Spoiler alert, I guess

Great movie! We saw it as kids and we were all traumatized when the bad guy ate Gertrude

Pack the court AND impeach.

i like how the fake fascist supreme court of the us rules 7-2 on the fakest fascist cases of all time to show they're not a fake fascist court when a non fake non fascist court would never embarass itself by even considering them

Let history record that the highest court in the land is fine with the president being forever known as a total asshole

When I was lucky enough to meet Brooks, he was hanging out with David Cronenberg

One of many things this would allow DOGE / the federal government to do is track every single thing that you do on the internet if you go to a government website once We specifically made it illegal for the government to do that. That’s just for corporations lol Jokes aside, this is worse

If SCOTUS is going to say that the president has immunity and it’s up to Congress to hold him accountable, then a Congress that does not impeach him when he breaks laws right and left is a criminal Congress.

Re-reading this incredible book, highlighting passages and marking pages. “Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader’s mind—vividly, forcefully—that good writing, which stops with clarity and logic, doesn’t.”

Diesel is $6.66 at my local Chevron station. Probably doesn’t mean anything…

We need to shut all of this down, pronto

We had more people in the diner where I had biscuits and gravy this morning.

Today is Mel Brooks’s 100th birthday.

This hung on the wall above the big antique rolltop in the den all during my childhood. I keep it in a closet now. The imagery is burned deeply indeed into my psyche.

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

P.S.

Mexico’s Socialist President to Roll Out Universal Healthcare For 120 million people novaramedia.com/2026/04/10/m...

Me toooo.

@annachen.bsky.social have never seen this remarkable photo

As a survivor (24 yrs) of Stage 3-4, because of a Cisplatin cocktail, this is terrifying for my fellow CA patients www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/h...

To be fair, people like Krugman have been making comments like this for a year. Elon rebutting them made them an actual news story because the richest human ever to live sentenced up to 14 million of the poorest Black and brown alive to their deaths needs a celebrity news peg to matter in America.

Absolutely love this Franz Kafka ‘America’ Penguin Modern Classics cover by Paul Kelpe. The horrors of mechanisation summed up perfectly

Men’s bathroom at SF MOMA is a killer installation

Yes, it's a ban, since these words will automatically halt funding of a grant containing them, and the ban can be lifted only through the action of political apparatchiks applying secret criteria.

occasionally you see something from 130 years ago and your brain just short-circuits because that typeface is not late victorian, it's late animaniacs

Like, no shit, why does this even need to be said. Can’t understand why these centrist Democrats can’t just chill the fuck out and let the good things happen.

I want to live in a peace-loving multicultural society where everyone is tolerant & loves art & music & science & all good things, & I want us to (reluctantly & temporarily) turn into ruthlessly efficient soldiers who who no-bullshit take out any racist assholes who threaten our way of life.

I would forgive a young person for honestly assuming that Putin was stealing a page from Trump’s playbook here

“There are just over 1000 billionaires in America. Why is their agenda prevailing over that supported by hundreds of millions of the rest of us? (Since Citizens United, billionaire donations to political campaigns are up 14,000 percent.”

I've been getting strafed by this Red-winged Blackbird nearly every day. Today, I turned the lens on him and captured him as he launched his attack, guns blazing! 🛬🛬🛬 #RedwingedBlackbird #CentralPark #birding

From @doctorow.pluralistic.net at @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The great thing about being in the left base right now is that it’s empowering. If Trump tells me I’m woke, I say “Damn straight I am!” He tells me I’m a socialist, I’m “Hell, yeah!” If we all do this, others might decide it’s OK to be woke & socialist. How else are going to win people to our side?

No judge can or should entertain the belief or assumption that Trump is trying to protect the security of elections for the good of the people, in his role as president. Any judge who claims to accept that at face value is winking at his cronies when he thinks no one is looking.

It's also war against the federal constitution. the president can't do with extortion what the constitution expressly forbids him to do legally. flatly unconstitutional and war on the constitution and the freedoms of the American people.

Won’t rest until I have read this

Aces approves of my new desk chair

To make this obvious: I WANT more left-wing politicians to win real political power. I also believe it is our profound moral obligation to rebuild and improve the U.S. aid system. Therefore, I am going to be vocal about why I hate seeing leftists hold cruel, brain-dead opinions about aid.

More of this, please. From every elected Democrat. Every fucking day.

Wow, maybe if I run as a pro-Elon candidate for town council of my little rural town he’ll mail me a check for $10 million

This this this. I used to regularly work out on days where it was 100 degrees (Fahrenheit!). But that was in the desert? With no humidity and also it got cold again at night. This heat is something else entirely.

Didn't know about the Dell situation. Here in the Great Lakes, we have a new publicly owned & built bridge from MI to CA, Canadian built, lower tolls, union labor, MI owns half of it. He's blocking it because a billionaire buddy owns the private bridge nearby. #OffTheWall bsky.app/profile/chri...

There are precious few Dems in or running for office who seem to get it. I wish I didn’t have to say that. I wish it wasn’t true. Even the ones I like.

Vitally important thread: 🗃️

JFC, this whole thread is on pyramid schemes, but… we desperately need to prosecute white collar crimes. So many of our systemic problems are downstream of that basic societal failure

Ford had been the Congressman to Amway's founders Jay Van Andel (then the head of the US Chamber of Commerce, which is to say, America's most powerful business lobbyist) and Dick DeVos (yes, *that* DeVos). Ford and the Amway swindlers were thick as thieves, and so Ford called off the FTC. 15/

I absolutely refuse to be polite to anyone who has anything nice to say about that genocidal demon in my presence. You must not be polite about this.

Not to mention a 350 foot long slit

One of the reasons I live this sort of thing is because it shows that evolution has not stopped. (Yeah, I know, viruses, bacteria, other microbes, but it hits different when it's something like this.)

Cool study. And, pssst, pass it around, esp. to the people who think human evolution ended w/ the Stone Age: we’re adapting, just like these hummingbirds, to all the new stuff. Agriculture, industrialization, and, now, likely, tech. We could no longer survive in the Stone Age, even if we wanted to.

A lovely personal reflection by Steve Martin on his connection to series of photos Diane Arbus took in 1962 at Disneyland, including this haunting scene: "Rocks on Wheels, Disneyland, California" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...