Defund the hostile domestic troops who wage war against the civilian population of the United States.

The new report on FBI Director Kash Patel cites more than TWO DOZEN sources describing his leadership as a “management failure” and national security risk. The White House and DOJ didn’t deny the allegations, but deflected. Patel was the only one who issued a direct rebuttal. That speaks volumes.

Greg Stoker @gregjstoker.bsky.social linktr.ee/greg.j.stoker

Greg Stoker @gregjstoker.bsky.social largest veteran and military family act of civil disobedience since the Iraq war began. The coalition includes members from: About Face, Veterans for Peace, Common defense, 5051 vets contingent, Military families speak out, and the Center on Conscience and War.

@bencollins.bsky.social, you're my hero. I couldn't be prouder of you.

Get excited. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

This nightmare cost us so much money. Help us out! Get the tote. membership.theonion.com/iw/?campaign...

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Have been waiting for this... and it is fucking amazing.

The fortunes fossil fuel companies are reaping from this shortage is their last windfall. The writing is on the wall. Trump opened Alaska for drilling and oil companies noped out because they couldn't find banks to would loan them the money to get started. It happened again in Venezuela. 39/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/p... 2/

There aren't a lot of things I agree with Mark Carney about, but there's one area where he and I are in *total* accord: the old, US-dominated, "rules-based international order" was total bullshit: www.weforum.org/stories/2026... 1/

written and directed by Sebastian López "A girl at the zoo asked if the giraffes were AI. Then I saw a guy doing crazy flips at the gym. Later I wrote this short story."

'Bell removed Romeo and Juliet from his syllabus because “in Act III, Romeo and Juliet have sex, and that falls under this very broadly defined sexuality [topics ban].” He also didn’t teach about Joan of Arc this semester.' What an actual lack of freedom of speech looks like in universities. 3/3

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

Keep Walking The Walk,Mayor Mamdani.......

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The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

It's notable that Sen. Ossoff is pressing this attack in a tight re-election fight in a purple state. The rest of the party needs to pay attention.

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When the government is trying to reverse the convictions of people who literally committed sedition yet seeking to arrest people for “rigging” an election that Trump’s own Attorney General and cybersecurity chief agreed he legitimately lost, you realize that we’re in the Upside Down

State Department Issues Travel Warning For Women Vacationing With Husbands

We are not governed by our peers.

“A Supreme Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is not merely conservative. It is untethered from democratic reality.”

I have frequently said that it is hard for me to imagine how Trump could further damage the institution of the DOJ, but that only demonstrates the limits of my imagination. I did not imagine Trump putting Joe diGenova in charge of investigating his political enemies. It just got worse. GIFT LINK

Update: President Trump said the U.S. is returning to Pakistan for a second round of talks with Iran, led by Vice President Vance. But Iran's state media claims their government will not be taking part.

Those Epstein files they are hiding must be pretty greasy

US Navy has struck an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman after it was warned to stop.

I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup. Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires. It's a disgrace.

if Tim Curry had only blessed us with this speech it would have been enough, but he has given us so much more

Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social Top military officials kept Trump out of the situation room due to erratic behavior.

‘Soe infinite is the profitt of sugar!’ As with so many old, wealthy institutions, Harvard’s early wealth was built on the backs of enslaved peoples in pursuit of the riches generated by the early “drug” trade (sugar, rum, tobacco, coffee, spices, etc).

A+ No Notes.

This, I think, is THE core problem with AI Top to bottom, it’s the tech equivalent of rape and roofies and blaming the victim There’s not one single aspect of it that doesn’t fail at asking consent

"It is counter-productive to liberal goals to indulge the anti-tax politics of the right. As the Supreme Court put it in Bull v. United States, 'taxes are the lifeblood of government.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/actually-col...

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A dark money group funded in the past by Peter Thiel has given nearly $9 million to a GOP-led PAC that is blanketing Virginia with mailers comparing the upcoming redistricting referendum to Jim Crow www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I usually try to explain it like this: picture Curtis Yarvin as Phoebe Bridgers. Now imagine they're Hungarian. Doesn't look so much like the Challenger disaster was caused by adult Bluey fans virtue signaling now, does it?

It's just crazy to see a genuine star in the Democratic Party talking about the *working class*. Not *working families* not *the middle class* not *ordinary Americans*. The working class. Words two consecutive generations of Democrats were bullied into never speaking aloud.

Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong. Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT