I collect pictures of gate latches. The endless minute variations and human ingenuity appeal to me greatly, and the countless hands that have moved them. This one is between Near and Far Sawrey, Lake District and has a lovely combination of textures between the iron, wooden gate, and stone gatepost.

The Garibaldi Guard, aka the FUCK STEPHEN MILLER Rifles

Protein is a waste because it’s like all these calories and it doesn’t even get you drunk

I am genuinely Confucian on American politics: the failure to observe the rites is a moral and political catastrophe.

Literally would rather hang out with nazis who want me dead and are scheming to kill me than people who want my boss to try to exercise power

This party once put the cities of fascist empires to the torch with the power of the sun and now its apparatchiks can't take the heat of being yelled at online to say tariffs are bad without turning into a depressive blubbery mess RETVRN to fvcking TRADITION

these are all the children of God and whoever hates them is my enemy

I think the clear inference we can draw is that nothing republicans do is off-putting or insulting to Jake Tapper’s sensibilities.

Shout out to the disabled community for always showing up, always being on the right side of history and justice, always willing to put their bodies on the line, all for the cause of making sure *everyone* has the basic dignity of health care.

Hell yeah. Day Baseball. Day Baseball.

Everyone needs to read The New York Times discussion with Median Voters. These are the people we need to reach.

A spiritually bereft people

"We have become all too willing to look away today. We accept dishonesty and rapaciousness in public life...when a man who has shown us time and again who he is...we put him back in power...A republic is only as good as its citizens." Interesting from @aselrod.bsky.social, ending on optimistic note

This is the kinda shit that should catch you a treason/sedition charge.

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

The level of criminality in the Republican Party is off the charts. Trump just pardoned a Nevada politician who raised money for a statue of a slain police officer but spent it on cosmetic surgery instead. Trump gives his co-conspirators a license to steal.

my most illiberal idea is that making this should land you in jail

the reason people want to believe that the modern US has always been this bad, and that there is no escalation that is unique to either Trump term, is because it relieves them of any obligation to do more than they already were while feeling really fucking smug about it

A group of Georgia cops so fucking dumb that they did the Big Lebowski bit and dumped a paralyzed guy out of his wheelchair, then accused him of faking it reason.com/2025/04/11/g...

Last month, the CDC Division of Viral Hepatitis found the source of a Hepatitis C outbreak in Florida that state officials had been unable to solve since December. Now the entire Division has been fired, leaving investigations of outbreaks in OR, PA, MA, NM, WI, WV and GA, unsolved in addition to FL

The pulse that Stancil has such a feeling for haunts him

MIT following Harvard's lead here

The Sorkin “eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind” bit is good for tv. In the real world, America must stand for its own

this take unlocks a level of neocon inside me that I didn’t know I had: I don’t give a single shit how popular bukele is in El Salvador. if you illegally put American residents in a gulag and mock the US judges ordering them back, you deserve a slap chop missile from the Woke CIA

Like sorry but we’re going to need to turn the “paratroopers blasting Nazis” dial up 1000

What else do you expect from the pretender to the presidency other than lawlessness?

this is the moment trump declared to every court in the country that the constitutional crisis is already upon us, and i'm not sure that goes the way he expects.

Any Democratic politician who doesn't understand Nayib Bukele's grave offense against the sovereignty of the American people and constitutional order and say as much publicly should have no future in elected office. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bukel...

pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

Every Congressional Democrat should be on their respective chambers' floor saying "if Garcia is not returned, we are going to kill Bukele. There is no fucking around with this. We will place your skull on a spike as a warning to everyone else for all time. Don't fucking try us." nonstop.

Exiling people beyond the protection of US law without due process is not only unconstitutional, it's a rejection of the entire American revolutionary project. Sending people "beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" is one of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.

Every republican owns this. What a pathetic servile party to make that man their king

I have been convinced that the UK is right to make their cops dress silly. You are not a soldier. You are a policeman. We made you this nice policeman uniform. If you want to be an operator, join the Green Berets. Helps breed a law enforcement culture distinct from a crude imitation of war.

He is 𝘯𝘰𝘵 a real president. The office of the President is currently vacant bsky.app/profile/sent...

Watching stonks

Sure, you could prompt an AI "five adorable goats capering on a picnic table eye level heartwarming summer scene photorealistic 35mm focal length artstation" But the thing that makes this heartwarming is knowing that these are real goats that are actually enjoying themselves somewhere out there.

Now that's an idea for a travel insurance add-on

Hurricane season will be a real hoot and a half with the cost to rebuild affected areas going through the roof. What if the population displacement from Katrina but for every major storm?

🚨 YEATS: TURNING AND TURNING OF THE WIDENING GYRE EXPECTED TO COINCIDE WITH THE FALCON NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE FALCONER, CENTRE NOT EXPECTED TO HOLD

Nintendo can get around the tariffs by using a floating barge with claw machines just outside US waters You can take a boat and pay $450 for unlimited attempts to win a Switch 2 from a claw machine If you win, it counts as “personal treasure,” exempt from tariffs under maritime salvage laws

My old shitposts are more relevant than ever

USDA cuts hit small farms as Trump showers billions on big farms The dollars helped schools and food banks buy from small farmers, boosting the local food system. #ncpol ncnewsline.com/2025/04/07/u...?