"It takes zero courage to love you." the ten year old trans kid in me is just ... welp, the 40yo me is crying.

Area Man Placed Late Win Bet On Golden Tempo

First female trainer wins the derby! And a 70-1 in show. What a fun race.

"Trump’s initial post about removing US troops from Germany came just hours after he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long sought to reduce the number of NATO troops in Europe... "The Pentagon 'was not expecting it'... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

“While also having ZERO tools to help you navigate your life!”

This enrages me.

"Under the terms of the deal with Qatar, the Gulf country would pay more than $4 billion for American-made Patriot missile interceptors — global stockpiles of which have dwindled during the war with Iran."

This seems ominous. The State Department announced last night we're rushing missiles to Israel and some Gulf States--as if they're expecting they'll need them shortly to counter incoming Iranian missiles.

If you were to design a program to destroy the Black middle class in America, it would look exactly like what they're doing.

TIL the greatest naval loss for the US in WWI was a USCG ship. AND the crew wasn't awarded Purple Hearts until 1999! Cool article that's worth your time this weekend.

USN Admiral Lisa Franchetti: first woman Chief of Naval Operations (highest-ranking USN officer) & 1st to serve on the Joint Chiefs. Abruptly relieved of her duties Feb 2025 & retired in Apr 2025. She was born #OTD in 1964. She was the last. No female 4-star officers now serve in the US military.👀

Repost to make it die faster

Our schnauzer brought in a dead juvenile bird and had eaten half of it before we saw him. We got him away and disposed of it and cleaned up, just to have him walk about 5 paces and throw up the rest of it. 🤢🫤

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.

If this were passed in the U.S., every large parking lot would become a 79-space lot overnight. Creativity too---new planters, a smoking area, whatever. Anything to get around a new law that serves the community.

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.

These solar canals are made with bifacial solar panels that pull in sunlight from both sides. They generate power not just from the top, but also from light reflected off the water in the canal below. #solarcanals #energysky

Been true since the nuclear facility raids last year, made worse in Venezuela, and now every bit of acoustic, electromagnetic, and visual signature is known to the PLA and Russian Armed Forces Great work Pete Hegseth and Dan Caine, we unilaterally disarmed in a spasm of vanity.

Thought about it for a long time and decided not to vote for Platner. Largely because it would be election fraud since I don’t live in Maine

I realize this is not helpful, but yet again I'm reminded of the male friend who laughed (guffawed, really) at my belief that Roe could ever be overturned. I'm sure I'm not the only woman with memories like this that come roaring back each time they successfully chip away at our bodily autonomy.

Pitt withdrawal

There is a drug for what’s ailing this country.😂 #Rezyne

Deleted my last post because I garbled my words. Let's try again: Another thing I think is important: ppl want to defend AI by pointing out more purpose-built applications, but the obsession with genAI/AGI applications is sucking up all the funding & talent. The most money to the worst applications.

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

The line right after the John Lewis quote: "Then the Senate confirmed John Roberts" hits really, really hard. On a lot of levels.

I do know it’s silly to some people but I do believe in Joy as an act of resistance for the currently & historically marginalized & oppressed. It’s not the only thing of course. But it’s one important component. I don’t believe my ancestors, my direct ancestors were bled dry for me to mope around.

Great thread here It's not enough to merely survive - it's your thriving that really sticks in their craw.

Cis people, you really have no clue what it’s like for us right now. Trans people have been scapegoated so hard it feels like we get blamed for being targets, like our oppression isn’t real, or it’s new, or it can wait and must not be so bad if we can be out. If we scream, we get reviewed on it.

I missed Cloris Leachman’s centenary yesterday but am hoping her ghost is forgiving. Her delivery of “He vass my boyfriend” turns a good gag into one of the greatest lines in cinema – which is one reason why this, above my desk, is one of my most prized possessions. But she was legendary 1/3

The "class of '86" in country is pretty amazing

Michael is one of the folks I listen to when I want to know more about the Sahel conflicts so he's also one I will consistently share!

hey that’s not good: “The fire knocked out electricity and propulsion on the destroyer, one of the officials told CBS” www.cbsnews.com/news/uss-hig...

For me, the most striking thing about the Supreme Court's opinion killing off the Voting Rights Act is how *casual* it is. Short, dry, uncomplicated, barely bothers engaging with the dissent. Just 37 pages of Sam Alito rewriting the law to say what he wishes it said, and then clocking out.

yeah I mean this is basically the endgame either we live in a “zero democrats in red states, zero republicans in blue states” world or we get some sort of national détente on gerrymandering up to republicans

what the end of the VRA is going to do in the south is a moral abomination it is also not going to be enough to keep the house in R hands this fall given the environment we’re looking at, but it’s going to make it a lot harder in the future the Dem gerrymanders need to get more extreme

Dude, I just filled my fucking gas tank and it’s way more $ than it was TWO DAYS AGO

"Being a white supremacist is mainstream now. To be a Republican these days means believing wholesale in the entire white supremacist/Nazi belief system" good essay

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

A state where Republicans just stampeded to eliminate an office before a Black man could get sworn into it is leaping to eliminate more offices held by Black people? Shocked, I’m shocked.

Even this part is frustrating: no, it doesn't "know" what it did wrong. It's not apologizing. They prompted the algorithm to explain what went wrong, so it made an answer-shaped response based on analysis of texts that explain when something goes wrong. It has no thoughts, you idiots.

Suspending elections where people have already started voting so you can gerrymander their voting power away. Very democracy.

33 years ago today Kathleen Hanna of the punk group Bikini Kill performs during the Rock for Choice concert at The Hollywood Palladium on April 30, 1993 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Lindsay Brice #punk #punkrock #bikinikill #kathleenhanna #history #punkrockhistory #otd

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Haha (so fucking angry I can barely see straight 👍)

Racism is over says the Supreme Court, which you can tell because it took literally a matter of minutes after they gutted the Voting Rights Act for Republicans in the South to start moving to make sure Black people in their states get no representation in Congress

yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

Oscar Isaac was in the Criterion Closet and he’s the first guy who I think properly understood that he gets all the movies for free and just overloaded the bag