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

Goodbye April, ngl you were pretty sketchy this year.

The Sandy Hook parents should be allowed to beat Alex Jones to death with their bare hands

I’m fucking horrified that folk 100s of years from now are going to refer to this period as the Trumpian Age or some shit and I’m gonna be lumped in with all the dumb extremist dicks. Solidarity with dead people from the 19th century who thought empire was for arseholes and now get called Victorians

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

Accountability -- I don't even mean *sufficient* accountability, I mean *any* accountability -- pushes against every political instinct & power in this country, elites & public alike. It's a very, very heavy boulder at the base of a very, very steep hill. Gonna take *lots* of pushing.

Every single quote like this is so far removed from reality that they may as well be talking about necromancy

Today's demolition of Voting Rights Act by Roberts Court will likely trigger largest drop in Black representation since end of Reconstruction. They're taking America back to Jim Crow, when white supremacy and one party rule enshrined across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

Dinosaurs would not have tolerated billionaires. If anyone proposed to have taxpayers fund a 400 million dollar ballroom a T-Rex would have eaten them immediately.

It's kind of funny that just 3 days after every journalist in DC threw Trump a little party to "celebrate the first amendment" while giving him a tongue bath, Trump is once again using the full weight of the federal government to try to ban a comedian from TV for insulting him.

democrats: we're waiting for our good friends the republicans to wake up and turn on trump republicans: we're indicting james comey for an instagram pic and trying to get disney thrown off air cause jimmy kimmel talked shit about us

Today, we honor and remember Virginia Roberts Giuffre on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Her courage has allowed countless survivors to be seen, heard, and to be believed. Sending love to her family on this difficult day—and to all the survivors out there still on this journey for justice.❤️

The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,

Types of tables, in order of preference: 1. Turntable 2. Table of Contents 3. Coffee Table 4. Table Tennis 5. Periodic Table 6. Multiplication Tables 7. Kiddie Table 8. Uncomfortable

this is what all the social media in the Purge movies looks like

Everyone's group chat right now

Sigh, I guess I’m doomed to keep seeing people repost that fake AI photo of Trump with his head slumped over, no matter how many people point out it’s a fake.

Just once, I’d like to be at the beginning of my rope.

I’m trying to convince my institution that’s it’s worthwhile to be on Bluesky, so I volunteered to setup an account and posted at @soest.hawaii.edu. Please do me a favor and follow the account, share and like some posts before my meeting to discuss the account tomorrow. @joshuajfriedman.com

Holy crap, guys. His approval rating is down 300%.

Alex Jones yesterday, April 22nd of 2026, is once again saying the Sandy Hook massacre was a false flag done by "professional shooters." It is imperative we take over that studio as soon as possible.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages! If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF. Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it. The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is out with a new (very bad) decision, and it's a doozy. The Fifth Circuit says that Texas can require the Ten Commandments in classrooms. But somehow it gets worse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

what if for earth day we just blew it up and started over

they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement

It really gives the game away. Religious freedom when they want to target LGBTQ people and no religious freedom when they want the state to indoctrinate their preferred religion (evangelical Christianity) on students.

"particularly" is a funny way to spell "exclusively"

Indigenous people are being arrested for trying to sell weed on their own land but if you're white you can incorporate a crypto currency scam and AI data farming

For fuck's sake, sign up for The Onion, and get a free limited edition IW tote. A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago. Legal fees have been insane. Please sign up and help us out!

And it’s a deeply personal offense: that you are here and they are not; that beautiful days and small good things happen without them; that you have to witness and feel it all right alongside the grief.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

It has been really disturbing to see some people pay tribute to Dr. Cerina Fairfax’s killer without even mentioning her. The victims of domestic violence matter more than their husband’s political careers. www.13newsnow.com/article/news...

Exactly one year ago today:

News of less violence is welcome, but with Israel promising to stay in Lebanon, we need to remember the Gaza “ceasefire” has meant continued genocide. interc.pt/4tmjm3S

trying to post through it rn

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Sending this little kitty to anyone who needs a hug for their heart today. 🐾🤍

I’m glad that he’s showing what (white) American Christianity is really about. The thirst for domination and power to the point of blasphemy. They’ve been calling him the chosen one, an avatar of God, because he allows them to hate marginalized people. He can do this because they won’t abandon him.

You’ll survive but you’ll be funnier in ways that worries people

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?