So I politely disagree with the acting AG: this shooting should be about more restrictive laws. Gun laws. Which we seem not to have in this country.

I’m for open borders and very strict gun laws

I would like a nice boring forgettable president at this point.

Christians who love guns. I love barely disguised irony.

We have heard nothing from Pam Bondi or her legal team. She didn't show up for her scheduled deposition, and half of the Epstein files are still unreleased. We are left with no choice. Contempt charges are coming.

The only mainstream journalists speaking truth to power these days are cartoonists. @adamzyglis.bsky.social

I think being in the Epstein files should disqualify you from holding public office

So. Essentially every male politician over a certain age is in the Epstein files. Does that lead us to draw some conclusions about power and men?

“enhanced interrogation” instead of torture walked so “detention centers” instead of concentration camps could run.

The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them. We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.

Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."

The goal of fascism isn’t to make you loyal or subservient. It’s to make you numb. It doesn’t want your love or devotion. The only thing it needs is your indifference. When you don’t feel, you’ll let anything slide. When you’re ignorant, you don’t question. Read. Think. Feel. It ruins their plan.

Can I buy the ones the IRGC is putting out? apple.news/AdF0venHjR86...

thank you bell hooks

Joe Brainard was born on this day in 1942. He died of AIDS in 1994. I first read his great book I Remember in high school. I was a bookish gay kid and he changed my life. Thank you, Joe. 💙

This smart dog knows about politics, he literally gives a shit.😆😆

Mike Waltz has a freudian slip and calls Operation Epic Fury "Operation Economic Fury"

'She also documented how few women were in federally sponsored clinical trials for AIDS drugs... That was significant, she told The San Francisco Chronicle, because “the clinical trials are the only way you can get treatment.”' Long helped save so many lives.

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

The Trump administration good use some DEI. At the very least, they shouldn’t all be idiots.

Today is the birthday of Bob Kaufman who wrote: Believe in the swinging sounds of jazz, Tearing the night into intricate shreds, Putting it back together again, In cool logical patterns, Not in the sick controllers, Who created only the Bomb. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55714/...

Dog imitating Penguins 🤣

“Who doesn’t want to be visited by the dead, who doesn’t want / their dead father to rise like a cabbage moth from the zucchini bed? // This is something better not shared in public” —Martha Silano, “Don’t Make Me Grab You by the Rostrum” @eldiagram.bsky.social thediagram.com/26_1/silano....

Loved his music, an intelligent man.

And that’s how it’s done 🔥🔥🔥 #Cher

Arch-Brexiteer Daniel Hannan might be on to something for the first time in his life.

The closest you’ll ever get to God is language. Unfortunately, the devil’s in there too.

If it happens you are still left with incompetence.

Chump's Never Had A Plan,Other Than To Enrich Himself, And Family Of Criminals......

Like, for example, a Secretary of Defense citing a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction to promote wars of aggression.

“So often I’m asked how I could have written a word with William Faulkner living in Mississippi, and this question amazes me. It was like living near a big mountain, something majestic—it made me happy to know it was there, all that work.” —Eudora Welty

"You will burn and you will burn out; but you will be healed and come back again." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky The Spring at Veneux-Nadon 🎨 Alfred Sisley (1882)

Spain is SHITTING Israel here. Italy has cancelled intel sharing with Israel. The entire EU must follow.

#sunset behind a tree! What a perfect photo!

Camp is euphoric irony

You know what this world could use? More poems. Seriously. Ashland Poetry Press is still reading for the Richard Snyder Prize! What luck! Deadline: May 15 Judge: @dapowell.bsky.social Guidelines here: ashlandpoetrypress.submittable.com #poetrycommunity #poetrycontest #poetrysubmissions #poetry

The writing life, courtesy of Franz Kafka.

KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.

We need a no-nonsense, tough on crime Pope.

Viktor Orban losing means Trump and GOP will double down on trying to steal the 2026 election. They know a blue tsunami is coming. We must be even more vigilant in protecting the election!

Viktor Orbán created the global blueprint for authoritarian populism and became a MAGA hero. Today, Hungarian voters sent him packing after 16 years in power. There is nothing inevitable about these guys. Organize. Vote. Fight back. It works.

We should be taking notes.

Folks, the Hungarians just ousted Orban after he spent a decade and a half consolidating power. The odds the Hungarian resistance faced were far worse than what we’re facing in the US. Like abolitionists and civil rights activists have learned here, everything seems impossible until it isn’t.

“The proper length for a short story is to go as far as you can without going so far that you have forgotten the beginning.” —Russell Banks

Can't remember when I've had such a marvelous Friday night out. Here's Randall Mann and Jennifer Chang in the warm coziness of Cafe Zuni.

“I started hearing the dead. And I felt that, because I had some new knowledge, I had something to give people—that I had things to say that would make them feel better.” —Alice Notley

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the two guys who started a war in Iran for no reason are both in office largely to avoid jail time.