Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Main complain now should be "if they can do automatic draft registration, they should be able to do automatic voter registration too"

replies have people doing emotional support leftism about how Harris would have been made to do this by Israel

See THIS is how you do it

Anyway Jeff Zucker, head of CNN, sat on the Apprentice tapes because he didn't want to sabotage Trump. The Media and the Press have a lot to answer for institutionally and the more they act like the critiques are purely bad faith the more the torrent of degrading trust will drag them down

Folks, catastrophizing about Trump nuking Iran is counterproductive. Especially since it's extremely unlikely.

Had to check if this latest entry in America’s Century of Humiliation was real and indeed it is

I know it’s not in the top 1,000 things about this post, but remember the time conservatives pretended to get mad when Obama noted that it was particularly bad that a terrorist attack happened on Easter.

Thinking of this for no particular reason other than the coffee I order for my office as almost doubled in price over the last year.

Is it bad I feel pretty underwhelmed by this moon thing? Congrats, you’ve used modern tech to do something people did 50 years ago with the equivalent of graphing calculators?

Good Friday reminds us that even in our darkest moments, hope is not lost. The story does not end on Friday. Easter is coming.

The idea "not caring about politics" is a privilege is besides anything else one of the most genuinely left bubble things I encounter tbh

Rip to every president who lost a war in the middle east but I’m different. And better. Maybe even good enough to win a war in the middle east

Living in a Make-A-Wish simulation for one demented pedophile stinks.

I get tired of saying it, but people like that guy got exactly what they wanted and won’t stop being mad the rest of us over it.

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

my arm is tired from tapping the sign.

this goes for so much of the right wing ecosystem. the same guys who scream “DEI hire” would sink to the ocean if they weren’t kept afloat by their far right sugar daddies

really striking how race science freaks seem to spend their every moment crowing about how superior they are versus actually doing anything socially useful that would demonstrate it.

This is the entire way

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

interesting how a baby in a dark suit and dark shoes looks mature. but a man wearing a dark suit with tan dress sneakers and "fun socks" looks like a child. something to think about

I’m very impressed that my vote for Harris caused all of this even in defeat.

i think that one recurring theme of historiography will be that 21st century rhetoric about the leveling power of information technology were false. largely because so much of the important events of the Terrifying Twenties could be traced back to the behaviors of small groups of people with

It's weird how there's been a backlash against "slop" without a corresponding revival in high culture. I see approximately 60,000 posts bemoaning "slop" for every post about opera or ballet or literature above the YA level.

Let me be clear. I don’t support AIPAC. Quite the opposite. But I also have major issues with Track AIPAC. It’s a shady project.   Track AIPAC isn’t a neutral watchdog. It’s a political operation with its own PAC and a very clear agenda. 🧵

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

Robert Jenrick calling Palm Sunday 'Psalm Sunday' reminds us once again that dim witted rage baiting populists never know the slightest thing about what they are purporting to defend.

Update: we all knew this would happen

Maybe the most depressing conclusion I’ve come around to in the past decade (and there are many) is that trying to teach & promote widespread “critical thinking” has been a complete and catastrophic failure. Most of the population is not capable of it, and it is socially disastrous when they try.

The idea that kids are in fact small human beings in their own right rather than a kind of human-shaped pet is something a lot of people really struggle with

next time someone from the Trump administration says "no one could've predicted this" remind them that the dumbass trump take egg guy from bluesky predicted this

are you sure this is still a bull market

Shorter Nimtz and Edwards.

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man

This is immensely disappointing to see from a senator who I otherwise really like. Platner got a Nazi tattoo. He only covered it up when it became a political liability. He hasn’t shown curiosity about the nature of the profound concerns, let alone real contrition. We have to be better than this.

*ARIZONA CHARGES KALSHI WITH OPERATING ILLEGAL GAMBLING BUSINESS

This has been true for at least a decade, but doubly true now.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

“Everyone should watch come and see, an anti hero movie about the liberation of Byelorussia by the patriotic reich forces“

a world where woman are forced by court order to have surgery because of risks to unborn children but are free or forced to forgo life saving vaccination is mot tenable.

You mean people were wrong to claim Herr Platner is the only candidate who could compete in Maine?

White House: OIL IS FLOWING THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ EVERYONE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT!! The oil still flowing, via WSJ:

But, you know what? He may still get the nomination. And if he does, you do not get to use as an excuse to refuse to vote for him in the general election -- and help give us four more years of fascism -- that "I told you not to nominate him!" Grow the fuck up!

Reading about the economy

I am forced to choose between buying my Boy Kibble or filling up my car to get to my email job

My bet is they don’t actually believe this crap, it’s just something they say for hype purposes because it makes for a clickbaity headline. Still, “maybe we’ve enslaved a conscious mind which is suffering” is a pretty weird flex.

Trump is so bad at re-industrializing we can't even manufacture consent in the United States anymore

shit this guy already has 50 war on his record and he hasn’t even served a day

unfortunately for the Gulf Arabs, they didn't understand that Trump is, in a strange metaphysical sense, "incorruptible" because he will pocket your bribe and then fuck you over