Assassins (1990, Sondheim)

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

The “The show must go on” attitude reminds me of how “Nashville” is one of the best and most quintessentially American films.

Highly amused that the WHCD afterparties are happening despite the shooting. That's so fucking USA (pejorative).

Trump wasted no time in turning the shooting into an advertisement for his ballroom.

journalists applauding and dining with a fascist, president and cronies cartoonishly bumbling out of the room, secret service allowing this to happen, outlets throwing out debunked headlines. the only people who covered themselves in glory tonight were the kitchen and wait staff

Thankful for the chief of the metropolitan police dept saying they don’t know what the suspect was targeting Being clear about what they know and what they don’t know is a refreshing and welcome change this evening

Tomorrow morning, Kash Patel will be briefed about what happened tonight while he was blackout drunk.

An award-winning reporter was deported. Another was detained for weeks in ICE detention. Still others have been maimed, arrested, run down, had their devices seized, their apartments raided, clearances stripped, etc., etc. The WH Correspondents wore hankies in their breast pockets and kept drinking

The FBI director ran for his life and left his girlfriend behind holding the hand of another man.

No time for a a ballroom chock full of reporters to do any reporting. Dinner is about to be served!

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

If this was, in fact, an active shooter situation, treating it like a minor inconvenience so you can go back to your fancy dinner is the most end-stage American capitalism display I could possibly imagine

Seems reasonable, think about everything that the attendees needed to deliberately ignore in order to show up in the first place

The magician performing at the White House Correspondents Dinner has a great disappearing trick: he can make the journalistic integrity of everyone in the room vanish before he even gets on stage.

Chillingly explicit blood and soil nationalism here

What the fuck are we doing here

This really speaks to why when this happened a lot of Black people were more numb than mad. But one thing that I, and the people whose perspectives I trust were not, was blindsided.

Not only is @apnews.com attending the White House correspondents dinner, they invited one of the Trump staffers who kicked them out of the press pool as their guest. This is all so wrong. apnews.com/article/whit...

Update: It appears they don’t like it.

How are they still publishing this shit

yeah, so this is the thing about the iran war. regardless of whether there is shooting or not, the strait is closed, and that is the central problem for the global economy. iran realizes this and no amount of bluster will change it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In nine hours the national press corps will raise their glasses to the most racist person in the country and claim it’s a “work dinner” for “source building”

"If Reid [the standard police interrogation technique] can browbeat even a hyper-rational, emotionless bot into a false confession, mere mortals don’t stand much of a chance." theintercept.com/2026/04/23/c...

Dan Goldman is unleashing his massive personal fortune into this race. A blatant attempt to buy this election and subvert the will of NY-10 voters. He may have the money, but we have the people. Can’t thank @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social enough for coming to NYC to support our grassroots movement.

Steve Witkoff's son Zach is the CEO of World Liberty Financial. World Liberty Financial has a business partnership with the Pakistani government. \_(ツ)_/¯ www.radio.gov.pk/14-01-2026/p...

This is like calling stepping off of a curb a descent into the street

I can't speak to other cultures, but for every English-speaking culture on Earth as of 2026, "are we the baddies?" is essential to understanding the moment. It's not just that there are baddies; there are genuinely millions of people who can barely comprehend what they support and why.

"The experience stunned Ms. Ross-Mahé, who previously considered herself a supporter of President Trump and so admired his policy to deport illegal immigrants that she thought it should be adopted in France." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

I loved the 2006 Mitchell & Webb TV sketch show, but I never imagined “are we the baddies?” would graduate from funny catchphrase to the defining philosophical aphorism for our age

Love to be reported as having not responded to requests for comment by a reporter who never actually reached out to ask for comment.

Murder campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Glad that some Republicans support requiring warrants for government spying, but it would be nice for them to also extend that attitude toward ICE. www.huffpost.com/entry/republ...

Virginia becomes the first state in the South to pass paid family and medical leave. www.whsv.com/2026/04/22/v...

BREAKING: Florida judge questions whether she has jurisdiction to hear Trump's case against the IRS, orders briefing on the question by May 20 and arguments to follow May 27. Judge Kathleen Williams: "[I]t is unclear to this Court whether the Parties are sufficiently adverse to each other ...."

At the Ayanna Pressley / AOC event

Why is she so bad?

Glad to see that the Senate is supportive of critical energy efficiency investments. #mapoli commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/senat...

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

Always wild how much faster other states are than MA! epic.org/virginia-gov...

The rapid rise of online betting markets has led to new frontiers of corruption. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

This is a bit like when Caligula gives an order than horses will be the color purple going forward

Trump fires the Navy secretary, his billionaire Palm Beach neighbor and fellow Epstein-knower, for not delivering a Trump vanity battleship fast enough

"When they returned to help Khalil, a sound grenade blocked their access to the damaged building, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, a senior Lebanese military official and press advocates." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

One out of every five 2024 Trump voters supports impeaching the president, per our new poll out at Strength In Numbers. I was pretty surprised by this level of defection among the president's base. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

is there a non-nefarious explanation for not swearing in Epstein witnesses?

it's The Fuckin Guns At least 10 people wounded in Louisiana mall shooting, police say. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...