70% top marginal tax rates

Just saw a “Never buy a notebook again thanks to the new Kindle Scribe” ad and I’m sorry but I love buying notebooks. You will pry my Clairfontaines out of my cold, dead hands.

I am thinking of so many conversations with undergrads who were uncomfortable with protests, sit-ins, and other tactics that "inconvenienced" white people, and I would ask them what approach Black Americans should have been using instead. They'd always say "voting" and then the penny dropped.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

Desire to move back to WNY intensifies…

Whoever it was on here that recommended eating seasoned popcorn with chopsticks: you are a genius

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

The good news is, there are a lot of experienced, trained professionals on hand who can quickly gather all the appropriate facts and tell us exactly how this is bad news for the Democrats in the midterms.

The Access of Evil

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Neapolitan with prosciutto and arugula

Fascists cant be shamed. They arent committed to rules & institutions. When they overturn them there is no cognitive dissonance. A political strategy aimed at calling them out wont stop them, because the problem is not that they're inconsistent.

lol what the hell was that goal

Big donors to President Trump's MAGA Inc super PAC in March, per new FEC filing: Diane Hendricks: $25 million Marc Andreessen: $3 million Ben Horowitz: $3 million Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation: $2 million GEO Group subsidiary GEO Reentry: $1 million William & Caroline Reily: $500,000 apiece

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

My favorite time of the year

Adding SantaCon to my “list of stuff I was right abou.”

TAX DAY PRO TIP if you're filing by mail: Do not rely on a mailbox or a letter carrier today for filing your return on time. Go inside a post office and ask for a free manual postmark at the counter. Otherwise, your tax return may not get an April 15 postmark date and the IRS may apply penalties

Never had an Apple Watch, but I’ve gone from my old Withings w/step counter to a Timex automatic that does nothing but tell me the time and date and I LOVE it. Still have a Garmin for runs and long walks.

jd vance negotiating with Iran

Legendary Indian playback singer Asha Bhosle, whose voice defined Bollywood music through the 1970s and 1980s, died in Mumbai aged 92, her family says aje.news/5citgo

The woman being murdered in the video Trump posted was an immigrant. Her name was Nilufar Yasmin. She was from Bangladesh. Trump is weaponizing her death against communities like hers. Outstanding reporting from @pabloreports.bsky.social for Migrant Insider. migrantinsider.com/p/her-name-w...

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” We cannot move on from this threat, even though Trump didn’t follow through this time and may never do so. He must face the consequences and the U.S. must reckon with the fact that we elected the person who made this threat.

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable. They want you to surrender.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.

Your periodic reminder that the murderer Jonathan Ross is being protected specifically by the White House. The Trump administration is fully behind killing Renee Good, Stephen Miller wanted it, they’re covering it up now.

Just a blossom appreciation post. 🌸

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And now another reason not to touch the stuff: the strong possibility that you will end up plagiarizing, whether you know it or not. But it was the "that is going to go away" attitude that rankled the most. That's the tech credo: anything that takes time or I don't understand must be obsolete.

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. (Published June 2025)

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

Y’all should play Artle today. No pressure, but I got it in 1 www.nga.gov/artle

This but Sophia Petrillo smacking a proud boy with her straw purse

This happened ONE DAY after Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a law banning federal immigration agents from wearing masks. #ICEoufofNJ

kinda seems like a guy who enjoys wearing the insignia of death squads to get a rise out of people but I dunno that’s just my observation

This facility was opened by Obama. I say that not to downplay what’s happening now but to emphasize that family detention was horrific from the moment it began.

“No deporting US citizens” is a CONCESSION???

It’s nice when politicians read books and know things

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

The grain silos!

Large fire reported in the vicinity of Dubai International Airport after an Iranian drone attack tonight.

41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.