabama GOP a chance to use a map already found to be unconstitutional. Justice Sotomayor, for the three Dem appointees, noted in dissent that the majority acted "without regard for the confusion that will surely ensue." The primary election was to be held May 19.

where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

SCOTUS invoked the Purcell Principle, which is that courts shouldn't make changes that affect an election too close to an election, to block a decision that would have required Texas to change its maps *last December* but now since it advantages Rs it's fine to change maps after voting has started

The Republican legislators who voted for this have done a filthy, racist, cheating thing. Never forget.

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

I was really not worried about the hantavirus until this administration started saying more and more forcefully everything is fine

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

FEMA UPDATE: State governments should shoulder more of the cost and responsibility for natural disaster recovery, according to a report released Thursday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency review council. From States Newsroom:

when we say we’re living under fascism we mean we’re living under fascism

I remember republicans losing their fucking minds over a nurse and Ebola but sure. This seems smart and good.

Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...

Kennedy's health officials explored US ban of some widely used antidepressants

I frequently waffle between "I'm sure I have a curl pattern" and "maybe I'm lying to myself and my hair is just wavy." Anyway, I got a new shampoo that is like clarifying plus moisture and I do have a curl pattern on at least one lock, lol.

David Attenborough, the excited but hushed voice of nature programs, turns 100 #England

I've been thinking about this famous quote from John Adams a bit lately. It suggests a different arc of history picture than the main two others in popular circulation: the cyclical one of weak men making hard times, etc. & the (impossibly resilient) narrative of endless, irresistible Progress.

this guy is bad

“Investigative journalism is an act of optimism.” Thrilled to announce the new @propublica.org Podcast “Paper Trail.” Hosted by @jlussenhop.bsky.social. Here’s the trailer: www.propublica.org/series/paper...

NEW: Introducing “Paper Trail,” ProPublica’s new podcast. Each episode, we’ll take you inside an investigation, uncovering hidden facts and secrets — and doing what we do best: showing you the receipts. ▶️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. First episode drops May 14: propub.li/42ULaRa