This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Hegseth’s POV

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

my favorite aspect of elon musk is that he is incredibly thinskinned lmfao

You can also enjoy the transcript from Tuesday's hearing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"[A] nonsensical interpretation of due process rights. At their core, rights are not supposed to be negotiable based on how much resources the government has, or the amount of people they’re looking to deport." Great takedown from @nikkimcr.bsky.social of JD's unhinged views on due process.

That’s right… Bill Kristol?

happy ten year anniversary to this post

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Oh my god. Karoline Leavitt just had a full blown meltdown of lies during her press conference and accuses Abrego Garcia of “human trafficking” despite zero evidence.

lol at Matt Yglesias forgetting to switch to his sock puppet account

The New York Times has become a Dadaist paper. This is so absurd, even by their own abysmal standards

This is about as good an orientation for where we are and what’s happening as you’re going to get…and it points to the most important thing we can do: build a vision of the world we want

I have over 35 stories on my list of DOGE debunkings (I'm sure I missed some while I was traipsing around Paris). Three months in, DOGE continues to make the same stupid accounting errors in its claims. www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For whatever reason ICE doesn't have a Bluesky account. So I thought I'd drop this in here. Note the Free Speech crowd has now put the good folks at ICE in charge of stopping, detaining and deporting "Ideas".

The hard truth is that there are some products you just can't make in America. These must be imported from elsewhere. Like chocolates, for example. American workers will always become overwhelmed by the speed of the conveyor belt. They'll end up shoving the sweets into their mouths and blouses

Gasparino: Let's be clear what happened, who capitulated here and why? You know, I don't want to say this because I am a patriot, I am an American, but it is The White House who capitulated based on everything I hear and all my sources

in so much news coverage there’s still this sense of propriety and decorum in the face of an outright assault on our civil and human rights. i just want to remind journalists that your politeness will not save you—so you might as well say what you really mean.

DHS secretary Kristi Noem, wearing a $50,000 Rolex, talks about arresting dirtbags while aiming rifle muzzle dangerously close to ICE officer's head

a hot dog hollers

Local outlets captured the event much more accurately and gave it priority coverage. Covering the pro-democracy movement is not partisan. Here are some examples more in our blog post. 4/

These are the kind of memes currently circulating on Chinese social media. Trump bringing manufacturing back to America…

Nintendo can get around the tariffs by using a floating barge with claw machines just outside US waters You can take a boat and pay $450 for unlimited attempts to win a Switch 2 from a claw machine If you win, it counts as “personal treasure,” exempt from tariffs under maritime salvage laws

So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes. Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵

Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph

Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention— "Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."

It's critical for people to be active, getting organized at the state level not just in conventional political ways but also to operate within and buttress their state govts for Trump's coming onslaught talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/get-a...

For the discerning consumer with an eye for a good thrill

“There is no God but God, Muhammad is his messenger,” the paramedic is heard saying. He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he is going to die. “Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose — to help people,” he said. “Allahu akbar,” God is great, he says. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

WOW. Rep. @jayapal.house.gov says CBP's internal affairs department found that a Chinese woman who had overstayed a visa was arrested by Border Patrol and hung herself in a cell. She wasn't found for two hours—even though the records reported multiple welfare checks (suggesting records falsified?).

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

An opinion: Scott Galloway is looking like an incel apologist. Always whining about how women’s economic power no longer forces us to be chained to mediocre and terrible men who are now left lonely. Also Kara Swisher has shitty taste in people she surrounds herself with.

Texts Wisconsin voters received from Trump-aligned voter turnout group Look Ahead America in the final lead up to today’s election. The group says it sent 250,000 of these texts yesterday.

Peter Thiel ally Curtis Yarvin recently accused the Trump administration of failing to understand that “regime change”, requires that “Every existing institution of science” be “fully cremated” & replaced w/ a “new scientific establishment.” Soon after, RFK Jr guts HHS & announces a new division 1/

Science is under siege. Political forces are undermining expertise, dismantling research institutions, and replacing evidence based policymaking with ideology. This is a global crisis. 🧵 1/31

what's the statute of limitations for criminal charges under the Privacy Act?

Sexiest Man Alive implies there’s an even sexier corpse that needs to be excluded from consideration

"Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

getting hit by a bus because i think it's a big fuzzy cat with fucked up hands