A lot of people upset at the U.S. Supreme Court are screaming DO SOMETHING. A lot of people upset at the Virginia State Supreme Court are screaming DO SOMETHING. There are *2* Georgia State Supreme Court elections on Tuesday, May 19th. Here's YOUR chance to DO SOMETHING.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

None of us can cancel everything. But all of us can cancel SOMETHING. One eminently practical suggestion: Does your family have more than one Amazon Prime account? You absolutely don't need more than one! Cancel one of those tonight!

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

To challenge and defeat Senator Susan Collins, I believe one's lived and work experience matters!!! Mine: working class upbringing; solid education; 25+years hands-on senior-level government experience, both in the US and abroad, and substantive reform agenda… #MEpolitics

David Costello is...wait for it...AN ACTUAL DEMOCRAT running to the be the next senator from Maine! No Nazi tattoos! Real experience! ON THE BALLOT. #MEpolitics

Georgia's supreme court elections are in just 19 days. And they're so important: Two liberal attorneys are aiming to oust a pair of GOP-appointed justices. Voting rights already were a defining issue, & that was before Callais heightened the stakes. So much to unpack here. NEW in Bolts:

I am going to share an observation about this website and then not engage with any replies to it: The chances that any particular person on Bluesky is your mortal enemy worthy of you getting mad about in any prolonged way are very low. Microblogging makes you think you have to fight, but you don't!

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

"50 people dead in day 322 of the ceasefire"

Now that the gunman has been apprehended, I'm going to put my first amendment pocket square back in.

I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

If you are in line for the WHCA Dinner buffet, STAY IN LINE!

THE WHCA DINNER WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

The good news is, there are a lot of experienced, trained professionals on hand who can quickly gather all the appropriate facts and tell us exactly how this is bad news for the Democrats in the midterms.

Woke 2 needs Democratic leaders to remember that the Federalists and anti-Federalists hated each other. Get that attitude toward Republicans and talk accordingly. They are your colleagues working against everything you stand for, not good-intentioned, misguided friends.

I think the problem for US media is that if you admit Hormuz is an almost irresolvable conundrum you also are implicitly arrayed against the president and his power-of-positive-thinking approach that it’ll magically open, placing you in the forbidden realm of Taking A Side

The problem here is Zohran Mamdani won in no small part because he is kind and normal. Hasan Piker is mean and weird, so in this metaphor he’s an herbicide for kind and normal democratic socialists.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Big Pasta Is Always Listening

Jake about to read the replies here and realize he doesn't actually like freedom of speech as much as he claims he does.

You know somebody sold their soul for this record.

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week. And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY. You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

schrödinger’s strait of hormuz

Peace, but only during trading hours

Exactly one year ago today:

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

astronauts on the moon. affordable college for everybody. building a ton of housing for families. vaccines to end cancers. we can have all this cool stuff if you just vote for the people that want to do it. we can do so much great stuff. put down your anger. great things are right there.

"While the end point is unclear, Trump’s would-be dictatorship is politically broken. And as Trump’s mental and physical dissipation increases by the day, it’s increasingly important to focus on the network of stooges that have built and sustained his regime." — @davidrlurie.com

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!

What we fail to say is also a message. Not calling for Trump's impeachment and removal conveys he has not committed offenses that warrant these actions. Or, at best, that you feel he has and are unwilling to do your duty and use the remedy written into our Constitution for presidential crimes.

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

Democrats doing the thing everyone is yelling at them to do. Go yell at the Republicans who can actually be the difference makers: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I know that ad hominem is technically a logical fallacy, but it’s also an excellent shorthand for filtering out the worst people and saving yourself time and energy. If the worst person you know has an excellent point to make, it’s probably also been made by someone kinder and more intelligent.

Netanyahu spending decades planning on war with Iran:

Today!!!

Don't say "American" when you mean "Republicans" Don't say "Congress" when you mean "Republicans" Don't say "government" when you mean "Republicans

Well...

The internet

If you're in Ohio, or know people there, today is the deadline to register to vote. Please CHECK to make sure you're still registered and weren't purged from the rolls.

Just because some credulous dork at Axios swallowed this obvious nonsense where the CIA is the hero of the story and the president bravely and decisively etc etc… doesn’t mean the rest of us should.

I remember someone once describing it as the "gas leak social network"

Look at those tail feathers on this great egret this morning in Tampa Bay. #birdsky

To be clear, this is *in spite of* Trump. Not *because of* Trump. First news outlet that frames this as a "victory" for this administration gets burned to the ground.

There’s still time to elect Chris Taylor to the Wisconsin Supreme Court! Early voting in Wisconsin is open NOW until Sunday, April 5. Make your plan to vote: IWillVote.com.

Pretty much.