the guy that wrote this is absolutely melting down and blaming all of the left and calling bluesky a cancer, just completely crashing out, telling all academics to leave here, because people are dragging him for absolutely godawful shoddy work. its pretty funny.

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

Biggest rises were in vegetable oil and sugar prices, which increased by 5% and 7% respectively

Esquire AI-Generated A Fake Interview With Live-Action One Piece Actor Mackenyu Because He Was Busy:

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

And thus the US government badmouths Ukrainian systems that are battle tested and work. Warmongers is an old-fashioned word but it fits the Trump crew very well.

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

BREAKING: Measles Is BACK U.S. Just Crossed 1,600 Cases, Worst in 30+ Years A disease once eliminated is spreading again.

New article out! I'd be especially curious to get your thoughts on the last issue: why you don't think AGI will destroy humanity in the near future. There's a poll at the end of the article. Skip to it if you don't have time to read the rest. :-) Thanks!!

Trump is seeking a $500 BILLION annual increase to the already $1 TRILLION Pentagon budget. This money could fund health care, affordable housing, day care, education, and so much more. But instead, the White House wants to spend it on a Pentagon that can't even pass an audit.

This is why you don't have healthcare.

Microplastics create macro problems.​ Nurdles are tiny pellets made from fossil fuels and are raw materials for plastic goods. Chemical companies spill 1 billion pounds of these nurdles every year, polluting the communities they operate in and floating out into the ocean.

Trump's budget proposes a massive cut to national rail infrastructure development: —National network grants from $4.8 b this year to $1.5 b —Northeast Corridor grants from $2 b this year to $600 m —High-speed rail grants from $900 m to $0 —Fed/state grants from $3.8 b to $1.4 b

“In what has become a grotesque pattern of overreach, the government charges left-wing protestors engaged in protected First Amendment activity with the most serious felonies available.” New: Sara Van Horn reports from the Prairieland trial in Fort Worth. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."

Excellent thread, especially this part:

EPA moves to designate microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water

"Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?" -- Jane Goodall, born #OTD 1934

Why reducing air pollution deaths isn’t just about reducing air pollution

81/"This kind of crazy spike in fuel prices is bound to trigger social instability Rich countries will just suck it up & hoard all the barrels by paying higher prices, but poorer nations can’t afford that kind of luxury Everyone’s gonna realize real soon "its no big deal" was a total load of crap"

Exit of Trump officials including FBI director Patel under discussion, Atlantic reports reut.rs/3OebPEZ

This is what being "against DEI" has always meant.

The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.

Louis C.K. will headline Netflix's comedy festival, so everyone crying about “cancel culture” for the last decade can shut up now. www.jezebel.com/louis-ck-hea...

The court ruled 8-1 against a Colorado law banning ‘conversion therapy’ for youths. What does it mean for other states, and why did two liberals side with conservatives?

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘰-𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦-𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥’𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 26% 𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦.

Trump flips between posting videos of his war crimes and TV theme songs from his childhood. They're calling it the most Boomer finale to American empire ever imagined.

‘A System Rigged’: Untaxed Wealth of Richest 0.1% Is More Than Assets of World’s Poorest Half A decade after the Panama Papers, ​the global rich are still hiding more than $2.8 trillion in tax havens.

Trump created a crisis that could end the American Empire and destroy the global economy. Now he’s looking at a no-win situation and hoping someone or something will bail him out. This is what happens when you hand power to a monster like Trump. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-plot-i...

You kind of have to remind yourself, because it just breaks the brain, but the Atlantic is still publishing this "random lefty used words that annoyed me" shit *while fascists are destroying the country*. Not that there's a "threat" of fascism. It's here! Look out your goddamn window!

Everyone's making fun of this piece -- appropriately, because it's embarrassingly bad -- but among other things it is one of the cleanest examples of Murc's Law you will ever find. Reactionaries hate immigrants ... because of the word choices of left activists & academics!

All over the country ICE is spending billions to divert local law enforcement to federal immigration enforcement. www.daytondailynews.com/local/ice-ag...

Elon's dangerous software may drive you off the road. His dangerous car may then burst into flame. And his dangerous door design may trap you inside. On the plus side, your family may save on the funeral expenses as the fires sometimes burn hot enough to cremate the occupants 😬 #TeslaTakedown

RFK Jr. is taking away our access to new cancer screening and other preventative strategies in plain sight and he is getting away with it. The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force is not allowed to meet so they can’t issue disease prevention recommendations that must be covered under the ACA.

NEW: air permit applications for a data center being built with investment from google shows it would rely on a natural gas power plant that emits more than 4.5 million tons of greenhouse gasses each year google has publicly touted its commitment to renewables but appears to be privately eyeing gas

Google teams up with gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals

The US conservative movement has established an informal nationwide network whereby, if you do something horrible or crude or violent or racist,& face some accountability ... they will crowdfund for you & make you rich. Very explicitly encouraging & rewarding shitty anti-social behavior.

What the fuck are we doing here man

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

“We know what space exploration is right now: deeply flawed, and actively being reinvented as we watch. Seeing the guts of the machinery as funding priorities change and ideas fly past at rapid speeds should hopefully make us think.”

100%

Back in August 2025, @mirandayaver.bsky.social and I published an OpEd on how RFK Jr. an the Trump administration are trying to destroy the ACA using backdoor methods like blocking advisory panels like the USPSTF. I’m glad this issue is getting more attention from Reuters today.

Moving the USFS and closing research facilities is handing control of public lands to the heart of the anti-public lands movement. Lobbyists & states that want more logging, more privatizing, less wildlife, control the show and 193 million acres of the West. www.thewildlifenews.com/2026/04/02/b...

“The findings expose a problem emerging across the AI industry: tools that are designed to be useful and intimate are also quietly measuring the people who use them—and obscuring their own hand in the work they help produce.”

Democrats have an important choice to make. They can either spend the coming weeks hammering Trump for saying that we can't afford daycare because we need to continue a war we've already lost, or they can focus on something Hasan Piker said 7 years ago. It's a tough call! No right answers.

this is not hyperbole.

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...