The Child, aged 17, witheringly asks "where did you hear that? ChatGPT?" when I've said something she thinks is stupid.

King County Regional Homelessness Authority has a $44.7M spending hole with millions unaccounted for — See the audit

I’m so old I remember when corruption very much like this took down Jack Abramoff and a ton of Congresscritters.

Why did Navy Secretary Phelan get fired? My speculation included the most indefensible possible reasons, but failed to include the dumbest possibility, one so dumb and petty Veep writers would reject it.

This is what transit leadership looks like. @mayorofseattle.bsky.social is showing how it’s done. And this doesn’t happen with the tenacious & joyful advocacy of @nicksattele.bsky.social & @jasonli468.bsky.social of @fixthel8.bsky.social. Transit riders have them to thank!

didn't you put your phone in the pool because it was too hot or something?

Anti-vaccine but pro-peptide injections is one hell of a load of cognitive dissonance to bear. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A number of space science organizations offered support for Isaacman's nomination because he is a proponent of space exploration and claimed he would support science. But now that science is on the chopping block -- and human spaceflight isn't -- he is volunteering to give NASA the DOGE treatment.

Hey everyone, @stemlabels.xyz had some technical difficulties over the last several days, and I spent a lot of time attempting to correct the issues, but it seems like the only viable path forward is to shut down the service completely and start from the ground up at some point in the future.

The Wirecutter replaced their normal search with some sort of chatbot and now I have to remember to search it using an outside search engine. 🙄

The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Trying to figure out what these “slurs” might be. Is “slop” a slur or just a judgment? “Bullshit engine”? “Plagiarism machine”? tbh “clanker” seems too cute.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

I didn’t not think I could love her more but OMG this photo. Destroy the jerky man! Flay his pre-tanned hide and free the starving worm from his skull. Strangle him with his own soggy jeans.

Also: Obstacles (land mines? rolling boulders? puzzle coded doors?) & members of the public are provided with sufficiently soft vegetables to hurl at members as they enter.

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

And punish isn’t just a special prosecutor, it’s also confiscatory tax rates on eg meme coin bribery, regulatory destruction of industries that thrived via corruption, and dissolution of megamergers that served only to quash dissent. Abolishing ICE, firing its employees, then prosecuting them.

Disqualifying

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

me too! and these are the same jerks who are arguing that we can't have safer supply/harm reduction for people using illegal drugs we don't like... but we should give safer supply to people using illegal drugs we do like...

william j. levitt: i have made levittown critics: you fucked up a perfectly good 6 millenia of settled urbanism is what you did. look at it. it's got no sidewalks

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

Remember, not density OR trees. Density AND trees. Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth

Man idk how to express how demoralizing it is to see people doing joke support for the Pope as the Catholic Church implements the most draconian trans healthcare ban anywhere in the US. It's a FULL ADULT TRANS HEALTHCARE BAN!!!THEY KEEP BUYING MORE HOSPITALS!!!!!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen.

"And then all the right-wingers heads exploded like BOOM!"

This is amazing and it does make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. We've all heard plenty of dead men's voices but this is *Robert* *Johnson*.

Me: There isn't a simple explanation for the complex interconnected crises and crumbling systems in our nation today. Also me: Yeah, this is 100% true.

There are multiple articles on these memos in today's NYT. This post of mine has gift links to all of them (and the memos themselves) reason.com/volokh/2026/...

A judge questioned a proposed DOJ settlement that offers no compensation to victims but allocates millions to immigration enforcement. “Who in the settlement room said it would be a good idea to give $20 million to law enforcement?” the judge asked. With @texastribune.org

I applied for a job that listed a salary range and then had two separate fields in the form for me to put in my preferred salary. Y’all, don’t ask people to negotiate against themselves in the application. You told us the salary range and we’re applying. Treat applicants with respect.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

It's International Bat Appreciation Day so take a minute to appreciate my personal favorite, the Hammer-headed Bat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer-...

Also, hoping the lady who says Obama is guilty of treason, the guy who thinks Trump is Jesus, the lady sleeping with her security detail and who drinks on the job, and the guy who harvests raccoon penises will vote the president mentally unfit for office doesn't seem like the soundest strategy.

The defense secretary is derisively comparing the media to a maligned group of rabbinic Jews, the FBI director is denying reports of drunkenness on the job, the vice president is in a two-front theological war with the pope and Erika Kirk, Donald Trump is still president, and gas is $4. Happy Friday

Breaking news: Tufts University graduate Rümeysa Öztürk, who was arrested by masked immigration agents last year, has returned to her home country of Turkey, citing the "state-imposed violence and hostility" she said she experienced in the United States. trib.al/7GKyEiz

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

Excited for what we get if the Pope gets more Catholic Worker/Hippie Jesus each time Trump or Vance says something. Women priests performing gay marriages by 2028? Affordable housing in the Sistine Chapel?

Why would you want the name “Allbirds” for private equity enshittification company that will boil the water and pollute the air that birds need?

Can confirm

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

i cannot imagine how freeing it must have felt to see this published in a print publication

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

I didn't realize how awful the White House's proposed cuts were for the USGS - almost a 1/3 reduction in Natural Hazards funding?? Elimination of ecosystem science?? This may be just a proposal, but we need to ensure Congress doesn't taker up anything so drastic. Geologists, spread the word!

The partisan split here is notable, with Dems and Republicans mirror images throughout. But we should also talk about how 36% of Dems opposing vaccine mandates is too many.

I'm doing research for a script & I found this in the gossip section of the Philadelphia Daily News, Wed Jun 12, 1996. In case you had doubts about who wins in a Janeane Garofalo vs. Mel Gibson contest.

On the eve of our Transit Town Hall in Everett, @gosnotrac.org’s @brockwhowell.com & I in the Everett Herald calling to Build the Damn Trains www.heraldnet.com/2026/04/13/s...

I’m endorsing Nilu Jenks @niluj.bsky.social, fellow @workingfamilies.org candidate because she’s committed to fighting for a future for all of us! Deeply rooted in D5, Nilu has been a champion for democracy and immigrant communities. She’s the colleague I want on council and deserves your support!

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

This moment demands a reset. J Street is calling for the U.S. to end unconditional financial military subsidies to Israel and to move towards a relationship where we treat Israel like any other ally. 🧵 1/6