The vibecession isn't a disconnect between sentiment and the economy. It is the predictable result of reading economy-wide flow metrics — which are dominated by the top — to people whose lived balance sheets are dominated by liabilities, essentials, and risk-shift exposure. 5/

vvvvvv this.

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection.

They're just straight up calling autism a social contagion now. Exactly the same thing they did to trans people.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but what’s going on in the south right now with voting rights and erasure, is a “kitchen table issue” — for Black families. And it should be for everyone.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

5/8 Forecast Update After updating the forecast to account for map changes in Tennessee and Virginia, Republicans' chances of winning the U.S. House have increased; Democrats remain clear favorites: Democratic Control Probability: 🔵 U.S. House: 78.0% (-5.0%) Projected Seats: 🔵 229 (-4) 🔴 206 (+4)

What we're seeing in the climate crisis, Trump's sabotage of the world system, & RFK's sabotage of public health is the unsolving of the problems earlier generations made progress on & destruction of the systems we inherited to address them in an ongoing way.

I don’t think Americans with hypertension and various other treatable conditions deserve to die. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Iran says it responded by targeting U.S. military vessels east of the Strait of Hormuz and south of Chabahar, claiming “significant damage” was inflicted. 3/3

BREAKING MS NOW: Kash Patel has ordered the polygraphing of more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail and other staff and has been described as in panic mode to save his job and find leakers among his team, according to two people briefed on the development.

Crazy idea, stick with me... Law! But for rich people. bsky.app/profile/cram...

This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

Reading the Wikipedia article about these reveals the incredible fact that these potato chips were so popular they more or less inspired a smuggling ring to sneak the chips *out* of prison.

Every single sentence of this article is more insane than the last, but the standout was this: "When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing."

The deadliest terrorist attacks in the United States in recent years come from white nationalists pushing variations of Great Replacement Theory. El Paso Walmart, Pittsburgh synagogue, Buffalo supermarket, and more. Plus some in other countries. Not mentioned in the new counterterrorism strategy.

This is absolute bugfuck insanity

The whole concept is nuts. You shouldn’t even need the VRA for this to be illegal. In any context other than (for some reason) drawing electoral maps, the government treating someone differently based on their race OR their politics would trigger heightened scrutiny and be presumptively illegal.

Phew, it’s a good thing no U.S. policy principal came out today to hype this operation. Otherwise it would seem as though this administration hasn’t the faintest fucking clue what it‘s doing.

cool

The Louisiana Secretary of State received more than 42,000 absentee ballots from voters for the May 16 election by the time Republican Gov. Jeff Landry suspended primaries last week for the state's six U.S. House races in an effort to gerrymander the congressional map.

Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.

VoteHub projects Vivek Ramaswamy to win the Republican Primary for the Ohio Governor election.

College is indeed a mere credentialing process, a "stamp of approval," if you are a dull self-absorbed dimwit. For anyone with the slightest sense of curiosity or even just a purely cynical desire to build your knowledge and improve your intellectual skills, it is an experience of profound growth.

Of course there weren’t. How could they afford the tickets?

They do this all the time!

Journalist Julie K. Brown, a Bucks County native who spent years at the Philadelphia Daily News, has received a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize committee for her work regarding Jeffrey Epstein. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

I’ll never get tired of saying that both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris warned everyone what would happen should the criminal be given full power of the US govt and they were right about everything. The biggest example of “I told you so” in history.

Episode 986: "Room Full of Clones" is out! This week on Curmudgeon's Corner @imbou.bsky.social and @abulsme.com discuss the Oil Crisis and surrounding issues. That's the big one. But also, fitness trackers, the WHCD incident,... https://curmudgeons-corner.com/ccep.php?epnum=986 #podcast #USPol

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized in critical condition according to a spokesperson

Look. In the not too distant future, we may be looking at an America strictly divided into one-party states right across the board. That's an America where political conflict starts to take on a...different character, and organized political violence becomes a lot less unimaginable

“More blue districts” is not the same as protecting Black voting power - this is something that must be made clear as the VRA is demolished and redistricting wars continue to escalate

For a lot of people, chatbots are essentially Narcissus's pond

Literall every article, especially those written by men, was like this, where at the end I realised oh it’s because they flatter you

Your regular reminder that mass voter fraud does not exist, in the same way that the Earth is not flat & the sun does not rise in the West. We know this, scientifically. Allowing these beliefs to become mainstream & shape national political discourse over decades is a total media & societal failure.

Dems in blue states are going to redistrict the fuck out of themselves, yes? SCOTUS says there are no rules, no restraints, so Dems are going to fight with all the weapons available, yes? Yes?

Goodbye, get lost, and we'll see you soon.

This is what tariffs were always all about for Trump. Not about revenue, trade, domestic manufacturing, GDP - it’s about giving himself the unilateral power to decide economic winners and losers on a case by case basis, with kings and CEOs coming to him asking forbearance..

Multiracial democracy in the American South has briefly existed twice in American history, both times enforced from outside, and both times has lapsed the instant the rest of the country lost interest.

trump literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portal www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

The gutting of the voting rights act will lead to "the largest-ever decline in the number of Black representatives on Capitol Hill [ever] — breaking a record set around the end of the post-Civil War Reconstruction era." It's a purge of Black representation. www.npr.org/2026/04/30/n...

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

At Law Dork, I covered today's SCOTUS Voting Rights Act ruling and temporary protect status arguments. One of the few reporters in the courtroom this morning, watching Justice Kagan announcing her dissent from the bench is a moment I will not soon forget. I wrote a lot about today. Read on ...

some late-breaking news on @theonion.com’s quest to take over Infowars: A Texas appeals court just stayed the turnover of the site to the official who inked the agreement with an affiliate of The Onion. This puts the deal in bizarre legal limbo for now. More TK.

1/ This is an outstanding instant analysis of the James Comey "8647" criminal indictment by @kenwhite.bsky.social. You should go read it; it's relatively short. Ken makes two interlocking points that bear repetition. www.popehat.com/p/the-comey-...