Thread, Heads up, Colorado. Time to call/email your Senate reps and object.

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

BREAKING: The White House today proposed eliminating the Title X family planning program. A few hours later, the health dept quietly released guidance that would shift the focus of the program millions of low-income people rely on away from contraception and toward "family formation."

Note for Saturday morning: please read this (it’s enraging) and call every single Congress member in your state and convey that anger in polite terms b/c this is fucking devastating, and the least we can do is call.

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

People really memory holed-covid, due to a huge far right propaganda effort. That's why all you hear about is lockdowns, and not: - hospitals out of capacity - Skype calls with family members in quarantine as they died - bodies stored in freezer trailors - mass graves in NYC

I will never think of Elon Musk as anything other than a mass murderer for the USAID cuts. I’ve long felt he’s one of the most villainous people alive today, the real-life equivalent of a comically annoying and cruel supervillain

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

Note for Saturday morning: please read this (it’s enraging) and call every single Congress member in your state and convey that anger in polite terms b/c this is fucking devastating, and the least we can do is call.

Unforgivable vandalism

How families are fighting to survive Trump’s war on transgender kids.

caught red-pawed!

If the Church wants to increase attendance, it needs to excommunicate Vance. I will happily go to my first Mass in decades for that.

I did not spend HOURS sweating through a marching band uniform during a papal visit for him to treat the Pope like a 12 year old questioning their instructor during a Confirmation class.

For those of you who are not Catholic, you need to know that the Pope has this thing called papal infallibility. He basically can't be wrong on matters of theology. I'm not saying YOU need to agree with this. You're not Catholic. But Vance treats the Pope like a debate me bro and it's offensive

JD Vance has me pulling out liberation theology books I have not looked at since I was a grad student traveling to Nicaragua for a course on intercultural communication just so I can keep stepping on that man's neck.

oh right you should go read the actual piece btw because it's even dumber than it sounds. they were trying to get people to work on a set with asbestos and black mold!

America: where you can come, go to a school that is falling apart and never get properly medicated, work your way up to signing up for our armed services so Donald Trump can send you to kill and die in the Middle East if he feels like it, and also he’ll kidnap your parents

The Treasury Department is working on a plan to gut its office that researches financial market risks. Because the office is funded by fees on the financial industry, this won't save taxpayers money. But it will make it harder to spot and prevent the next crisis. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

timeline cleanse

I’m completely sick and tired of hearing about HP but this article is excellent. “What you feel in your heart towards the series is almost entirely irrelevant. What matters is what you do, because J. K. Rowling is out there doing a lot of things.” defector.com/its-time-to-...

Can confirm that my horse loved carrot cake for his birthday each year, but with none of that terrifying boy-killing fire on top.

“The Klan monument is run by slave labor” is a little too on the fucking nose

It takes true star power to join the exclusive club of celebrity birds in New York City, and we can confirm that the American woodcock who has turned Bryant Park into its migratory dance floor has got that special something. hellgatenyc.com/new-yorkers-...

Mentioned to my new headache doctor that the founder of chiropractic said that ghosts taught him and she was so surprised she kept repeating “ghosts” like she couldn’t believe it (she said they do not recommend chiropractic adjustments)

donated! if a lot of us give a little, it adds up

fully autonomous cars are out, make way for rat chauffeurs

Brad Lander also campaigned on expanding NYC H+H to absorb trans patients (and providers) abandoned by private hospitals—NYC H+H already offers GAC for youth and adults. This is something Mamdani should have been prepared to do, Erin Reed is correct to point it out and advocate for trans youth!

now that the Christian Right no longer feels they need the political heft of the Catholic Church to get a pro-life SCOTUS, the post-Roe alliance is fracturing and they’re suddenly remembering all their spiciest theology about the pope being the antichrist, conveniently in time for a pope they hate

I utterly winged it on the chocolate frosting here and it turned out delicious (can of coconut cream, 1/3 cup cocoa powder and powdered sugar to taste combined over low-medium heat, take off the heat and stir continuously til desired thickness, then pour and spread)

listen i know this is bad for about a dozen reasons but i laughed out loud

and a way to shift blame for our defeat in Vietnam away from Nixon, Ford and the Republicans to Carter, who they could blame for weakly not addressing the made-up, fake problem of thousands of left-behind POWs

This plus the generic "faith" of the subtitle reminded me of Susan Sontag's essay "Piety Without Content," which is critical of "a religiosity without either faith or observance" that features "nostalgia over the loss of the sense of sacredness and relief that an intolerable burden has been lifted."

hahahahahahahahahaha JFC he sucks.

”Additional ice loss has triggered unusual atmospheric circulation patterns over north-western Europe and high pressure over east Asia, priming both regions for simultaneous heatwaves.” #ClimateHeating www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

Given the God Squad's extraordinary power to decide the fate of an #EndangeredSpecies, Congress intended it to only be used in rare circumstances, as a last resort. But, the Trump administration is weaponizing this power to pad the profits of Big Oil. Congress needs to speak out against this now.

This week Trump's #GodSquad convened and voted to grant all oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico a sweeping exemption under the ESA — that is, a free pass to dodge the law. You can help: Tell your legislators to oppose the exemption and ask that it immediately be withdrawn. ⬇️

There's other stuff too which is like poor people live in wealthy zip codes too, And rich people should actually be allowed to access the things they pay taxes for. Should rich people be allowed to use the library?

The obvious question is to ask what is the point of the article. And the answer is means testing. By saying the rich don't deserve public goods it makes it easier to say someone just above the poverty line doesn't either. They want public goods to be shit.

The good thing: Fishback has virtually no chance of winning the nomination. The bad thing: It's more than a bit worrying that he can draw a pretty decent sized crowd of mostly young white men despite being so obviously horrible

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

I posted about this on my Facebook page, but I'm heartbroken about the God Squad's recent decision to allow oil and gas companies to harm Rice's Whales. You can learn more about these whales here: www.ourgulfwhale.org

The U.S.’s privatized, patchwork childcare system isn’t inevitable. It’s the result of political choices, rooted in austerity and fiscal conservatism, dating back to the 1970s. More from our Fellow @jessicacalarco.com ⬇️

Probably the best we can hope for is that these approvals for 65+ and people at high risk will allow for anyone to get a vaccine via off-label prescribing. However, you may recall that last year RFK Jr. made a subtle threat to doctors who do this.

Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine. They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal. A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.

It also doesn’t help when people run around talking about Covid in the past tense when Covid is very much in our present tense.

Few are brave enough to acknowledge the truth.

Trump arrest train