As we get in our snickers and giggles at his Biblical illiteracy, please remember that Russell Brand's new born again Christian persona is an effort to dodge accountability for multiple accusations of horrible sexual violence. He's a sleazebag predator.

Holy shit, I didn't want to yell at a single one of these clinical recommendations

Dani is still in need of about $2000 for rent, utilities, groceries, and car payment. If you are able to spare anything for this sweet Minneapolis family, I would really appreciate it and I know they would too!

I do! After I chalked in front of her house she moved to the outskirts of town. If I can kick her out of her house, I can kick her out of the senate. #mepolitics

Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. (Pub. Dec. 2025 w/ @theassemblync.bsky.social)

Some parents with children in care at Splatsin First Nation in B.C. feel they have nowhere to turn when chief and council make decisions they don't believe are justified. Indigenous child welfare experts say regional "collectives" of First Nations may be the solution.

If you're in Virginia check out the delivery area, Chris Newman has been pioneering farming that's kind to farmers as well as the land and animals for uh. A long time now. Which is what we need for sustainable ag. Anyway buy your meat and eggs from Blackbird Co-op: blackbirdcoop.com

Build up momentum, then do this and this. 勢いをつけてこうしてこうですっ☆

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

The French Jewish Union for Peace has filed a legal complaint against FedEx in France for allegedly facilitating the transport of components for U.S. military jets to Israel.

There is now a website that lets couples set up "prediction market" style betting options for their weddings. It can be for fun or for money, and monetary winnings can be split between the winning guest and the couple. We are a deeply sick society.

Deed theft is very real and very fucked up. The shit I saw while working in mortgage would turn your hair white. I really wonder why we don't have something similar to a credit freeze for deeds to give an extra level of protection for vulnerable homeowners.

In 2011, a Chicago officer pulled a woman over just to get her phone number, then called or texted her nearly 30 times. Between 2017 and 2019, he was reported for sexual misconduct three more times before he was finally arrested. (Published May 2025 w/ @invisible.institute)

My steaming hot take is that regardless of any injury here the driver of this truck should be imprisoned for attempted manslaughter or whatever the statute name is for depraved indifference.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. ah-lee-hay-lee-stee ooh-day-tee-yee-skuh

You can buy yourself something beautiful or you can support the Prairieland Defendants directly through @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social, or both. 10% of all resin sales are donated to their legal fees & immediate needs.

Evergreen suggestion to not share photos/facts from accounts that don't give credit to where they've got it from.

I have done so much uncompensated labor that this man has straight up ignored. In his latest email, he talked about how they were ensuring the Humphrey Mondale Dinner is trans inclusive. The dinner that costs at minimum $150/ticket. Come ON. If he wants to pay me, my v3nmo is @ dexanderson.

My hotel for the state convention costs $307! Would love for Richard to cover that.

The administration that cares so deeply about fighting antisemitism.

I'm unequivocally opposed to the death penalty, but if we absolutely insist on having it, part of me thinks it's more honest to execute people by firing squad than the supposedly "humane" ways we do it now like lethal injection that do not actually prevent pain and suffering.

Hegseth said that the U.S. military should win the Nobel Peace Prize “every single year” because it wages war “the right way” — just seconds after bragging about his reshaping of the military to ensure that officers can carry out “maximum violence” under his chain of command.

Neither you nor I are his therapist nor qualified to diagnose any of these people. It is wildly inappropriate to speculate, especially since this offloads fasicism as a side effect of a charismatic narcissist rather than a deadly concept that we must take care to guard against.

... I legit thought this was a joke.

Well this is a complete nightmare scenario.

We have the FCC going after LGBTQ characters, but especially trans characters. We have the FTC being weaponized against trans healthcare especially for trans kids & nearly 1000 anti-trans bills in state legislatures across the country. Trans people are less than 0.5% of all Americans. Genocide.

“They’re undermining expertise and substituting it with ideology even though they claim to be doing exactly the opposite.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A new memo at Texas Tech University establishes a sweeping and draconian censorship policy toward LGBTQ+ people, creating a campus equivalent of “Don’t Say Gay” in one of the most extreme anti-speech policies ever imposed at a public university.

James Broadnax has less than one week left before he's executed by the state. Prosecutors struck Black jurors from the trial over race, and used rap lyrics to make their case. Another man has confessed to the crime.

Anyway I feel like when people talk about Julian Casablancas from the Strokes and a politics of "anti-elitism," they should talk more about the fact his father John Casablancas was a modeling agent who literally recruited for Epstein. So making "elites" into "Jews" is awfully convenient for him!

The real problem with what Julian Casablancas said was not anything about Zionism. It's that any time you construct a populist movement around "the people" versus "the elites," but explicitly refuse to define the elites on economic grounds, you are veering uncomfortably close to antisemitism.

It took her a long time to realise most people couldn't hear the soundtrack of their lives. Hers was always present; when she was with other people she could hear theirs too. Sometimes they made a cacophony, sometimes harmony, when mixing with hers. When it changed, she learned to trust it.

Some rare good news.

The Trump administration’s recently announced plans to radically restructure the U.S. Forest Service have raised concerns among advocates that forest land across Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest could suffer. via @wisconsinexaminer.com

It's shocking to me that places so heavily vulnerable to climate change - like ski towns or Florida beachfronts - act like they are in total denial of how quickly their entire lives and livelihoods are already being uprooted out from underneath them

Thank you to @objectivejournos.bsky.social for republishing my piece on the closure of SELF objectivejournalism.org/2026/04/self...

If I ever hit 2000 total paid subs to my newsletter/patreon, I'm going to hire a part time assistant/editor.

Shareholders accuse the NYT of bias against trans people, Sulzberger gives a compelling counterargument, saying 'nuh uh.' Check out this week's TWIBS by @alyssaur.bsky.social

“They’re making a public-facing performance about dealing with antisemitism – and the calculation is not being made through rigorous evaluation of scholarly expertise.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My sympathies are with the elephants.

Recently: - Anthropic has tightened access to Claude Code - Meta is laying off 10 percent of its workforce - GitHub is removing access to several more expensive AI models AI companies can’t endlessly subsidize their AI products by charging users less than it costs to actually run them.

Announcing the winner of the MOLLY National Journalism Prize ... Congratulations to Elliott Woods for "Inside the Deadliest Immigration-Related Disaster in U.S. History," in partnership with @texasmonthly.bsky.social, Food & Environment Reporting Network, Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

In contrast, joy gets under their skin. They cannot stand a happy person who they believe should be miserable.

"Disillusioned, some former Trump acolytes are defaulting to an older conspiracy theory: The ones in control are the Jews. In reality, Trump is in charge." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/o...

New York City Councilmember @chiosse.bsky.social was arrested this week during an eviction protest in Brooklyn, where many residents are targeted for "deed theft." "In my soul, I could not let that take place. I could not see a family, a Black family within Bed-Stuy, removed from a home," he says.

article @insidehighered.com about Virginia Tech that actually captures some of the egregious conflicts of interest on our BOV (a student landlord who owns thousands of units and is building more killing on campus student housing and attacking university housing generally)

Even saying that Musk is posting "about race" is softening what is happening here, which is that the world's wealthiest person is committing himself to spreading overt Nazi propaganda.

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

At this point, the Jewish state will actively prevent you from practicing your Judaism, if you are the "wrong kind of Jew." www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/m...

I've decided to bring back my weekly round ups for paid subscribers. Every Friday I recap and give some behind the scenes thoughts on what I've produced and I share some of the articles/content that made me think throughout the week. Here's today's: www.burnsnotice.com/sick-burns-4...