To be clear, any member of congress who voted for that bill - honoring a person who spent their life attacking the communities I care about - will never receive a single dollar or a single vote from me. That includes my current representative, who bizarrely thinks this helps her win a senate seat.

"Is this willful blindness dressed as philosophy? Perhaps. But isn’t willful blindness, at scale, the churning engine of unbridled optimism?"

Someone recently said to me that things will get worse before they get better, but that is not true. There is no guarantee that anything gets better. Things can just continue getting worse and worse. I can't stop thinking about that today.

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I don't know who did this but they must be a genius. #Caturday 🐈.

US TRANS FRIENDS: Drop your gofundmes, venmos, whatever ways of supporting you you have, in the replies. Then go make sure you have plans with loved ones to deal with the worst. I love you all. We will get thru it CIS PEOPLE: Go through the replies and donate money to someone. Then reskeet.

I think it is time for many of our so-called elites to pick up some Max Weber The idea that the catastrophic loss of the underpinnings of our institutions is somehow disconnected from our descent into authoritarianism is farcical; yet no one is bothering to cover things as such.

"To be clear, we’re not anti-soap. But given the skyrocketing rate of chronic illness in this country, isn’t it worth investigating if soap plays a role?"

Some professional news: After more than a decade of columnizing at The Washington Post, I'm taking the buyout. This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them: wapo.st/3TU2fGw

Did you hear about the executive who was embracing his peer until suddenly they were in the spotlight? Lots of awkward scrambling ensued and then the executive told his attorney general to release grand jury transcripts about the relationship.

i entered last week very skeptical about Epstein conspiracy theories and now I'm wondering if Trump personally walked into the jail and killed him

Zeno steps aside.

Please Cthulhu, save us from this world of bullshit

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Darth Vader being “gracious” and “not fake.” Everything we’ve ever not liked about him is absent in this scene.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

If you know, you know 😭

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Apparently the White House doesn't need economists, it needs necromancers

@repangiecraig.bsky.social congrats on the James Beard! Proud to have you representing me.

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

I have two sides: - One Rhythm Heaven game per decade - The third 80+ hour Trails RPG to launch in 2025 alone

This is art. 🤗

In DC for a long planned vacation, may or may not have flipped off the entire CPB building as we drove past.

Uhhh www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

you see the trouble with poet Is how do you know it's Deceased? Try the priest

PEOPLE OF BLUESKY! Ahhhhhh, it smells good here. Behold a trailer for season 2 of Poker Face! It’s gonna be a good one. May 8th on the almighty Peacock!

Might be time for another one of those "person man woman camera TV" tests

I **loved** these books when I was a kid. Choose Your Own Adventure plus D&D? Escape from this bullshit world that sucks? SIGN ME UP! They've been out of print forever, but Steve Jackson Games is bringing them back, and I thought my fellow nerds should know. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

My dad worked for the Iowa state cancer registry many years ago. Rolling over in his grave is an understatement.

The Nodfather, Part III Just when we thought he was out, they pull him back in. So he can fall asleep while his sugar daddy runs the country.

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

I always thought Wallace Shawn had the ideal career: you get to be this well-regarded highbrow playwright and art house movie maker AND you also get to be a part of millions of people‘s childhoods by being in Clueless, the Princess Bride, and Toy Story. What a life.

People don’t give a shit if it's one or two bills. They care that Republicans are hellbent on cutting the *$6 per day* families get in nutrition assistance and the Medicaid benefits millions of working families rely on to see a doctor. And for what? To pay for more tax cuts for giant corporations.

Sheryl Crow: “My parents always said you are who you hang out with. There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla. Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes the truth will…find its way to those willing to know [it].”

The Democratic Party right now is pretty close to f—ing useless.

Abby Phillip reading sycophant Scott Jennings for filth tonight on CNN made my night. "Let me say it more slowly for you Scott". The look of fear in his eyes was everything.