"A researcher at a far-right think tank helped Justice Department prosecutors craft their indictment for terror charges against an alleged 'north Texas antifa cell,' the researcher testified Monday."

My wife Anna is helping raise money for the Chicago Abortion Fund. She's been doing this nine years as reproductive rights are increasingly under attack It's also her birthday! She's out of town so I can't spend the day with her but anything you can spare would be the best gift. Thank you!

Overall, the proposed $1.5 trillion budget for the US military would represent the largest year-over-year increase in defense spending since World War II: arstechnica.visitlink.me/6n9FJg

Losers

Meanwhile we’re spending 1.6 billion dollars on DHS every two weeks...

Totally off-topic, but did y'all the know the Free State of Florida's citrus industry is basically dead?? This is quite a story: slate.com/business/202...

While an American weapons officer was evading enemy forces in Iran, there was a live betting market on what day he’d make it home. Military Times is out with a piece everyone should read on how this goes from morally indefensible to a genuine national security threat.

Ohio continues to be in the running for worst state.

I could start a daily series about drivers acting badly on the Logan Square boulevards. This morning, a driver tried to use the service drive to bypass the light at Fullerton but got stuck behind me and my kids. I could tell they were pissed by the way they peeled out when turning onto Fullerton.

Coupled with this, Cairo is in a bad way. A lot of history in this town too. youtu.be/viVY_Y5iQb4?...

Here is a little joke that is extremely Bluesky-coded and will maybe not stick around in my act past this fall. Thank you to my mother-in-law for all her skull-shaped gifts over the years!

The sooner companies like this start to crumble the better

Decided to do a little more digging to learn more about those 2020 Biden voters who skipped 2024, why they skipped, and what sort of message might win them back, and found this helpful research by Celinda Lake from last year: waytowin.docsend.com/view/rnv5spt...

Damn it

Trials. From top to bottom, the whole chain, from the White House to those pressing the button.

I enjoy her movies, but I cannot understand Barbara Stanwyck's hair.

A little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution to spy on American citizens is set to expire at the end of this month. We need to make sure Democrats don’t reauthorize this civil liberties disaster. 👇

Settlers and Israeli soldiers descended on a school in the West Bank -- and started firing live rounds. Multiple kids were shot and one was killed. His father was killed by settlers six years ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

This is also the implicit argument made for the electoral college.

Man it sucks that images aren’t displaying if only there were some helpful tool where you could describe the photo with a few words. Like. An alternative text or something.

Ugh

There are two main differences to me in a lot of what blue states are currently doing: 1) they are putting it to the voters. that alone means something. 2) most of them have FIRM time limits. it's basically, "fine we're gonna do an end-run around your cheating for as long as you keep cheating."

Alex Karp could be played by John C Riley.

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

My statement regarding unfounded attacks and threats against my family and staff.

Hey, maybe you want to read a good story about good people?

Finally caught up with @nerd4cities.bsky.social yesterday and I still can't get over prop 13. People are probably more aware than I am but ..... what the hell man?!

Part of changing our completely broken culture is to stop being polite to ppl who aren't owed kindness & stop inviting rotten people into our spaces. The Epstein Files & other atrocities occur b/c we're worried about protecting the feelings of shitty men or benefiting from proximity to their power.

“We shouldn’t forget the heart. Unless it starts to get old and there’s a younger heart, maybe in her 20s, working as your research assistant for a preachy book about ‘character.’ In that case you should definitely dump the first heart and focus on the second, much younger heart.”

i can't believe we're losing to these guys

There are virtually no major pharma companies working on new antibiotics. And you wanna know why?........It's because there's not much money in it. Pharma concentrates on drugs to treat chronic conditions over all else. And the key word there is "treat". Not much money in "cure".

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“What are you in for?” “Felony bralessness”

Hear it direct from a man who gets it.

I swear if this pope finishes one of these talks and then jumps on a bike and rides away I may become a full-fledged catholic.

Uh oh

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

RFK Jr no longer disguising his MAHA movement for what it really is: eugenics

Everything has a price

The Boundary Waters lost key protections last week. By a vote of 50 to 49, the US Senate passed a resolution that allows copper mining in the headwaters of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

The MAGA movement has pulled together all the nation's dumbest, most credulous, most psycholgically disorderd people into one place. It's just a giant pool of easy marks, begging to be grifted. Usually it's RWers preying on their own -- always wondered why more peole haven't had ideas like this:

For the NFL draft junkies, this is pretty cool.

Love Bluesky but the fact that the average user is in their 30s means I log on every afternoon to find 10 people in their 30s arguing about the history/root cause of a problem that predates their awareness of the world relying on nothing but conjecture and contemporary framework.

A drunk off duty cop fired his gun at a Sox game & the Sox/police covered it up because they cover up all crimes committed by cops.

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future. It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

In 2012, not long before the great Roger Ebert died, he published one of the finest, tightest essays ever composed about the ineffable nostalgic perfections of chain restaurants, a celebration of his beloved Steak ‘n Shake and its unchanging, ever-delicious burgers and fries. (Link at end of 🧵)

This sucks, but it's understandable. He has to be tired of rebuilding, and I'm sure he will catch on somewhere else pretty easily.

Every sailor or Marine who has ever done sea time knows intimately how stupid this is