The Payback is out in paperback today, it’s the same great student loan industry heist novel in a smaller size and lower price. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

Whenever I lack confidence to do something I remember that for three years I successfully administered subcutaneous fluids to the angriest 6-pound cat you have ever met.

It's just the barely suppressed racism of the dementia-ravaged president coming out publicly in an act of rage because he has no self control or self awareness anymore. Nothing at all to worry about.

Today marks four years since an Israeli soldier shot and killed US citizen and journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while she was wearing her press vest and covering the news. The IDF has continued to target journalists with impunity. No one has been held accountable for Shireen's killing.

That’s silly why would you have a— Gary, Indiana.

If you have a heart condition, tooth health becomes 10,000% more important.

Requiring the parent of a SNAP recipient to provide a written statement clarifying that a birthday money transfer was not recurring support is so dystopian.

how are these two friends "I'm building a glamorous ballroom!" "This generation's cum sucks!"

If I had a gun to my head and had to correctly guess which cabinet member would contract hantavirus Kennedy would be a no-brainer.

Doesn't matter how many catalogs you go through, there are always more books so Kelly & I — and I imagine every bookstore on bsky — are *always* adding books to Book Moon seen on here so, yes, please keep talking about bookity books

again, i don’t think any of this is necessary. just say that the court was out of bounds, that it may be correct on the definition of “election” but that this technical matter has no bearing on the results of the referendum, which occurred in a free and fair contest.

Of note: Bass tried to kill the budget for the climate emergency office (and delete the chief heat officer job from the city code) last year. City Council said no. Now this stuff is all happening behind closed doors.

OutKast dominated for years!

Child just invented a new dance craze called “The Grinch.”

Remember when this guy gave the longest filibuster in US history but made sure to schedule it so that could have no impact on the Senate rubber stamping Trumps agenda and then sold his speech as a book?

The other thing Dems could do is just let MTG fade into obscurity.

I didn’t add this one separately, here it is. It’s such thick oil sticks sticky it’s basically a painting

Like its predecessor EVERYBODY KNOWS, this was fanfuckingtastic - a gr8 LA novel, a gr8 noir novel + a gr8 Hollywood novel.

Went out to breakfast for Mother’s Day and they lost our order so we had to wait for like an hour and a half but we were nice about it and they gave us two huge desserts to take home and halved our bill since we weren’t assholes about it. 🙏🏼

No offense to the person who said something like “oh good for your dad,” but my mom is extremely happily divorced. Like if you have a happy boomer-aged mom I’m assuming she is divorced and if she’s not I am pleasantly surprised.

This guy’s org held a press conference outside of a high school to defame and slander trans athletes (minors) - where a handful of conservative kids talked about how scared they were to share the bathroom with a queer kid.

Happy

I was told that for Mother’s Day my mom just wanted “time alone with her dogs.”

I feel like anyone astonished that The Sheep Detective exists needs to read the book it’s based on with the best title, Three Bags Full.

A man so revolting it’s kind of shocking he doesn’t work for the White House

Bro the Catholics Aren’t Christian people are so *back *Never went away it is still incredibly weird

I pet a goat named Ms. Christine.

I was so busy with work yesterday he called a reporter a bitch???

LA friends: the whole system is free this weekend in honour of the new D line stations. Wish I could be with you — please enjoy celebrating your public transit!

They tried this with him years and years ago but he was completely incapable of acting normal on camera for even a second and even the act of him drinking water disturbed people. Like I’m not joking his presidential ambitions tanked after he drank water weird on TV.

It feels so insane that she’s not speaker of the house. I know I know I know not about ambition.

Example a million of an outlet bozoing out to legitimize a fascist idiot. You can’t take his framing at face value because it is already immediately absurd. Even arduously debunking a bonkers claim is lending it credibility. Just say he’s an idiot and move on.

“He’s a little troublemaker” hah hah this is really fucking stupid, actually

The gold, 22-foot Donald Trump statue definitely isn’t a false idol. You can tell because Trump’s pastor friend said of the new statue at his Doral golf course, “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf.”

Tired: FBI coordinated with Fox for the raid of Louise Lucas’ office Wired: FBI coordinated with the conservatives of the VA Supreme Court to time the raid before the decision was announced to chill any continuing redistricting effort

If you want to get technical, the Virginia redistricting referendum happened before the Supreme Court's Callais decision. So whatever the Virginia court's rationale for rejecting Virginia voters' decision, it doesn't apply to the Virginia state legislature and governor acting based on Callais.

in sports fandom if you have a coach who keeps losing games they should win everyone calls for them to be fired, but in democratic politics the bad coaches are defended by a hoard of people who insist you point out the real travesty is the other team tried to score goals.

I love this, from the Jim Henson creature shop saber tooth tiger to Jerry O'Connell and Ed Begley Jr. talking about taking the bus, and everyone wearing the official Ride the D shirts.

here we go again, the new york times calling an increase of 115k jobs under Trump "solid" while it called similar or considerably bigger gains under Biden "disappointing" or "weak"

Trump’s “have fun and enjoy” about the UFO files today tells you all you need to know

Dems have to go nuclear elsewhere now, including and especially my state of Illinois. No quarter. Weirdly enough I think this will be galvanizing and I think there’s appetite for the most ludicrous gerrymanders available, even among Jeffries types. This is a process fight, which they like.

Grasshopper with crimson arcs

insane every blue state in the country needs to pack their own state Supreme Court immediately if the unelected law wizards want to make donald trump a god-king with a 30% approval rating their power must be broken at every level

In response to redistricting rulings that have gone against them over the last 18 months, Utah Republicans have (1) passed a law to pack the court and are about to name two new justices, and (2) have launched a major push to oust two justices in their retention races this fall.

Who cares nothing matters do it anyway

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook