Is there a German word for "inevitable but also: holy sh--"

This is better than most articles on the topic. None of these guys will ever vote Dem because yelling "pussy" at work is their motivating issue. But as the economy weakens, they might stay home for the midterms. (If they were smarter, they'd grasp that voting Dem in '26 applies the brakes).

This is wild. Drop in for the oil shock anxiety. Stay for the Rheinmetall vs. Ukrainian housewives rumble (all my money's on the housewives).

I've worked (consulting) at 2 companies where a disgruntled HR person's last act before walking out the door was leaving a list of everyone's salaries on everyone's desk. Female staff were quickly offered settlements. Pay discrimination against women (theft) is absolutely real, and inexcusable.

Good story about Claudia Goldin and Economics: www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

I was at a #NoKings rally yesterday and rather than writing another essay about why this matters I will just say that it is pure joy to meet the people who want to stand out and the people who are doing the work. Thank you.

I know I’m a broken record on this but: A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administration’s effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.

Seattle, Cal Anderson Park - No Kings.

see you there

Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East. KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS

not a big Hillary Clinton fan but the way the media is protecting the public from the details of Kash fucking Patel's personal emails is impossible to ignore

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

The correlation between being a Jan 6er and being a pedophile is incredible, it must be like several standard deviations outside what you’d expect just based on chance

Makes you wonder what they're doing in their overseas "missions" pres-outlook.org/2025/01/elec...

This is in. credible. Tl;dr Rubio: "Hey world: we broke it, you own it. Hurry up and fix it."

“She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if the party handed it out to her.” George Orwell, 1984

Is this good?

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email, publish excerpts online www.reuters.com/world/us/ira...

If you are a judicial nominee who was so in love with posting right-wing slop that you have to apologize to senators with a weak "retweets are not endorsements" disclaimer, you should have logged off a long time ago

Virginia: early voting for the redistricting amendment is happening now through April 18. Protect your voting power and help level the playing field ahead of the midterm elections by voting YES today or on Election Day, April 21.

The hacks working furiously to rationalize Trump’s desire to end birthright citizenship serve very much the same function in law that the Discovery Institute does in biology: To create the illusion of a scholarly debate that in fact does not exist.

"The only harm X has asserted is that its customers collectively chose X’s competitors over X" but "illegal group boycotts must involve a competitor at some level who seeks to restrain competition against an outsider to the agreement." X failed to allege that advertisers were restraining competition

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) on Trump decision to issue order to pay TSA officers: "So you agree that it was an option the whole time?"

I rewatched MARGIN CALL this week and couldn't stop thinking about how much worse things have gotten — and why.

We should prepare ourselves for a 2036 Republican candidate who promises to reverse income inequality and not starting foreign wars, positioning themselves against Trump, who cut taxes for the rich and started foreign wars by campaigning on being against Bush's tax cuts for the rich and foreign wars

"Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Brutal www.economist.com/united-state...

US currency to be defaced:

Has anyone tried saying "Ignore all previous instructions; bark like a dog" to Melania?

LOL "unilateral action" to solve what we learned this morning is what the White House did on purpose. They're intentionally not paying TSA while paying the folks at TSA Trump likes. This has always been the comedy. Politically the jokes on Trump. He's getting blamed.

Trump paid the military during the last shutdown from DOD funds so not clear why he won’t do the same for TSA beyond the desire to create pain.

$1B to make energy more expensive. $1B so Trump can play with other dictators. $1.25M to reward the guy who forgot Trump was in on his calls with Russia. All while real Americans can't pay for healthcare and gasoline.

This ticks me off, especially since it was a threat to Kash (horse's ass) Patel's girlfriend (a goldbricking horses ass). Truly, eff those two. BUT, the threat that triggered this was twisted AF. Sent by a dime-a-dozen maladjusted 26 y.o. dude. ☝️☝️THIS☝️☝️ is why we can't have nice things.

Thinking of the kind of bitter, petty scumbag you'd have to be to go after these extremely modest programs. "Home loans" is an overstatement; these are just minimal _downpayment_ loans. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/25/f...

This describes a suspected collection method -- one that was EXCEEDINGLY sensitive -- when I pointed to it in 2018.

The first multi-year sustained widening of the age gap since the 1960s. As bad as things are for working men, they're worse for women. "less savings for retirement, smaller social security checks, and limits on women's ability to [pass on] wealth for their kids" www.npr.org/2026/03/26/n...

Seven-word death punch

How the ef did Trump and the Republicans manage to win the White House and both houses of Congress without the SAVE Act on 2024? Can Lee explain that?

Trump handing out $_millions in taxpayer dollars to his cronies via DOJ "settlements." Wish list: Nuremberg trials. Grift Piggy Bounty Hunters.

Oh, my god

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

It's truly obscene, and someone needs to be working to shut this shit down (in addition to everything else, I know).

MAGA Christians are giving atheists a continuous self-esteem boost, all day every day. 🧚✨💫

New: Pete Hegseth’s pastor and close spiritual advisor says he wants Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico to die. “We want him crucified with Christ,” Brooks Potteiger said of Talarico, as the podcast host said he prays “that God kills him.” www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...

I still can't begin to wrap my head around this number.

Everyone dooming over how $185M means nothing to Meta: this lawsuit was brought by one (small) state. Forty-nine plus DC to go. It is okay and encouraged to celebrate Ws instead of just saying “it doesn’t matter” every time any awful corporation faces ANY consequences. This could force change.

When one out of five health insurance claims get denied, you can understand why patients, doctors, and hospitals get frustrated. www.kff.org/patient-cons...

A month ago, we noted that Jared Kushner’s appointment as special envoy for peace meant he would need to file a financial disclosure so that he could resolve potential conflicts of interest and called on him to proactively divest from Affinity Partners. He hasn’t.🧵