lmao, they have no cards, except for the strait flush that they're currently holding with everyone's money on the table

Lmao

Is Trump going to get impeached and removed from office? No, of course not. But Jesus Christ, guys. What the fuck is wrong with you, Schumer and Jeffries?

WHO FUCKING CARES

The most destructive intersection of alt text and AI isn’t that the former is being used to train the latter. It’s that people are really excited to use AI to produce alt text, which it is generally very bad at, and expect blind folks to be grateful for it, even though it’s shit.

One other thing. There's a common misconception that cases in federal court are more important or more difficult than cases in state court. That's simply untrue. Federal courts simply have stricter requirements on what cases may be filed there, and people pay more attention to what goes on there.

Three Democratic members of Congress said they were horrified that immigrants were being stuffed into holding cells “like sardines” at a Mesa ICE holding facility they showed up to without warning on Thursday night.

sometimes I think the democratic party is some kind of absurdist art installation, where the stated goal is to win elections and the actual goal is to never do that

i don’t have anything clever to add just this fucking blows and we absolutely can build a much better world than this capitalist hellscape

People are mentioning pedocon theory and uhhhh YEAH they're talking about minors not having enough babies what the actual fuck, but also even if they were just talking about adults, wtf are we supposed to glean from that last bit? That people need to be having babies in unstable life situations?

I think the discussion over 25A and impeachment gets at a larger reality. You can argue both sides of either tactic, but the underlying problem is NO ONE is really holding the GOP accountable for letting Trump send his son-in-law on a diplomat's errand EVEN AFTER his incompetence led to war OR

I wish science could explain what’s happening.

ChatGPT alone is plausibly responsible for the deaths of more children than lawn darts, which were pulled from the market due to safety concerns.

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

In just 61 minutes, Trump managed to contradict his own 'victory' declaration, a pattern that exposes him not as a masterful strongman, but as a failed authoritarian unable to maintain even the basic coherence required for effective autocratic control.

The DNC is going to vote on a handful of resolutions today and tomorrow concerning the Middle East, and one of them is so modest and narrow in scope that it's almost absurd, but it is still unlikely to pass because of how gridlocked the organization is between the old guard snd base on this issue.

The fact that we can't even get commitments to enforce our own laws wrt Israel from the ostensible opposition party is just insane. If they can't even commit to treating Israel like we treat anyone else, how do we expect them to do anything meaningful about ICE or Trump's crimes or DOGE?

Microsoft starts removing "unnecessary" Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps. www.theverge.com/news/909640/...

As the Pentagon purges some minorities and women from high-ranking positions, the message being sent to lower-ranking officers is that “they will be assessed on the basis of their gender, race, or politics, rather than their abilities,” Adam Serwer writes:

The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.

How a researcher got AI to corroborate the existence of a fake disease. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

FFS!!! Know what else would help? Raising wages in women-dominated/female-coded fields

We are the ones who insisted that NATO defense obligations be geographically limited to the defense of Europe and North America, because we did not want to be dragged into defending European empires around the world.

One thing I see little talk about is the inflationary cost of AI companies buying all the memory they can: One year ago, I bought the 2TB drive I’m holding in my hand for $165. That SAME DRIVE one year later lists for $543

"at some point—and that would be now!—self-preservation is supposed to kick in, and people in tough districts are supposed to start heading for the exits. So—why isn’t that happening?"

Reuters has noted that even the pro-Trump Heritage Foundation’s database of election crimes listed only 24 instances of noncitizens voting in U.S. elections from 2003 to 2023. www.cato.org/commentary/t...

1. It’s not just Trump. Here’s a Republican Senator posting a clip of the Republican House Speaker falsely claiming that the Democrats count on “illegals voting” to win. This is a lie - “illegal” votes are statistically insignificant. They have produced no material evidence, yet keep lying.

I report back from X to say that the right is in an incredibly dark place right now, building a narrative around undocumented immigrants that makes them the single biggest problem in the country, with the narrative that if you get rid of them, everything improves.

The girly jobs are things like healthcare and education. Where you have to put your ego aside and do things for other people even if they aren't sucking up to you. So. No, I don't think this is going to appeal to manly men.

I don’t buy the argument that Israel controls U.S. foreign policy, but I will say if Trump lets this deal fail because it is that imperative that Israel get to keep leveling Lebanon, that is genuinely and inarguably the tail wagging the dog.

The American regime has alienated us from the Pope. Let that sink in.

As I watch people who do not live in this country get real smug about how Americans have not "risen up" or whatever, I feel compelled to point out: We have and we are. People have been killed. Maimed. This is a thing that's happened. And yet millions still protest and take direct action.

Any number of Americans are willing to make clumsy bad-faith arguments in an effort to unperson and unstate millions of human beings. Some of those Americans are throne-sniffing prominence-chasing law professors. Decent people should treat them with contempt. That’s MY free speech culture.

In February, a farmer went a few seconds over his time at a city council meeting when speaking out against a datacenter. It's a $200 fine for trespassing, but he's vowed to fight it. We've also got the police report from the incident.

Most of us know of "bubblegum" as a FLAVOR, but it's actually banana, pineapple, cinnamon, clove & wintergreen esters blended together, first formulated in 1928 by accountant Walter Diemer for his product, "Dubble Bubble." He also dyed the grey product pink.

Jesse Singal is back on his transphobic bullshit by arguing that the trans rights backlash is self-inflicted and that anyone pointing to coordinated right-wing funding is peddling a "conspiracy theory." It's a masterclass in false dichotomy and victim blaming. archive.ph/ZD74X

In the 1980s, the UK media responded to an increase in visibility/support of gay people with a relentless, well-funded, Right-Wing campaign against gay rights, and when support went down, allowing Thatcher to bring in Section 28, the media turned around and blamed gay people for demanding too much.

Guardian readers might want to reflect on its manipulative dishonesty here. It omitted the most significant fact in this entire story; that the “report” commissioned by the DRA was produced by a board member of anti-trans group “Sex Matters”. This is the Guardian abusing its power.

ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI On the picket line in New York, union leaders said they expect “more concentrated conflicts” over AI in the news industry. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prop...

We have never looked more feckless and ridiculous to the entire world.

People making jokes that women can't throw as well as men, due to the trans ban in darts, and I'm here to tell you that is exactly what they believe and the reasons they believe it are as stupid as you'd expect

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to obtain Massachusetts' unredacted voter file. A victory for our clients the New England NAACP and the MA Alliance for Retired Americans and the Commonwealth. My firm is now 4-0 in these cases against DOJ. www.democracydocket.com/cases/massac...

Joe Rogan blames "rigid ideology," but that's the only reason he's not just a Democrat. His stated policy beliefs lean Dem: free healthcare, free education, pro-choice, path to citizenship. But his rigid ideology prioritizes science denial (climate, vaccine) and bigotry (transgender athletes).

NEWS: Trans kids in Minnesota can access their gender-affirming care again. www.advocate.com/health/trans...

This

Trump literally can’t imagine how his actions today could lead to famine in a few months. Second and third order effects are alien concepts to his brain. All he understands is his immediate urges and how to satisfy them.

Oh, I could scream about this for HOURS. But suffice to say: This is what happens when large studios don't want to fund original projects, anymore. They make Scooby-Doo for the 16th time, and the hot young talents goes off, runs a Kickstarter/gets backed by Glitch, and succeeds without them.