This president is the only president to negotiate with himself, in public, and lose collossally. This would be comical if his antics were not lethal and harmful

I know only a few things: I hauled about 30 boxes full of used cookbooks, including some real gems; my Mom is hosting a used cookbook sale on 4.11.26 in Cambridge MA, hosted by Curio Spice Co., 12-4pm; it benefits World Central Kitchen, which provides food for victims of [gestures]. Please come!

Not even 24 hours huh

This post from Instagram on April Fools Day is wild to me because they have done everything in their power to make the app useless to small businesses to the point where many have had to shut down and their official response is to like…mock them for it?

I didn't think the leopards would eat my face... www.queermajority.com/essays-all/l...

People who post about politics all the time would like to believe otherwise but there's not much correlation between having good politics and being a good community member in practice.

From @timothynoah.bsky.social: "What they want in this instance is to shut off any warning lights that might dare blink red about the economy. It’s bad for business, and if a bust is coming they’d prefer we suckers don’t know in advance." trib.al/beX0LFP

"Does the president understand the deal he's agreed to publicly" love to live in stupid cyberpunk

Extraordinary. If he had read the 2018 NDS or the 2026 NDS, or had any interest in military affairs beyond advancing war crimes or penalizing women or demographic minorities, he’d probably recognize the weakness he’s projecting.

I think a lot of people, myself included, wondered if the Wisconsin Democratic Party would continue to be a turnout machine after Ben Wikler left. Turns out the best testament to his work is, yes, it still is. And Devin Remiker is still doing the work.

A terrorist AND a failure. Sad!

When Jimmy Carter's rescue mission to Iran failed, he went on TV and took full personal responsibility The US is in *every* way worse off than six weeks ago. And Iran, for all its losses, is in a stronger position. Starting with control of Hormuz. And NorKor-style determination to develop nukes

I have lots of questions about the "personal use" bit of this.

Trump unilaterally pauses the war that he alone started www.theredoubt.net/trump-unilat...

I'm increasingly curious in how this goes down in Tampa. (Also, how broad / narrow are the written orders? How much authority do the forward commanders have? And as always, what's JSOC up to?)

The right's pitch for women's submission is that it will cause men to provide, protect, and cherish women. Turns out the opposite is true. Research shows conservative men see tradwives as lazy parasites. They loathe them. www.salon.com/2026/04/08/w...

I see other Americans saying stuff like “we can’t continue to live like this” and it really drives home that most of us do not realize that we are not the real victims here

Donald Trump has done more damage to the United States of America than any foreign enemy accomplished in our nation’s 250-year history.

Trump's whole strategy with Iran was to break the "rules" and kill their leaders. He assumed that would scare everyone else into submission. Instead Iran said, "No rules? OK, then we'll close the Strait and fling missiles at every oil facility within 2400 miles. How many Patriots you got left?"

Trump was elected to wipe the trauma of the first black president from American history, a task which included scrapping the nuclear deal that had the US in a much better strategic position than before this needless, unconstitutional war of choice against Iran

"down to the wire" there was no wire! you can't be down to a self-imposed wire. The only person forcing the president to do genocide was the president.

“Clearly there needs to be better preparation,” said Dr. Webby. He added that he believes the pathogen is likely to mutate, becoming more infectious to humans; and that he has no idea which agency — local, state or federal (if any) — bears responsibility for managing potential outbreaks.”

Local TV leads its Iran coverage by saying the "deal" includes "reopening" the Strait of Hormuz, but then adds that Iran will manage the Strait and charge fees. So, the Strait is *less* accessible than before the war. Media outlets don't need to accept the administration's framing of this ceasefire.

they fired the “dei” chairman of the joint chiefs and proceeded to commit an all-time foreign policy fuckup

hot take: i think the move in the direction of a more explicitly extortion based international order is bad actually. I also do not especially relish the idea of re-boning up on mercantilism

WE COULD HAVE NOT BOMBED THEM AND HAD A BETTER OUTCOME THIS IS SO DUMB

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

when one of your friends starts posting nudes again and you're like omg they were clearly in a depression slump for months and you didn't even notice but you can't say that so instead you say hey your ass looks great and hope that they intuit a fraternal spirit from it

hooh boy.

Knotting a half-Windsor tie to show my deep dismay at the casual threat of genocide

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Thousands of Wisconsinites volunteered their hearts out in 2024, re-elected Tammy Baldwin, but were crushed to fall short in the presidential contest. They got back up and helped Susan Crawford beat the world's richest man in 2025. And they never stopped. Tonight is Chris Taylor's win—and theirs.

rural Wisconsin counties that went for Trump by roughly 20% voted for the liberal candidate today.

many days in the future some twerp, possibly my own child, having just learned about America's mass of nonvoters, will quip in my earshot what could be possible if a politician could reach them. whereupon I will immediately slap them and shout "no, leave them be. leave them the fuck be."

I’m still in awe over all the dumb fuck law firms, tv networks, and universities that caved to Trump. More or less everyone who has stood up to Trump has won and everyone who didn’t has suffered an endless series of humiliations.

This is the first oil crisis in which clean alternatives to oil and gas — solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries — are both inexpensive and widely available. clean technology flying off the shelves already... nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

a point in favor of the "brains getting cooked on Twitter" theory is that a nontrivial amount of pundits active there and here will not post their spiciest takes here

Stop the count

Wisconsin liberals have just won another state Supreme Court election, in what is shaping up to be a blowout. Importantly: Liberals are now sure to hold a majority on this court during the 2028 cycle and through at least 2030. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...

It’s frustrating to me how often I go to block someone who’s screaming that democrats are useless and unworthy of support, and their bio has “protect trans rights” in it. Protect trans rights by electing the party that helps us instead of the party that wants to kill us. This isn’t hard.

Two of the bills I am working on made it through their first committee today!

Note: There's no way I could do this for the WI Supreme Court race as there's too many counties (statewide), but here's where that stands so far:

Y’all Wisconsin is fucking pissed

like i am sorry but i dont see 'a yiddish-speaking secular working-class' as the end-goal of Jewishness and unless you are actively trying to stop speaking english the entire thing seems pointless.

Oh, man did I destroy myself indeed.

It is genuinely shocking to me how willing so many of you are to share propaganda from the IRI just because it’s memes, you are not the human rights world’s strongest soldiers

I know it's unfashionable to endorse Obama foreign policy, but this ten point plan lays bare the overwhelming reality that his eight years in office represent the only stretch of time this century that our conduct abroad was not historically disastrous.

yeah, I have trump derangement syndrome. in a lovecraft way