We could have just not done any of this.

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

AG Murrill is using a Reconstruction era law to protect Black & allied white elected officials from white terrorists to threaten five Black, one Latina and one white elected officials, part of a broader fight to keep an exonerated Black New Orleanian out of office www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

With the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act, this message is more important now than ever.

2026 Kentucky Derby results: 1. 🐎 2. 🐎 3. 🐎 4. 🐎 5. 🐎 6. 🐎 7. 🐎 8. 🐎 9. 🐎 10. 🐎 11. 🐎 12. 🐎 13. 🐎 14. 🐎 15. 🐎 16. 🐎 17. 🐎 18. 🐎

This was the logic behind "Boarding School" for Native American children.

It has to be tremendously disheartening to be A&M baseball, playing a home game and losing in a half empty stadium, while this is going on in what looks like a legit sellout at Kyle Field across the street

God almighty, Uzbekistan wasn’t the last stop. This ICE flight continued on to Pakistan via this circuitous route. Migrant passengers onboard will have been shackled for at least 43 hours.

War. War never changes …

If you think AI surveillance cameras aimed at drivers’ faces is a good idea (no matter how well intentioned the justification), you are a naive fool. This data will be harvested, sold to fascists, and used to imprison activists. Oh, and car companies will 100% use it for ads you can’t turn off.

THICCER KICKER

Trump is about to hit REM on camera during an Oval Office event. It's just incredible.

"The indictment’s references to the '17 Unite the Right march in Charlottesville are positively perverse. It all-but explicitly blames SPLC for the men brandishing tiki torches chanting 'Jews will not replace us' & the car that plowed into counterprotesters & killed Heather Heyer. This is nonsense!"

Every lifelong nondenominational I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "Babbie Mason's epistle on the Power Team rites of Larry the Cucumber clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."

if anybody in the press covers this as anything other than "president lies about reflecting pool" given that IT WAS A BIG DEAL COVERED BY THE PRESS UNDER OBAMA, HOW NICE IT WAS i swear

Scenes from a personalist regime: A nominee to an independent federal body refuses to acknowledge that the President ever lost an election.

The vision for New Orleans espoused by its most powerful decision makers has always been that of a playground for tourists and profit centers for landlords where nobody actually lives. www.nola.com/news/busines...

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

MAGA never got their gold phones they paid around $500+ for, did they? They never asked for them, either, did they? 🙄 #Pathetic

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

People make fun of government agencies for still being on Flickr but photos produced by the government are copyright-free and I have yet to see a better photo-centric platform for delivering higher resolution photos that anyone can easily download.

watching field of dreams and kevin costner’s character pays $7 for two hotdogs and two beers at fenway… truly a field of dreams

wait why are they climbing back into the capsule come back

Friendly reminder, the current administration doesn't care about science.

Really stoked that the next step in the return to the Moon is *checks notes* practice docking in low Earth orbit. #artemis

It’s been fascinating to watch this AP story circulate through the web this week and horse-shoe back to the local press. I broke the story about the effort to digitally preserve Aadam’s collection 15 months ago. Glad more folks are digging through his recordings!

Louisiana Republicans block bill to create a state-wide Voting Rights Act, following a 2 hour public comment period in which every person spoke in favor www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

This is also a phenomenal read and you should definitely pick up a copy!

Lol, that's a Two Mike Burger, eh @profmcconville.bsky.social?

Kevin is exactly right in this. As I argue in my book Through the Heart of Dixie, Sherman remained within the bounds of the laws of war. He destroyed property, not people.

Waking up to the awe-inspiring images from NASA at the same time the US President is implying that he will commit genocide, I can't think of a better quote for the times than this one from Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell. I added it to today's Earthset image:

"The [images] we already have back are beautiful, stunning and iconic - taking by astronauts not by robots. This is a voyage of exploration, not lunar science, and that's fine!"

PARMA!

Today I learned I can read German

Hey Christians, what do you think of your president’s Easter morning message?

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

Happy Easter from one of South Dakota State’s old mascots.

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

Is it a good sign that the White House commandeered prime time on the networks to broadcast what was essentially an unconvincing proof-of-life video?

College football can be “fixed” with legislation. #AprilFools

Happy Artemis launch day everyone! Blast off currently scheduled for 23:24 UK (18:24 EDT). There is go/no-go decision to start loading the propellants around 12:30 UK. Some music while you wait?

It's pretty great that the bathroom scale can't April Fools you.

Longitudinal oil prices: every price spike was followed by a recession. Every big spike als had a name: 1864: Civil War 1973: Arab Oil Embargo 1979: Iranian Revolution 1990: Gulf War 2008: Financial Crisis 2026: tbc (but my money is on “Trump Spike”)

your grandparents voting for reagan

I did not know you could win a softball game via curfew sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

You really can't exaggerate how squarely contrary this rhetoric is to the basic foundational precepts of this country. These people *hate* the actually existing United States.

Omfg