Exactly 💯

Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”. This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.

My thoughts on the Swalwell stuff. Notice how Democrats always hold their own accountable and Republicans just yell fake news, no matter how vile the evidence is?

the Swalwell accusers are heroes and I'm so so glad they got to see such a swift and definitive outcome rather than months of this dragging out while their honesty was constantly relitigated by Twitter pundits MAY IT EVER BE THUS

I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

this is a big win. let's see if it's indicative of anything broader. What could we do to build these connections and cross-border cooperation? the fascisti are supporting each other all over the world. what about the rest of us?

In other April news . . .

I rarely deploy the term "banger." This? @davidehrlich.bsky.social's latest newsletter entry (and his glorious return after his book leave)? About the "absolute hell" of movie-going at the Drafthouse these days? This. This is a banger. www.indiewire.com/features/com...

One of the all timers. Hits especially hard now, in the aftermath if the decimation of the US presidency and The Washington Post.

He’s not saying anything more complicated than this, nor is the birthright citizenship case about anything else www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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If we bought a few less bombs, we could probably afford nice things. One thing I'd like to see from the next presidency would be to appoint a special commission to prepare a report on the actual cost to defend the United States from attack. Not foreign wars. Just the cost to defend this country.

Here's everything this bill targets.

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Superior writing in this alt text than in the New York Times book review section.

The alt text here is art.

If you're a tax procrastinator like me (or for next year), I used FreeTaxUSA for the first time. Free federal. $15.95 for state. They handle e-filing. Way cheaper than TurboTax and just as simple! www.freetaxusa.com?friend=PzHFFv

Wherein I write about the step beyond Google Zero and imagine the AI information ecosystem collapse: mattdpearce.substack.com/p/who-really...

if you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.

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Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

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“I was expecting an attack on climate science,” Dr. Marvel said. “What I was completely unprepared for was an attack on [all] science, because it is a means of finding out and telling the truth.”

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

Elizabeth Banks

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This is a national disgrace and it should cost Bhattacharya his job at NIH. It should result in him being ostracized from academia for the rest of his career. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

Perhaps this existential threat to scientific research & education at the country’s research universities was something the presidents & chancellors of those universities thought was worthy of loudly & collectively speaking out against in the public square at some point in the last year or so? 🤷‍♂️

Listen this is the god’s honest truth!

Anyway, movies are generally good

oscar winners vibe coders 🤝 "and, of course, my agent"

‘SINNERS’ won 4 Oscars tonight. • Best Actor (Michael B. Jordan) • Best Cinematography • Best Original Screenplay • Best Original Score See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

Man, I love that PTA invoked the all-timer year of 1975 in his speech. Go watch all five of those movies! One Battle will last. Sinners will last. Congratulations to all and to all a good night!

Four Oscars for a vampire movie that came out in the spring from a director who had never been nominated is honestly an incredibly impressive showing.

19 picks right this year.

Coogler and Michael B get their Oscars on the same night!

PTA . . . A little too honest?

The playing off is ridiculous. Let people have their moment. That nonsense will stop when it's on YouTube, right?

I love that Joachim brought everyone up with him!

TIL . . . (very cool)

The Oscars achieved the impossible . . . they made Golden sound like crap.

Genuinely breathtaking and unforgettable to see this one in 70mm IMAX. #HATM #Oscars

Big respect. “You lose your country with countless small acts of complicity.”

I . . . did not know that Sinners was scored by a Swede.

Best Documentary Feature Mr. Nobody also wins best acceptance speech so far.

The most awkward #Oscars broadcast ever?

I think Robert Redford would have made different directorial choices for this year's In Memoriam