Okay Michigan, NCAA championship secured. 🏀 Now can we PLEASE do something about this.

"Having an original thought will be the only possible currency worth showcasing at a job interview, or in life at large. So maybe give that Eastern literature or creative writing elective more of a chance." bit.ly/4tA4QoS

Looking, again, for a steelman view of this. Is there ANY plausible argument that we didn’t just kill a bunch of people to no purpose and hand a giant geopolitical victory to an extremist regime after making it more entrenched and more extreme?

Corollary: Our job is not done by merely switching the party in power. Not by a longshot.

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

Local TV leads its Iran coverage by saying the "deal" includes "reopening" the Strait of Hormuz, but then adds that Iran will manage the Strait and charge fees. So, the Strait is *less* accessible than before the war. Media outlets don't need to accept the administration's framing of this ceasefire.

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

I know what I'm cranking today. youtu.be/asDlYjJqzWE?...

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

I mean, the real moral and ethical test here is simply "are people who are not American just as human, just as worthy as we are?" And I honestly believe that the numbers of US citizens who would say an unqualified "yes" are not what the optimists believe. Even among liberals and leftists. 💔

Obviously the generals were all sacked because they advised against this madness.

An American President threatening to end a civilization is not just anti-American, it’s flat out crazy.

Yinzers know what's up.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

Really happy to see that Mayor Mamdani has taken his team's social media skills and used it to publicize what good government looks like. This is good politics and good policy at once.

Ypsilanti, MI of course! I love where I live even though, when I moved here, Ann Arbor people warned me about how scary Ypsilanti is (because its demographics are poorer and less white) www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_vy...

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV

Shots fired, and squarely on target.

The front of house staff at my local favorite always welcome me back. It is so very lovely.

Trump threats are vile, but he's not fooling anyone, on Tuesday he will be in negotiations with Iran for a ceasefire, and Iran will report that Trump is lying..

Women at the Huron Valley Correction Facility send proposal to release 800 women

Detroit graduates largest single class of bus drivers after (livable) wage hike

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

Pope Leo at the Stations of the Cross: "Every person in authority will have to answer to God for the way they exercise their power." Jesus says. "Whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small and vulnerable, you do unto me. And it is to me that you will one day give an account."

Been sober for a minute now, but I absolutely know how one teleports to a Waffle House or has their car mysteriously end up in a ditch 40 miles from where it last was.

The decision to overfund a military to “defend” a people who are far more likely die of preventable causes because we refuse to ensure that they have healthcare is maddening

Iran understands where US political power resides—better than most of my fellow citizens. #CitizensUnited

How convenient that "opposing the anitchrist" just so happens to help the technocratic billionaires extract more from society. I'm sure that is just a coincidence. (It's not a coincidence.)

Yes, oil is up and the markets are down post TFG's "speech". And I was going to dunk on that. But I was stopped short by thinking about all the pain, death, and destruction we are continuing to inflict on the world for no good reason.

After years of growing a following by reviewing Black-owned businesses across the U.S., popular social media food influencer the Hungry Black Man is opening a restaurant of his own in Detroit.

On Wisconsin.

Do investors really not know what TFG means when he says something will happen in "two to three weeks"? (Hint: He's making it up.)

Nature's way of saying: "Never give up"

I think the increasingly-fractured sports media ecosystem has convinced me I'd rather spend my time doing something other than watching games on TV.

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

The problem with keeping score by money is there is always a higher score.

Imagine building a $200 billion fortune on the back of people that make eight to $15 an hour Working out every way possible to lay those workers off AI Buying a storied newspaper and destroying it Funding the Trump campaign so you don’t have to pay taxes Because enough is never enough

If we have money for war we have money to feed kids. All of them.

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to suppress it.

In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.

...as did a healthy swath of the electorate. Our job is not done when TFG is no longer in office. Not by a long shot.

Still can’t get over the House GOP rejecting a 100-0 bill from the Senate to fund TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA and… just going on vacation. Complete abdication of duty.

The numbers at the rallies are going to be insane today but remember, if you can’t make it, you are still part of the movement by speaking out and standing up for justice every goddamn day