Worth noting:

The problem with minarchist libertarianism is it relies on everyone just being rational and nice and honest and helpful and not dumping sewage in rivers, and the problem with that is...

We had a Silicon Valley guy on our department's advisory board. He said he only hired humanities majors because they were the only ones who actually knew how to think and write. That was a decade ago, well before the AI surge.

Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

You know the rule.

We still have (many!) miles to go before we sleep, but in the early vote for Georgia’s May 19 primary: - the GOP is 14,730 votes *behind* their pace at the same point in 2022 - the Dems are 68,176 votes *ahead* of where they were at this point in 2022

Good morning. One of the funnest facts there is. www.businessinsider.com/george-const...

The *really* crazy thing is, none of this had to happen. We were coming off 8 years of a Dem-controlled WH; the GOP didn't have to walk on water to win the election. They could've nominated someone sane, stuck with tax cuts and strong defense, etc. They didn't have to do *any* of this.

Breaking character: In memory of Ted Turner, the amazing letter his dad wrote him when he decided to major in the classics. Yankees just can't write this, my friends. www.bu.edu/arion/files/...

I can’t wait either 👏

Another day, another 3K vote lead for the Dems in the GA primary 👀

this is an admin spinning out, on tilt, high on its own supply, fully in a bunker mentality - however you wanna put it. this is what the prologue to losing - and losing big - looks like. it’s terrible that things will get worse before better but this fits a trajectory where things *do* get better

Some stats that jump out to me: More 18-29 year olds have voted in the D primary so far this year than voted period at this point in 2022 Same for 30-39 year olds And 40-49 year olds Democrats have more votes than Republicans among every single age group; even 65-plus.

A political earthquake is happening right now in Georgia, and no one is paying attention 👀

THREAD: Chewbacca at MLB stadiums Throwing out the first pitch at Fenway

The whole world is tearing itself apart over Trump's latest insanity while Georgia Democratic voters are just going about our business, gettin' sh*t done.

Another big day for the Dems here in GA

What is the status of the Blue Zones 25 years after they were claimed? @shelleywood.bsky.social and I did an extensive look into this question, one of the forces behind the current longevity movement @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/04/a...

me, after coming up with a revolutionary idea and then immediately forgetting it for ever

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

👀 at those Sunday EV vote totals here in GA...

he and ossoff are both pointing in the same direction: highly moralistic rhetoric about corruption as an existential threat — to prosperity, to democracy, and to the nation’s collective soul.

Everyone seems to think coal will get a big lift because of the oil&gas crisis, except for the professionals - the traders and plant operators. They're buying less of the stuff in April, not more. Note this includes within-country shipments which are big in e.g. China, Indonesia.

i mean they can both be right

I think about this all the time.

Holy shnikes

D+8.8. In Georgia.

👀 Early voting in Georgia through yesterday (May 1) 👉 sos.ga.gov/page/electio...

It’s really funny how everyone older wishes they parented like Millenials do now

Philadelphia reported 39 murders through April which is the fewest reported there since 1963. New York City reported 75 murders through April 26 which is on track to be the fewest murders through April ever reported (previous low was 86 in 2018).

what an era

Better Options Than AI "Therapy" Chatbots: - Drawing a little face on your hand and talking to that. - Having a conversation with the crack in your wall that somehow knows all your secrets. - Dressing your dog up like Sigmund Freud. - A huge bong-rip of Salvia Divinorum. - Literally anything else.

Amazing. In Paris, school streets "with the full treatment — trees, gardens, light-colored pavement — were on average, an astonishing 9 degrees (Fahrenheit) cooler than nearby non-school streets."

Damn…

"One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons." hell yeah aeon.co/essays/what-...

yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.

It’s increasingly clear that Trump’s fossil fuel fetish is a bet on the wrong horse: “In betting that trade barriers, institutional roadblocks and misinformation would hold back the tide of new technology, industrial companies elsewhere made a fatal wager on fading carbon-intensive technology.”

I'll say it again: I rarely agree with some of my favorite film writers. Agreement is not the point, enjoying their explanation of their opinion is all the fun.

Insane Clown Posse is an unusual name for a band and a hauntingly accurate description of senior Trump administration officials and GOP leadership.

People are terrible at keeping secrets. Remember when JKR wrote a book under a pen name soon after HP ended? SO MANY people tried to keep the author‘s identity a secret, as she wanted, and then like a week before publication, one of her editors’ wives told her best friend, and then everyone knew.

So there are a bunch of protests on 1 May. But the usual theme of the May Day protests is anti-capitalism. And for all its faults, I miss American capitalism.

My longtime political position that most angers activists is the legitimacy of apathy. A functional democracy is one in which most people don’t have to think much about government. Trump (and activists) oppose that kind of democracy more fervently than anything else.

There were enough Kemp-Warnock voters to make a difference in 2022. I feel pretty confident in saying there won’t be many (or maybe any) Ossoff-Jackson or -Jones voters — at all.

I don’t like this any more than you do. But it’s worth asking, after 50+ years of GOP whining about the media — and building their own right-wing media universe — what has it accomplished? GOP presidential candidates repeatedly won 40+ states back in the 80s, when media was much more left-leaning.

"We're listening. Tell us what you want." /Suburban MSNBC types and everyone who shops for groceries baying for the blood of reactionary billionaires and social democratic policies, eyes turning completely black, a keening unfathomable in its savagery "I think I heard 'targeted tax cuts for cops?'"

Happy #EdBallsDay to those who celebrate:

Remember, this was before the latest oil war.