Can Dems convert 2024 Trump voters? Not those whose idea of "America First" is "the hard-core, nasty, soulless stuff," writes our Tim Miller. But others are "ripe for the taking right now because they have legitimate grievances and the president has demonstrated he doesn’t give a fuck about them."

Trump got Iran to defend the Pope. Maybe he does deserve a Nobel Peace Prize after all.

Playing with the Lensbaby Twist28.

Now that fascism has been routed in Hungary we need to route it here. And, yeah, that means we need a very broad coalition. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

looks like JD Vance really fucked the couch again huh

Don’t forget the vice president of the United States openly campaigned for an actual authoritarian! We usually do that through the CIA.

It's a turtle!

When you do something to knock supply and demand out of whack, and have no solutions, last refuge is to blame greedy firms

@dandrezner.bsky.social shout-out to you specifically this morning

An interesting, and amusing, article on boredom. www.economist.com/britain/2026...

On 23 June 2026, Britain marks ten years since the Brexit referendum. We were promised £350 million a week for the NHS. We were promised the easiest trade deals in history. We were promised sunlit uplands. Research now shows the economy is 6-8% smaller,

Designing an ideal candidate on demographic and ideological criteria and then shoehorning real people into that isn’t a useful exercise. It’s the assume a spherical cow of political strategy, so oversimplified it’s useless. Actual candidates have much more nuanced strengths and weaknesses to weigh.

Really well-observed, cutting account of Trump watching a UFC bout while talks collapse in Iran: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

There it is: A full year of days spent playing golf in just over five years as president. www.pbump.net/outofoffice

My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award

It's a nice day for a Light sweater It's a nice day for a CARDIGAN

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

YES!

Yeah, *this'll* piss some people off nicely... 😏

!!!!!!

Sunset through the trees.

Okay, but has @radiofreetom.bsky.social denied it yet?

Truth

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

With all that's going on I thought I'd share this picture of a blue heron I got during a walk this afternoon.

I am, and it is, and no, they don't

Schrödingers Strait

The median wine mom voter wants hangings when this ends, just sharing what I hear in the sports stands from the parents

The Mother of all TACOs.

I have photo evidence of B52s

My first job out of college was writing software for industrial automation. In 1995 we had the novel security measure of *not having the machines plugged into external facing networks.* Why, 30 years later, is critical infrastructure remotely accessible? www.wired.com/story/iran-l...

The 25th Amendment is only a temporary solution for a few weeks, unless you can get ⅔ of *both* houses to agree to remove him. That’s a higher bar than impeachment. constitution.congress.gov/constitution...

A lot of talk about what the US can or will do to Iran. Not much about what Iran can do in retaliation, which is substantial. They have the ability to go after the infrastructure of our allies in the gulf. The Houthis can close the Red Sea.

I’m not a laws of war expert but it’s my impression that just the threat to commit genocide is a war crime. Threatening to destroy a civilization is a war crime, whether or not you carry through. Not that the sort of people who support Trump care.

This is why I try to protect words for when they are needed to convey the immediacy and threat they represent. What Trump is threatening in Iran is *genocide*, pure and simple. Of course, that word doesn't land the way it used to.

When Tom says this, believe it

Trump won't care, but there are good reasons others in the USG will be reluctant to talk about nukes. Mostly, because striking regional enemies is harder than it sounds. www.amazon.com/No-Use-Natio...

hormuz may never be open to the US again. unbelievable own-goal from the brain trust in DC.

The local clusterfuck that had me spending 15 grand over the winter. www.ffxnow.com/2026/04/06/r...

Gotta make these for real

I have been all over the world and one surprising fact is that there is pretty much universal consensus that America makes the best chocolate.

They’re afraid…

I finally found a 16:9 version of this. Short-format horror...!

The American bombing of Iranian girls’ middle schools has been messy. But it‘s also created an opportunity for genuine educational reform. —Today in @washingtonpost.com

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