"There’s simply no way any of us could have predicted a Nazi SS guy with his eyeballs dangling out of his sockets and the Staff of Ra broiled into his flesh like grill marks on a meat slab would be such a terrible candidate for Senate."

America, too.

I have been posting and commenting and screaming to the high heavens for months that only Nazis get Nazi tattoos and that Graham Plattner did not deserve anyone's support (except, I guess, Nazis). Well. Get in, losers. We have one week to get someone better on the ballot in Maine.

Welp, now I’m downstairs on the sofa keeping the dog company til he settles down after all the thunder and lightning.

Holy cow, great cracking thunderclaps just now! Woke me up and upset the dog, who is now doing quite a bark. 🌩️⚡️⛈️

I’m so sorry, Mexico. I think I used up all my rooting mojo on Alex Eala, Naomi Osaka, and Coco Gauff. But what a great day of sportsing! 🎾⚽️

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

And it got even worse later the same day this was written.

Half of my heart is on his way to Europe with a university history class. 💙✈️🇵🇱

SCOTUS is now quite firmly lodged in, "What are you going to do about it?" territory. It's important to elect only people who are promising to do something about it.

Botstein cannot be permitted to remain on campus, or teach, or interact with students in any way. He has to GO.

What is happening in Louisiana right now is both a redistricting power grab and a dry run for authoritarian election subversion this Fall. The governor has declared a state of emergency to suspend the congressional elections because he doesn't like the current map.

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

The Second Circuit of the United States Appeals Court refuses Trump's request to rehear the case he lost last year. This photo was taken of Robbie Kaplan & me by Adam Gray of Reuters. This VERY informative article was written by @AyshaBagchi www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

So, for the "tone down the rhetoric" people, they should start with this guy.

@pbsnews.org writing fiction these days?

Since learning that without enough vitamin C, one’s scars can open up —because that sort of healing is an active, ongoing process — I can’t stop thinking about it and imagining the FOOT of scars from my broken wrist and ensuing surgical repairs ceasing to hold. The algorithm knows.

The world may be a chaotic mess, but I just got in and out of the DMV in under 15 minutes! Drivers license renewed, RealID version will be mailed to me in a couple of weeks. And the clerk who helped me was both beautiful and kind.

More earth joy, please!

Surely Ron DeSantis is against this.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus!

Not gonna lie, my heart catches every time I see my dead brother’s name. And lately, that’s been often thanks to the new film “Lorne” about SNL’s Michaels. My Lorne died in 1990, when he was just 20 and I was 21. I wish he were live, from any city. I miss him so much.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.

This is the kind of near-miraculous scientific advance that the guy with the weird fascination with dead animals thinks is scary and bad.

6 Republicans cross aisle to advance House bill to let 350K Haitians keep their temporary protective status. 1st time Republicans have opposed Trump on immigration policy. (SCOTUS argument 4/29 on legality of Noem's termination of Haitians' & Syrians' TPS.) www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Tell me we're not living in a horror/comedy movie. - Our Secretary of "War" leads an audience in prayer, and quotes a FAKE Bible verse that a hit man character in the movie Pulp Fiction recites before he murders people. www.threads.com/@amay.a100/p...

Ooooh! Want.

Russ Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, was an architect of Project 2025 before being hired by Trump.

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 resigning! All the predators need to resign. Including the one in the White House.

Philly needs to finally fix Eakins Oval.

GTFOff of Substack, friends. Right now.

There is no debate. The man is straight-up bonkers. It’s obvious.

A man with HIV has gone into remission after receiving bone marrow from his brother, who has a rare mutation that prevents the function of receptors that HIV binds to

Not the one I live in. You?

Personal bugbear but I wish people would stop calling them “hallucinations”. It’s propaganda to humanise AI and suggest it has sentience. These are errors we wouldn’t accept in any other tech product. Imagine saying your SatNav “hallucinated” a road through someone’s house.

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

not to get sappy but it kinda feels like all you fascists really are bound to lose 🥹

FYI. If you need a furry friend, Philadelphians, now might be the time.

@njgov.bsky.social @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social please let us eat oysters by the side of the road. The world is bad enough right now without being deprived of these fleeting moments of bliss.

ICYMI: “The federal government plans to automatically register eligible men for the military draft, according to a proposed rule published last week.” 🤔 nypost.com/2026/04/08/u... So we can automatically register them for the draft, but we can’t register them to vote?

Hey did you know today is Florence Price’s birthday and if she’s not already one of your favorite composers, she should be

The hell he does.

Trump just funded infrastructure week. For Iran.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

I’ve said this before and unfortunately I need to say it again: stop reposting Xitter xit here. Do better.