new from @tusk81.bsky.social and @yunao08.bsky.social: "It bears repeating every Tax Day: our immigrant neighbors regardless of legal status are not only essential threads in the fabric of America, they make vast financial contributions that help sustain our communities."

Get his ass, Your Holiness

BBC is reporting that Tisza has won 138 (!!!) seats in Hungary’s parliament, which gives them a supermajority sufficient to change their constitution. They needed 132. Astonishing.

I hate having to name characters, especially minor ones. Can't they just tell me what their name is?

I still get threats from men I wrote about a decade ago who are angry I covered federal lawsuits against them related to sexual assault allegations. To my personal email, to new work emails. I don’t think readers understand how difficult and laborious it is to get these stories published

"We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets." Accurate.

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If you recognize which unnamed woman is talking because you're asked for comment and the comment makes it clear which of the woman's rape stories match your memory of events, and you text that specific woman and say "stop telling people I raped you," that is.... sure an admission of something.

“You can’t possibly make the Cybertruck any uglier.” “Wanna bet?”

5 days to go! I'm all stocked up, just need to find the right person for each pendant.

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.

these assholes spent DECADES shrieking about how we could only have "abstinence only" sex "education" and now they're angry that it worked

The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.

Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.

The shop is all stocked up and I'm ready to go - who's looking for a little magic? oishiny.etsy.com #Handmade #ShopIndie #DisabledArtist

I think I could just about reach my current goal on spirals alone, which would be kind of funny. Go on, snap up a spiral, I've got something for everyone: oishiny.etsy.com #HandmadeGifts #TreatYourself

One labradorite pendant got snapped up overnight, can we find a home for its friend before it gets lonely? This beautiful blue-green glow is all wrapped up and ready to travel: oishiny.etsy.com/listing/4470...

editor: you need to rewrite me: why editor: because we need plausible characters me: whats the problem editor: You're claiming its actually possible to turn the Iranian govt and the Catholic Church into sympathetic figures within 12 months???

How many times will we have to keep quoting the direct words of the Trump-Vance team’s mediator? It is insane the low regard these people hold us in

Israel ordered civilians to evacuate south Beirut and then bombed north Beirut

Stocks legging lower on this *IRAN'S QHALIBAF SAYS CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT WITH US VIOLATED

We should spend taxpayer dollars only when it adds value to our people. And do we really want to subsidize energy consumption by data centers when they are making everyone else’s power bills go up? It doesn’t make much sense to me.

If all planned data centers in North Carolina are built, developers would receive an estimated $450 million in sales tax exemptions each & every year. And with the state’s impending fiscal cliff and the federal government retreating on longstanding commitments, state revenue is especially precious.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Tomorrow’s Mirror:

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

We gotta bring back the productive kind of national shame. Not the throwing up your hands and going “what can you do, we suck” kind but the “I’ll be GODDAMNED if I let the fucking FRENCH have better TRAINS” kind

In 2024, we watched news media lead a concerted and sustained effort to end Bidens presidency *and it worked.* If they wanted to, Donald Trumps fitness for office and mental state could be all they talk about going forward. They arent doing so bc they dont see anything theyre interested in changing.

If the Iranians really want to fuck with us they should offer to open the straights in return for Trump’s resignation.

Certainly there are issues of far greater importance in the world today, but if you need a brief distraction, worth noting that today is International Beaver Day. #wildlife #beaver

"We are spending our children's money to take the lives of other people's children." The Trump administration is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year — a number that doesn't even include funding for war on Iran.

Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters

There's a Stephen King short story I like called Ur, where a guy gets a Kindle with access to newspapers from different parallel universes. He learns that about 1/3 of the time, the Cuban Missile Crisis led to human extinction. Lack of a nuclear taboo would lead to extinction 100% of the time.

If the nukes come out, they'l never go back in. All the dozens of countries that can make them will start yesterday. And the world will blow itself up, slowly and then quickly.

same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

Say what we will about our unsophisticated ancestors, I am pretty sure they would have recognized the sign that a plague under an evil ruler meant they shouldn’t turn around and reward him with power again.

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

i cannot fucking believe we're doing 'we'll be greeted as liberators' again. are you fucking kidding me.

BREAKING: Crime reports are out for Q1 2026 New York City with historic results NYC under Mayor Mamdani records the fewest shootings and murders IN HISTORY • Major Crime: ⬇️ 5.3% • Robbery: ⬇️ 8% • Burglaries: ⬇️ 20.6% • Murders: ⬇️ 28% His approval rating has gone from +38 to +48. This Is Leadership.

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

He is risen

The American president has lost his mind.

A missing pilot in Iran being hunted by locals would have been a national crisis and call for 24/7 round the clock coverage 10 years ago.

Daycare $200 billion Medicaid $150 billion Medicare $800 billion Wars $3.6 trillion Ballroom $150 billion someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

Be careful folks, today is April Fool's Day, which means that the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive. Don't worry though, tomorrow we will be back to normal, and the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive.