The Democratic Party freaking out that Democratic Party candidates are winning is the most Democratic Party thing ever.

Clean sweep for Zohran, soooooo maybe the most politically effective mayor in NYC history, in addition to being good at the job.

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>>

not the Onion

All the props in the world to this guy, but THIS IS NOT A FEEL-GOOD STORY IT IS A DAMNING INDICTMENT OF OUR SOCIETY AND HOW WE TREAT OUR MOST VULNERABLE

In the "what could go wrong" scenario list, this one has to be the worst possible case

Oh my god it's happening bsky.app/profile/dmnd...

are we sure that isn’t just trump

A BBC reporter was interviewing a Cape Verdean man when the team scored its first-ever World Cup goal. It got LOUD and it's delightful.

"We cannot always stop suffering. We cannot always save the people we love. We cannot always change what happens to us. "But we can accompany one another through it."

Dear Knicks, Stay away from the WH. Your fans.

Y’all really got Elmo fucked up🤣

In college I was part of a club none of us wanted to be in. Special Survivors was for students who had had a close relative die. We didn't have mental health services, and we didn't have tools to manage our grief. Instead, we sat in a dorm room once a month or so and shared our sad stories.

Also let me recommend historian Annette Gordon Reed’s “On Juneteenth” for your summer reading list. I felt vindicated reading that Reed, a Texan, always saw Juneteenth as a Texas celebration. Her dive into the complicated history of Texas, slavery, integration & this holiday is riveting.

It’s Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Island & issued General Order No. 3. It announced that “all slaves are free.” This story of this one event was commemorated through the diaspora of Black Americans for more than 150 years before becoming a national holiday.

“Juneteenth reminds us that freedom delayed is freedom denied. The enslaved people of Texas had to wait 30 months to learn what the rest of the nation already knew. Black women in Texas are still waiting.”

"The bar is in hell" I don't want to learn the offensive person's name or promote his shitty actions, but this quote from Charlamagne is insightful.

I'm currently reading "Blue Nights" by Joan Didion. A heartbreaker with some funny passages, including this one:

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

"If the United States had closed its racial and gender equity gaps in education and workforce participation back in 2000, the country would have added an estimated $15 to $20 trillion to its economy." www.theeduledger.com/demographics...

Scottish singer-songwriter Annie Lennox (the Eurthymics) 📸 : Robert Mapplethorpe, 1989

Prince. Aretha Franklin. Roberta Flack.

Hmm, I posted "who do you have to kill to become a partner at A16Z?" and YouTube has had the video under review (but... not blocked?) for an hour now. I suppose accurately describing their business policies violates some algorithm? www.youtube.com/shorts/9xciZ...

One of my favorite shots from tonight's game

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

LMAO! Oh, that pendulum is about to swing back like a wrecking ball. www.ktalnews.com/entertainmen...

It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.

RIP to former NBA player Jason Collins, the first openly Gay, active, male pro athlete. Hard to explain what a big deal it was in 2014 when Collins signed with the Nets. He took number 98 in tribute to Matthew Shepard, the Gay teen murdered in a horrific hate crime. JC was brave and will be missed.

How can you not try these chips? I did and really loved them. In fact I had some for breakfast. The texture is really the best--super light and airy, yet most of the chips were whole. Pretty expensive but not overpriced in my book.

Lancet predicts 14M more deaths in the next 4 years. That includes almost half a million children under the age of 5. www.thelancet.com/article/S014...

AI is buying ads now

I'll be offline for a few days. Tell people who mean something to you that they mean something to you. Life is so very short and it is precious.

"Unsurprisingly, it’s easier to bounce back from allegations if you have a lot of money. Every venture capitalist or investor we identified either kept his job or found a new one." Via @ekp.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

Is there any valid reason someone would go through so much effort to protect the KKK? Dark days indeed

Only one harasser admitted to doing something wrong and made efforts to learn and change sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...

Also: "We did not include allegations against local clergy, because there are too many." sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...

Harassing has so little long-term effect: "We found that 76% of the men we reviewed are professionally active, 41% are in the same or an elevated role since the allegations were made public" I'm glad someone is keeping track so industries hold people accountable sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...

bear suit insurance fraud

No, that's exactly what Chappelle was doing and it's why trans people criticized him for doing it.

People in DC are doing their best to remind everyone that the list of sex offenders and pedophiles goes all the way to the top

There’s no excuse why Democrats haven’t flooded the airwaves about the plethora of sex offenders and pedophiles Donald Trump has personally put back into our neighborhoods.

Remarkable, must-read story about how @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social and @cheyennehunt.bsky.social brought down the despicable Eric Swalwell. This didn't happen overnight. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

Ugh I just went on Twitter and realized that I was following Vance because Harris is no longer our VP. How horrible.