That word "proudly" keeps popping up in GOP lies. It serves important purposes: 1) It stiffens any deception; 3) It gives the speaker something strong to play-act that looks authentic (self-righteousness); 2) It inoculates the speaker from criticism when when saying something shameful.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... He's running. Tucker Carlson, that is. The son will have great tea to spill on the stump

The May 1 general strike is in less than two weeks. I believe it has to succeed for American democracy to have a fighting chance Our feeds should be flooded with posts like this, but they aren’t I’m a little concerned

Whoever leaked the SCOTUS memos did us all a great service. Roberts should be impeached.

The Supreme Court long relied on careful, time-tested procedures to issue decisions. But secret memos by the justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how the court decided to bypass those procedures and create its modern “shadow docket.” See key takeaways: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

We should be learning from other countries...

Raw corruption

Creepy literal messaging: Rogan is behind Trump. Ugh.

They'll print anything that serves them

@cbsnews.com is dead to me. Will not watch again. Period

www.wired.com/story/maga-i... The conspiracy snake is eating its own tail

Again: the gun you keep in the home for “protection” increases your risk of homicide by 3-fold, of suicide by 5-fold, and for men, risk of suicide more than 10-fold The second you bring a gun into the home you’ve dramatically increased the risk of death for your family 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Dat Pope tho

For only $5 million, I will disrupt the establishment orthodoxy which has lied to you for years about not being able to divide a number by zero.

IT ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK IS NOT

www.irishstar.com/culture/ente... 'Had it with some fava beans and a nice chianti. Slurpslurpslurp!' -- RFKJr

Thank you, @raskin.house.gov, for this very important (and clever) move

@agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov The CA Attorney General really, truly ought to be taking the lead on this. Where are you, AG Bonta?

Note the swiveling motion… (h/t @epistemiccrisis)

oh hey it’s a wacky new cartoon of no particular relevance to anything this morning www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

The one outlet that covers him the way they would a Democrat.

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

Magyar now polling third in the Iowa caucus.

Losers

JD Vance is patiently waiting by the phone for Orban to call and say "thank you"

“Henceforth [Hitler] would devote all of his time to the Nazi Party, from which neither then nor later did he accept any salary.” - Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 89

The restaurant scene from Heat, but instead it's Emo Philips and Steven Wright.

Yes, it’s true that oil tankers that otherwise would be full, from the Persian Gulf, are empty. And if they fill up with oil from the U.S. instead, what does he think happens to oil prices in the U.S.? This guy really can’t put two and two together.

Stunning that these Democrats all "knew" but kept their mouths shut. I know these guys. They were wrong to go along to get along

Tucker Carlson is going for the jugular. archive.ph/yhqUz#select...

www.miaminewtimes.com/news/deporte... Good rundown on the Melania ick

newrepublic.com/post/208929/... Trickle-down corruption

Fox News comes out in favor of teen pregnancy.

watching the Melania Trump press conference like...

Epstein survivor texts me to say “what a bizarre thing” for the First Lady to do

One of my ancestors stacked his rifle in surrender at Appomattox. I still feel the shame

www.newsweek.com/marjorie-tay... You tell 'em, Marjorie!

May Trump suffer all that he promises others

Only stupid people think young men want to bring back the draft. Or their parents. Or grandparents. Or brothers and sisters and cousins......

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

The bots on bsky are beefing up.... pro wrestling?!

Bots on bsky are getting more sophisticated all the time

The biggest form of political correctness in America is that basically every single conservative commentator is a gutter bigot and it's just universally understood that it's beyond the pale to ever acknowledge that.

Six minutes apart!

I'm on the train back to DC – I call on all my colleagues to come back, too. Congress must vote to end this war IMMEDIATELY.

Up and down sort of day for us pacifists

Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.