We gotta bring back the productive kind of national shame. Not the throwing up your hands and going “what can you do, we suck” kind but the “I’ll be GODDAMNED if I let the fucking FRENCH have better TRAINS” kind

It just occurred to me, Trump is doing this today, because of the Wisconsin and Georgia elections, His only gameplay is to make people so distracted and so hopeless that he has a shot of not losing. So I certainly hope you’re voting otherwise he’s succeeding

We need to stop referring to them as MAGA, I fear that when it’s time to hold people accountable, they will take off their little hats and distance themselves from what is happening today. Republicans did this. They are Republicans. Republicans can stop this. Republicans are allowing it to happen.

New in PN: Note to Dems — Paying taxes is not a moral failing "Republicans *want* the system to be as complicated as possible — not only so the rich can exploit it, but so ordinary folks hate it. Unfortunately, for decades Ds have lived in fear of anti-tax sentiment rather than trying to change it"

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

Hey Georgia friends—if this is your election, get out there & vote!

HORATIO: Look, my lord, it comes. HAMLET’S DAD’S GHOST: (rockets past at inconceivable speed) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

One thing Trump has successfully done is cowed a lot of people into thinking they can't call for meaningful accountability for him and his cronies because it would be "revenge" or "political" and therefore illegitimate. Absolutely essential to reject that

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Since the New Deal, the right edge of the conservative movement has been committed to the goal of eliminating all facets of the federal government that do good in the world, leaving behind only a war machine and a surveillance operation capable of containing the “internal leftist enemy.”

Is it a good sign that the White House commandeered prime time on the networks to broadcast what was essentially an unconvincing proof-of-life video?

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Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

At Kennedy Space Center astronauts have to take elevators to the top of launch pad towers in order to enter their space capsules before lift off. This is the elevator panel at Pad 39A.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Tuesday is Election Day all across Wisconsin. We’re watching races for school board, county commission, and mayor where issues such as book bans and election denial have come to the forefront.

I'm seeing a lot of people trying to justify Kagan's concurrence in the conversion therapy case, and for the most part they're making the same mistake that Kagan herself is making. They're forgetting that the GOP justices DO NOT GIVE ONE SHIT about intellectual consistency.

Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.

This is the question I wake up with and go to bed with every day and the rest of my real life is just a deserpate and failing attempt to avoid the question, since I have no answer for it. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

there it is, all 7 continents

Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.

Chuck Schumer likes to imagine how his politics play with an imaginary middle-class middle-aged couple on Long Island, but I don't think he realizes that couple is currently constructing a guillotine in their suburban backyard and stockpiling Molotov cocktails.

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

one thing you can do for your laid off friends is reach out to them and tell them that you appreciated their work. I dislike the stigma in America of people avoiding talking to you because you were callously cut out of employment because people who have no taste deleted you from a spreadsheet

see you there

Forget all the “Protests don’t matter” and “No Kings is just silly” nonsense. Protests matter. Societal resistance has been hardening. It’s a massive problem for the MAGA regime. And “No Kings” is crucial as part of an effort to dispel the idea that “real America” stands behind Trump.

Decadence isn't building a diverse military where the full breadth of the population has buy-in to serve and defend their country. Decadence is launching a war for memes without doing the simple math that your strategic aircraft will be parked on open tarmac well within range of enemy munitions.

another day in which, on top of everything else, I'm mad about the SFF cover shift from "little pre-raphaelite painting you can put in your pocket" to "we gave the intern our Canva log-in"

Trump has potentially ended free maritime trade, a literally world-changing development that, if it lasts, may do more damage than anything else he has done so far What a phenomenally, historically evil and incompetent failure The Republican Party is a party of failure, defeat, and idiocy

The Republican-controlled Senate passed a bill to fund TSA without funding ICE, and the Republican-controlled House rejected the measure to fund TSA without funding ICE, so the Republican President just signed an executive order to fund TSA without funding ICE. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Democrats have forced Trump and Republicans to cave on their DHS shutdown. They have passed a bill in the Senate that will fund TSA, CISA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard without funding ICE or Border Patrol.

They will cut down old growth, ancient trees, with no public hearing. Thirty days to stop it. Act now

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C'mon, dominos. Do your thing.

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New from me: by the end of the week, the war in Iran will likely have cost $25 billion, with Trump poised to ask for $200 billion more Below is a writeup, but the meat of it is this table, which shows what an equal amount of funding could cover domestically www.americanprogress.org/article/by-t...

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

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Man, if I were the Senate Minority leader this is all I'd be talking about. You're paying higher prices for everything so Trump and his cronies can play a rigged game for billions.

Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

Reposting the image with alt text. So EVERYONE can see which of the thirteen airports will have ICE agents on site

I think I've said this before but it's striking that the Trump administration has no concept of positive policy. The only thing they can imagine doing with the federal government is inflicting misery and paying off bribes, because that's what they've been told the government does for fifty years

I'd hoped to get to Chaosium Con USA next month but unfortunately won't make it. Conventions are where I tend to sell original art, and as it's been a while since I've done one as an artist/exhibitor a lot's accumulated in the flat files so I thought I'd post a "spring cleaning" sale notice instead.

If you do a lot of searching on the internet (as I do), this is a really useful article. Multiple things I didn’t know and will use going forward.

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

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