Ever think about how these idiots are robbing us of some of the last few habitable years

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in

Cool. My electric mixer stirs faster than my finger

🧵 I am raising two boys. Due to Covid (on several levels—#pwLC), their age 0-7 years were very different, and it shows.

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

No one will ever convince me that the sky doesn't fly this flag on purpose

Huh. How about that? The Paper of Record is hiding its record. /lights journo degree on fire

Gave blood today for the first time in about 3 years. Made my next appointment before I left the building. I used to do this like clockwork. I'm O+ and an easy donor (Double Red today), and my dad set the example—when you can, give.🤷‍♀️ One more piece of me sliding back into place... #pwLC

I ask the bottom-line questions about our military and war: Why do we have a military? Who does it benefit, who profits? Who does it not benefit, who pays? Can our military even protect us if it had to? Our government is the greatest danger America has ever faced.

If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid: $124 — school lunch & nutrition programs $49 — diplomacy to prevent wars $19 — USPS $19 — Federal Aviation Administration $18 — national parks and $4,049 — weapons and war. These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay

Jesus motherfucking Christ. (Haven't shopped at #Target in years and wasn't about to start, but JMFC.)

Okay, 50min in and the Champlain Valley Expo concert got me. 😭

Stg, if Noah Kahan's "Out of Body" came out while I was still Oakland, I'd have bawled my eyes out and started packing. But I'm home now, so I ain't shed one tear yet. 💚

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

I need every medical professional in my orbit to put at the top of my chart, in bright red capital letters: WAS A COMPETITIVE ROWER, CANNOT ACCESS EXERCISE DUE TO CHRONIC ILLNESS, SEE NOTES. It would save time and the regular retraumatization of explaining why I can't row 45k a week anymore.

BREAKING: BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result, ending 16 years in power.

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Anyway, if you're still struggling with this I urge you to take a moment and try and see how you would feel if it were you. I, for one, would want to make sure those reporters gave a shit and did their due diligence. Extremely good work was done today, and those women are brave as fuck. That's it.

It's about trust. Building trust, maintaining it. It's the only way we can do this job. If sources aren't ready to go on record, then that's that. You don't just dump that info into a rumor mill, lol. Any journalist worth their salt would sooner go to jail than break that confidentiality

If a reporter doesn't have the resources, patience, the PERMISSION (i.e.: a source willing to go on record), the legal backing, the whatever they need to tell the story right, with empathy for the survivors, and with enough details to nail that sucker to a wall, then they aren't going to pursue it

There's an important bit of journalism ethics here: do your best to minimize harm. This means taking a trauma-informed approach, not rushing the story and shoving survivors into the worst, period, hell, period before they're ready, and it means getting it right the FIRST time, not later

When you're taking on someone with that kind of pull and leverage, and you're asking these women to talk about their experiences on the record, you want to make sure that you're not dragging them needlessly into a punishing spotlight for nothing That kind of work takes time and effort

Additionally, we're talking about extremely fucked behavior from a progressive candidate who apparently, now we are learning, had a reputation for being (and I'm putting this lightly) a fucking prick groomer of interns, and was powerful enough to ensure silence and/or complicity for years. YEARS.

1. It takes an army of folks to make sure that what they're getting down to is cold, hard facts. The evidence, to me, looks pretty unshakable. 2. It started with victims willing to go on record, who also needed to be willing to stick all the way thru the process, which is painful and repetitive

Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:

My grandparents were Catholics' Catholics; I was raised in the Church but lean Pagan/Taoist/Unitarian, etc. I can't speak for Pepère, but Memère would've absolutely LOVED this pope. I wish she'd lived to see this.

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

Eric Swalwell is not a victim of a smear and quite frankly shame on anyone saying he is. There are other Dems running in the primary who aren’t alleged sexual predators, so demonizing victims for the sake of team sports is not only cruel but also useless. Back Katie Porter instead & believe victims

I'm moonscrolling

I love this photo of astronaut Christina Koch looking back at Earth from Artemis II. She's the first woman to see the full sphere of our beautiful planet. Welcome home to the crew, and thank you for reminding us of all we can discover together.

I'm excellent at my current very, very part-time job because of software classes I took for free in the 90s and customer service skills I learned before puberty. Act 3 is fucking weird. The proto-fiancé who wanted me to chuck higher ed and make bank as a tech admin would enjoy this shift, I feel. 😂

“COVID can lead to aggressive cancers. James Van Der Beek, Shannen Doherty + Julian McMahon died from cancers between the ages of 48-56. SARS-CoV-2 creates immune dysregulation, reducing tumor surveillance + creating inflammation. This is why cancers behave more aggressively.”

This is rather terrifying f

If The Parable of the Sower could finally stop resonating with current events, I'd appreciate it... #Artemisii #artemis2

On balance, I think it's rather impressive that it took six years of cutting my family's hair at home (thanks, Covid!) to take a small chunk out of my finger. (I grew up in my mom's salons. After 40+ years behind a chair, at least two of her left-hamd fingers were numb to the second knuckle.🙄)

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

“Sometimes people will open the door for you. Sometimes they won’t. Then you kick the fucking door down.” ~ Kamala Harris Don’t wait for permission. #SheShed

I hate this so, so much because it starts from a premise that we're the ones that have to fix an issue that these companies created. No, fuck off, you broke the world, so you fucking label your fucking slop!

FACT CHECK: Medicare for All Would Save the U.S. Trillions; Public Option Would Leave Millions Uninsured, Not Garner Savings www.citizen.org/news/fact-ch...

A portrait of every being who has ever been alive, their bones and ashes, and their distant, alien descendants who still populate the world The timing of this launch couldn't be better to remind us of how small and precious this planet is

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

What a fucking shot holy shit

More than 400 hospitals across the U.S. are at high risk of closing or cutting services because of the Medicaid cuts in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” according to an analysis from the progressive watchdog group Public Citizen.

This made my day. Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey were out protesting at No Kings together over the weekend. Beaches is the best!

It is an unconscionable amount of fun to bring decades of experience and targeted skills to a small job where they can add a lot of value quickly. I'm glad this little job is only 12hrs/wk because I am *beat*, but it really is nice to be professionally useful again. #pwLC

Every time I hear men talk about destroying this planet so they can travel to a dead one, I think about how miraculous the existence of Earth is, and how capitalists should never be permitted to make decisions about space exploration.

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