Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

You Do Not Hate Congress Enough

I think the best way to do this would be to consolidate the CTC and standard deduction into a new standard credit for all adults and kids.

mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally

Exactly one year ago today:

We should have never doubted this man

The Wetland Project, which I just posted about, is something very near and dear to my heart. I’d deeply appreciate you reskeeting that post. Thank you.

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

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WTF DO YOU MEAN A WORLDWIDE ONLINE RAPE SCHOOL WITH MILLIONS OF MEN????? edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

Love seeing conservatives argue for separation between church and state but only when religious doctrine conflicts with blowing people up

my newest in Liberal Currents: in celebration of Tax Day i make the case for liberals to collect more taxes, not less www.liberalcurrents.com/actually-col...

starting now i am going to start sharing the books i read. finished this volume this morning. it is terrific.

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

“We want to live in a free, European Democracy. After 16 years of sorrow, corruption and Russian influence. We have had enough” The organisers & singers at the massive Budapest concert told me why Orban has to go.

don’t forget that wilson thinks black people should be enslaved!

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Did you know there is a Wikimedian in space? In 2019, Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch made the first-ever Wikipedia edit from space during her mission on the International Space Station. 🧵⬇️ (1/2)

Experimenting with the idea of running save files on the title screen for very smooth game-loading ...

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

my local gov halted new data center development and is pouring the net revenue from existing sites into affordable housing. this has been a far more productive use of the revenue than other localities, which have largely used to it cut property taxes (in a state with fairly lower property taxes)

And this beautiful game on grief is out now! If you want to support Arab-made work about the Arab world, history, arts, and culture -especially in a time of destruction and erasure towards our people- I cannot recommend this game more. store.steampowered.com/app/3451680/...

They’re calling it the most surprising Persian victory since the Emperor Valerian was captured during the Battle of Edessa by Shapur I

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

TRUMP on Truth Social just now: "I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks."

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

Anti-War protest tonight at 6 pm at the White House. Spread the word!

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

again very funny to think that a critical pro trump message in 2024 was that he wouldn’t start world war iii

"why aren't Americans out engaging in armed struggle against the violently repressive fascist regime that's ruling their country" same reason these folks aren't!

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

In Gene Wolfe's book of the New Sun novels, a boy on an Earth a million years hence sees a picture in a library, and you know from the description that it's Neil Armstrong on the moon.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

All eyes should be on Lakenheath Alliance for Peace right now - doing great work to protest the use of UK soil for the paedophile emperor's illegal war on Iran!

Been hard to keep track with the replies but we've raised over $3k for trans youth today from the Benjamin Ryan youth transition fund. $80 of that just came from times he tweeted about me today.

Notionally Trump claims exclusive (false) credit for it. But the Artemis mission has this uncanny quality, like an alternative timeline where things aren't all wretched, absurd and degenerate - rooted in science, human striving, injgenuity and purpose. The contrast w the war in the Gulf is so great.

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II

1. Book of the New Sun 2. Blindsight 3. Chasm City 4. Hyperion 5. Roadside Picnic

Persistence & resistance can prevail! It was not long ago that we gathered with hundreds in the freezing cold in Hagerstown to say no to an ICE mass detention warehouse in Washington County.  I salute all who pushed back, we must remain vigilant to stop this ICE warehouse. wjla.com/news/local/w...

Hi Ben, since you post about me every day and email me unsolicited even after I told you to stop, lets play a game. Every time you tweet about me, I donate $10 to a trans org. Let's call it the Benjamin Ryan youth transition fund. southernequality.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/fo...

Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump is clearly unfit to be President. But do not let that explain away the evil of his threatening war crimes against the Iranian people, on Easter Sunday no less.  We cannot let Trump normalize this.

MIT calculates that living wages around the country, and the current federal minimum wage, don’t cover basic quality of life anywhere. trib.al/RpmMUE3 This debate is as much about our national values as it is about economic policy: “How little do you think the least person deserves in our economy?”