Reposting an article from the Gift Links tab because it is the one everyone needs to read today.

Learn whatever you want about "law," it doesn't matter because GOP Justices blew up the entire process of deciding cases based on chats with rich friends and stuff they watched on TV. That was the entire basis on which SCOTUS switched to the shadow docket.

Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.

Snoozemaxxing.

One metric that probably isn't being tracked & should be is how much of a household's income is being eaten up as a result of the fallout from the growing lack of corporate & regulatory accountability. Some examples from my own experience before leaving the U.S. over 3 years ago: 1/

Took this guy out for its first spin and had a good time with a Flying, Deathtouch, Trample, Lifelink, Indestructible dino slowly but steadily putting The Big Chomp on my opponents. It felt well-calibrated at Bracket 2 and did interesting things. Need a deck name that includes "hwaet" somehow.

this is literally the "no-go zones" lie they keep making up about other countries, just this time for parts of America they are targeting with violence. The purpose of the lie is to justify additional violence.

Don't kink-shame, let people be into what they are into.

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2090...

Synthesis: Dems need to come down on white-collar crime like the wrath of a vengeful God and publicize it at all times. "These are the swindlers and creeps ruining it for the rest of us and stealing your paycheck. We're taking out the trash."

The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...

Tomorrow is a Commander New Deck Day: trying out something a bit goofier than I usually do and constraining it by building it at Bracket 2, rather than pushing further faster - I usually play around the middle of Bracket 3. Self-limitation because Card Draw Commanders are generally too far for me.

This turns out to be a very misleading edit from Jorts and Jean. It cuts off before she says what's wrong with farm worker overtime regulations, which is that they have in fact resulted in lower pay for farm workers. That's *not* an argument that giving farm workers overtime pay doesn't make sense!

I just want to share the latest Stupid I keep encountering in my job search because it is so dumb that I refuse to suffer alone. The job offering that keeps hunting me down and asking me to work for them is an AI company that wants me, a chemist, so I can help them teach a computer to smell things.

Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.

Republicans Saturday night: "Hungary is the model." Democrats Sunday night, after Orban loses and the incoming PM vows for long-overdue accountability to rain down on the previous corrupt autocratic regime: "Hungary is the model."

On a more serious note, this does show the necessity of a big-tent single-issue pro-democracy coalition. Autocrats lose when anti-authoritarianism is the opposition-uniting priority, and win when they can play divide and conquer on lesser issues.

⚡️ Viktor Orbán concedes defeat, ending his 16-year leadership. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán officially conceded power to opposition leader Péter Magyar on Sunday night after early election results showed the Tisza party on track for a parliamentary majority.

I can't believe I actually have to say this, but apparently I do: someone who is buying compromised Bluesky accounts from an account reseller marketplace is directly funding identity theft, fraud, and international crime. #BadActorBingo resurrection for an explainer of why:

I lectured the Finns about Why I Love Horror™ and then I met this library dog

there will be other cishet white guys with decent haircuts and good teeth, we aren't running out.

More than 20 women. And leadership knew.

The apartment is cold but her blanket is warm.

I know it's still considered impolitic to say it, but Hillary Clinton couldn't go nearly as hard as she could and should have with Trump on this shit for the simple reason that it would have meant talking about Bill.

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

LOLOLOLOL.

New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

None of y’all need to repost this shit (the video itself) just fyi The horrified reactions are plenty

This was The Beatles’ final public performance — their legendary rooftop concert on January 30, 1969.The show wasn’t publicly announced, so it took everyone by complete surprise. Crowds quickly gathered on the streets and nearby rooftops as the Fab Four rocked Savile Row

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE TAGGING ME IN ON THE VATICAN / PENTAGON BEEF HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

Some folks just make a killing in Polymarket betting on a cease fire. polymarket.com/event/us-x-i...

I mean I guess I'm glad this article dropped before 8:00 because maybe it'll help make TACO Tuesday happen, but to me the traditional "waited to tell us until they signed the fucking book deal" game shouldn't have been played this time. Haber's gonna habe.

Three takeaways from @nytimes.com "inside the room" account. 1) Previous US admins mostly resisted being conned by Netanyahu. Trump was a complete sucker. 2) Vance and, to lesser degree, Marco playing "we always knew this was bad idea" card. 3) Trump is an idiot. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

A second House Democrat, Jasmine Crockett, sends Vance and the cabinet a letter urging them to invoke the 25th Amendment:

It is super fucked up that the future of a not-completely-fucked world depends on today being TACO Tuesday.

It’s obviously got to be Minneapolis. We haven’t turned away from the horrors, let us prosecute them.

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

Shared via the Gift Links tab, this is also a storm brewing, it's just like the fourth- or fifth-most important problem we have (and thus is comparatively invisible).

They are doing the "going crazy while going to the moon" thing *way* too early. Hi Bob.

we’re feeding our neighbors’ cat this week

Japan just unveiled a drone made entirely of cardboard. It flies at 120 km per hour, can be assembled in 5 minutes, and is designed to be used in massive swarms. The craziest part is it can be mass produced at any regular cardboard factory. The future is cheap. www.reddit.com/r/SECourses/...

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Artemis ll launch from Kennedy Space Center seen from an United Airlines flight Credit to ksmathandmore www.instagram.com/p/DWnO3IgjUrv/

This is sure to gain the appreciation of the Iranian people

Not a specific tweet, but one of the funniest days I can remember on twitter was when a right wing muckraker claimed to have proof that Elizabeth Warren was fucking a 25 yo Marine and everyone was like “if this is true I am definitely voting for her”

The definitive reax:

I literally burst out in laughter reading this