No. The Fed does not need to set policy based one dude’s imagination.

The PR guy at DoorDash is having a bit of a crash out

It's a bad sign that Spanberger, elected on a wave of opposition to Trump and his swollen militarized secret police force, is insisting that Virginia sheriffs and jails continue to imprison people past their release date in order to hand them over to ICE. This grants ICE power it should not have.

The right wins: Democrats need to stop being so progressive The right loses: Democrats need to stop being do progressive

Exactly 💯

“I called Trump to ask about having a man who says such things in charge of federal disaster response, Trump asked ‘what does teleport mean’ and ‘was he kidding?’ Adding, ‘It just sounds a little strange, but I know nothing about teleporting or him.’”

This bloated brownshirt can’t stop twitching in his seat because he’s pumped himself full of so much stale shit from the CPAC lobby bathroom since 2010 that he can’t finish a sentence without auditioning for Berghof Butler No. 3

Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.

Are you a trans person in BC who has been told your pharmacy will no longer be delivering your testosterone (or other medication?) as a result of the Health Professions and Occupations Act? Please reach out - [email protected]

everyone involved in the dismantling of USAID should be forced to spend their lives watching graphic videos of what they have subjected people to in their callousness, clockwork orange style

AOC: “The mistake that I made, you know, from all the movies that we see growing up about heroes & villains — is that I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses — I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre, & just dumb the architects would be”

So many liberals want to believe Trump is the end all be all of the fascist movement in this county. The even more fascist right has already been criticizing him for years. He is not the end. Don’t bury your head in the sand.

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

If you see this QRP your art with a moon. 🌙

do they need to keep making dad games so men can learn to have empathy for their daughters or is that something they can learn on their own

"If you can't solve the smallest task in someone's life, why would they ever trust you to solve the biggest one?" Mamdani's revival of early 20th century "sewer socialism" here is the inverse of Guiliani's "broken windows" approach. Starting small to do big things, but this time, they're good.

evangelicals eagerly, gleefully pretended not to see the myriad ways trump is the most heretical politician to hold american higher office in modern history so i don't think we should take their outrage as sincere now that they need a way out of his sinking coalition

it'd be great if you could get off Substack

still waiting for someone to hit him with a fawning "RFK told that great story about you drawing a map of the middle east complete with troop strengths from memory. incredible! we'd love to see it"

See, in the US we just let the President take those home and store them in his pool house. Because freedom. BTW if I don’t believe this is the vibe you will create in the Trump White House when elected, I’m not voting for you for President.

Bro misunderstands. This is not the degredation of society. These are the *results.* When the rich and powerful refuse to be restrained by our laws, they violate the social contract and leave people desperate and with no legal recourse. They have fucked around, and are finding out.

At some point will people realize the way Axios is being fed these BS leaks and wagging its tail with enthusiasm like a puppy getting a treat?

this is what i meant weeks ago when i said so much of the aggressive surge in migrant policing felt like a boundary test, where a period of highly visible violence would eventually recede in favor of less visible and more "professionalized" migrant policing at a level beyond its baseline pre-trump.

gm

This guy is getting fired from that commission by the end of the week.

Again, Catholic priests *went to jail* for protesting the Vietnam War and registering black voters in the South during the Civil Rights Movement.

Bishop Robert Barron, who serves on Trump’s own religious liberty commission and has appeared with the president on multiple occasions recently, has released a statement that asks Trump to apologize to Pope Leo. This is notable from Barron, who has often aligned publicly w/Trump and/or his allies.

F-ing depraved. The IDF edited a photo of the journalist they assassinated and made it look like he was wearing a Hezbollah uniform. They explicitly state that it is legal in Israel to murder journalists. The entire Israeli state is a criminal enterprise.

It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

The “batteries can’t handle heavy haul” myth was already dead in 2023. South Australia launched an electric triple road train hauling mining loads at ~160 tonnes gross. Real truck. Real route. Real work. The future doesn’t ask permission from old narratives.

⚡️Nearly 209,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine identified by media investigation. Russian independent media outlet Mediazona, in collaboration with the BBC Russian service, has confirmed the identities of 208,755 Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine.

“People need to be nicer to each other online” and “people need to develop thicker skin because it’s not normal or healthy to get upset at everything you don’t agree with” are two statements than can and should coexist actually

the Democrat who wins will be the one vibrating with desire to drive the MAGAs before them into the snow and cold, unheeding of their piggy little squeals for mercy

"the pope is weak on crime" what

yeah, "OJ was framed for a crime he obviously committed because the LAPD was so racist they didn't know how to investigate Black people without framing them" is more or less the takwaway

This is also how dozens of groups with names like the Pinkerton Institute for Economic Morality end up filing amicus briefs at SCOTUS arguing that the CFPB should be executed

looks like JD Vance really fucked the couch again huh

holy shit he actually conceded folks, they tell you they’re invincible they tell you they’re inevitable they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting and absolutely none of that is true

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

And this is, I think, the X factor we haven't yet accounted for economically. The asshole markup. When you alienate your trading partners, they don't feel obligated to cut you the best deals anymore. They're going to seek out new markets instead and cut THEM the best deals. 4/

A basic hard drive check would prevent the majority of these men from being threats. Can't overthrow the country from jail.

It’s a good question, let’s clear the air: 1) Disco is awesome, like 25 all-time classic tracks in a 4 year span, 2) Disco was hated because it was queer, brown, and black, 3) Disco was hated because it paired women and men in a different power dynamic. 4) “Disco Sucks” was a “ MAGA” test run.

I’m tired of these lazy people living off the government and refusing to work.

“The escalation now appears increasingly unavoidable…this is not a scenario with a clear winner, only varying degrees of loss.” Danny Citrinowicz Former head of the Iran branch of Israel defense intelligence

Primin’, primin’, priming some miniatures…

There is a cat in this photo.

1/You have to kill Unitary Executive dead like you are the final heroine in a horror movie involving Zombies. What have we learned from the last year about future-proofing agencies from the Unitary Executive?