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One of the undersold rights of the American citizen is the right to just fucking ignore the president on a day-to-day basis, and Donald Trump repeatedly, constantly, deliberately violates that right.

Rest well, @pegjodi.bsky.social. You were one of the good ones, and your husband and kids deserved so much more time with you. 💔

YES

Happy Kentucky Derby Day

This is the exact kind of broken brain thinking that'll get you a gig at HHS nowadays.

wait you're telling me taking on 100 billion dollars of debt in loans and contracts to provide a service that loses money every time it's used was a bad idea ?

Every second of this David French epiphany was infuriating in part because every second of it was entirely predictable. You watch it like, “Of course you didn’t consider that” and “Of course this is surprising TO YOU.” Just infuriating.

The utter and complete naïveté of some of these people is absolutely jaw dropping.

The new Animal Farm is produced by Angel Studios. A hedgefund owned, Christian propaganda studio that also produces The Tuttle Twins and David. TICKETS TO ANIMAL FARM SUPPORTS CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST PROPOGANDA. Convenient since the GOP already uses "communists" synonymously with "democrats."

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills

ISAAC CHOTINER: So, the food bowl. It's empty, you say? CAT: That's right. IC: And has it ever not been empty? C: Not that I can recall, no, it has not. IC: Fascinating. And this bit of food caught in your whiskers, where would you say that's- C: Now hold on, this is about the bowl, not

Gen Z has rediscovered the X-files & is realizing how dystopian the America of today is compared to the 90s "Watching The X-Files... has solidified my belief that I would have likely been happier in an age that preceded me." midnightmurmurations.substack.com/p/the-x-file...

COMIC: Hobbit Holes

Robert Ebert’s review of Downfall in 2004 was as absolutely masterful as the movie itself. #history #wwii #skystorians #extremism

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This is a heavy but accessible discussion on human cognition and mind, and it's fascinating. Worth your time and attention.

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

“Billionaires are funding a communist resurgence in America” can only be said by someone with severe lead poisoning or head injury

A few of my favorite spreads from Menagerie of Unbearable Things, a horrible bestiary of tragedy with adventure hooks and no stats. You will not find how to kill these creatures among its pages. This is a book about how they loved. And love is the real monster. thebreadwyrm.com/products/men...

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.

Llanberis Falls

If you know you know …..

The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.

this is straightforwardly impeachable conduct

The Balcony, by Édouard Manet, 1868-69, 📸 by Sarah Stier

And no brakes. And no map. And no nav system. And no road.

Donald Trump paid almost a billion dollars to kill wind energy projects that would have powered millions of homes. You do the math on how that helps your family.

Wow, what a garbage news Friday.

he thinks this makes him look good lol

native ohioian here. the rules are you are allowed to complain a little bit about ohio if you are actually from there and are currently in the state talking to other ohioans... though it's iffy when you're running for governor but if you say it in MICHIGAN you get SHOT INTO THE SUN

One of the most successful things the tech industry has done since the 1990s is lead the citizenry to believe that because a technology can do something means that something can’t be legislated away. And since the 2010s they used their lobbying powers to defang the legislators who know otherwise.

The most corrupt family in American history. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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

That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Many liberals had long hoped for deescalation, because gerrymandering is bad. But watching Rs openly vow to seize on SCOTUS ruling to maximally gerrymander makes it clear those hopes are dead. The option of deescalation is always there, but it must be mutual. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Happy May Day

Alright so, we need to think about the possibility that Breathless may fail to fund. I'd hate this. But it's possible. This was super hard to record and I hope it helps other creators in the space. If you like it, please share the video around because we're living in difficult times.

On the turntable today…

And that moment gave me so much fucking hope. That one day stories like mine will be the exception rather than the norm. That a future generation of trans people won't have to blindly fight their way out of the closet. That hope has been harder to hold onto lately. But it's worth fighting for.

he didn't have to find himself in smuggled sideways glances, didn't grow up confused & anxious, wasn't shamed into running away from himself, could not fathom the toll of decades of depersonalization He and I had dysphoria in common but he knew what his was right away & could do something about it

After my sister, her husband, and his teenaged trans son watched I Saw The TV Glow, they asked me for my opinion because none of them "got" it & it actually made me really happy that the kid could not relate bc he found the words for himself when he was a kid & had support

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. Lettie, for short.

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

Hell of a graph

Holy shindoggles it’s f*cking grim. I’m launching emergency Darwin wearing clothes.

To be clear as day, this is, of course, absolutely intentional. It has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime (with the notable exception of HW Bush). It's what the GOP does. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...