A photo of me with Joe Manchin, Earl Ray Tomblin, and Belinda Biafore for being named Outstanding Democrat for Mineral County, WV in 2016. It arrived in the mail *the day after the election*

When people fled the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting incident, they swiped entire bottles on their way out.

love that the point of Korean bat flips is to brain at least two people in the stands every time

Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

More important context, the US has been at war with Iran for 73 years since the CIA engineered the overthrow of their elected govt to install a dictator on behalf of our oil companies.

I'd love to see someone like @davidhogg.bsky.social make the point many of us are: What WHPC went through last night only begins to approximate what school kids across the US experience far too frequently. Thus far, this is being treated exclusively as a Trump thing, not a gun violence thing.

The city blocked off part of our neighborhood to tear down a building w asbestos. The teen said "Why did people use asbestos if it causes cancer?!" I told him people thought it was a wonder product and used it EVERYWHERE & told him how the same thing happened w radioactivity... and now AI.

FBI and SSA bout to get this briefing

I’m ok. What happened is nothing like what happens to journalists in Ukraine, Russia, Gaza, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia

the men who killed alex pretti and renee good remain at large. They are armed and extremely well paid by taxpayer money. just a note.

The Washington press corps is going to over-center themselves to a truly historic degree here, but getting mad about that is like getting mad about gravity. And there are bigger issues than media crit, such as the Pirates winning three consecutive road series against NL Central teams to start 2026

the theft discourse sucks because moralizing on it is pointless You have to treat the signal as diagnostic: defection from the social contract will continue until the social contract is renewed

did this work

Remember when "shots fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner" just meant Stephen Colbert making fun of Dubya while he was in the audience

This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened

Social media, 2026.

The camera shot was taken from Artemis II

Hopfrog

I would say with the benefit of hindsight the 2008 recession was one of the most formative events of my life, because it completely shaped my relationship with work and money. Totally shattered my sense that a job is something you could expect to get or that you should expect money for your labor

U.S. officials claim to be targeting “narcoterrorists," showing the victims only as nameless, AI-generated cartoon villains. In reality, our gov. is illegally and systematically killing civilians on the mere suspicion they may be committing crimes -- thousands of miles away from the U.S.

When A.I. puts the music factory out of business

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have announced the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center Moratorium Act, legislation that would enact a reasonable pause to the development of AI to ensure the safety of humanity. Learn more & support this bill in Congress here: bit.ly/4twnWMU

When Democrats take control comprehensive gerrymandering reform MUST take place, and additional map redrawing MUST be halted until the 2030 Census

This is the same thing currently playing out in Canada, w/ the Conservative Party. The far-right is obsessed with the politics of exclusion, and deciding who counts as a "real person", deserving of political rights. It's a hate movement bent on ethnic/social cleansing, not an expanding coalition.

The problem with watching "For All Mankind" is it's brutal way of showing how the world could actually be if science champions were in charge, not the chuckle fucks we have

i’m gonna lose it when martin brundle finds eric adams on the grid walk

Futurama (Series, 1999 - )

"How comprehensively is The Onion crushing it right now? It unearthed the funniest possible idea *on Bluesky*, which is like discovering the world’s largest gold deposit under an IRS regional office in Buffalo."

Don't print lies in the newspaper

You know when you read those historical accounts of indulgent masquerades and hedonistic parties the aristocracy threw while all the peasants were starving, and then after the fires and rioting died down the survivors were all “but who could have seen it coming??”

cry moar

Reason I like Never-Trumpers at The Bulwark is they bring their cynical GOP operative ruthlessness to advise moderate Dems to burn down the Supreme Court. Leftwing of course has been saying that but some Dem moderates may listen to Bill Kristol and company. www.thebulwark.com/p/it-is-time...

This is just a description of an orgy that has a referee for some reason

I have no view on whether it would be an electorally successful platform. But “hardball in the service of democratic norms” seems to me to be the morally correct platform for Dems.

Jesus fucking Christ a train from Colorado to the Caribbean via New Mexico? No wonder they have to scale back plans

Two things can be true: Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

A lot about the world is very heavy right now but if a college football podcast that got jettisoned by Vox during the pandemic for not having a marketable audience can raise this much money for refugees in Atlanta in two days then just think of all the stuff we can all do together

“enhanced interrogation” instead of torture walked so “detention centers” instead of concentration camps could run.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

we all know I have no life, so:

Khajiit has wares if you have coin

Scientists think they are looking at chemical building blocks of life preserved for 3.5bn years

Dunno if anyone indulged in Blaseball during the pandemic lockdowns but looks like someone’s taking a stab at a hockey version hockay.com

The Blacksmith Union is telling us to strike while the iron is hot and I'm not sure if I should go to work or not

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Dear me. Not surprised at all, unfortunately. But if a driver cannot be themselves and are basically getting controlled, it's pointless interviewing them. When I interviewed Kimi (Alfa/Sauber) and Mark Slade (Haas) I was fortunate not to ever have this issue. But it's oh so common and it sucks.

The weasel that shut down the Large Hadron Collider in April 2016 is the reason the Red Wings haven’t made the playoffs since then.

I do not love but I do appreciate the troll-job of Dallas wearing their 90s-era jerseys against Minnesota

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