A friend has alerted me to this pressing and very real international incident involving the very sane Candace Owens.

“If we are to have another [civil war], I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.” -- Ulysses S. Grant

“The answer to the trolley problem in the real world is to either brake the trolley or break the trolley…to block or wreck the tracks...to free everyone tied to both sets of tracks, or lay down new tracks without people on them. Or…issue a warning. Or..set an alarm. Or…try all of these at once.”

Cultist defends cult leader's death threats to Dems.

via bill bramhall

fascinating read. LLMs for Medical Practice: Look Out | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

I have long said people don't be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts as much as they should be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts

Today we won a big victory in Texas but the fight for democracy is not over. We all need to steel ourselves for the battles ahead. We won't win them all, but we can never lose sight of what we need to do to prepare fee and fair elections.

AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI. So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…

This case isn’t just a cautionary tale; it’s a warning siren blaring across the Justice Department: when you let politics, inexperience, and arrogance run the show, you don’t just embarrass yourselves you threaten the very credibility of the law.

Just saw the RUNNING MAN remake and goddammit @edgarwright.bsky.social can cook.

“Maybe somebody thought ‘Oh it’s a small place, it’s rural, they’re probably quiet, we can overpower them,” said City Councilor Steve Hickman. “We’ve been underestimated.” www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fede...

deAdder!

trump regime is a really awful name for the confederate reich.

Hmm: Ms Kendzior said: “the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles”. From her most recent “When I loved New York”: “for example, arrest war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu”. I wonder if that phrase gets you banned? sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...

Reinstate Sarah Kendzior

“every artist needs a dog. every human needs a dog. rescue a dog right now.” — sally mann

best news this day and about time.[hey @theguardian.com it is Turkiye, not Turkey.] www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

via mike luckovich on twitter

It’s been 6 weeks since Adelita Grijalva won her election. Mike Johnson won’t swear her in & is dragging out the longest shutdown in history. Congress is being paid. They’re getting top of the line healthcare. They’re not going hungry. Yet they refuse to do their job. Swear her in now.

contended cat, buddha and the moon.

a very short dystopian novel: the entire federal health infrastructure of a nation has been maliciously destroyed. nationwide ability to analyze and respond to new, deadly and highly contagious diseases is nonexistent. a novel flu jumps from the descendants of dinosaurs to humans… [the end]

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

How wicked is the Trump presidency? A court just had to order Trump to feed starving people.

Anne Krueger: "Trump’s divide-and-rule tactics have shattered the postwar multilateral order. ...America’s major trading partners must form a new coalition capable of upholding the principles that the World Trade Organization..." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/m...

BASH: “You’re not gonna bring anything up on the house floor even if the senate finds some sort of compromise?” SPEAKER JOHNSON: “Yeah. Because they’re trying to play games and we’re not interested in doing that.” (He then makes it clear these are Trump’s orders) #AmericanDuma

Final UC-Berkeley poll of Prop 50 Yes - 60% No - 38% Already voted: 67-33 Yes Yet to vote: 57-43 Yes

via Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn G #zohranfornyc

Could not be prouder of the Elias Law Group team!💪🗳️⚖️ "The fight over who gets to draw Virginia's political lines spilled from the state Capitol into the courtroom this week, and Democrats just claimed the first win." www.axios.com/local/richmo...

Angus: We were being led to believe by you that Trump was all ready to sign a trade agreement. And then Canada had an ad that just quoted Reagan during the World Series, and your president lost his shit…

pierre poilievre the political fossil still thinks trickle down economics is a great idea. “Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

“if you work for a living, Bill 2 is a warning shot aimed at you.” — Lets_Be_Clear

“kunst ist eine Mittlerin des Unaussprechlichen” — Goethe

market’s “invisible hand,” if it ever existed, would be busy jerking off these days.

While insurance companies gorge on profits, millions are crushed by soaring premiums and a broken healthcare system. A single-payer plan would slash costs, empower workers, and make healthcare a right—not a privilege. People over profit—now! 💥 #MedicareForAll www.commondreams.org/news/us-medi...

The federal emergency funds are intended to be used to fund programs like SNAP during a shut down. Refusing to release these funds is a choice by the president to intentionally starve Americans. #Pinks Tiktok creator: cynicalurbanhomesteader

dock long gone no place to sit and watch the tide roll out but wastin’ time so easily done [oz/2016] #senryu

San Francisco-based Zignal Labs is aiding ICE’s crackdown on free speech. Its AI surveillance program monitors 8 billion social media posts a day. Clients include the Israeli military and the Pentagon. Surveillance as a service, authoritarianism as a business model. truthout.org/articles/ice...

Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….” 🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

the outpouring of mindless, unhinged racism and islamophobia against Zohran Mamdani from both republicans and some democrats really shook me. the US is fucked up beyond all recognition. what a grotesque state of affairs. #USPolitics

When Tish James walks into a courthouse tomorrow — the target of a political prosecution demanded by a President obsessed with revenge — she does not walk in alone. New York has her back. Grateful to Governor Hochul for bringing us together tonight.

“the cynicism of conveying propaganda as truth, as long as it is well-sourced, is the poison of american journalism.” — chris hedges [“ a genocide foretold”]

the kind of “freedom” Pierre Poilievre really wants for canada is /exactly/ the kind of “freedom” the US is experiencing right now.

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…” ~Patrick Henry

More on the attacks on Wikipedia and its editors: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

not only does Gary Larson still have the juice, it seems to have only gotten stronger