The world is falling apart and no one will pay attention to me

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

If the our major media outlets are incapable of conveying to the public how extraordinarily corrupt it is for Trump to take $1.8B in tax dollars and put it into a slush fund for him to give to people who broke the law for him and other allies, well I just don’t know what the point of it all is.

fwiw also realizing I won the "trump will go insane and the NYT will use the word gambit to describe his dementia" contest from 2019

What you are seeing today with the IRS "settlement" is nothing new. It is democratic backsliding 101. It happened in Hungary, Turkey, Russia, and now here: Replace career professionals in an agency with loyalists (here: IRS + DOJ) ➡️ Use the agency to enrich self/allies and attack rivals.

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all the work & sacrifice & suffering to become a navy seal to do *this*

32 House Democrats joined the GOP to vote to criminalize bail funds. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026169

Stealing the next election election. Stealing our country. Enslaving our population is the next step in their plan www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

Raskin said that if this fund hands money to the Jan. 6 rioters, Trump will be “using federal taxpayer dollars to compensate people who participated in insurrection.” Trump & his lawyers “are figuring out a way to refund the Jan. 6 militia, presumably to get them ready for the next round of battle.”

Trump allies: How dare you call us authoritarians or fascists Trump administration: We have created a special FBI squad to imprison our enemies www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

if you have a child that can read, subscribe, and then leave the paper sitting around the house. they don’t know what the onion is. it will be hilarious. our daughter looks forward to each issue now.

Chicken entendre

2 more gang!!!

"Whatever Democrats do, they must do something. If the aim of our political system is fair and meaningful representation for all Americans, then we are far from the target and receding even further." – @jamellebouie.net (Gift link)

Horoscope question: is there ever a day where i should hang on to what’s not serving me

Sonia Sanchez said, “For a year people would ask me, ‘What kind of people live in Philadelphia that’d drop a bomb on people?’”

I love how president monkey’s paw keeps curling and every time a new group or person is like “I hate him but surely this time will be good for me”

Seems really fucking bad!

We either act to protect trans kids' health or cede it to fascist destruction. Trump's the main enemy and NYU Langone our target—but our main levers are NY's AG and the Mayor. Let's tell them to apply pressure. @gregpak.net's page has the right links + additional asks. gregpak.net/2026/03/27/t...

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

If Republicans enact their planned gerrymandering, they can lose the popular vote by *4 percent* and *still keep the House.* www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

ABC News: Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.com/Politics/jud...

"Larry Ellison reportedly told Trump that he would 'implement the CBS playbook' at CNN if the merger is approved, which would mean removing anchors and commentators at the network that Trump doesn’t like, the letter alleged."

The U.S. killed two more people in a boat strike in the Pacific Ocean yesterday. One person is still missing. 193 people are now dead from extrajudicial boat strikes.

Can’t qwhite tell what he means

I am begging a democrat to run for president saying word for word “these people are fucking freaks and my cabinet will be made up of normal fucking people”

At any point my lifetime, the most extreme views you could find anywhere in the conservative universe became the mainstream GOP position within 5, 10 years. As reliably as the tides came in and went out.

Starfox: we could have done this at any point since the n64 launched and simply chose not to

So the Feds did more to investigate VA workers who went to Alex Pretti memorial than those who killed him.

You should get to choose whether you want to know true things. Maybe you'd rather know false things instead. The state needs to respect that.

They think we're fucking stupid cattle

WotC will not do the right thing without YOUR pressure. Stay informed, stay supportive, & sign the union's open letter. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl...

The most coveted free agent in American politics is "The Genocide Ogre."

Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency. www.wired.com/story/a-fede...

This was fun as hell. Please enjoy as a team of brilliant and talented improvisers help to save me from the hole I keep digging myself into.

Shartin Mort

Watching all these GOP-controlled states race each other to gerrymander their districts before the 2026 midterms, it is hard for me to look at the timing of Callais and not conclude that the conservative justices decided the case on the earlier side to do their fellow Republicans a favor

EXCLUSIVE: Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) told Republican House candidates that he will suspend the May 16 House primaries to redraw the state's congressional map. This would help Republicans pick up another seat or two in the midterms www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.

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I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.

The movie I’m crowdfunding for is set at a funeral, because funerals make everyone insane. And because I’m nosey I’ll ask you this: what is your CRAZIEST funeral story? It’s Thursday evening let’s goss seedandspark.com/fund/treasur...

ai is re-inventing goblin mode

It’s pretty cool how every week or so on this app you get both “guys idk maybe Bluesky actually is kinda a mess rn” and “haha this dipshit says we were being mean what a fucking dipshit”

I really can’t get over the shamelessness of this. One party is emphatically pro-assassination, completely unfeeling on the subject of gun violence even when the victims are literal babies, and works hand in glove with right-wing paramilitaries. Violence helps that party by definition.