Reading Carl Phillips is always a distinct pleasure, an awakening into the world as if seeing for the first time.

Honestly? Fair’s fair.

UNSUNG HERO: Iris Long was an unlikely AIDS activist. A married chemist from Queens, she barely knew any gay people. She joined ACT UP to use her expertise to fight for treatments. May her memory be a blessing. By Richard Sandomir, w/ a small assist from me. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

“I’ve been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn’t think too much of it when the ingredients list included a bottle filled with gasoline and a cloth wick,” said the alleged attacker

Two important dimensions of "where are the campus protests?" imo: 1) students envisioned possibility of changing US policy under Biden, no such illusions under Trump 2) protest energy moved off campus, away from Israel and toward anti-ICE but two causes very much linked in protesters' minds

I would like to uplift and remind all of us that people across the country are organizing against detention and are fighting the warehouse concentration camps. You can get connected to the work by joining a mass call on 4/14 - www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

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"Why don't Americans..." they do. There's brave acts happening out of sight everyday. Why don't YOU support them when they get arrested or provide material cover for them?

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

Even if Trump loses at the Supreme Court, I promise you that opposition to birthright citizenship is already mandatory for any future Trump judicial nominees. The conservative legal movement never treats a decision it dislikes as "settled." It just waits for another shot.

“Tell him I forcefem a himbo for fun. For a green card, I’ll sit on my balls while I do it.”

Shit, this hits.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

This sure does feel like a hate crime.

Before Tarantino no one had the idea for “what if people outside a building were attacking people inside a building”

Let's catch up on the hilarious Afroman defamation trial: defector.com/lets-catch-u...

Wow this investigation identifies 5 federal agents who "engaged in a pattern of force and questionable detention, aggressive tactics that courts have said likely violated the constitution, as they moved from Bakersfield to Los Angeles, and then Chicago and Minneapolis" calmatters.org/investigatio...

So nothing. This is nothing.

Well, shit

Antizionist Jew here to say explicitly: they're gonna kill Jews over this. American Jews who have no ties to Israel. And some of that blood will be on the hands of Jewish zionists who allowed themselves to be used as shields by Christian Nationalist Zionists.

Crazy that they never tell these guys to just shut up and vote.

It feels weird to promote trans superhero comic books at a time when my nation's government clearly has it out for us. But maybe that's the time people need to hear about these books the most.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

The genocide people

The first job postings for the Williamsport, Md. ICE detention warehouse appeared online. The “humanitarian response” firm behind them has never held a federal contract.

This is literally the plot of Mr. Robot. That being said, do it.

Our tax dollars need to be going to elderly bat care. Not bombs, not tax breaks for billionaires, not cops, elderly bat care. This is the America I want to live in. If you disagree with me I will publish the home addresses of your children

Not any entire movie, but I can’t stand Jared fucking Leto in anything. And there’s a lot of good reasons to dislike him and his acting, but more than anything I can’t stand his always-on-the-verge-of-tears face

I’m less offended than I am confused. This is like that I Think You Should Leave skit where a guy gets revenge on his neighbor by sending a pig with a Nixon mask through his doggie door.

“The media will credit her fall to some shady no-bid contract she was behind, her use of a private jet, or administration rivals like Stephen Miller and whatever boring DC drama. But the real reason is obvious: public activism.”

David Robert Mitchell’s The Crying of Lot 49

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

Uncovered Georgia O’Keeffe Letters Confirm Paintings Were Veiled Depictions Of Basset Hounds

years ago The Nib (RIP The Nib) ran a comic about media empires and how everything had been conglomerated into 5 companies. I think with Paramount buying Warner Brothers we're down to 2, maybe 2.5 companies? Meanwhile The Nib is dead and all of us in the wilderness are fully knives out at each other

This makes me unreasonably angry.

One of the driving ethos behind modern conservativism is how noble it is to be proudly terrified of everything.

I’m learning that a key component of US politics is that we have to permanently organize to counteract the influence of like 200 socialites who’ve gone fash to cope with the traumatic experience of being told no once.

The one line to know here: "after spending extravagantly to try to defeat Mr. Mamdani at the ballot box last year, they [the city’s wealthy + well-connected power players] find themselves in the wilderness, unsure how to approach the administration of a democratic socialist who owes them nothing..."

I remember when i was pretty new to smoking weed i took a hefty bong rip and we went to watch the Behind the Scenes Production for Bambi with friends. And 5 minutes in I was so mad i had to leave the room because everything sounded like this video

I was talking to Seth Moulton's staff about that this week with regard to the Burlington ICE office. One thing they said was that closing an existing facility is really hard but preventing a new one from opening is comparatively easier. We have to stop these camps now while we have the chance.

Bc Gwen Stefani has gone off the deep end, here’s her ex husband’s band with a surprisingly good cover of “In a Lonely Place” by Joy Division.

When Trump accuses the Supreme Court of being swayed by foreign influences it’s worth mentioning how often his accusations are just projections

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is suspending evictions for its rental properties in response to the ICE surge. It's the first local government body in Minnesota to enact a rent moratorium because of immigration enforcement.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

Almost all of these Maryland sheriffs threatening communities with massive DHS raids because of this new legislation are Claremont Sheriff Fellows. I do not doubt that they say these threats with some seriousness. foxbaltimore.com/news/local/m...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.