Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

if I announced some renovation on a public property that everybody said was a terrible idea and then I did it anyway, and it immediately failed catastrophically, so I sent police to guard my reno catastrophe & then said what happened was vandalism, you'd call me a deranged old man & you'd be right

This article is so wholesome! It's sweet.

Still true.

When Trump is talking so you go do your taxes, come back, and he's still talking.

"Universal health coverage is not merely a technical goal to be achieved; it is primarily a moral imperative for societies that wish to call themselves just." —Pope Leo XIV

Why isn't USPS considered a service? DHS and most other agencies do not earn revenue.

Kansas Republicans are trying to ban abortion by proposing an EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT and sneaking fetal personhood language in

That slogan was always seen as pro-democracy but it seemed perfectly reasonable to assume Bezos was pro-darkness.

By @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Bluesky fires shots at Twitter (X)’s Grok “Sad Epstein isn’t alive to use Grok. He would have loved it”

Trump has definitely forgotten he did this

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Do we know who this poor guy is? The video, which is pretty scary, indicates he's... unconscious at the end, or dead. It's horrifying. And of course there's Bovino in the mix, too. This nightmare is accelerating so quickly.

I think what's worse is that it goes well-beyond (and in a way, also falls short) of a military occupation -- this isn't occupation, it's a hot war featuring a secret police militia nightmare roving and roaming and terrorizing the populace. This is brownshirts shit. ICE is a sanctioned terror gang.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

As the NFL playoffs begin, here’s a reminder: publicly funded stadiums for billionaire sports team owners are a scam. https://youtu.be/vLkyULxrWiE?si=yOBm-M2Y7pcokmRO

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Rape is the core of the MAGA ideology, the metaphor of dominance and degradation that motivates all their actions, and their rhetoric descends very quickly from the symbolic register down into a literal one.

Love this so much! open.substack.com/pub/storiesb...

Happy Turner Prize week to all who celebrate @mccallsmith.bsky.social 's 44 Scotland Street series.

Ken Burns’ ‘The American Revolution’ Ends With Number To Call If You Considering Founding Nation

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social is the original journalist responsible for stopping Epstein. Salud, and thanks, JKB!

A recent essay, “The Great Feminization,” posits that the growing influence of women is harming U.S. institutions. Sophie Gilbert argues that the real problem facing American culture is quite different: https://theatln.tc/kUfY14fc

Cran is an important word. #nytbee

I have to commend the Spanish-speaking construction crews working on streets in front of houses with Trump flags. You guys have true grit.

Hegseth hates War Fighters who have Lethality!

Let's not forget @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, without whom no one would know about Jeffrey Epstein. She has never gotten the full credit she deserves. If you don't read her book, you don't know the story.

I want to commend Cynthia Nixon on a brilliant performance, keeping it together as Andrea Martin enters in her very special dress. 🥂 (those are virgin) #gildedage

Marfa Public Radio! Home of the greatest music show in the world Texas Music Hour of Power, 7 p.m. on Saturdays. Streamable! Listen once & you you might support it. I'm only 1 West Texas ex-pat in a blue district that has abortion! This station is in crisis. It's my social whole life! SOS!

"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."  —FDR, 1932

Book of the day

"One of the most important, and most overlooked, functions of protest is to prevent the dreaded 'spiral of silence,' which can begin when people wrongly believe that their own point of view is not widely shared," Betsy Levy Paluck writes:

Here's a starter verse.

This, in a nutshell, is what most stands out to me about the last three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade: Conservatives desperate to codify a worldview that women actively oppose.

By day and night he wrongs me, every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other That sets us all at odds. I’ll not endure it. His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle.

Pierbattista Pizzaballa’s cousin Pier Luigi was Roma’s goalie in the 60s. I submit this to the conclave www.siamolaroma.it/2025/04/25/p...

DAD: What should we name the baby? MOM: Well we want him to cover the Civil War for the New York Herald so I was thinking “Sylvanus Cadwallader.” DAD: But will he LOOK like his name is that?

I heard the orange felon hates this hideous portrait of himself and his demanding Colorado officials take it down from being displayed in their state Capitol. Don’t you dare continue to spread it around. 😏

James Bond Sequels To Focus On Evil Amazon Factory Workers Trying To Form Union

I'd be so happy if I could indoctrinate some students into MLA Style. Having to tell them not to write in all-caps is getting in the way of my agenda. #academicsky

Someone ask Elon whether all federal workers may bring their children to work now!

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

YG! Thanks be that you've arrived!

Kaine: "He let Musk force the resignation of the FAA administrator. He disbanded an aviation safety committee... he's got an OMB director who's pushing a hiring freeze & saying 'I want to traumatize the federal workforce'"... he's got an anti-safety agenda..that's why he went the race-baiting route"

Trans kids: please survive while we fight for you I wish I grew up in a world where I could have realized I was trans before I turned 30 But I'm still so thankful I transitioned Even now, despite the horrors of the world, it is a gift to be able to know and love yourself Surviving is worth it