Looks like the Mosque shooters are who we expected “One of the suspects in today’s shooting at a San Diego mosque.. left a suicide note that contained writings about racial pride, multiple law enforcement officials briefed on the latest told CNN. ..hate speech was scrawled on one of the weapons”

What a time to be alive

To all of you iPhone users out there have you noticed they recently included probably the best emoji in the world? 🫈🫈🫈🫈🫈

The latest @lebassett.bsky.social New term for child-free women just dropped "One in three Americans are under-babied," Dr. Oz said at an exceptionally creepy press conference at the White House today in which Trump called himself the "father of fertility." www.laura-bassett.com/p/new-term-f...

My friends who host Dutch and Izzy when I’m on business trips crack up that Dutch would rather be uncomfortable near his sister, then be more comfortable in their living room, where there is other dog beds.

I always look forward to this time of year when the roses in front of my house bloom vibrantly. I don’t do anything but prune them back once a year.

Always nice to be welcomed home by Mt Hood flying back in to Portland, Oregon from a long business trip

A bracing read from @lebassett.bsky.social on the hantavirus outbreak and what it reveals about the dangers of RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary — delivered in her signature acerbic style. www.laura-bassett.com/p/hantavirus...

when i show up in your mentions

Yes, you heard that right. At the Pentagon press conference a reporter from the right wing daily wire asked the defense secretary about kamikaze dolphins.

Lmao nypost.com/2026/05/05/u...

Things aren’t going well for Kristy Noem over on Facebook

Bluesky Date: Do you like it? Me: Yeah, I love Chinese food. It’s great. Bluesky Date: So you hate Japanese food? Me: Wha? Bluesky Date: And Japanese people obviously Mel: That’s not what…. Bluesky Date: Pol Pot did nothing wrong

My brother and his family are avid campers here in the Pacific Northwest so he just sent me what the national Park pass looks like 😒

Trump’s trade policies crushed farmers during his first term. Farmers thrived under Biden. So, they voted for Trump again and are getting crushed even more. Farm bankruptcies are up 46% since he was reelected. If Trump was on the ballot in 2028 they’d vote for him again.

No matter how you feel about the Kentucky Derby it’s pretty damn cool that a female trainer won it for the first time in history

Shit, man, how come the frickin' Iranians can produce anti-Trump propaganda videos that actually resonate more effectively than anything the Democrats can produce?

Goddamn!! 🔥 From @lebassett.bsky.social “Twenty-five years later, six unelected, lifetime-appointed Klansmen on the Supreme Court have gutted the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act that protected minority voting representation in the South…” www.laura-bassett.com/p/democracy-...

We’re essentially going to move to a system of all-red states and all-blue states that feels like a Union and a Confederacy

Easily the best recap of the WHCA dinner “shooting” I’ve read yet. From the always relevant @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/the-irony-...

Great haul today mushroom foraging in the Chehalem Mountain foothills in Oregon. These are oyster mushrooms 🍄‍🟫. Nice and mild that go well with pretty much everything. We’re going to combine them with wild Alaskan salmon tonight

This piece from a year ago is really enlightening. I was able to read it without a paywall as well.

I’m sorry, what!? katu.com/news/nation-...

In nine hours the national press corps will raise their glasses to the most racist person in the country and claim it’s a “work dinner” for “source building”

We made it to San Diego, Airbnb is great! A block from the beach 🌴 #RCTID

Kenyon Sadiq to the Jets #GoDucks

Q. Do you know what they call Bigfoot in Europe? A. Big Meter.

Welp

“The Golden Age of America” 😒 www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

The Trump Admin is giving carte blanche to the FBI to illegally investigate NY Times and other reporters for stories they don’t like. But the Times and the other outlets are honoring the Admin and the 1st Amendment at the WHCA dinner on Saturday 🙃

The next Dem Admin had better break up these media monopolies. CBS and now CNN plus TikTok and a dominant group of streaming platforms are now owned by a major Trump donor. Our local news stations are now mostly conservative outlets

I sure do miss the days in the business world to where if it took you 24 hours to return an email no one panicked, and you could actually take a 10 day vacation without getting so far behind it puts your job in jeopardy.

Blazers win!

What a time to be alive thehill.com/policy/healt...

The call of the Red Winged Blackbird and Mourning Dove is cemented into my brain since being a small child who grew up on a 4th generation ranch in Eastern Oregon ❤️

Have you been considering buying Art but you’re on a budget? I can personally recommend Sol here. She’s got a cute dog too.

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

@lebassett.bsky.social raises the question not enough people are talking about. Why is it that only the women cabinet members are being purged from the Trump administration? open.substack.com/pub/laurabas...

Productive mushroom foraging morning

DOJ opens up investigation against Swalwell but not Tony Gonzalez or Cory Mills.

What’s up with BlueSky this morning?

I work in healthcare IT consulting and the Medicaid and Medicare cuts from the BBB are devastating hospitals and associated jobs. Iowa losing over 200 jobs just today. www.kcrg.com/2026/04/15/u...

As a Gen Xer who is getting more liberal the older he gets, I have to be man enough to admit that my generation is the biggest Trumper’s out of any generation .. including boomers. Why!?

My favorite writer @lebassett.bsky.social is moving to Brazil! Very happy for her and as a paid subscriber, I’ll get to read all about the trials and tribulations of her move down south. Vai Brasil! P.S. she is lowering her subscription fees to her newsletter open.substack.com/pub/laurabas...

What!?

Belting out “Of the world!” after the last chorus of We are the Champions…

Oh dear God. I don’t know if I could handle the rizzless Ron & Casey DeSantis in our faces every day.

I always crack up at Izzy’s steps she has to take to keep up with Dutch 😂