Allow yourselves to be guided by kindness, bearing in mind as you go along that most people are insane.

BREAKING: Jem and the Holograms have pulled out of the Freedom 250 concert series.

Just sent a whole issue of a magazine to the printer and none of the contributors fired up AI to craft their stories.

Fucking awesome.

I'm sure the White House applied for and received all the proper permits required to build a temporary structure this large. DC building inspector must be allover this.

MY SPOON IS TOO BIG

Every good Catholic knows not to look to the pope for moral guidance when you can look to a brain rotted tech billionaire instead.

…of the Newport Ringholes?!?

I don't think people should abandon Bluesky for Twitter. I think we should abandon Bluesky for Friendster and collectively start our social media journeys all over from the beginning.

I know several people for whom this is a perfect nickname.

And these days, aren’t we all a little bit Mary Fucksall?

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

I’ll take him at his word that he actually believes this and finally cancel my Amazon Prime.

It would be entertaining to see a marquee journalist book a prime time interview with a top Trump admin official and only ask them questions about the ballroom. Ask their opinion on the rug and drapery choices, if they know what the china pattern will be, their thoughts on all the minutiae.

Frank was the subject of decades of nasty, personal hate speech from the entire conservative movement, accusing him of horrible things because of his sexuality, and I am SO fascinated that on his death bed the one thing he wants us all to know is that he thinks they were right about trans people.

Right after college I worked for a non-profit housing organization and a few of the staff and affiliated activists were war tax resisters. Been thinking about them a bunch today.

If Trump praises a company publicly, as @juddlegum.bsky.social notes in his reporting, chances are good he has just acquired stock in that company.

The PEPFAR program saved lives at home and around the world. It has had a demonstrable, positive impact on the lives of millions. It did ground breaking research on an illness that killed far too many, undermining societies and cultures. It is the best of us. And these bastards killed it.

I’m just not sure what I’m feeling when I see Sigourney Weaver flying an X-wing fighter.

Just in case you were wondering how Kimberly Guilfoyle is doing as Ambassador to Greece, I'd say just FANTASTIC:

The two have zero fear of ever appearing in a children's picture book called "Great Thinkers of the 21st Century"

In honor of Katharine Hepburn's birthday, do make sure that at some point today you do The Hand Thing.

Slightly increase a band. Bananasrama

This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.

Slightly increase a band: Baddest Brains

You said it, Mink.

They're not going to stop with trans. They've realized that they can get away with just about anything if they claim to be protecting "the children." If they roll back gay marriage, they won't stop there either. There is no fucking accommodating these people, they must be defeated & marginalized.

PROUDLY UNDER-BABIED SINCE 1968.

I have a raven's nest full of babies at the very top of a tall pine out my backdoor. Lots of squawking when I walk out the back door that I'm trying not to take personally.

Cut Hair Punch Nazis

Hello. I was only 72% sure if my server was stoned until he put down my plate & said, “Here’s your pelvis.”

But by all means, reschedule the dinner.

Hmmmm, who do I trust more to look out for women, Smith College or a Trump appointee currently being sued for covering up years of sexual abuse?

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

Pres! By! Ter! Ian! Pres! By! Ter! Ian! Pres! By! Ter! Ian!

ICYMI when you were learning about Great Migrations and such, 55-60% of US Black folks still live in the South 'cuz that's where y'all fucking put us. And so you see what's happening here, right?

Still a total gem!

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Grogu

Today is Beltane, my half-birthday AND a full moon in Scorpio so WATCH OUT.

Many Americans are choosing which groceries they can afford this week, meanwhile Trump today was choosing between marble and onyx for his ballroom. Man of the people!

It fascinates me that Bill Donohue still gets press to this day. 30 years ago I remember colleagues referring to him as crank with a fax machine. So little has changed.

Today I officially paid the most I’ve ever paid for a gallon of gas.

Has the senator read anything about Tesla?

Going and asking a farmer who is about to go bankrupt about the renewed urgency around this ballroom seems like total low hanging fruit for some journalist.

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Articles of Interest is always amazing, but I really appreciate how clothing tariffs are discussed within the larger picture of income taxation in this episode. Also, I can't be the only person on here who wants to see the results of an @trufelman.bsky.social + @dieworkwear.bsky.social collab.

$3.25/hour at Chester's Drug Store in downtown Holyoke in 1983. Cigs were 95¢/pack when I started.