hey, this is a fairly nerdy news item, but you should absolutely know about it. (looks like there are links in other posts in the thread.) the Post Office is really contemplating not delivering ballots unless states expose their voters' data to DOJ. I hate saying read that again but, read it again

Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.

Apply the rules as written seems like such a simple ask. Even to Elon. And yet.

@winstongambro.bsky.social If you don't mind me asking, how on earth do you know about Bella and the Wych Elm? Just saw it referenced in your high strangeness Reddit post. I grew up right there and I had no idea the story had become a Thing.

Read it for free: Accessibility For Everyone by @laurakalbag.com. h/t @sekai.co.uk. accessibilityforeveryone.site #a11y #BooksNeverDie #ABookApart

I make it a point to show anyone who says "You're better than that" just how wrong they are.

It's just actual insanity at this point. There's a timeline out there where Elizabeth Warren became president. I'm guessing they're having a pretty good time.

I don't really know @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social but I thoroughly enjoyed him grilling RFK in the Ways and Means hearing today www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04... - more please!

The amazing thing about writing is it's basically time travel and whenever I think about that it blows my mind. It's a genuine miracle. I mean, just think about it: a Chinese general from 2,500 years ago can point out the President of the USA is a fucking idiot. It's incredible.

This is a throwaway aside that makes it sound like Swisher is almost totally captured by the Silicon Valley interests she reports on.

It's a lovely sentiment (and who could disagree with a reminder about loving thy neighbour), but I could really have done without the insertion of Jesus into the Artemis II comms. Humanity did this! We should be proud of this achievement all by ourselves!

I guess some people just struggle to recognize true culture when they see it?

@stephaniewalter.bsky.social Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciated this line in your recent post: stephaniewalter.design/blog/your-me...

From @theonion.com's lips to God's ears. Health Speculations Swirl After Trump Screams, ‘Fuck! I’m Dying!’ — theonion.com/health-specu...

Re-upping the idea of journalists asking, "Christ, what the fuck is wrong with you?" to these psychopaths

It's difficult to watch the videos in this article and not just see wanton cruelty from the IDF.

What Gary Kasparov says. The "side deals" are the very essence of the transaction. And this is how Trump makes foreign policy.

My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Truly, we are witnessing the start of a new Dark Age

What pisses me off the most about the wanton destruction of the Washington Post is that Bezos will never, ever be pressed on it to his face. He'll never have to squirm and justify the $70m bribe for the Melania movie in light of the layoffs.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

My prediction for how 2026 is going to go.

Let Rep. Thompson give a lesson in Reporting 101 to about half the DC press corps.

Every day brings us closer to IT HAPPENING.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

Put this up in The Louvre

This is an incredible story and worth reading all the way through to get to the *delicious* last sentence. Exquisite.

JFC this is a tough but *essential* listen. @newsagents.bsky.social carefully and methodically dismantle not just 'Prince' Andrew but all the other abusive men out there.

No Kings except Elvis - at the Corte Madera protest in Marin

MVP of the Corte Madera No Kings protest. Sign game is on point and bringing the energy!

I assume most of the actual reporting pointed out that this is bullshit, but this is one of those cases where even repeating the claim in a chyron or headline is irresponsible, unless the headline itself makes clear that it's not true.

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

They have moms of autistic kids at this presser and not autistic adults speaking. Very unsurprising.

this is really serious. if it continues, we’ll start to see states make do their own drug labels in some manner, possibly through collabs with other states, similar to what we are seeing with ACIP recs

The President sounds like this all the time these days and is clearly non compos mentis but it just gets a pass from Congress, from the courts, from the media, from Wall Street, from every institution, because it's Trump.

Trump says "Some groups [RFK suggests the Amish] don't take vaccines or pills and have no autism. No autism". One of the most shockingly inappropriate, inaccurate, and dangerous medical statements I've ever heard coming from a President. Utterly beyond the pail.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Just cancelled Disney Plus as a result of ABC's cowardly decision to pull Kimmel. Their actions are deeply un-American. #boycottDisney

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

People will say this doesn't matter, but it does. These signs *create* the reality and facade of Trump as master builder.

Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open