Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

Sam Alito, a week ago: "vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South.... '[T]hings have changed dramatically' in the decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act" #SegregationSam #JimCrowJohn

The concept seems to be "you should sacrifice for an elected role." Sounds good in theory but what you get are (1) already very rich people and (2) people who *don't* sacrifice, they just make up the difference and more via corruption. It should pay well. People should want it as an actual job.

Rich is not a protected class. It is not immutable. Don't want to be treated like a parasite on the civic body? Don't act like one.

#WNBA season starts tonight. You can buy a full season long League Pass in their app, or via Amazon, for a whole $40. Easy way to support women's sports if you're interested in that kind of thing, even if you don't want to watch. Less than it takes to fill your gas tank these days...

LEGO celebrated Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday by raising the maximum age limit from 99 years old to 100+ nerdist.com/article/lego-ra...

"none of us can cancel everything but everyone can cancel something" is the heart of this. Sometimes it feels like folks on here are more interested in yelling at each other over the ways we're all struggling to navigate this system instead of figuring out what parts we can do.

So absurd. And the same Republicans who voted to strip Memphis of representation will post about how much they honor and respect MLK in January.

@davidfrum.bsky.social nailed it in 2018: "If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy."

FACT CHECK: No, Tennessee’s new Congressional map does not balance urban and rural communities. Data shows it does exaggerate gerrymandering and put Black and Democratic voters at a disadvantage. nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/08/t...

ATWATER: ".. Faced with higher taxes," the wealthy flee. ".. The net result is an increasing awareness, especially among those at the bottom, that those at the top are at best temporary residents and not true citizens of the local community."

More than anything, Republicans want Democrats to start to believe that it's hopeless so they won't bother to turn out. But the truth is that even the Virginia decision is not enough to prevent Democrats from taking the House if we have a wave election. But we have to have a wave election.

Really tired of stories calling things a blow to Democrats when they are actually a blow to democracy

"It's no big deal that your loved ones died of COVID. In fact, if you think about it, it was sort of their fault that they died."

@repmoskowitz.bsky.social is proposing moving USSS under White House. I can't think of anything more dangerous. Trump targeted his VP Trump doxed Obama, which led to him being stalked by an armed Jan6er Trump has withdrawn protection from his adversaries www.foxnews.com/politics/bip...

whoever leaked that he’s panicking about leaks is the funniest person in the government

A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.

Going around again. Still worth the watch.

Question: Why would the Super Bowl ever come to a Jim Crow state that intentionally strips representation from Black people? cc: NFL

THREAD.

This is Spear. He is being forced to leave his grandma's house against his will. You know who would never do this to him? Grandma. 13/10 (TT: daddymaddy19)

They will stand in front of you and drive a dagger into your heart and say, "This administration has done more to reduce stabbings than any government in history."

Shitty fucking day in Tennessee (and frankly kind of a five alarm fire for the rest of the country, but not enough people will notice, because they think we deserve this or whatever). Insanely proud of and grateful for my friends who stood against Jim Crow 2.0 in person all week. 🫡

Republicans can’t conceal the moral ugliness of what they’ve done in Tennessee www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

As a lawyer, former poli sci/history student, and Tennessean, I am just so sad and deflated this afternoon.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Zero Tennessee House Republicans stood and spoke in favor of their racially gerrymandered 9-0 map stripping Memphis of representation during their allotted time. Speaks volumes.

BREAKING: Under pressure from Trump’s White House, state Republicans rushed to create a more favorable U.S. House map for the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterm. Multiple lawsuits are expected to be filed by the end of the day.

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

This state's legislature has always been an embarrassment. But this is shameful. Nashville birthed the civil rights movement. Now it's the site of a bunch of sapheads in the thralls of a dimwitted personality cult, joyfully walking it back.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

I'm literally writing about a set of Tennessee segregationists in the 1960s at the moment. I swear to God, they were not *this* comically and overtly racist.

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Hi, spider expert here! Kyle Rittenhouse was bitten by a Brown Recluse (loxosceles reclusa). Unlike widow bites, recluse bites don't affect the nervous system. Instead, they are a cytotoxic venom, destroying local tissues at the site of the bite.. So how bad could this get? Well...

She was one of the driving forces behind the VA congressional map initiative.

Lot more thoughts on yesterday's tragic death, but this is all I could muster up last night. I'm tired, disappointed, and at this point just plain angry. ezra-howard.com/2026/05/05/i...

The Trump regime is using an official social media account — managed with taxpayer funds — to post offensive horseshit like this.

One thing the story does is repeat claims that people who go off SSRIs then feel depressed/suicidal for years because of withdrawal instead of, you know, because they’re no longer taking an antidepressant. Delano also makes a big deal of this (completely stupid and obviously fake) idea.

New details have been released about Palm Beach International Airport, recently renamed to Donald J. Trump International Airport. Their new contract requires the airport to purchase Trump merchandise from Trump's own licensor, directly violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

“WHOSE STATE? OUR STATE!” Tennesseans sing the national anthem and @OdessaKelly leads a protest after a shambolic rules committee starts a dark week of Black voter disenfranchisement in Tennessee

When your racist Redistricting plan breaks the law, Just change the law

Never met Tony Peters, don’t know who he is, but a million years ago on Facebook he posted this and I don’t think anyone’s ever put it better.

Meet Bumpy! This enchanting little chap was rescued over the weekend. This was Bumpy's first night with us, snuggled next to Keeper Simon. Simon put his mattress on the ground and the tiny hippo nestled by his side, swaddled in his cherry blanket.

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

Lying again that the war is over and Hormuz is open didn't work, berating allies (again) to fix it for us didn't work (again), so we're back to threatening mass war crimes in the hope that the regime that didn't collapse or capitulate in the face of bombing will in the face of threats. Again.

I want to point out this doctor is recommending Tamiflu (oseltamivir), the antiviral used to treat/prevent influenza infection, for treatment of hantavirus. Tamiflu works by inhibiting the enzyme neuraminidase, which influenza viruses use. Hantaviruses do not even contain the enzyme neuraminidase.

when you're a shorthanded team that gives absolutely everything you're always liable to run out of things to give

Do kids understand how far this guy fell? From America’s mayor to election denier Dracula and hair melting ignominy.

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.