"A history professor course could not allocate instructional time to the Stonewall riots or the gay rights movement. If a U.S. history textbook includes a chapter on the AIDS crisis, the professor must skip it." www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Any thoughts for the COVID's millions of victims? Of course not. Podcast Jay spoke about the "severe personal consequences he faced". Podcast Jay recognizes only one victim in the world, Podcast Jay. And he'll never stop talking about the suffering of Podcast Jay.

Republicans complete willingness to whine about the injustice of partisan gerrymandering isn't just hilarious. It's a window into a culture of lying, bad faith and hypocrisy as a cherished principle.

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

The TrumpedDOJ claims donors who contributed to SPLC's successful effort to dismantle the KKK were defauded because SPLC used paid informants...to dismantle the KKK The transparent effort to weaken SPLC/intimidate other civil rights orgs should, and likely will, fail, as @lizdye.bsky.social explains

"Anthropic’s growth story is a sham built on selling subscriptions that let users burn anywhere from $8 to $13.50 for every dollar of subscription revenue and providing a brittle, inconsistent service, made possible only through a near-infinite stream of venture capital money [...]"

Yes — the more interesting story is about Gen Z women!!

I think it's great that we have an entire political party that shows no interest in governing and devotes all it's time to either hurting people or trolling for social media engagement and fundraising dollars

“A Wayne County farmworker and grandmother was detained by ICE during an in-person check-in and now faces likely deportation to Mexico.” “I’m here because I’m trying to do things the right way,” said Dolores Bustamante: www.whec.com/top-news/im-...

please continue injecting this shit into my veins after literal decades of “suck it losers” preening from republicans every time they get called out for horribly gerrymandered bullshit the shoe is on the other foot and I simply cannot get enough you want to end this? unfuck your own districts too

"Donald Trump isn’t for you. He hates you."

over at the newsletter I wrote about the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and the pitiful complicity of our broken brunchlord access press

Eric Trump went on FOX to brag about winning ANOTHER multimillion-dollar contract from the Trump administration. I've been sounding the alarm and pushing for answers. Is the Pentagon just a cash machine for Trump’s kids now? This looks like corruption in plain sight.

To put it bluntly, community advocacy is the only thing standing between Big Tech and your child. Students, educators, caregivers and advocates devoting countless hours rummaging through contracts, board minutes, and legislative records to hold the powerful accountable for AI abuses against kids

Why would the SPLC fund fascism when the SPLC hates fascism? Here's where Blanche goes full galaxy brain. Our society is so egalitarian and colorblind that there would be no hate if the SPLC didn't fund these groups in order to fundraise off them.

Good reminder here of what a trash news org Politico is and how much a lot of the corrosion in our news media landscape is downstream of the "its all a fun game" horserace style coverage of politics that they pioneered

1. A tiny California tribe, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, just donated $2 MILLION to MAGA Inc, Trump's Super PAC. I decided to find out why. It's an illustration of exactly how business is done in Trump’s Washington. Follow along for details. 🧵

JUST IN: Virginia adopted a new law yesterday to forbid sheriffs & local police from contracting with ICE — if ICE doesn't say it'll follow state laws & agree to let its agents be prosecuted. Everyone seems to agree ICE won't promise that, and that this spells the end of ICE contracts in Virginia.

Wendy Vega Lores dreams of becoming a pediatrician. She finished high school in two years and began intensive prep to become a doctor. She has a pending asylum case. On her 19th birthday, ICE detained her anyway. She has been locked away for 10 months.

The "digital afterlife industry" is just as ghoulish, greedy & grifting as the mediums who claim to channel the spirits of dead loved ones. slate.com/technology/2...

Great news! ⬇️

The president's son, who was never involved in this industry before his father became president, should not be getting contracts from the Pentagon. This is absurd corruption that Republicans in congress will say nothing about and do no oversight. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is a very good resource. I don't know how @taniel.bsky.social does this but he makes highly technical stuff like this very easy to follow and use:

Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...

Trump’s idea to win the Iran war is to lie about how it’s going and try to sound like a movie tough guy. Hegseth’s idea is to say “warfighters” a lot while whining that factually accurate press reports are unfair. It’s not making insurance companies think underwriting Gulf ships is profitable now.

‼️ Last night while you were sleeping, Senate Republicans passed a blank check of $70 BILLION dollars to fund ICE (with ZERO reforms added). (1/2)

When the president is a heinous abuser, when many of the most popular celebrities are heinous abusers, when the richest people in the world are heinous abusers, when the people developing new technology are heinous abusers, well that’s how you get a culture that incentivizes abuse

"Investors are showing that they want to believe that a head of state would not be stupid enough to plunge the world into an unnecessary economic crisis. Those investors are wrong." prospect.org/2026/04/23/a...

Don't miss what the NYT did here to try to spin the VA referendum as an unprincipled move by Dems:

While he was detained at Dilley for over four months, 13-year-old Gustavo Santiago said he felt as if he would “never get out.” “I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” he told ProPublica in a video call. (Published Feb.)

News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering. It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules: newrepublic.com/article/2093...

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

Historian here posting for no reason whatsoever the state flag and motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Trump's latest budget is the culmination of 40 years of increasing social control in America. Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private contractors, like the drone manufacturers Trump's sons are now major investors in. All of this is absurd.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Jordan Klepper nearly loses his mind hearing MAGA defend Trump's AI Jesus pic and his war with the pope

Look everyone, Gov Reeves is just honoring an old tradition that stretches the whole way back to…1994, 129 years after the Civil War had ended and, just coincidentally, a year when the Gingrich-led GOP cemented its hold on the white voters of states like Mississippi.

Some cancer survivors face nonstop medical bills even years after treatment. They’re unlikely to see any change under the GOP’s health care proposals, which center on increasing the availability of high-deductible health plans.

Reporting is not a crime. Also, the reporter Patel apparently went after here is Elizabeth Williamson, who went up against the entire Sandy Hook conspiracy theory apparatus to write a book about the worst response to the saddest event I can think of. She is pretty fearless, but this is 100% BS

BENNET: Do you agree that 89% of children who died from flu were unvaccinated? RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number BENNET: That is the exact number, Secretary Kennedy RFK Jr: *death growls* BENNET: You took down the HHS communications promoting the flu vaccine. Do you regret that?

This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

It is genuinely wild how the GOP can insult Canada for over a year non-stop and then get angry about being "disrespected"

How have we reached the point where the President says "As everyone knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person," and it's not treated as a colossally embarassing moment from which he never recovers? Pour one out for Howard Dean's scream.

Glad to see more people are coming around ro my argument that Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure. abovethelaw.com/2026/04/jona...

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

Oh. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It’s amazing how many bullies become deeply principled pacifists the first time they get punched back.