At first glance, I misread this headline as "girls desire to marry plumbers," and I thought, good for them.

Everyone knows that the best way to deal with a bully is to complain a little at first, but give them what they want in the end. It's just common sense.

The margins by which Prop 50 won is the biggest story of night.

This post wins the prize

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Love this.

Better headline: "President loses his shit over no kings protest."

The original Tron is proof (if you needed it) that no, the '80s were not that cool. Feels like they're scraping the bottom of the IP barrel with this movie. @wired.com #tron #TronAres

Truly disgusting ICE detained an autistic 5 year old girl in Leominster, Mass Using this child-a US citizen-as bait to lure her father-who has lived in the country for 20 years-out so they could arrest him How do these people live with themselves www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AmrWut/

"The entirely innocent people whom the regime liquidated by the millions, the "objective enemies" in Bolshevik language, knew that they were "criminals without a crime." - Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism www.lakispolycarpou.com/the-punisher...

Thinking about what it means for the administration to fetishize The Punisher.

I had some thoughts.

Can't believe they're making me side with Big Pharma for the 2nd time in five years.

When people complain that “GPT-5 is wearing the skin of my dead friend,” it suggests that OpenAI was probably right to make the new version less sycophantic. Serious question, though: if you love it so much, why can't you just prompt GPT-5 to behave like GPT-4?

South Park may or may not be the hero we need right now, but it's definitely the one we deserve.

I always respected Hitchens. Even when he was on the "wrong" side of an issue (like his support for the Iraq war) he argued from a position of conscience. This video truly is chilling — and a reminder that even in the realm of authoritarianism, not all regimes are the same. (Thanks to TMH).

I've come to the horrible conclusion that the only reason ICE looks like this (under an administration that LOVES a uniform!) is that in the not-distant future, they want civilian vigilantes taking it upon themselves to do more violent versions of this same work. And they'll be indistinguishable.

The Turnip Regime doesn’t want anyone to see this. It’s a little too close to home. It would be a shame if it went viral….

Among other important points, Charlie Sykes point out that the attacker was dressed like a policeman -- highlighting even more the importance of law enforcement identifying themselves.

Totalitarian kitsch everywhere. (Thanks to Paul Krugman for the recent reminder of Milan Kundera).

Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

No kings nyc #nokings

Beyond parody. “No, no. We’re not a king,” Mr. Trump said. “We’re not a king at all, thank you very much.”

This is insane.

When [Joseph K.] asks the strangers why, he receives no answer. “We weren’t sent to tell you that,” one says. “Proceedings are under way and you’ll learn everything in due course.” - J.G.G. v. Trump (D.D.C. 2025) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I started a draft on this theme a while ago that I never finished. @drewpavlou.bsky.social beat me to it (better and with much more detail). Anyway, I think it hits the nail on the head.

Went to Holy Thursday services last night and was viscerally reminded that imprisoning and torturing someone who hasn't committed a crime is wrong.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is demanding a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele over the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and says he’ll go to El Salvador himself if the Marylander isn’t returned.

A very important point.

Working in climate and energy right now is like "they are building one million GW of new gas plants for data centers and also they are not building the data centers after all and also you cannot get a new gas plant for love nor money but also they are making solar illegal"

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

There’s a direct line from delusional election denialism to the tariff madness that’s now crashing the global economy. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Again, you can tell who the Good Guys are because they’re the ones getting caught sneaking into elementary schools, lying that the kids’ parents sent them. bsky.app/profile/prem...

Mass deportation for illegal ideas.

Is pushing for the death penalty for Mangione a good move politically? I have my doubts. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/n...

Just realizing I forgot to repost this yesterday. Hope it's not out of date.

FUNDSTRAT tonight: “.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”

If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.

Someone favorited this post, which was one year ago this week. Let’s we if ChatGPT has improved since then! 1/2

This makes me so happy. enron.com