I really want to speak to medical providers who have been continuing to provide care to detainees during this period. If that’s you or you have a lead, hit me on Signal at juddlegum.47

Anyone remember the Purcell doctrine, saying courts shouldn't change electoral districts too close to the election because it might cause confusion? Remember how SCOTUS applied it six months ago to say it was already too late to invalidate the Texas districts? Funny how that didn't happen in Callais

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream.

Remember how some ppl picked on Obama for weaing a beige suit. He knew that suit was fit for a King

First woman trainer to have horse win the Derby!

Happy 37th to My daughter Eleanor, now four years (and nearly two kids) into running Wings, a women’s reproductive health NGO in Guatemala to which you should all donate $20 for her birthday: wingsguate.giv.sh/984d

"Trump’s initial post about removing US troops from Germany came just hours after he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long sought to reduce the number of NATO troops in Europe... "The Pentagon 'was not expecting it'... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

The arts today: www.tpi.it/app/uploads/...

It’s astounding that Zelensky survived a full-scale war without ever having a ballroom.

Is there a harder working actor than Saul Rubinek, aka Kivas Fajo in Star Trek: TNG? He's been doing TV and movies and more since about 1975. See him in Apple TV's For All Mankind S1 E2. Peter Falk-ish. Polish-Canadian b. 1948 in a camp in occupied Germany. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Ru...

NEW: Pope Leo XIV has named a former undocumented immigrant Evelio Menjivar-Ayala to be West Virginia’s lone Catholic bishop. After three attempts to enter the US illegally from war-ravaged El Salvador in the 1980s, Menjivar was smuggled in via a trunk as a young teenager.

Not only is this not happening, the Chinese dominance of EV’s is a terrifying development for US auto manufacturers.

Trump, who fears nothing more than a shark (ask Stormy), seems destined to end his run by jumping one. Like nobody’s ever seen before. Fonzie, hold the president’s diet coke…

The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

Are you going to mention that Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were all young lawyers on the Florida recount case in 2000 when George W. Bush stole the election? They should have recused themselves on all voter suppression and election stealing cases, but such cases are their raison d'etre.

Trump’s Supreme Court justices and recent SCOTUS decisions continue to weaken our democracy. A strict ethics code, term limits, a retirement age requirement, and additional justices, would enhance Court accountability, and lessen bias and out-of-step legal decisions #MEpolitics

Gaslighting works because of the principle of inoculation. Odd that Rs don’t believe in vaccines.

Join us for the 10th and last session of the Gender & Tech Series, "Possible AI Futures" on 5/5 @ 10am EDT, featuring @cyn-k.bsky.social and Ploipailin Flynn. Moderated by me & co-organized with @yasmincurzi.com. Free & open to all: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender... <3 @uvadatascience.bsky.social

“I first knew something was getting into the pens when I found a tattered, bloody pair of jeans tangled up in the razor wire, and I’ve heard tell of nearby farms getting picked clean by RFK Jr., so I went and bought me a guard dog in case he ever comes back,” said Lindon Trelby

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here's a goat for your saturday.

Imaginary talks cancelled, so they will need to be reimagined for the Monday markets and stock bets.

Folks, I give you the beagle brain: so focused on the treat I’m pointing to that he cannot remember he knows how to get on the couch.

Sharing this update also… apologies for any confusion…

The Justice Department Sides With the Ku Klux Klan The administration’s vindictive targeting of the Southern Poverty Law Center is yet another mask-off moment.

For the weekend you might consider bourbon, cracker jacks (great combo) and Mank share.google/pESqSj3dHDsN...

Wokeness defeated 🏆

Rep. Ted Lieu knows how to drive the point home.

Okay, who did this? 🤣🤣

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

Finally, while I’m sharing current enthusiasms even though no one asked me to do so, Mank (Gary Oldman) is a great and (#trump) very timely movie currently netflixable. You should watch it. For a couple of hours. In black and white. Without looking at your phone. I double-dare you.

Not an earworm, but notable.

What’s your #currentearworm? No judgment, no explanation. Here’s one of mine. music.youtube.com/watch?v=fwYE...

What’s your #currentearworm? No judgment, no explanation. Here’s one of mine. music.youtube.com/watch?v=fwYE...

I’m at the Star Wars pun celebration day I’m at the bank promotion tomato plant giveaway I’m at the combination …

I was an election worker for the first time today, in the Virginia special election. This is a great way to spend a day: highly recommended. Meet many more of your neighbors! Work in the trenches with people from other parties! Give stickers to voters and their kids! Do a great public service!!

This is a war based on lies

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...

Embrace the End of Empire.

May have just found the perfect 4/20 video.

What we already know about Jared Kushner is infinitely worse, from any possible angle, than anything we ever learned about Hunter Biden. And yet the media is completely ignoring it. Open corruption is tolerated from one of the two parties. But only one.

I am surprised and honoured to be elected as a Corresponding Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony - the largest learned society for the Humanities in Northern Germany. I join 160 German and 210 international corresponding members in interdisciplinary exchange! 📚

For the Monday crowd: please circulate this widely. It may be hard to find the perfect candidate (an experienced data engineer/architect generalist with an interest in cultural heritage willing to take a state salary), but it's a great group/mission/city and we know the right person is out there.

Just re-upping this from Friday because I thought it was a pretty sick burn. #fairusefriday ❤️‍🔥

Real open the pod bay door Hal moment. *goes to link* Copilot: how can I help? Me: no I want to go to X Copilot: sure here is the link. *clicks* Copilot: how can I help? Me: no I want to go to that link and not be redirected here. Copilot: oh frustrating. Unfortunately I can’t do that.

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

Next I’ll be listening to nosmallendeavor.com/baratunde-th...

Heard some very humane discussion of AI from Baratunde Thurston today on npr’s No Small Endeavor nosmallendeavor.com/the-human-co...

Omg, someone needs to tell DJT there’s a robot bearing a golden record with the recorded voice of Jimmy Carter to the edges of the known universe forever and ever

Is it good or not good when your lawyer says “Your understanding that Mr Acker does not deny this is not correct or incorrect.”