Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

My 12-year-old daughter is about to have her friends over for a birthday party sleepover, and she told me not to be cringe. Help! How do I do that?

We're going to take another spin around this cycle, I guess. Cue the crisis when we realize what things should have been disclosed.

The only 🧵 you need to read about the bogus DOJ case against the SPLC (at least until Wonkette's story is up, because of course you'll wanna read that).

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

Counterpoint: Last week, I saw a young woman in a red Tesla at the stoplight. She lit up a big joint and then drove on, laying way back, cellphone in one hand, joint in the other. I think some people really like the freedom their self-driving mode gives them.

I have frequently said that it is hard for me to imagine how Trump could further damage the institution of the DOJ, but that only demonstrates the limits of my imagination. I did not imagine Trump putting Joe diGenova in charge of investigating his political enemies. It just got worse. GIFT LINK

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

We may be too far past "the death of expertise" to save what we had exactly... but I do hope that somewhere along the way, we can forge a new consensus on the differences between competence and idiots, and between good faith and assholes.

Good lord. New song from Massive Attack with Tom Waits, and it's, well, very pointed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

This is all very normal if you just switch out the first part, like this: "Forty-something year old Ohio man claims..." or "Yale Law graduate claims..."

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

I am seldom stopped in my tracks when scanning the news. But this headline:

Some people say that Jesus was actually an accupuncturist, but there are many Doubting Thomas skeptics who won't believe it unless they can actually see the holes.

Don't worry, Pope Leo. No one will ever mistake the president's message as on the same level of any sentient being.

A live look at Republican strategists deciding that the takeaway from the Hungarian elections is the need to accelerate their plans to undermine fair elections.

The U.S. needs either a National Holiday if we are going to persist with Tuesday elections, or even better, move to two days of voting on a Saturday and Sunday.

"Trump at some level knows he’s failing politically, cognitively and physically and wants to take it all down with him, the way that ancient rulers were buried with their slaughtered horses and servants."

If you write headlines that tell people what they should do, thus creating duties and burdens, *you* should reflect on why you're being like that.

The greed is wild. Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate a single store with unionized workers because they're so against workers getting what they deserve.

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...

One of the reasons why the Constitution of 1789 is dead: The settlement regarding the role and limits of the executive has collapsed. No one can or will check executive power. The best hope for limited government is not to attempt to renew the old norms but to build from new text.

The authoritative ranking of best nuts: 1. Hazelnut 2. Cashew 3. Peanuts (I don't care if it's not actually a nut) 4. Pecan 5. Pistachio 6. Almond 7. Brazil nut 8. Macadamia

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

You think it's bad now, wait until Pope Leo is awarded the Nobel Prize.

'They are literally everywhere': The shocking story of how forever chemicals polluted the world www.livescience.com/chemistry/th...

Fairchild Channel F (sold 1979 - 1983).

THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:

Not the most important news today, and I know I'm shouting into the void, but I do not believe we should be giving college basketball coaches $50 million contracts.

Which post was a more effective "madman theory" threat--Trump's Easter Sunday "Open the Fuckin' Strait" or his "Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight"? Our experts debate. @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

One of my dissenting views is that product names describe a variety, not the place of production. Even though this article says that "even the U.S. acknowledges" otherwise, to me, it's fine to call "champagne" any sparkling wine similar to wines made in the Champagne region of France.

On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵

I'm still pondering how America's protestant evangelical Christian Nationalists decided to host a "Crusade to the Middle East"-themed costume party but then specifically dis-invited the Catholics because they balked, "actually, those kinds of parties aren't cool anymore."

The president should have ZERO authority to destroy the Forest Service like this. Agencies are created by legislation. If the president wants to replace fifty research facilities with political employees, he should have to go to Congress for legislation he can sign to do it.

This administration, and Pope Leo, are both doing their parts to turn the pontiff into the next Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Definitely related, via @pdwschmidt.bsky.social, this band (in the Entry tomorrow) is fun and this song is a damn blast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QK8...

New at Can We Still Govern?: @unlawfulentries.bsky.social puts yesterday's oral arguments about birthright citizenship into historical perspective, noting how the Fourteenth Amendment took aim at internal migration laws that restricted movement. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Gerald Ford vetoed naming a post office after himself.

Yes, No Kings has been a nice, well-behaved get-together. But in St. Paul, in two hours of speeches and song, I also failed to hear a theory of power or change, a clear-cut demand, or a credible threat of what the movement will do if things don't change.

Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.

Biked to see Bernie and Bruce.

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

As Thomas Jefferson observed, there are times in history when the people find it helpful, even necessary to remind a select group that guillotines can always re-enter the conversation.

This is the FCC Chairman, who is ostensibly a non-partisan industry regulator, openly bragging about conducting a political purge of the media.

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

TIL that there's a person by the name of Clavicular who appears to be a real bonehead.

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.