this is a masterpiece

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

I switched to DuckDuckGo when I almost got scammed for hundreds in fees by a third party travel site posing as a direct hotel booking page by paying Google for higher placement than the hotel I searched for by name. Very happy with it. AI functions available, but not insistent and easy to disable.

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

I’ve been reading “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” which details how Google, in order to make money, evaded public scrutiny and democratic controls to use our data as raw material to reshape the world, all while assuring us the outcomes were both positive and inevitable. Bless these kids. 🥰🥰🥰

TPUSA was promoting an anti-trans event on Juniper's campus when she was stabbed to death Sunday. I'm pretty well-informed + I only heard about this today on the "It Could Happen Here" podcast. Violence against trans and nonbinary people has skyrocketed in recent years. Media coverage is dismal.

Too many keys on a piano. How am I supposed to remember what they all do? There should be just one key that plays a song in its entirety. And there should be a machine that can press the key and listen to the song on my behalf. I don't need to be involved.

The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.

two things can be true... 1. yes 2. And also there is a scrutiny and surveillance of Black women (because that's what we are talking about in the WNBA Black women) that is not given to any other group of people www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A bit of cheerleading for you: Even some gerrymandered seats are not 100% certain to go the way the GOP wants in a wave election. In the last five midterm elections, the incumbent's party lost 9, 13, 30, 40, and 63 seats. Do you know how many turnovers Democrats need to flip the House? Three.

The only thing more terrifying than the Devil is the American health care system. TODAY OUR SHOW GOES LIVE. The Terror: Devil in Silver streaming on AMC+ & Shudder. On AMC linear in September. To celebrate I'm sharing a thread of the films and tv that inspired our show's tone and mood and style.

The highly anticipated Metro D Line Extension opens next week, and subway service is not the only thing on offer. The new Wilshire stops will feature activations like pickleball, salsa classes, weekly farmers markets, and more to attract locals and commuters. lamaterial.com/p/activate-t...

In Seattle's Pike Place Market, vendors claimed that removing cars would cripple them. Nope. Sales actually rose. Remember: Studies show that biz owners consistently exaggerate how many customers drive and undercount those who walk, bike, or ride transit. Info: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The cruelty of the Trump Administration is beyond belief. Drastically-reduced funding for PEPFAR/USAID means that in Zambia, people are dying of AIDS due to lack of cheap drugs that can treat or prevent HIV infection. PEPFAR was originally funded by George W Bush. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Love this profile of @jordanharper.bsky.social, who could not be more deserving. For a Crawl Through Hollywood’s Underside, Let Him Be Your Guide www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/b...

For the “tone down the rhetoric” crowd, Trump literally posted Obama’s address and the next day a 1/6 guy armed to the teeth showed up casing the residence.

We got rid of affirmative action so now Black kids have to define themselves by recounting personal trauma to signal that they are Black. overcast.fm/+AAHuusmwS-k

Highly recommend subscribing to @lamaterial.bsky.social, doubly so if you have any connection to L.A. Great writing, detailed reporting, somehow 100% relevant to my interests. Also, the newsletter takes me back to like 2010 internet, when I got news, gossip, and millennial snark on Google Reader.

Bill Essayli, Trump's man in L.A., talks a lot about fraud. Something he doesn't talk about: his family's federal fraud case, and how he defended it against the office he now runs. Our reporter Matt Hamilton uncovered the case and went deep on a major Trump player. lamaterial.com/p/bill-essay...

Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk has returned to Türkiye after completing her Ph.D. program in child study and human development. Last year, her life was disrupted when ICE targeted her unlawfully with detention and deportation in retaliation for an op-ed she co-wrote in support of Palestinian human rights.

This story made it into The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2026 edited by @stephcha.bsky.social and @meganabbott.bsky.social Incredibly grateful. Incredible blown away.

It is really frustrating that this will be viewed as a win for liberals when it is honestly a win for conservatives (and a national embarrassment) that the Court granted cert to begin with.

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

When people in the future ask what America was show them this

You know the economy is bad when scammers are trying to get emerging writers and authors. Baby, you got off at the wrong exit.

gavin newsom is a very useful weathervane because he believes in nothing save the fact that he should be president that he's making these noises about israel support should tell you how incredibly over it is for israel within the democratic party going forward

NEW: A Democratic candidate in the primary in Eric Swalwell’s district raised $2M in the first two weeks of her campaign from unknown donors. Rakhi Israni’s personal political donations have gone to over 10 MAGA and far right candidates including Laura Loomer. theintercept.com/2026/03/04/c...

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

we are going to win

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

Great read that made me nostalgic and grateful for the lost internet of my youth.

Mapped out, they just went down some of the busiest streets in Echo Park and Silver Lake, grabbing people as they went. If you go through any of these neighborhoods, as a resident or commuter, you pass by these spots

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

Now that LA has bankrupted itself for years due to LAPD pay raises + lawsuits, the parking cops have become ubiquitous. Of course, this means high-density + high minority neighborhoods in the city are double taxed to pay for police that routinely violate their rights & freedom. Obscene.

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

finally found the difference between truth and beauty

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

Once heard a rumor that Ohtani was secretly Korean, the most Korean rumor I’ve ever heard.

“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic. We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Mood.

I doubt any of these people willingly open a Bible. Two brain cells and one parable would make them feel the heat of hell.

Bondi refuses to answer questions about allegations Trump's border czar Tom Homan took $50K in cash in exchange for his promise to funnel government contracts to "businessmen" who turned out to be FBI agents in 2024. After Bondi became AG, the investigation was terminated.