This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

“Sir, this is your DoorDash delivery from Arby’s”

The replacement of Jesus with Trump as the messianic figure in right wing American Christianity is predicated on plausible deniability, and Trump breaks this contract every time he explicitly acknowledges that he has taken the place of Christ in their worship.

Get his ass, Your Holiness

Fox News promised oil and gas prices would quickly drop. Experts say prices will now stay elevated well into 2027.

That Trump/Jesus post from yesterday seems to have begun as a February 2026 post by the bizarre, try hard Australian-American MAGA grifter Nick Adams. One difference that stands out is the “angelic” figure in the middle.

Not real but also perfection

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

Trump isn’t beating the antichrist allegations with these attacks on the pope

an all-timer for "imagine how JD Vance would react if a democrat said any of this"

It’s almost like WE ALL SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN fortune.com/2026/04/10/a...

Since we’re all making fun of Rod Dreher, I think about this at least once a week

The look on Maria’s face says a lot. She seems to be facing the reality that Trump is cooked and we’re in deep shit.

Iä! Iä!

To people outside of academia, it must be strange to see otherwise extremely rational academics terrified of becoming furniture, but we are all deep in our hearts terrified of becoming Chair.

When I was an undergrad, we theorized that you got to be dean by winning a poker game. Later we modified this to: you became dean because you *lost* a poker game.

based based based based

We need this energy. Nothing less than completing Reconstruction.

L. O. L.

For thousands of years theologists of many religions have debated what "Taking the Lord's name in vain" actually means, and now we are seeing it in real time

I’ve seen enough. God is 1) real 2) nonbinary 3) primarily motivated by a deep hatred of JD Vance

Still know some right wing Hungarians on social media. Should I check in?

He's gotta go somewhere once this is all over. We really, really don't want JD Vance couch surfing anywhere.

Quite a week for JD Vance—Iran "negotiations" and Hungary MAGA intervention. I honestly think third term talk is going to increase. There is no MAGA successor.

Here’s a good article about the leading role Viktor Orban has played in the international nationalism movement. His electoral defeat is potentially seismic. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/s...

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

Nothing like a 19 minute wait for the next @bart.gov train because 2 fare gates wouldn’t read my card and the third took many seconds to finally open.

With 37% of the vote in, the Hungarian opposition is on the verge of winning the 2/3 supermajority in the legislature to overturn Orban's changes to the constitution. They need 133 seats for a supermajority. They're currently projected for 132. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Sadly, I did. Bags are packed and he is planning to move to Austria. He says the Institute that paid him for his propaganda was apolitical. If he gets booted, he will absolutely claim he is being censored. Orban gave Dreher a paycheck when he needed it. Now Bari Weiss is doing so.

did orban get too woke?

So TIL you need to disable and the re-add autoload to all of your Clipper Cards. Because Clipper 2.0.

*asks ChatGPT to customize my resume*

the viability of many right-wing intellectuals and intellectual spaces is enormously dependent on the largesse of reactionary billionaires and foreign governments, who help them circumvent a marketplace of ideas where they would otherwise post extraordinarily poor sales

Saving for "State your mood in one image" threads.

In the running for greatest giveaway of all time

This is a frightening map, especially given the fact that this is normally near the peak in snowpack across the West. There are many far-reaching consequences from this historic snow drought, ranging from increasing risk of summer wildfires to major water concerns. Map by nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov

We need to talk a bit about how utterly absurd the March heatwave was in the USA. This heatwave would have been impossible without a boost from climate change, but even with climate change it remains a deeply unlikely event. A thread looking at some of the numbers. 🧵

Best and final offer on Day 1?

here's Trump entering a UFC event as Vance says that negotiations with Iran have failed

You know what would be amazing, if Vance can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; and commits to all of this for at 10 years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

Yeah, that's fireworks.

Trump ousts all six Biden-appointed Presidio Trust board members (by @cfarivar.bsky.social) sfstandard.com/2026/04/11/t...

B O O M ! ⚡

i haven’t invested a lot of energy in evaluating all 312 Cal Dem Gov candidates but somehow the billionaire is rising for me