Film you’ve watched more than six times with gif. Hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli (wasn’t actually hard at all)

He knows her well, having defeated her when she ran for US Senate (Both of Connecticut’s sitting senators have accomplished that little feat - she ran twice.)

A king named Charles saying this in front of a legislative body was a hard-learned lesson

This is it exactly. He thinks if he attacks Comey often enough it’ll make Comey his opponent instead of his benefactor. (Big news companies happily play along, in part because of their own complicity in the events of October 2016)

Police said the shooting occurred after a fight outside Five Guys. The victims were women between the ages of 17 to 22 years old.

There was a mass shooting this morning at Indiana University that has left nine injured. The Indiana Daily Student has been facing pressure by Republicans and school administrators to shut down the print edition all year. Why isn't Donald Trump or legacy media corps reporting about this huh?

“One of the keys of fascism is control of the nation’s narrative” -- a fascinating interview with @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social about her life and work. Her "Backtalker: A Memoir" will be published on 5 May. 💙📚 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours.

Sarah, Percy, and Bill

“The Sorrow and the Pity,” a four-hour documentary from 1969 about Nazi-occupied France, chronicles the way that many ordinary citizens simply lived their lives as if nothing had changed—and the film is more relevant than ever, @GrahamDavidA argues. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I guess the idea here is that people born in 1950 who think they fought in the second world war are also likely to think they do an 8 hour shift in the ironworks even though they are actually propping up the bar at wetherspoons

We have a fox den next to our house that has been used every spring for the last ~5 years. Here’s the mom with several of the kits (there are 5). They will turn orange as they mature. So amazing to see them nursing! (Photo credit: my neighbor.) I love that they trust us enough to keep coming back.

🧵 We will never even be able to know the true costs of the damage done.

The ADL permanently sacrificed its reputation to get in good with a massively dangerous antisemite and white nationalist. They defended him and stood up for him even after his Nazi salute. Here's how he repays them. This is what happens when you think you're using bigots. They're always using you.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

Left: How people think Mississippi votes Right: How Mississippi actually votes

Just out here bragging about how effective the war crimes are

Yet again feeling vindicated in my decision almost 30 years ago to turn down a job at Reeves’s alma mater soon after he graduated. I obviously didn’t know anything about him then, but I didn’t want to live in that world or raise kids there, even if that meant leaving academia.

💥Hungary's first post-election poll: Péter Magyar's Tisza leads Viktor Orbán's Fidesz 66–25 among certain voters — a 41-point gap. On April 12 election night, the margin was just 15 points (53–38). Orbán's party is in freefall.

The death of History

We used to get those garlic fries back in the Candlestick Park days! Garlic fries and hot chocolate while wrapped in blankets in the freezing cold upper deck. Tickets were roughly comparable in price to going to the movies. I love baseball

How appropriate on Hitler’s birthday

Every presidential administration gets accused of corruption—sometimes with good reason, sometimes not. But the corruption of the Trump administration is of a magnitude that is not only without precedent in American history but so large and brazen as to be difficult to wrap one's head around.

The Art of Pretending there’s a Deal

Another late Friday night move by this administration

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

"In a country without the NEA, NEH and IMLS, hundreds of small local #arts groups would likely cease to exist entirely — and with them, the community, education and enlightenment that underpin our increasingly fragile, fractured society." @jessicagelt.bsky.social in @latimes.com

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

what a hateful gesture

I suspect deep inside the brain of most scholars is the memory of the moment when they first discovered the thing that sucked them into their field, of who they were in that moment. We ought to try to keep in touch with it.

Absolutely infuriating

To quote Bill Murray in “Tootsie”: “That is one NUTTY hospital.”

And she still wouldn’t back up his anti-trans hatefulness

This one could work well in the US:

Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.

86 year old French citizen, widow of a US army veteran, shackled and detained by ICE in Alabama.

This

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

We needed good news!! Thank you Hungary!

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

Part of what right wingers in the US admired about Orban (apart from his willingness to pay them) was he was ruthless in insulating his power from democratic outcomes. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/make-ameri...

It is genuinely surreal to watch both the U.S. and Britain decide to destroy their own world-renowned and extremely profitable university systems at the same time.

It seems like every leader in American politics and business at the moment is one of those guys who was pretty sure he could’ve beat Serena Williams on the court. Racist and sexist, yes, but also convinced that nobody else’s job is really that hard.

When Swalwell says, “I made mistakes in my marriage in recent years”, he is admitting that he repeatedly had sex with subordinates in his campaigns/office. He is asking us to believe that they were consensual, as if that would be full exoneration. A boss like that should be fired, not promoted.

We have a Perfect Cat-Sized Rectangle of Sunlight in our house. Happy #Caturday all