Every customer service worker can tell you about the assholes they deal with. Be the person they tell others about because of how *awesome* you are to deal with.

please clap

TV shows should be free to watch and so should sportsball games.

I wrote a quick story on Hampshire College closing for good. Stick around for the usual speculation about whether this means other troubled institutions are doomed.

BREAKING: The DOJ moves to vacate the Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy convictions of some former Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

It actually is Baal… and this after a dozen Iranian LEGO animations depicting Baal as his ally. This is hard to even process.

Working heavily with sales/marketing automation software and SEO has prepared me for knowing this is basically how everything has been working for years

"Sharon Simmons, Nevada DoorDash driver..." waysandmeans.house.gov/2026/04/01/n...

DC panel has (again) BLOCKED Judge Boasberg from investigating possible criminal contempt by DOJ and DHS officials, including Judge Bove, in connection with sending Venezuelans to CECOT against his order. (I can't access full ruling yet.) Panel: Judges Rao (Trump) Walker (Trump) & Childs (Obama)

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

I know he’s being sarcastic here, but it’s actually a good point: if people feel like crime or immigration are “out of control” when they’re not, politicians need to be interested in why they think that. Are they just watching too much Fox News? Or is it a proxy for something else?

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Gonzales says he's out too

Play gyms aren’t just cute, they give our jumping spiders a chance to explore, climb, and use their natural instincts just like they would in the wild. From little jumps to curious investigating, it’s all about keeping their minds and bodies active 🧡 #jumpingspider

Max Wage and Max Compensation laws would be stellar. We don't need anymore billionaires.

Truth is, Orbán is just the latest in long list of authoritarians to be defeated by anti-corruption politics. A Democratic landslide is possible if they can credibly take up the anti-corruption mantle. But that can’t happen if voters see them as corrupt and beholden to wealthy donors.

EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes, the Trump administration has been wielding its vast power to transform the midterm elections. This is the untold story of Trump’s efforts to, as he has called it, “take over” the midterms.

Imagine if Charles Manson or Jim Jones was literally president of the United States and you realize that basically there's nothing so horrific it's off the table entirely.

from my lens: i think born-again thinking has the appeal of “existential involvement”— your soul is part of the great cosmic drama and challenge, and your everyday life matters. among the problems of American Christianity is it encourages people to be existentially involved in less-than-thinking

broadly agree with this, but will also say (and I am not happy about this) that some non-Americans underestimate how much this is a rampant problem, not just an “us” thing. American Christianity has already spread and flanked the secular west in places far from the US.

It occurred to me yesterday that the largest and most resilient part of the maga project is the religious fundamentalists scheming to return to a dictatorship of the pre-schism church. Their focus is not so much on post Martin Luther King policy as with post Martin Luther.

Peter Magyar has offered a template which can be used, without too much alteration, in defeating populists worldwide open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

What Pete Hegseth Prays For At His Pentagon Prayer Meetings

Rule of law, etc. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

While reading the news from Budapest, take a moment to look at this photo of Hungarian-American Bela Lugosi at an antifascist rally in Los Angeles during the war.

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

That isn't food it's a phone.

I've got pinholes in my brain, I've got these weird little shakes I have forgotten your name, I've made a lot of mistakes I've got luxury problems, I can't afford to solve them And I don't think I would get in to your American heaven

God forbid a man has hobbies.

Mexico beat the US to Universal Healthcare. Who's the shithole country now?

The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.

This person is wrong here but makes the fair point that Democrats never advocate in public for granting refugees asylum. On the other hand the Biden administration was good about refugees, also a lot of were people granted Temporary Protected Status, and I doubt they said anything nice about Biden.

Why would you ask AI to tell the story of your own life?

For more than two centuries, the Supreme Court has affirmed that states have broad authority over the corporations they create. States can use that power to cut off corporate and dark money in politics at every level. https://ampr.gs/4clbhoU

Welcome to the EU: A guide to the world's most complicated government www.courthousenews.com/welcome-to-t...

It's MG day, today.

In September 2025, a new cryptocurrency super PAC launched, claiming to have $100 million committed. If true, it would mean the crypto super PACs would have nearly half again as much cash to deploy in the midterms. But their EOY filing showed $0, and I was beginning to wonder if it was a bust.

"worst of the worst."

ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI On the picket line in New York, union leaders said they expect “more concentrated conflicts” over AI in the news industry. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prop...

Trump DOJ's Voting Section Chief Eric Neff, a key player in the voter-data grab campaign, used to work as an LA prosecutor, where he built a case off an 2020 election denier's tip. It collapsed, costing the county $5M. But DOJ scooped him up, @beckerdavidj.bsky.social explains. buff.ly/5QAew9F

"Morris told lawmakers that the goal is to pass the law in time to prevent Duncan from taking office before the start of his four-year term."

Wisconsin governor signs bill legalizing online sports betting run by tribes www.courthousenews.com/wisconsin-go...

Why'd the Confederates fight? They told us

I have seen one good example of this plate

Important reporting here on what active clubs are up to, specifically the growing trend of organized fight events bringing groups from across the country together www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"Four of the five known emperor penguin breeding sites in the Bellingshausen Sea collapsed in 2022, with the loss of thousands of chicks."

An 18-year-old was allegedly struck with a projectile fired by a federal agent while attending and documenting a protest last month, leaving the University of Southern California freshman without an eye, according to his attorney. https://cnn.it/4c0ARAH