Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.”

NEW: On Monday a judge said videos of recent depositions from DOGE members can be published online once again. The ruling is something of an about face for Judge Colleen McMahon, who originally ordered plaintiffs in the DOGE-related lawsuit “claw back” the videos they had published to YouTube.

Where do you observe the romance of the big tent? I see it in churches with liberal to progressive clergy and in secular organizations. I see it in politics; it's absolutely disastrous for the Democratic Party. I even see it in legacy media's obsession with telling us not to estrange our parents

television: “nobody would start a fight with Reacher, just look at him, this is so unrealistic” reality:

They are trying to ban vote-by-mail, and also threatening to put a paramilitary force at polling places.

Trump is not leaving legally or peacefully. Republicans will be all-in. Time to start preparing.

Instead of paying ICE to harass passengers at airports, we could be using the money to hire more air traffic controllers to keep them safe.

"Rapid onset bisexuality" is just recycled transphobic conspiracy theories rebadged as homophobia written in snark prose.

In 1976, the Republican platform enthusiastically endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment. (Left) In 2026, one of the Republican Party’s leading messengers is Handmaid’s Tale posting with glee. (Right)

Can I just self-promote for a moment and say that GenX women are being frozen out of the job market, but you should hire us! We have tons of experience, can multi-task, and are very wise. And stop using AI to "vet" candidates. It's not working.

It's probably a good idea to listen to the people who were saying "abolish ICE" ten years ago and pay attention to what dangers they're pointing out now and maybe get on board with that stuff too

It’s funny how the same media elites have spent the last decade mewling and puking about how everyone who isn’t a hateful MAGA ingrate “lives in a bubble.”

GOP Senator admits Trump is the reason for TSA shutdown, long airport lines: "The Democrats have offered to open up everything but ICE. ... Thune submitted that to President Trump. The President said, 'No deals with the Democrats.' We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week."

Le Pen arriving in Budapest, Trump endorsing Orbán, Vance on his way, Netanyahu also calling for a pro-Orbán vote. I have never seen the European and wider (ironically) global far-right publicly uniting to swing behind a candidate in a national election in Europe so far:

Uh, what? So all of them? *FCC BANS IMPORTS OF ALL FOREIGN-MADE CONSUMER-GRADE ROUTERS

🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to major U.S. airports as part of a “test run” for using them to meddle in upcoming elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

ICE in airports means comic book conventions are gonna end up whiter as people of color decide not to travel and I think the industry needs to grapple with that.

Abbott wasted not a nanosecond on this opportunity to erase farmer worker labor movements and Hispanic history from public schools. (Nevermind that Trump will still be mentioned, as will others.) This isn’t about Chavez’s terrible failings as a man, it’s opportunistic censorship.

They're just going to keep manipulating the market until it stops working or until we hit "sell in May and stay away" mode, whichever comes first. Retail investors will bleed out slowly, one tweet at a time, and then be left holding the bag when the floor gives way

Tennessee congressman Rep Andy Ogles invokes the crusades to imply everyone in 🇺🇸 who isn’t Christian is “evil”

You have to do sincere reflection about why you are OK with ICE in airports. You probably won't like why you are so accepting of this.

We Should Have Taken the Rise of the Extremist Right Seriously in Real Time open.substack.com/pub/theunpop... Narrator: I'm not naming names, but some of us did.

"To give the public more insight into who owns American nursing homes, ProPublica has added the ability to search by owner, manager or officer name to Nursing Home Inspect, our database that helps you find issues that federal inspectors have identified in more than 14,000 facilities."

My life long hyper fixation is how the actual evil people aren’t doing conspiracies because it’s hard to call it a conspiracy when they either personally record or even pay hundreds of minions to document their plan in great detail and publish it as publicly as their money can buy and it works.

Trump kicked a hornet’s nest and is whining that the hornets are furious and everyone is getting stung.

16 years and two Trump terms since Obamacare, and despite doing everything to dismantle it, the Republican Party still hasn't provided a single proposal for an alternative. Because the Republican plan is for all of us to die prematurely and broke.

I once talked to an Englishman who couldn't understand how people get lost in the woods and figured Americans were just stupid. "Just pick a direction and walk out!!" My dude, the forests in my state are bigger than half the countries in Europe. This ain't no Hundred Acre Wood

These are crimes. But nobody will police them. Trump has legalized crime for his rich friends & family. www.ft.com/content/1171...

Much of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.

Nothing says "The OR GOP is the party of meritocracy" like a candidate posing for pictures in the lavish home of a 3rd gen timber baron who spent a $1 million to try to defeat a public education funding measure while giving lavishly to fund private schools. Also, that sheriff standing next to her...

the US could have elected one of those children’s toys that makes farm animal noises when you pull a string and there’d be normal gas prices and airport wait times right now

Absolute bombshell. Former Israeli President warns the world that the Israeli military is no longer moderate. He reveals the new generation of commanders are radicalized settlers with a messianic mission to use the army to accelerate biblical redemption. Terrifying shift.

This is the epitome of today’s GOP: “if it owns the libs I like it” 🤦🏻‍♂️

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

Mosquitoes are going year-round in L.A. County. Part of a dangerous climate change trend: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @lilaseidman.bsky.social

Don't believe or report as true *anything* coming from Donald J. Trump. He is a liar.

They went to congress to make a difference in their stock portfolio, they are going to make a difference in their stock portfolio. It’s one of the few truly bipartisan things in congress… the other being anything that will help keep them all in power and hide their transgressions, by hook or crook.

Yes, shortly after J6 the majority party decided it was more important to juice Wall Street at a time of incredible wealth inequality completely benefitting the rich than focus on holding insurrectionists and criminals accountable, thus effectively leading us to this point.

Jared Kushner’s investment firm has $6.2 billion in assets under management. That's up $1.4 billion from 2024. 99%of its assets belong to non-US citizens Two of its funds use an Israeli bank as a custodian. He's heading US negotiations with Iran. @wendysiegelman.bsky.social for NewsTRACS

Everybody treats him as if he's a Make-a-Wish kid.

NOW THAT I'VE KILLED THE EVIL IRAN, THE ONLY ENEMY LEFT IS THE DEMOCRATS! - Donald Trump Let's compromise. - Chuck Schumer

The oil crisis we created in the Strait of Hormuz only exacerbates the need to ween ourselves off fossil fuels and invest in renewable energy. Instead, Trump is burning a billion dollars to kill an offshore wind project that was already approved and force the company to invest in Texas oil

If these were scientists on a NIH grant; or “bureaucrats” at the DoL (read female & black) there would be a 15m Fox segment about waste, fraud and abuse.

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It turns out Pete Hegseth doesn’t merely read the Bible like a Crusader. We just discovered that he actually has a Crusader Bible with the cover essentially made in his own image — the Jerusalem Cross and “Deus Vult” included. Learn more here: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/pete-hegse...

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.