SARAH ASHLEE BARKER FTW 🔥 The Portland Fire get their first win of the season.

virgnia foxx is one of those low key members who has been abjectly horrible her entire time in office. a total degenerate.

We just watched Borat with the kids (please judge us) and they were like “THIS, mom? THIS is why you say ‘My wiiiiife?’”

A walking double double. She didn’t get enough respect as a rookie in the voting because people had their minds made up already.

watching one Robert Altman movie all way through without their phone would send these people into a full-on dissociative coma

Why are they hostile, Howard? WHY ARE THEY HOSTILE!?!?? IS IT SOMETHING YOU DID!?

RIP to former NBA player Jason Collins, the first openly Gay, active, male pro athlete. Hard to explain what a big deal it was in 2014 when Collins signed with the Nets. He took number 98 in tribute to Matthew Shepard, the Gay teen murdered in a horrific hate crime. JC was brave and will be missed.

Over the past year, the Trump administration has tried to gain and failed to access information about kids receiving gender-affirming care. Now, they're trying a new tactic: Its prosecutors sent a grand jury subpoena to NYU Langone Hospital seeking confidential info about patients under age 18.

Stop sharing stills from the WaPo Opinions podcast.

No one ever says “homeowners are never satisfied” or “police officers are never satisfied.” This rhetoric is reserved for groups of people constantly being infantilized.

The company is recalling nearly 3,800 robotaxis after an unoccupied vehicle entered floodwaters on a San Antonio road and was washed into a creek. bit.ly/4wmkV3G

The machines crave the sea

An excellent read.

I followed up with Robert's Lafitte today. Terry Fuller, the events coordinator and a bartender, told me that the bar's benefit show on Saturday made $20,000, a lifeline for the bar.

I'm old enough to remember when unfounded conspiracy theories about destroying ballots led to an insurrection

waiting til kershaw hung em up to do this is very funny

What’s fun about both Fetterman and Bill Maher is that they vacillate between two modes: one of them is finding war and death and mockery and humiliation hilarious and the other mode is them going “why are you so cruel to me? Why can you not find decency in your heart towards me?”

Remember that whenever anyone tells you that we don’t have the money to pay for things to help our neighbors, they are lying to you.

Headline sucks but yeah, glad to be in NJ like usual. This essentially takes a bunch of stuff Phil Murphy did to ensure protections for trans patients and providers in an executive order and makes it the law of the land, once it clears two more steps that seem pretty certain to happen.

There were many others using these two as shields and cover. That also needs to be made clear.

The Trump White House freaked out so much at the political disaster they created for themselves with Minnesota and other viral images of their roving, trigger happy crackdowns that they were forced to make their secret police force more secretive, but they’re still committing lawless abuses and…

not to mention that again it does not track with recent history, like the idea of gay marriage was seen as pretty crazy and controversial and beyond the pale by at least a lot of people as recently as like, the early 2010s?

there has been a recasting going on especially in the pages of the nyt that the gay rights movement (esp. winning gay marriage) was this well-thought out, incrementally planned campaign and if the trans people had tried that they'd be fine and that just, doesn't seem true at all?

Thank you! Also, I really been calling for this for years.

you know what regular people really love? really, really wealthy people holding a metaphorical gun to their head and threatening to pull the trigger whenever the might be slightly inconvenienced. it’s super relatable for a few to say give me everything i want or ill destroy your community

assimilate with Tommy Tuberville's culture (losing by sixty to Oklahoma State at home)

i'm sympathetic to the fact that i am the weirdo for paying as much attention to politics as i do but let's not treat people like children, they are not hermetically insulated from the news, not knowing after the last decade is pretending not to know

In 13 years of learning about various government programs and agencies, the two-word phrase that explains the most, and that I most wish the general public knew about and understood, is “administrative burden”.

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

Another dental visit, huh? It’s just getting comical at this point. They can’t even keep the lies straight.

Slightly increase a band Dimeback

I been hacked. all my sperm gone. this just sold please help me

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

I like to imagine all of us yelling “Norm” anytime I see his handle, like this is Cheers

This is the second time in a week the Supreme Court has sidestepped process in a way that helps GOP adopt new maps to maximize partisan advantage even as election season is underway.

Of course. They’re not even trying to hide their partisan rulings anymore

The Alabama primary is *one week from tomorrow*. Remember when the Supreme Court said that they couldn't redress a wrong before because it was too close to the election? Just such a sham.

“i want more cops and better roads and i should also pay less in taxes”

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John Cornyn is running a campaign for the Sickos. Will it work? Good analysis from @dansolomon.com

BTW as we approach Pride Month in Texas, a reminder that I still love covering LGBTQ+ stuff. If you've got a timely Texas timely idea for a story, a tip, or an event you'd love covered, feel free to email me at [email protected]

beautiful to see this meme in real life

if i were going to run a left campaign for the democratic nomination for president i would also spend a lot of my time in black churches, fwiw

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

I was graduating from college the last time we had this kind of pull-up-the-ladder economy, and this is going to materially affect an entire generation in ways people are going to be so eager to ignore.

BESPOKE: “.. The only precedent for when the S&P 500 has been at record highs while fewer than 60% of stocks were above both their 50- and 200-day moving averages: December 1998-March 2000.”

For as progressive as Seattle may seem, it has an underrated ability to produce the most vile right-wing cranks.

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GO KNIGHTS

this is the exact free throw Patrick Ewing takes in Space Jam after the Monstars take his talent