"I'd rather spend the money on" is a myth. The United States has enough money to spend a trillion dollars per year on NASA *AND* have universal healthcare and housing and free education through college for everyone. It's not either/or. It's both/and.

WAIT WAIT this reminded me of Wearingeul's social media today 😂

This is a pretty unbearable clusterfuck. Also yet another reason why the way we do medical care - as a money making thing - is catastrophic.

Yeah that’s cool

The former Chicago Daily News building, an Art Deco knockout that has eluded landmark status for decades, will be recommended Thursday for the designation — opening the door for public subsidies to help fund a $70 million renovation of the structure.

I know this is probably April Fools but goddamn I wish it were real, I would join all the train dorks hanging out at my stop just to see it

African American sculptor Melvin Edwards, known for his Minimalist works that incorporate industrial materials to confront and interrogate racial violence in the U.S., passed in Baltimore at 88 on March 29th. His “Lynch Fragments” are so powerful. May he rest in peace. #BlackSky #ArtSky

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?

HANG UP YOUR DAGGER, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN.

Logan Square renters are fighting to buy their building in a new test of tenant rights law. blockclubchi.co/4tpkrHW

Chag Sameach to all celebrating Passover. May this season of freedom, renewal, and resilience bring light to your home and hope to your heart.

As a girl who has dated people way too old for me in hs, I want to say that it is really really important for adults to teach children about grooming. And stop calling people who can’t vote young adults. Those are children. Let’s save the YA label for 18-21.

Many More Should Have Also Been Prosecuted….

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

You cannot reform an organization like ICE.

Happy Passover, Chag Pesach Sameach, and a Zissen un Koshern Pesach!

Daycare $200 billion Medicaid $150 billion Medicare $800 billion Wars $3.6 trillion Ballroom $150 billion someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

Periodic reminder that Trump wanted to slash NASA's budget by over $6 billion (24%)

NLG doing great work as always

Your annual reminder that today, April Fool's Day, is Sam Alito's birthday. And no, this is not an April Fool's joke.

Hey everyone, I'm boosting a gofundme for Santiago, a Denver-area juvenile whose older siblings were grabbed at their immigration court hearing and deported. Santiago needs both legal assistance and also help just surviving. www.gofundme.com/f/santiagos-...

“The Associated Press reported that the medical examiner’s office did not “reach any conclusions about responsibility” for the homicide and that Shah Alam’s death was “caused by complications of a perforated duodenal ulcer, precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration. “”

New print for all my smoking cat friends from Danial Ryan (www.instagram.com/artofdanialr...)! www.etsy.com/listing/4481...

Gentle reminder on this day: saying things like "we are all immigrants (except natives)" actually erases important amounts of American history. There are a lot of people who are not native whose ancestors never immigrated to the US.

Ketanji Brown-Jackson gets a lot of shit for being “impractical” etc but she’s the only person there who understands the assignment and even her “allies” resent her for it.

Source Callout: for a story at the Guardian, I'm interviewing folks who were asked to keep working with someone after sexual assault or harassment or relationship abuse, and told to stay silent "for the good of the movement" (more info in pic with alt text). reach out on Signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68

I don’t love how every antisocial aspect of Twitter that gets replicated over here is then treated as a unique facet of Bluesky’s culture. Dogpiling is a Twitter thing and it’s still happening exponentially more on X than here

never talk to cops or chatbots it's easy to not use AI to write. The closest I come is when I search for history shit and the AI response comes up first, but I know enough about history that I've personally noticed SO much misinformation in those AI results that there's no use case for it anyhow.

Surely, this is just about achieving greater efficiency in government

This is both really good legal analysis and sometimes simultaneously really funny and so infuriating you'll want to bang your head into the wall and/or call your reps and demand impeachment all over again.

Scary stuff.

My new legal theory is that a giant anvil should fall from the sky onto Alito's head.

Trump like a month ago: "this war with Iran started 47 years ago and i just ended it" Iran: sure, fuckface

Considering the dual loyalty myth about Jews (that we aren’t American because we’re ultimately loyal to Israel), that Trump has repeated relentlessly, MAGA electeds saying they want to deport all Jews, and growing belief in dual loyalty on the left, threats to birthright citizenship make me nauseous

It makes me sick how many people will fight with me when I say that they never left, they are still kidnapping our neighbors. They continue to be terrible, to be a secret police force kidnapping people off the street. We need to continue to oppose them & demand better of electeds.

this part. politicians reacted to the spectacle. if they were truly concerned about ice abducting our neighbors, they would've opposed ice before midway blitz and would speaking up now as ice continues to kidnap our neighbors, just without the splash they made last fall

BREAKING Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is “unlawful and unenforceable,” a federal judge ruled. Doc buff.ly/WcnQN4A

It's a shitty ruling. No question. And I know "court reform" sounds like something Democrats won't ever do and perhaps that is also true. But I refuse to let ADF win by default because everyone thinks the fight is over. Our way out of most of this *waves hands around* horseshit is court reform.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

Amazing thread about Ukrainian-American avant-garde filmmaker and writer Maya Deren. Sadly, no alt-text provided, but most images are books whose titles are in the post itself. 🎬📚

you could just see them (as before you heard them) wallowing in the sullen, black waters

A key database of migrant DNA has gone missing, after the organization that started it shut down.

just a few minutes away from Bret Stephens getting another prediction wrong

Anything else is a declaration of war against the Constitution. That is how we should understand the Trump executive order. That is how we should understand the case pending before SCOTUS.

This is not the "reasonable minds can differ" kind of area. This is "we fought a bloody civil war in no small part because of Roger Taney's perfidy; how dare you recreate it, you fucking shitweasels."

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

once again, ACTUALLY DO IT YOU COWARDS

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

Hence, the spare boats, spare spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but a spare Captain and duplicate ship.