Reagan’s OMB Director:

Repost. My response is the same. They're going to have to put limits on numbers of executive orders and pardons too.

HARD FACT: If the Republicans cared even 10% about the 67 allegations of Rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, and other sexual misconduct against Donald Trump as they do about the four allegations against Eric Swalwell, Donald Trump's political career would have ended in 2016

The reason why Leftists have dominated on campuses in America is because they aren’t operating with the view that truth “ought to be” simple and “ought to” flatter a student’s inherited prejudices. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

Honestly, I objected to lighters back in the day…

Come for the Aristotle, stay for the murky neo-con vibe.

Reposting at the risk of being an insufferably pretentious jazz hipster wannabe.

From Mayor to King Zog

Wanting to love Third Body Problem and finding myself thinking they decided, "We'll just skip the editing process. Run it from the camera to the print." I haven't felt so much non-newtonian fluid around me since I watched The Green Knight.

a segment of George Orwell's final interview, describing how 1984 could become a reality "Don't let it happen. It depends on you" #GeorgeOrwell #1984 #fightfascism

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

I am attempting homemade Chicago style deep dish pizza tonight because I can’t afford to fly to Chicago for dinner.

My hobbies include wondering whether this post-rock album starts with a long, extremely quiet introduction and will get louder soon, or whether I neglected to hit play.

The importance can't be overstated, here...

Join the veterans suing over this vanity project. www.npr.org/2026/02/21/n...

That’s an abomination.

Damn this person.... Damn this person to hell.

Even if you're an atheist or skeptic like myself, John Fea is worth following and interacting with. He's a historian and true to his intellectual integrity: his book on whether the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation is rich, complex, and refreshing stuff. His book on evangelicals and Trump too.

Orleans Parish, LA: the Republicans want to combine the clerks of Criminal and Civil courts. Since Katrina, the Civil Clerk's efficiency has deteriorated so badly that they now outsource some of their primary functions. Another awful GOP idea. apnews.com/article/new-...

My son is somehow on Quora. I can't help it, he's an adult and legally entitled to wreck his life any way he pleases. Anyhow, he sent me this.

"The Irritating Gentleman" by Berthold Woltze (1874): the painting that nailed everyday harassment 150 years ago

I feel like this should be a bigger story. 👀

The news isn’t all bad. www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-influ...

McCormick: "What's clear is the military objectives were very tight and specific ... the president said in his press conference at 2:30 in the morning the very day we launched military operations." (Trump did not hold a news conference -- he posted a bizarre, highly edited video to social media.)

Anita Love Weiner

More and more, I'm loving the moments that AI can't replicate: No posts, no photos, no public-facing emotions. Just me and the enormous pleasure of being. As one of the best people I know put it, "How rare and beautiful it truly is that we exist."

“Not all those who wander are lost” — J.R.R. Tolkien

Jay Bhattacharya likes to claim that he was so disturbed that his idiotic ideas were “censored” that HE and only HE will promote open discussion of scientific ideas. In science, we do that through peer-reviewed studies. But he is now blocking the publication of studies that show he’s wrong.

The truest thing I’ve read today….🤣

This color runs.

Of course they're starting it in December, conveniently after the midterms.

The illegal war, the masked federal thugs lawlessly roaming our streets, the tariff chaos, job growth stalling, inflation rising, the public corruption, the stupidity, the cruelty, the Epstein files coverup, the price increases…it ain’t just the war. Republicans were fucked well before this war.

One thing you should know about democracy is, you absolutely can't trust the people with decisions. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

Ah, look, a statue of the First Doctor. Or possibly John Wesley.

BLATANT LIE CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Karoline Leavitt: "Lebanon is NOT part of the ceasefire agreement". FACT: Literally the PM of Pakistan, who mediated the ceasefire, tweeted out that it WAS included. He's literally the one who witnessed the deal.

The Middle East is full of religious extremists who blindly revere evil men. Oops! I meant *The United States* not The Middle East.

Watters: Are you happy that there is a ceasefire? Where do you stand? Jessica: I stand in reality that there is no ceasefire.

oh, so a ceasefire is like when i say i’m going to stop eating cheese

Q: As of today, who controls the Strait of Hormuz? LEAVITT: We expect that the strait will be opened immediately Q: Who controls the strait right now? LEAVITT: *refuses to answer*

God’s like

I don't think God wants credit for this, whiskey Pete

"Trump belongs to a class of the impervious. They are the first into the lifeboats, the first to get parachutes, the first to the exits. It will be okay, because it always is." "Because It Always Is." open.substack.com/pub/otterhat...

Possible Statesmanship Spotted.

Megyn Kelly: Trump "could drop a nuke and I'd still vote Republican over Democrat." Translation: my moral compass is way up Trump's ass. x.com/MegynKellySh...

Watching Republicans lose their grip IS patriotism now. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

We are as a culture at the polka-dotted Canadian experimental rock duo stage of disintegration.

Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽