Yeah we’re going to see a lot of this here and abroad as people seek to justify the suffering they sought to impose.

theocracy headed by a man who can probably count on one hand the number of times he has been inside a church

Allowing people to bring personal guns onto military bases? Firing officers and replacing them with Trump loyalists? I really hope there's some explanation I'm missing, because from where I'm standing, it looks like military coup prep.

When the (((AIPAC))) code becomes too bothersome.

today we remember the one who willingly suffered and died before the glorious celebration of the day he was raised from the dead, heralding his victory over death 😔

"I am losing this Constitutional battle, so let us amend the Constitution so that I might win." thehill.com/opinion/immi...

I'm just as shocked as the rest of you to see a right-wing company have no regard for employee safety, and to frame their own greed as ideological virtue.

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

It's the result of a specific tactic of the rightwing project: discrediting the establishment, particularly the media. Americans learned that any story is as valid as the official "narrative" - why make an exception for this war? Especially when Trump can't be arsed to make his cause credible.

the rise of the incel and the rise of the strongman are two connected and mutually reinforcing responses to the evils of modernity. new post

This includes the 1971 25th Anniversary show with numbers from best musical winners over the years - with Zero Mostel (as Pseudolus AND Tevye!), Alfred Drake, David Wayne, Gwen Verdon, Carol Channing... it's amazing!

[Pope's secretary to the Jesuit assassin] terminate... with extreme unction

This is the reason Peter Thiel and his buddies killed Gawker. Writing about open secrets was the entire point of the website.

What the fuck are we doing here

Speaking as a cradle Catholic I can't tell you how weird it is that all these rightwing assholes mistook the Church for a misogynist cigar bar and signed up

Dear media, Ignore these “experts” as you wish.

While also constantly hearkening back to a golden medieval age of the Catholic Church that never was - it’s a faux intelligentsia mindset to set themselves above and apart from the people they don’t like. Ask me how I know, I used to be one of them

For those of you who are not Catholic, you need to know that the Pope has this thing called papal infallibility. He basically can't be wrong on matters of theology. I'm not saying YOU need to agree with this. You're not Catholic. But Vance treats the Pope like a debate me bro and it's offensive

Donald the Dove calls for draconian cuts to social spending to further bloat funding for the Pentagon www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/dona...

Look at this thread of beautiful art made by humans to serve a small but specific and very important purpose: making things more fun to look at.

Pete Hegseth Replaces Top General With Horse That Drinks Beer https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-replaces-top-general-with-horse-that-drinks-beer/

Almost half of the people arrested by federal agents this winter in Minnesota have already been deported, according to new data released to the @deportationdata.org through a FOIA lawsuit. It's the clearest picture yet of federal activities in the state. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

i'm an athiest so i don't want to speak for anyone but what an honor it would be as a servant of god to be fired by a drunk sadist under the thumb of a guy best described as "dumb antichrist"

Y'all, they threw Pam Bondi's official DOJ portrait in the trash, then LEAKED a photo to the media. There is literally no upside to being a MAGA bootlicker. www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...

What does it look like when the government violates court orders in 300 separate immigration habeas cases? @katherinepomps.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org announce a new database which tracks government non-compliance with court orders around the country.

Plus which America is not following the internationally recognized rules of war.

The theory that Biden had dementia was always a conspiracy theory because it required a coverup. That’s why people were so excited about the Tapper book. But then he didn’t find a conspiracy and it’s 2 years later and Biden is doing public events and chatting up people on Amtrak.

“It’s honestly been eye opening (in a bad way) to see how special interests work in our system” says the Head of Politics at Kalshi, which pays Donald Trump Jr. to sit on its advisory board and has spent over a million in lobbying over the past ~year.

you were never going to get an anti-war president from a chauvinistic, jingoistic political party full of people who fantasize about being in a holy war. and yet, despite the US Army raising the enlistment age to 42, not a single one of these pro-war podcasters and pundits have signed up to fight.

The NYT editor responsible for this headline should commit suicide.

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

Pope Leo XIV condemned the “imperialist occupation of the world” in a mass on Thursday, in a continuation of his anti-war preachings as the Catholic leader continues to advocate against the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran.

This week's alicublog Friday 'Round-the-Horn is up, featuring Blue Bondi, Tubby at SCOTUS, and more. alicublog.blogspot.com/2026/04/frid...

Cafeteria Catholics get made fun of for not being fully devout but at least they're not performing esoteric misreadings of some medieval encyclical to claim it's okay to kill your neighbor if they cooked something too spicy for you.

Red States: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology Blue States: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school

And thus the US government badmouths Ukrainian systems that are battle tested and work. Warmongers is an old-fashioned word but it fits the Trump crew very well.

This includes one such experiment called BLOCKADE. The script explicitly defines “educational inappropriateness” as “content offensive to conservative values,” while also asking the AI “not to include any additional text or explanation” for its decisions.

Re: Means Testing. When City College of New York was wondering about charging tuition to cover costs in the 70s they found it would cost more in admin and red tape then not charging but were told to do it anyway to teach students a lesson about responsibility

The fun thing is that both of these groups are incapable of sharing. Both think this permits entry to the other's flock to fleece them.

Best mayor ever!

Over the last two cycles, every single letter of rec I have written for American undergrads pursuing graduate study has been for a program outside the US. Make of that what you will.

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

So it's good to remember now that we may have pilots captured what this President said about John McCain Trump Lashes Out At McCain: 'I Like People Who Weren't Captured' : The Two-Way : NPR share.google/GRO1nFPL0N7n...

One thing you can always count on with Ted Nugent: he will always be in favor of naked teenagers

Yikes wut?

Did you know there are actually two sides to the question of whether women are people?

The GOP was two faced with their voters. They made an implicit promise with the base (using dog whistles and such) to keep the country white but they weren’t serious about it. Trump called their bluff and the base loved him for it. Trump is the Id of the base, that’s why they couldn’t stop him.

I just dread the number of elections in 2026 that will come down to "Well, one side took away my health care and made it so I can barely afford to eat but they told me they'll stop a dozen trans girls from playing sports, so the choice was easy."