Today was a very bad day. Tomorrow, I'll start over. Life! She's a trip!

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions). Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom. And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ. Remember this.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Hell yeah, Spurs fans, color coordinated in 80's colors. This is the type of whimsy I can really get behind.

I would love it if those of you who do not have library cards will apply for one at your local branch during #NationalLibraryWeek. Then let me know about it. 😇

We're kicking off #NationalLibraryWeek with a special selection from the archives! This offset lithograph poster illustrates a few of the many resources and programs that a public library offers its community. It emphasizes that these resources are free and for everyone in multiple languages.

It’s National Library Week, so support your fucking libraries people. Use them, fight for their funding, fight for your librarians. Don’t let your most reliable third space go to waste.

YOU LIKE PEOPLE YOU LIKE BOOKS BE A LIBRARIAN (may 1945)

Every high school and college graduate should be required to read this and think: where do I stand? Where do I want to put my human energy?

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol

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.

My son's prom night is tonight, and we took him to the place where tons of local kids take pre-prom pictures - our city's rose garden. I had just taught about this very garden during a unit on the New Deal because it was a WPA project. We absolutely could have beautiful things, like rose gardens.

You know, in hindsight, I wish we hadn’t elected John Roberts as dictator for life. But that’s democracy for you, whaddayagonnado?

Pack the court

Whew.

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

Probably my favorite sign at the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social rally.

Night shift seems to be where it's at tbh

I've joined @fairplayforkids and a host of other child advocacy organizations and education experts to call on preK-12 schools to #PauseGenAI. Learn more and sign the petition:

Is this a good time to show you my favorite religious painting of all time? You have to zoom in on each of their faces. Please Christ Discovered In the Temple - Simone Martini, 1342

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’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

Colonel Sanders better think very, very hard before he starts talking about matters concerning 11 herbs and spices, secret recipes, finger-licking, etc.

Watch the fuzzballs grow on a camera set up by a southwest Washington country club.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

It will never fail to baffle and weirdly intrigue me when people keep their venmo purchases public. Like, why??

generation lead never fails

I genuinely believe that people don't appreciate just how much of all the bad vibes right now are still largely a COVID hangover. It was a profoundly traumatizing event for American society, on the order of the civil war or the great depression and we've largely decided to just pretend

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

All you fascists bound to lose.

I say again that every ceo of a company with a chatbot should be personally, individually liable for every piece of text it produces, as though it is something they themselves said

Need a little Fin-de-Siecle joy and queer resistance in your life? Live in the East Bay? I cannot recommend the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus Inextinguishable Joy show enough. 2 more shows, Saturday and Sunday! A goddamned delight. Home share.google/Ha1eE2XoYsAy...

I wonder what it smells like in there

Shout out to the NASA folks in charge of naming stuff. The Front Porch?! Love it.

I'm beginning to think that men with power do bad things

the trump arch + the Sam Altman bombing + the death star saber-rattling is really giving Fin de Siecle but here I am flossing my teeth and putting out my recycling like a clown

Happy 96th birthday to Dolores Huerta, a true legend of the labor movement! From championing farm workers to empowering women nationwide, her tireless dedication to civil and labor rights is an inspiration to us all. ¡Sí, se puede!

Now do voting www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

What has swiftly happened in the praxis of this nation is a return to the true principles of its organization right through might Silence greed corporate complicity and nationalistic propaganda Now they don't write that in the constitution ... but those are America's organizing principles

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

to all who celebrate...

A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast

The most interesting thing about diversity equity and inclusion offices for the very short time we had them… they gave us data… Concerning just how over represented middle class white men are in every area of American life

Brutal.

Good morning! All day today my colleagues and I will be on STRIKE. You can help us send a message! Please do not visit ProPublica's website and tell management to give us a fair contract so we can get back to work: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.