The 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund has issued $16 billion to 71,000 people as of 2025. Trump’s fund of $1.776 billion is 11% of that. Do we as Americans believe that the Jan 6 rioters and their trumpist brethren are worth the theft of our tax dollars?

So gender is determined by chromosome, genitalia, AND [checks notes] straw usage? www.mediaite.com/media/tv/con...

After 13.5 years I have successfully snuck veggies into my AuDHD PDA child’s belly by hiding them, pureed, in an applesauce cake with browned butter icing. Yes, it is a triumph more of sugar than nutrition but GODDAMN it is my Rocky moment of parenting and I will dance upon this cement staircase.

This means we should be worried about it.

These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.

We love you @smithcollege.bsky.social Hold firm!

Julie Brown wins the Pulitzer for journalism and she should get the Medal of Freedom and everything else.

Me: May the Fourth Be With You Mom: What Me: It’s Star Wars Day Mom: Oh is that why all the kids at 13yo’s school were wearing black this morning? Me: … Me: No #chuckwagon #StarWars

The past week in #parenting an AuDHD/PDA teenager, plus navigating school & social services, I thought to myself “I just can’t win.” And I can’t. Next week I’m going to practice the idea that all I have to do is show up and play.

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

This is just to say I have eaten the kale that was in the veggie drawer it was so old

Not suspicious or destabilizing at all given the Navy’s current role blockading the Strait of Hormuz.

How to understand the destruction of the DOJ under our current administration Press charges against any abuser in the Epstein files: No Press charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center for taking down the KKK: Yes

13yo’s first pimple. [sniff] #parentingteens

[Shredding documents] Them: It was all perfectly legal. Us: What was? Them: Everything we did. [Shreds documents]

It would be so punk rock for someone in the Vatican to print T-shirts that say in large block letters “The Pope is Weak on Crime.”

Agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Green, Iran, and the Vatican were not on my 2026 bingo card.

THHHHHHIIIIIIISSSSSSS ⬇️

This is a former NY Times reader. The NY Times has passed.

Girl, same.

Would write on this project for free.

This is Kafka’s world and we just live in it.

13yo: I want to spend all the time with you. Doing things together. Me: Aw, thanks buddy. Me, too. 13yo: Because you’re old. Me: … 13yo: [muttering] You NEED to start eating MEAT. God. #chuckwagon

Masked, camo-vest-wearing, untrained rejects from other security forces, with anger issues, automatic weapons, and a history of using them on civilians, first hired to kidnap 3000 brown and black people per day, will staff TSA roles starting Monday….? Is this sweeps week on USA The Series?

What makes clams happy anyway and how does one tell

I showered and put on pants today. Where’s my red carpet?

This is why we didn’t want yall to elect the guy who bankrupted 6 casinos.

Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.

Me: You are very strategic with your checkers playing, bud. 13yo: Thank you. 13yo: … 13yo: You are very strategic in your macaroni and cheese making. #chuckwagon

People opposed to SNAP: No one should be buying lobster with public money! [Loud CRACK of $6.9 million in lobster tails.] Hegseth: What. It’s for the troops. [He exits to the melodious sound of the new $95,000 Steinway grand piano, purchased for a military chief of staff’s residence.]

Texas, where the Ten Commandments are required in every public school classroom, has entered the chat.

Inflation Skyrocketing gas prices Crisis in Iran Americans held hostage Jimmy Carter, in Heaven: How will Republicans frame THIS president’s administration? [grabs popcorn]

National “pro-life” leaders are spending a billion dollars a day on a war, blowing up schools, and killing children. Meanwhile….

The message could easily end after the first 8 words.

What are the chances

IOW - China will pay the premiums on a policy that the United States is offering to underwrite? I think we’re losing this game.

Super excited that my “killer comedy” THE NORWEGIANS will be produced at Shakespeare & Co this coming September. UFF DAH YALL! @utaustin.bsky.social @smithcollege.bsky.social @honorrollwrites.bsky.social @newplayexchange.bsky.social shakespeare.org/shows/2026/t...

Uh, could the hospital boat be sent to take care of sick Americans…. in America because many of us lost access to doctors this year

13yo: Mama. IF we measured years in 9 month periods, I’d be older than I am. Me: …. Why would we do that. 13yo: That’s how long it takes a baby to gestate. Me: … Me: … 13yo: So IF we matched up with that, I’d be 17.333 years old. Me: … 13yo: How old would you be? Me: …. #chuckwagon

At least after this we’ll be prepared for the emotional unpredictability of a woman president.

He’s going to release the ludicrous UFO files… but not the rest of the salacious Epstein files. This is the worst grocery store check out lane ever.

1776 Americans: No kings! King George: You’ll be back 2026 King Charles: [arrests own brother] King Charles: Now who’s no kings

What are they gonna do, fire him? #colbert #talarico

Narrator: In fact, they ARE out scouring streets to disappear people.

So, to wrap up today's insanity: President Trump, who is deeply implicated in a pedophilia scandal involving his best friend, the sex trafficker, sent Attorney General Bondi -- who only has that job because Trump's first choice was also implicated in a separate pedophilia scandal -- to the House...

Bondi: There is no there there in the Epstein files. Jayapal: Look behind you.

Never mind the sexual violence toward children by the American president, a few people are getting more rich, including the American president. - Pam Bondi

During the Jade Helm days of 2015, Texas conspiracy theorists said that Obama was going to use Blue Bell ice cream trucks to transfer political prisoners to empty Walmarts in West Texas that would be repurposed as internment camps. Aaaaaaand now here we are.