"Epic is making a Disney extraction shooter" has booted my brain into emergency BIOS mode www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

easily one of the funniest guys america has had in decades

What is up with the multiple picture days for kids in school? When I was growing up I swear we just had the one in fall, now there are at least 2-3 a year.

Check this piece by Brandy out. If you're not familiar with this conspiracy theory (it's really big with liberals on Threads, portions of TikTok, Instagram), this is a good place to start. I shared on Threads and got messages from people accusing me of being "in on it." Straight up QAnon stuff.

Follow this thread. Most likely, and of course, all speculation right now, this is why Melania did her 6 min statement today. Amanda Ungaro was brought here as a 17-year-old model. She flew to NYC on Epstein's private plane. 1/2

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.

It's the way he's so impassioned and confident in what he's saying only to immediately fold at the first pushback 😂😂

I thought this place got closed down and never reopened. Awful.

I saw an ad for a solo AI tabletop role-playing app and honestly nothing sounds sadder

Wow, great news: the CDC has a study proving COVID vaccines slashed hospitalizations by 55%. Bad news: RFK Jr.’s team killed it before publication because facts were inconvenient. They are literally hiding data that could save your life. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/208886/...

I remember spotting this and deciding against posting about it because I couldn't say for sure who it was!

Another thing about campus protests is you're talking about a very specific set of (usually) young adults who are developing their moral priorities and political leanings in real time. And these aren't even all the same people! A lot have graduated! Or were kicked out!

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

"The right-wing media is so large it's creating characters and soap operas that legacy media covers as news. I don't think that there's any real way out of that, outside of building a broad and big left media ecosystem to balance that out," says @ajbauer.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2086...

Two important dimensions of "where are the campus protests?" imo: 1) students envisioned possibility of changing US policy under Biden, no such illusions under Trump 2) protest energy moved off campus, away from Israel and toward anti-ICE but two causes very much linked in protesters' minds

The Navy SEAL medic whose testimony helped Eddie Gallagher walk free in his war crimes case has recently joined a neo-Nazi group. We've obtained secret documents detailing his October interview with the group. We also uncovered his racist and antisemitic X account.

You imagine writers posting articles like this without a morsel of introspection, feeling very smart and self-assured.

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

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Got an email asking for Guidance and the amount of restraint I used from making a D&D Cleric joke, you wouldn't believe.

And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

Please please PLEASE show support to all of the Iranians in your life right now. Here’s a starter pack of all of the amazing Iranian artists and creatives I know!! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Days like today that I wish Kamala won

Weingarten has been wrong on every major issue facing educators: she embraced testing, charter schools, an abandonment covid protocols, now AI. Her mantra is always the same: we need to welcome the systemic changes imposed by neoliberal administration, so that they appear inevitable

"It’s a bright spot on the moon,” CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen said, his voice breaking up, “and we would like to call it Carroll.” The crew all shared a hug after. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/s...

The only way to end the sexual abuse of children who are detained and incarcerated is to stop detaining and incarcerating children. There are no "reforms" that end sexual abuse inside.

Harper's Letter Signatory has been one of the most useful labelers to subscribe to. Sometimes I'll see an odd attack or defense of certain ideas and then notice the @harpersletter.fyi badge under the name and go, "ahhhh, that makes sense"

This quote is about Sam Altman but honestly it works just as well for sycophantic LLMs. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, I guess.

Ohhh noooo not the data centers 🥺 don't do that 🥺🥺

"troubled coder who died by suicide" is such infuriating phrasing, he was a 26 yo, sentenced to 35 years in prison for downloading academic articles!! they murdered him.

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

Annie Ramos, a 22-year-old college student with no criminal record, "is a devout Christian who teaches Sunday school to children at her church, [her mother-in-law] said. She was in her high school’s marching band. And she was a few months from finishing a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry.”

"Ms. Ramos had applied in 2020 for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or #DACA … Her application was never processed by the Trump admin because the program was halted for new applicants. 'I grew up here like any American,' Ms. Ramos said during a call from the detention center in Basile, La."

Man this website has been clunky lately

It is absolute demagoguery to say that a foreign student took anyone's spot. Foreign students have enriched and, bluntly, funded U.S. universities. Those universities will be less successful and less desirable as a result of this rank protectionism.

Remember that time when ICE shot a man as he fled into his home and then claimed he beat an agent with a snowshovel? And we were all like "you're lying"? They were lying www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

If you've seen this piece before, "The New American Gothic" by Criselda Vasquez, Then heartbreakingly, I have to inform you that—according to Vasquez's Instagram as of 4/03/26—Vasquez's father has been taken by ICE. GoFundMe below to help financially support their family.

Tried to sing a slow version of Club Can't Even Handle Me Right Now as a lullaby for my kids and they noticed immediately. Will test with another song next week and report back

Seems like a good day to re-up this post from some years ago on why we have free universal services. Which I realize, now, anticipates a core argument of Against Money: We can't understand the purpose of public services if we think of them as equivalent to money payments. jwmason.org/slackwire/wh...

Can you imagine if it happens on Easter Sunday

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi.... I'm beginning to see a pattern here

How did none of you share this yet youtu.be/iGeuojm7Wp4?...

The quote tweets on this have me cackling