Apparently I will be spending the month of July in Ohio.

ActBlue donors can request refunds if they donated to Swalwell’s campaign. Pass it on.

🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🤭 🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! Look, I say we're closing the Strait, and that's final! Don't try to talk me out of it! 🤡

Happy birthday, Eve!

Viktor Orban can still win if Mike Pence finds the courage!

"if you were in charge of star trek, what would you do?" Same thing I’d do if I were in charge of any show: cast excellent actors, hire even-more-excellent writers, and ignore 99% of network notes. (Hat-tip to @hntdove.bsky.social, who would be very welcome as one of those writers)

You know how the Felon-in-Chief violates the Presidential Records Act, blatantly and repeatedly? So does he. His personal “Justice” Department has now unilaterally declared the entire statutory scheme unconstitutional. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

BREAKING: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat to Peter Magyar after "painful" election result, ending 16 years in power.

PSA: SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN, one of the best superhero comics ever made, is FREE TO READ all this month on DC Universe Infinite.

Tired: “You can’t fire me; I quit!” Wired: “You can’t blockade the Strait; I’m blockading the Strait!”

Does the Donald know? 🤯

Old enough to remember when MAGA screamed that President Obama should be executed for treason for unfreezing some Iranian assets as part of the JCPOA.

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My friend @nathanrlong.bsky.social writes some fun swashbucklers, especially this one.

I know nothing else about this, but the title alone seems promising.

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov No, you know what looks like “tacit approval”? *Not* pursuing impeachment. Let everyone who votes against impeachment make that approval explicit, please.

Signal boost for Canada

Well if that doesn’t convince everyone to have full confidence in genAI then I don’t know what will

I dunno, maybe it’s just me, but I’m starting to think watching him be completely inept at everything over and over again isn’t funny after all.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

TIL that Iran is a party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the United States isn’t. (Article 38 grants the right of “transit passage,” freedom of navigation through straits.) www.un.org/Depts/los/co...

“It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties … which makes the defense of the Nation worthwhile.” —United States v. Robel (1967), SCOTUS holding government cannot void constitutional rights by chanting “national security”

91% accuracy… but 9% of five trillion is still 450 billion wrong answers.

Case in point:

Best-case scenario, where literally everything else goes as perfectly as possible—which it absolutely will not—is still that he’s given other powerful countries (e.g., Russia) the right to threaten war crimes as “negotiation.” Also: EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EP

“Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible.” —J.D. Vance, 2016

We need to turn him over to the Hague. SCOTUS has given him immunity from all prosecution here, but not internationally. (“We” in this context means some theoretically sane and functioning future government. Hypothetically.)

To this day I am still astonished by how much I *loved* 17776 (a.k.a. "What Football Will Look Like in the Future"). If anyone out there hasn't seen it yet, head to www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

He’s going to nuke ‘em, isn’t he?

The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026. Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.

Blocked in less than one minute. Which tells me this was not an honest mistake, but a deliberate attempt at deception.

Lovely, but not from Artemis. Many photos painstakingly stitched together to make a video. Original source: www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/...

Those pesky Geneva Conventions: “Civilian objects shall not be the object of attack or of reprisals. Civilian objects are all objects which are not military objectives as defined in paragraph 2.” (Protocol I, Art. 62(1).)

But antisemitism isn’t a problem.

Add a food to a movie title: Escape from New York Cheesecake

Depluralize a movie: The Odd Single

“This nation, as experience has proved… has no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lin—

I don't know why everybody is talking about book promotion but I have a novel out this month. So buy it. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jorda...

Signal boost

Easter 2026 in a single sentence: “US officials are unlikely to be prosecuted for war crimes.”

“When somebody’s nice to me, I love that person. Even if they’re bad people, I couldn’t care less. I’ll fight to the end for them.” —Delusional Donald, in a 2026 Easter speech that the White House deleted later the same day

An articulate, insightful, and accurate “thing.” “You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces.” (h/t to @hntdove.bsky.social)

So two things: 1. If you’ve ever wondered why Thomas and Alito always side with him no matter the issue, this is why. They like their jobs and don’t particularly want someone much younger to replace them… yet. 2. If a Democrat is elected, though, look for them to retire before inauguration.

Add food to a movie title: Yellow Submarine Sandwich

I’m sad because I momentarily thought that quote was Alcock’s excellent response to some guy trolling her before the film even opened. (“They made another terrible female superhero movie. DEI!”) Alas, it is not.

Thinking for yourself is so last year! Why bother? arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/r...

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

He demanded this brutal cut just one day after the Artemis launch. (Hat-tip to @audryt.bsky.social)

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you (Hat-tip to @cybermudgeon.bsky.social)