Levels of corruption you really can’t comprehend

New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration

A little preview of Independence Day.

www.bbc.com/news/article... the cost of war is always the innocents #India @hcrichardson.bsky.social #Republicans

This.

We’re the bad guys.

This is fucked up!

"the bill would reduce monthly fruit and vegetable benefits from $52 to $13 for breastfeeding mothers and from $26 to $10 for young children."

yeah he’s not going to drop out and it would be absurd to imagine this is the last story that drops between now and october (or now and next week) this fucking sucks, man

Rewrite great speeches for Trump “Four score and seven years ago [pause, looks up from reading] score? What is this a football game? Who comes up with stuff? Anyway, a long long time ago some very smart people founded our country…”

Merge two movies: The Hunt for Red October Sky

Pleased to post my draft article, “Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution.” I study the history of birthright citizenship from the 1100s to the 1700s. The English common-law rule of natural-born subjects was always tied to territory and jurisdiction. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I ain’t reading all that. I’m happy for you though, or sorry that happened

The transition of sports fandom from loyalty and joy and community to monetization and commodification is a little heartbreaking to me. A signal of the broader commercialization of everything not nailed down in America.

The state of the California governor’s race:

this is incredible

"The remaining 5 percent concerns only the final portion of the hill, the tendency of the boulder to inevitably roll back down to the very beginning, the eternal nature of my punishment, and the fact that Hades has not technically agreed to alter any terms."

“Got anything to declare?” “yea, don’t go to England”

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

Ironically I was attacked by one of the crows this account is named after while walking down my street today. I gather my dog and I inadvertently got too close to its nest. It swooped down and hit me in the back of the head and then flew away to a telephone pole. I am fine.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Trump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat. It turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA's stock. The President's corruption is a national security disaster.

Alright, here's my contribution to the Is-Bluesky-Dying discourse: Bluesky is a record store davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bluesky-is...

Wishing you a peaceful night. Or day. Or how about a whole peaceful week? That would be nice #birds #silhouette 🌿

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

A Tree Swallow zips over the pond's surface, hunting for insects.

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. A feature in Nature outlines how neurosciences are researching them for insights into how intelligence evolved. #Neuroskyence 🧪

A pair of Sandhill Crane colts play while staying warm and cozy under their mom's wings.

RIP Neil, if you weren’t dead the iPhone would have killed you

Did oil write this?

If dems ever regain power and are considering court packing, they should note that republicans are already doing so.

here we go again, the new york times calling an increase of 115k jobs under Trump "solid" while it called similar or considerably bigger gains under Biden "disappointing" or "weak"

To sum up: the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were passed to remedy a century of attempts to disenfranchise and unperson African-Americans by any possible, often through voting-related tricks and tests and barriers. They worked -- for a while. But then..../1

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

one thing that still baffles me is that orchestrated spate of right wing talking points about how the alleged shooting at the WHCD should end any debate over the ballroom it made absolutely zero fuckin sense lol it still makes zero fuckin sense lol

Slightly diminish a book Absalom, Absalom.

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

there really is like a society wide, party neutral affliction of people not caring whether something is true or not and I can't say I care for it!!!!!!!!!

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

This move by SCOTUS is deeply insulting. The district court gathered a massive amount of evidence in record time, and District Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote a careful 160-page opinion. Now a majority of justices have dispensed with it without even providing a full written opinion.

There is a competitive primary in NY-12 for Congress. I have long been 100% all in on @alexbores.nyc for a long time. The Ezra Klein Show just dropped a 90-minute interview with him called "Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores?" and it is the single best case for why this race matters.

For those interested, here’s a link to News Center Maine’s (Phil Hirschkorn’s) profile of my candidacy for the US Senate. Brief overview at the top and more in-depth questions and answers video at the bottom following the text... www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...

All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

Reminder: The Trump regime cancelled nearly $500 million in federal contracts for mRNA vaccine development last year.

All right, this piece has triggered me so I have to yell a bit (though this is bluesky, so I realize I'm just preaching at the choir):

There’s so much to say about the remarkable reporting from Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak—and I’ll say a lot of it in Monday’s newsletter. But the most striking thing about all of it is the role & behavior of Chief Justice Roberts. “Calling balls and strikes” this ain’t: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...