i would simply wish for infinite wishes. bsky.app/profile/karl...

I'm genuinely not sure how we come back from this level of delusion. I know there's always been loons in political office but I dunno... this feels like something we don't come back from as a society.

The aim of the war is no longer regime change. The aim of the war is now to convince people this wasn't a mistake in the first place.

Just when higher education demands defense against a fascist onslaught--and when AI provides new need and opportunity for the humanities--The NYer and its author (Bowdoin '02, Columbia '05) surrender ivy to careerism without making the case for education for its own sake.

Imagine if the Democrats had embraced maximum resistance both times Trump was sworn in instead of this accommodationist bs

OMFG. She’s just determined to do maximum damage.

How the Tech World Turned Evil newrepublic.com/article/2088... via @newrepublic.com

Amazon Basics indeed

Nick Fuentes says that America is "n*gger hell," then realizes he probably shouldn't have said that while wearing a James Fishback for Governor quarter zip: "My apologies to the campaign."

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Trump assures the world that Iran isn't shooting at ships, except for the ships they're shooting at

May the 4th is always an opportunity for select dicks on social media to tell us how stupid Star Wars is and how we’re all very dumb for having loved it.

Same.

The Trump administration falsely claims that boat strikes target fentanyl and have halted 97 percent of cocaine shipments to the U.S.

They cut school lunches and THIS is the bipartisan school funding bill they come up with? Fuck you.

it is may fourth

Assume AI training for K-12 is a good idea. Schiff's bill, the LIFT AI Act, is a grant program for the National Science Foundation. The NSF has no director. The nominee is a Thiel acolyte with no science degrees. Trump just fired the entire Board that oversees NSF. No. Absolutely not.

I don't think trump is actually fooling the markets, per se. it seems more like the markets and trump are collaborating in pretending that the world economy is okay because no one actually wants to face the collapse.

The Republicans control all three branches of government, the J6ers were all pardoned, right wingers own Twitter, Facebook, the Washington Post, CBS and CNN…right wing donors exert unprecedented influence over the nation’s universities, but sure, we’re on the verge of a Cultural Marxist revolution.

The task for the Democratic Party is to convince voters that Trump is *not* a one-of-one, *not* some bizarre freak of nature, *not* an anomaly, but rather the full & clear expression of Republican Party values. This is what you get when you elect Republicans.

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

Give me a candidate whose pitch is "The government should be run like a government."

Three incredible things from this story: 1) the first words are “A 3-year-old hunter” 2) the “mentor” was exempt from “hunter education certification” bc of their “military training.” 3) the adult shot in the turkey hunt was an off-duty law enforcement officer.

Are we not supposed to mention that he looks like he's gonna blow that mic?

I’m sick of people treating women’s work like an unfortunate departure from an ideal caused by capitalism. Women being independent is good. It keeps men honest. It’s reduced spousal and child abuse. It makes marriages more fair and safer.

we're gonna find out that the entire formidable Daily Wire audience was just a product of 1) a contiunous flow of oligarch money into buying algorithmic promotion for its content 2) conservatives inside meta, X and google pressuring the algorithm into promoting their content

Before the Rust Belt it was the New England mill towns Sooner or later it'll be Silicon Valley Capital flowing through concrete places and people without a care for what it does to earth and bones

Hmm. I just took a ~1500 word piece that I wrote word by word the old fashioned way like the actual writer I am, and ran it through an AI checker just to see what it said, and it highlighted 13 separate phrases that it thinks were likely AI generated. *sigh* This seems bad.

Donald Trump has nearly tripled his net worth since being elected president a second time. The Trump family is also taking in billions from foreign governments and profiting off of the presidency itself, violating the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause. trib.al/ongt4fe

Ok folks know the US isn't a democracy anymore but this is pretty high-level authoritarian shit

How low can he go? Here’s a reference point: 27% of Illinois voters picked Alan Keyes over Barack Obama in their 2004 race for U.S. Senate.

Trump: “shouldn't be here. There was just an attempt on my life. I should be indoors at a secure facility where I can quietly, beautifully, and safely play out my term, destroying everything that comes in our way, like bad countries.”

CNN investigation finds "unprecedented destruction" at 16 U.S. bases in the Middle East, leaving some "virtually unusable." www.cnn.com/2026/05/01/w...

The Voting Rights Act worked. It increased Black representation in the South and elsewhere.

This is an absolutely wild correction from The Verge www.theverge.com/features/916...

“THE RULES DON’T APPLY TO US” Karim Khan reveals Lindsey Graham told him the ICC is “for Africa and thugs like Putin”… not countries like the U.S. or Israel. Selective justice is no justice at all. International law is a weapon.

For Johnson, redistricting gives him a chance to keep his job *and* have fewer Black colleagues www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

We are So. Fucked.

🔴PAY ATTENTION: The Governor of Louisiana is declaring an emergency to cancel an ongoing election so that his party can rig the rules moving forward. This is not just about redistricting... www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Fox News: "If you only watch one side or you only watch the other, you were doing great harm to yourself by not exposing yourself to more viewpoints. Well, take that and multiply it by a thousand. You know, that's what targeted algorithms do on platforms like Bluesky..." This whole clip is amazing.

LMAO -- Trump announces that Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier is his new pick for Surgeon General

REED: Of the 24 officers you've fired for reasons unrelated to performance, 60% are Black or female. Did Trump direct you to single them out? HEGSETH: The only measurement is merit. The previous leadership of this dept were focused on social engineering and gender in ways we think were unhealthy

A year later, checking back in on those "fully AI employees a year away" to see how successful they are and oh no

Last night, Trump amplified 2 QAnon-promoting accounts, including an image from one of them that includes the QAnon phrases "Q+" and "nothing can stop what is coming" (or "NCSWIC").

I don’t think I have ever seen the US legal system work harder than this endless effort to give Alex Jones 700 million chances to wriggle out of consequences

Husband loves teaching undergrads. And usually I'm like "nooo, 20 year olds are exhausting," but tonight we had dessert with a whole mess of them, and it was such a mood lifter, after a craptacular day, to be around the irrepressible optimism of that age. I get it now.

Trump is the greatest spokesperson for how ill equipped dysfunctional and disastrous the pre programmed software of traditional masculinity can be What poor planning Poor communication Poor implementation Poor cognition Gets you

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

One thing about cigarettes non-health care providers don’t grasp is that it’s not just lung cancer. It’s COPD. I spent a lot of my early career working with elderly people who just couldn’t breathe. You can’t think about anything when you can’t breathe.