For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

🔥 “There’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? — They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” 🇺🇸 #FightTheOligarchy H/T @violadavis.bsky.social

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

This is america.

Big Ag is dirty af and most people eat all that s—t up.

Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

If only…

Meanwhile, in Canada…

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

What could have been 🥹😭😩

The Fuhrer wants a Nuremberg style parade on his birthday.

Socialism is what they called public power.  Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

Some more dictatorship sh-t

Mhm. And here we remain. Talking about it. If only the people with the power to stop this now would get some backbones and some ethics!! (#GOP)

I'M SCREAAAAAAAAAAAAAMING

I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. - Prof. Brian Cox

100 days that have felt like 100 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgkJ...

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

Is this “election fraud” also?

To call Francis “the peoples pope“ implies that the Catholic Church knows that previous popes weren’t that into people

Beautiful people showing up.

Anyway, expect The Onion to do big, dumb, unexpected things in the next year. We'll use our singular place in the world to give good people the words and guts to get through a truly fucking stupid time. If you want to help us, then get a paper in the mail. You will love it. membership.theonion.com

Possibly the best interview of all-time

“DuPont referred questions to Chemours, its chemicals spinoff, which declined to comment.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/climate/sludge-fertilizer-farmland-superfund.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Resistance is NOT futile

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

In the mid-1980s, Charles Bronson delivered one of the hardest Earth Day PSAs ever seen by mankind.

Pope Francis called on the world and 1.4 billion Catholics to confront climate change. He brought attention to the issue but it's not clear he changed many minds.

Why has the deep state done this

They’re too late.

If he says it to his followers enough before it happens - it becomes true.

“…once a dictator takes power,dehumanizing forces are suddenly all around.This is how an authoritarian changes a culture: by getting supporters to cheer on grotesqueries of all manner, including the cessation of the freedoms he’s telling you he is about to seize.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

Art.

Among so much shit, a genius is detained and others are planning their escape.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history. They aren't even bothering to hide it.

“‘If we still had a rule of law, a robust system for the rule of law, it would be investigated’… “… S.E.C., which reviews possible violations of federal securities laws, declined to respond to questions about Mr. Trump’s post.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

“The idea that empathy is actually bad has also been gaining traction among white evangelical Christians.” ⬅️ This “traction” is social media’s mind melt - powered by the oligarchs who win with fascism.

My NEH grant was terminated in service of a new focus on “patriotic programming,” but as an American and an Americanist, I know that resisting this dangerous decision and the broader movement of which it is a part is my patriotic duty. Wrote abt it @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1936...

Today's real 'fake news' incident (which added $2.4 trillion in market value and erased it nearly as quickly) hopefully will be dissected in every journalism class and newsroom. www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/m...

“He told agents they had the wrong guy, but they aggressively ordered him to get on the ground. They didn’t allow him to show ID to prove he’s a citizen and instead they grabbed him, put him face down on the pavement, handcuffed him and took out his wallet.” www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

We can surrender to the forces of autocracy, bigotry, xenophobia, and minoritarian rule. Or we can organize the pro-democracy majority to reclaim its power. We choose to organize: indivisible.org/groups