I'm encouraged! So many people I know are getting involved, running for offices high and low, fighting to restore sanity and competence. Look at @bethmacy.bsky.social running for congress in VA, and now a friend in Ohio has just informed me he's running for a county commissioner seat.

This cartoon was published 13 years ago after Newtown. Nothing’s changed. TV news is interviewing Brown students who also survived shootings in high school. What are we doing to our kids? When will enough be enough?

Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...

The indomitable @bethmacy.bsky.social has built a career amplifying unheard voices, shining light on those too often forgotten, and calling out abuses of power. I believe she’s the right person to replace Ben Cline in Congress. bethmacy.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Opinion: Why global education matters to Virginia’s future 

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

What does it say about our country when anonymous enforcers can snatch someone off the street in broad daylight? This is not a plot point in a dystopian novel. It’s happening here, now. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

Maybe the world just needs more fiery banjo-harp tangos… or cha-cha… or fusion… or whatever the heck that was during a fun weeknight out with @belafleck.music-social.com and pals.

Like Jimmy, I’m cheering for Marty, not Biff.

"For the first time in its history, WIRED is dedicating an issue to politics, citing concerns about the tech industry's alignment with President Trump. @katie-drummond.bsky.social explains what this shift means for Silicon Valley and for readers."

They are literally canceling culture

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

OK, not even getting into the ethics or the existential issues around AI: Have some goddamn self-respect. If you're a writer and you do this I don't know how you look at yourself, but I know exactly how I look at you.

Kudos to all members of the WSJ team who resisted legal threats from the president to do journalism about the president.

Colbert 2028

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

Unbelievable moment with a 9 reporter thankfully their okay but the footage made me wince m.youtube.com/shorts/tG1A8...

And as Rome burned, Nero flew to Florida for some golf.

Masha Gessen: "The United States has become a secret-police state. Trust me, I’ve seen it before." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there. CDC's entire FOIA office is gone. The FDA's communications and web office were cut. "The FDA as we know it is gone."

Proud to work alongside educators at Virginia Tech who understand the critical importance of supporting international students, especially in today's world.

I think about this a lot. I think there are a substantial number of Trump voters who want their kids to have access to the traditional college experience, and I'm not sure they grasp that is about to collapse.

As long as thugs in hoodies can disappear people from our streets, we do not have a functioning democracy.

Social Security in turmoil: — SSA website crashed four times in 10 days this month — Phone service a mess following Musk-led cuts — Agency no longer has a system to monitor customers’ experience due to DOGE — Major staff exodus www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary

Starlink at the White House complex — and the messy way its installation began — is obviously fascinating. But I think it's also worth scrutinizing why federal workers at GSA are being offered the X app as one of their only approved "news" options.

Is "deported" the new "disappeared"?

Another take on @carlzimmer.com's new book, Air-Borne. "In “Air-Borne,” his detailed and gripping account of aerobiology, Carl Zimmer uncovers the mysteries filling our lungs." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/b...

It’s such an embarrassment that a U.S. president would think not having heard of an African country should be a source of pride or humor.

Democratic members of Congress sitting quietly and occasionally waving their craft projects while Trump spews lies, hate, and nonsense is a sadly fitting metaphor.

MAGA Mad Libs!

They're eating the transgender mice on Arab Sesame Street.

Keep. Interrupting.

To hell with decorum. Keep. Interrupting.

Keep. Interrupting.

Russia's response to Trump's tantrum says it all really:

Sadly, America will have moved on by Monday. The only thing we’ll remember is Zelensky didn’t wear a suit.

Always like it when @tommytomlinson.bsky.social gets to geek out a little with musicians. Very cool hearing the backstory to two of Sierra Hull’s most famous covers. Hoping to hear “Mad World” this wknd at The Harvester!

Ol' Ben Franklin doesn't look pleased.

"Oops."

In Texas, said one doctor: “We’ve vaccinated multiple kids that have never been vaccinated before, some from families that didn’t believe in vaccines.” @nbcnews.com #measles www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Yet another tech oligarch demanding total fealty. "Hell yes"!

"Performative inanity" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is America, 2025 In one weekend (!!), one New York Times photographer, Doug Mills, travels from Gitmo to the Super Bowl to take two unforgettable images of where we're at as a nation

Did we end it? Mission Accomplished?