The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

Enthusiastic consent should be taught at home, at schools and be the default. Rape must be as disgusting and as abhorrent murder and cannibalism. Men who are not into raping should be constantly calling out anyone from friends to acquaintances to bosses. All the “manosphere” dudes should be in jail.

Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong. Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT

"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani

We paying attention Labour?

Stephen Miller almost says that Trump is seeking a "final solution" in Iran but then catches himself

Just an idea, but maybe don't believe everything Trump says

No government since at least 1987 has passed 30 or more laws without a select committee vet – until the coalition last month. newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/16/g...

CSS nesting and `:has()` are two months away from being Baseline Widely Available (i.e. available in Chrome/Edge/Firefox/Safari for 30 months).

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

Missed the Pope subtweeting the Trump administration:

"The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters." - Pope Leo This bloke is really growing on me! www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Fox News medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel turned heads after blaming the low birth rate in the U.S. on the lack of teen pregnancies.

Maria’s description of her own interview turned out to be not very accurate

Why does the American tax system favor the wealthy? And how did it get this way? I chatted with Jon Stewart about this back in 2012. Sadly it's only gotten worse since then. We must keep up the fight to fix the system.

Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.

Yeah, people talk about how Mackenzie Scott is not a "good" billionaire because if she was, she wouldn't be a billionaire anymore. And like 99.9% of the time that is true. But we also built a system where you can't actually give your money away fast enough to avoid how fast it is growing right now!

Touché, Daily Star Cc @ericidle.bsky.social

Sending Tautoko for courage to Ally Naylor www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

AOC: “The mistake that I made, you know, from all the movies that we see growing up about heroes & villains — is that I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses — I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre, & just dumb the architects would be”

Y’all are wild

I love that Trump's rebuttal to complaints about posting an AI image of himself as Jesus, is that he's actually just too dumb to know the difference between Jesus and a doctor.

Embarrassing, quite why Nicola Willis has been allowed a get out of jail free card on this debacle is beyond me "Cook Strait ferry service's reputation for unreliability among overseas tour operators" #kikorangi

the US Navy is "urgently hiring" morticians

Simply explained

for anyone following along, a new zealander called anna wilding is running for congress here in california, and she's running in a truly unhinged (quite racist) way. and her husband is really mad about me writing about it all: www.webworm.co/part10/

He doesn't care because he is wealthy and sorted don't you know www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Carney: "The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over." *thunderous applause*

Today marks 78 years since the massacre of Deir Yassin, an atrocity that came to define the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 to establish the state of Israel on stolen Palestinian land.

When the Iran narrative collapses so spectacularly that the counter‑move is “fine, let’s talk about Epstein,” you really don’t need further analysis.

Melania Trump wants these photos and emails to be scrubbed from the Internet. Please stop liking and sharing them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Quite a moment: Melania becomes the first member of the administration trying to distract the public’s attention back to Epstein in order to get them to stop talking about Iran.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

Canada: where you get rich by sitting on land, not by building anything

what a glorious time capsule of this broken moment we are in

Holy fucking shit it's real lol Olivia Reingold of the Free Press asks Abdul El-Sayed "does Israel have a right to exist as a Jewish state?" AES: "What do you mean by a Jewish state?" [...] "If you can't define the question, I'm not gonna answer it.

I think everyone in Aotearoa should know where our foreign minister is right now: standing next to Rubio as he dodges questions about war crimes

France has sold off the last of its gold held in the US Federal Reserve and now holds all its gold in Paris. German groups are now pressuring the government to repatriate its own gold.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

If we can’t afford decent public transport, how can we afford to import 1000s of top-end sports cars every year? If we can’t afford decent quality healthcare, how can we afford cosmetic surgery, luxury cruises, and helipads for the name-suppressed, op-shop, Epstein class? You get the drift. [Ends]

“No other recent American president has talked so openly about committing potential war crimes, legal experts, historians and former U.S. officials say.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

Is it no wonder that in this surrealistic time that cartoonists are nailing it better than anyone!!!