What is happening in Louisiana right now is both a redistricting power grab and a dry run for authoritarian election subversion this Fall. The governor has declared a state of emergency to suspend the congressional elections because he doesn't like the current map.

Not only was the Supreme Court's Callais decision cynical and wrong, it has now resulted in the Republican governor of Louisiana declaring state of emergency to cancel the ongoing congressional election. If you think this ends in Louisiana or with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

Minneapolis Park Board members have held private discussions with Dakota leaders over closing or moving the Minnehaha Dog Park, which lies within the Mni Owe Sni sacred site.

a superb warning as to what happens to you if you spend too much time near The Spectator

"Le problème n'est pas Netanyahou. Le problème, c'est toute la société israélienne" Norman Finkelstein. bsky.app/profile/thun...

Our young people are being buried in debt just to get an education. That’s ridiculous. It’s long past time for free public college & to cancel student loan debt. It’s a win for all of us.

"They are mere women, whereas I am a father of women."

Imagine living to see Trump, and Miller, and the billionaire capture of your country, and the dismantling of laws, and choosing in the face of all of that to use your final moments on this earth to rage against powerless leftists. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Just the worst people in America, including all six Trump-loving Supreme Court justices. deadline.com/2026/04/whit...

See "unreliable narrator"

Any member of Congress that votes for a clean FISA reauthorization is voting to hand Kash Patel, Stephen Miller and Donald Trump the power to spy on Americans without a warrant on a silver platter.

Everyone should follow ZEP

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events to justify building a ballroom.

Wish I would've had a copy of the manifesto before I started arguing with the checkout lady at the grocery store about the guy's motivation this morning.

How loathsome does a president have to be until they won't be able to find 70-80 million mooks who think he's fine?

The California governor's race is an LLM.

🚨NEWS: Utility CEOs are hiking your electricity bill and using the profits to jack up their pay and give themselves private jets, luxury condos & other lavish perks. Inside this year's $600 million upward transfer of wealth from your utility bill to corporate executives.

"As colonial and white supremacist institutions, universities were never meant to allow inquiry that is aligned with liberation. Anticolonial speech has always had a cost, and some are paying it."

If man was meant to be a carnivore, he'd have shorter forelimbs.

If there's a word like "backpfeifengesicht" for having a punchable face, shouldn't there also be a word for the necessity of throat-punching persons adopting the aggrieved oratorical tone so prevalent among right-wingers?

As an Indian this fills me with a particular flavor of dread and recognition of how fully genocidal Israeli policy in the West Bank is www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

INVESTIGATION: How the U.S. government ignored warnings & shut down America's helium reserve - just before the Iran War has now cut off foreign helium supplies for everything from medical equipment to computer chips. Shortages are on the horizon as prices skyrocket.

National Guard roams Washington with no end in sight to $1 million-per-day deployment www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I suggest that nobody who takes the Republicans’ war on fraud seriously is worth listening to

[some racist self-own accomplishment claim] and all it took was killing & deporting citizens & legal immigrants, breaking the law, violating the constitution, ignoring court orders, illegal spending, diverting appropriated funds, record expansion of debt, alienating & abandoning allies, ...

How many times do we have to go to the moon before word puzzles accept "maria"? www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m...

Early on, network servers routed packets thru circuitous paths to earn money for various ISPs. No reason that the currently dominant servers wouldn't cause trouble for upstart application sites.

Baseball, the solution to life, the universe, and everything.

Pretty clear at this point that Hegseth couldn't take Vatican City no matter how few divisions Leo has.

General McAuliffe to German forces surrounding Bastogne: What about BOFA?

All part of the ongoing Republican project to pretend that MAGA fascism isn’t the logical endpoint of decades of Republican punditry and policies. See also: The Bulwark, the Lincoln Project, Steve Schmidt, Joe Scarborough, Nicolle Wallace, etc

Before AI the navy had to steam for hours in a standard quadrangular search pattern before finding where the capsule had splashed down. Now we can generate images as needed.

Iran, forced to deal asymmetrically with a super power led by a deranged leader, sends experts in many areas to talk with a bunch of mofos. Or as corporate media puts it...

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What are you looking at?

Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff, Jr., etc., vs. Yellow Cab Co.

Raving idiot's threat to annihilate an entire population didn't move the needle for 30% of the population. I'm sure we can work with these people.

I poured myself two-fingers of bourbon, holstered my gat, put my feet up on the desk, and let ms copilot solve the case.

LoL bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

Stalin had to murder countless thousands of government and politicians to get this level of slavish insane drooling sycophancy.

The most important question is whether the negotiations over the next two weeks represent an ‘offramp’ for the US from a war it realizes it can’t win, or just another deception and tactic to buy time to restore US and Israel military resources.

"We’ve documented repeated, apparently deliberate, attacks on civilians." buff.ly/FAqwLfM