Even in terms of pure rhetoric I think the story of the year is that ordinary people--many of whom weren't previously very politically engaged--are furious, while professional politicians very much aren't. Just listen to basically anyone who lives in Minneapolis for 5 minutes

Gotta love the guy

not one person tweeting about the ballroom believes it is about safety not a single fuckin person it is all purely about giving the fuckin pedophile rapist what he wants

Oh wow really

#OtD 26 Apr 1937 the ancient Basque city of Guernica was bombed and largely obliterated by the German and Italian air forces at the behest of the Spanish nationalists during the civil war. The event was famously depicted by Picasso. More in this podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

"we need your tax dollars to fund the stochastic terrorist president's ballroom so there won't be any more violence at the White House Correspondents Dinner, an event where there has never once been violence until we elected a stochastic terrorist for president" incredible right wing logic

For the “tone down the rhetoric” crowd, Trump literally posted Obama’s address and the next day a 1/6 guy armed to the teeth showed up casing the residence.

great essay, worth reading

I can promise you Trump does not respect you enough to do a false flag op to get his ballroom onside, he's building it no matter what you think or want

a) We fucking called this before Roe fell ffs LISTEN TO US b) if they win this will set our whole society back to the 1950s or earlier. Workplace equality? Sexual freedom? What??? THIS MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK ISSUE c) (see next skeet)

Hearing the head of the WHCA—who just days ago participated in a Paramount dinner “honoring” Trump— say tonight that the First Amendment is “fragile” because of a random shooter rather than because of the president sitting next to her on the podium is, I guess, exactly as pathetic as you’d expect.

#AICouldNever www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Z4...

sigh

bedrock US science agency was just gutted late on a friday with no public announcement. normal times!

ICE has arrested dozens of delivery drivers outside of a San Diego military base, Capital & Main reports:

Sigh. Yeah.

The fact that a Star War would bring back Gina Carano but not The Acolyte says so much

His master class was telling Trump "no" and then explaining his reasoning to the public. That's it. That's all you gotta do.

Well this is great

I think the main thing for me about the WHCD is that if you voluntarily attend this particular one, that means you are making a choice to hang out with murderers and pedophiles, and that, quite simply, makes you a bad person.

My advice for anyone who has a ticket to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner? DON'T GO. presswatchers.org/2026/04/wash...

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

🤔 Yep. This lets Sen Tillis vote to confirm Warsh, giving Trump a subservient Fed Chair and they’ll go after Powell once he’s relegated to RedResBoG. 🤷🏻‍♂️🙈🤬

/7…because I think the Federalist Society types are grifters who are stunt-inviting and then monetizing the resulting protests. I also think that organizations like FIRE, who should be more skeptical, have grown professionally credulous at accepting their characterizations of the protests.

Didn't bend, didn't cower, didn't even feel the need to stand next to Trump grinning awkwardly like it was normal. And now he's emerged unscathed with his job and his dignity intact and his reputation even stronger than before. Huh. Seems like this could be a model for others in power.

Wow really hard to feel bad about this. Sympathies to his family I guess. May he find the afterlife he earned...

The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

... dear god. Thank you for taking one for the team, Liz! I consider myself warned.

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed on the Michael biopic out in theaters right now: “How can you tell an authentic story about Michael Jackson without ever mentioning the fact that he was seriously accused of being a child molester?” [hollywoodreporter.com]

Exactly. People see all the corruption and assume there are no rules. They don’t know there’s only immunity for Trump family members and top allies.

I kind of love this. You signed up to do something impossible for a mad king. The horse, in fact, did not learn to talk... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...

Go. On. Offense!

As @danpfeiffer.bsky.social put it, the key message for D's is "Go. On. Offense." Or to put it in the terms that @waytowinus.bsky.social articulated summarizing the research, Ds need to "fight, don’t fold." Nice to have further empirical research backing these conclusions. 5/

If you’re like, “Wait, everyone is shackled on ICE flights?! Wait, there are 50 ICE flights a day?! Wait, they’re sending people to countries they’ve never been to?!” I am begging you to please read my ICE Air FAQ. 🙏 gillianbrockell.com/what-is-ice-...

Here’s something I wrote about how ICE flights are getting longer and the shackling crueler: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is the guy who called Biden Sleepy Joe

RFKJr is trying to exploit a weird asymmetry between going up vs down with percentages. For instance, if a thing costs $10 and it goes up by 50%, it’s now $15, but if a $15 price goes down by 50%, it’s $7.50, not $10. That confuses people, and it has apparently confused RFKJr here.

i spent my whole life believing the president didn't actually have a big ECONOMY BAD/GOOD lever on the resolute desk but then this group of yahoos went and built one and then broke the lever off

I don’t think I’ve ever been so persuaded by an endorsement before this. Fuck, I might be voting for Tom Steyer for California governor. www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/s/...

A team of academics looked into the environmental & climate claims of the meat & dairy industry from 2021-2024, to try to determine what percentage of those claims qualified as "greenwashing." The good news: it wasn't 100%! The bad news: it was, uh, 98%.

I still can't believe they literally put "no doesn't mean no" in their employee "handbook".

a lovely upbeat thread with some great advice

FYI, that's the location in my profile pic

i have really come to the view that partisanship is to be embraced wholesale. partisanship and principle but not purity.

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Josh Marshall. Gift link. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...

What a lovely story. Turns out getting wealthy doesn't absolutely result in sociopathy!

Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...

congrats to this woman on becoming the new rightful owner of beast bars, beast burgers, and, if her lawyers play their cards right, mr beast’s house