Johnny’s kids 😭

WOW! USA snags gold!!!

If you ever get the chance to listen to the CSPAN coverage of the oral argument of the SCOTUS tariffs case, give due props to Neal Katyal. There was no subject on which he was caught off guard. Kavanaugh, at one point, had an "agree to disagree" moment but Katyal kicked ass.

We found the line the GOP wishes never got crossed. A seemingly straight, cis-male, who worked for veterans, and was legally carrying his permitted handgun, was shot in the back 3 times after he was disarmed by masked federal agents, and then shot 7 more times as he lay dying in the gutter.

Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents? Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?

Fascinating. Big, if true. 🧐🤔

I've been wondering this from the start.

If you're a Republican, take everything I just said but change the president to Barack Obama and the men populating the army that just invaded your town to ones who hate red towns, states, and Americans...and white Christians. You would've called it a civil war *two minutes in*.

A few thoughts on this important NYT analysis: First, the officer who killed Good is shown running up the *passenger* side of the car seconds before he killed her. He shot her first from the front, then the driver's side. This means he *put himself* in the path of the vehicle when he shot her.

Local Fox9 interviews a witness in Minneapolis at the site of the murder

If you can, show this to your trumpy friends and family. We attended the opening and saw the cast interviews. A24 understood it would be included on Prime Video but that didn't happen. youtu.be/CpGZbt5jYl0?...

The MSM is making comparisons with the invasion of Iraq, speaking of the AUMF, etc. Here's what they're missing: We are Iraq. Trump is Saddam. Venezuela is Kuwait. Trump banners hanging in DC. The White House's transition to a palace. The arch he wants to erect. Trump's name plastered on everything.

Absolutely

Happy New Year, Skeeters.

I feel like Indiana abandoning Trump is a tipping point. And it’s not because they didn’t want a new map. It’s because he shook them down.

Frank Gehry, who died Friday at 96, redefined architecture with buildings like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Here are 12 of his essential, stunning projects.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Just a fundamentally decent, normal person, and I miss that so much right now The Trump White House is full of cretins and ghouls who are constitutionally incapable of sincerity or humility

Good boy helping me pack

/7 Klein’s other theme seems to be that even if people are advocating terrible things, things that dehumanize others, we should find a way to act as if they are not, in order to find common ground. But is that really right? And what if it’s not reciprocal?

“If you can’t honor a man by quoting him directly because his own words seem disparaging to his legacy, then perhaps you shouldn’t try to honor him at all.” Watch my latest here: www.youtube.com/live/2Mv50KZ...

"okay, hooman, can we talk about respecting my space while I'm doing my yoga?"

QUALITY CONTROL TEAM 🚨😺🚨 #caturday

Gov. Wes Moore: “I’m not a simp. I’m a soldier, and I’m not just going to kowtow…And if you are deliberately coming after our folks…my job is to make sure that our people are going to be okay…I will work with anyone, but I will bow down to no one.”

Taylor and Kelce are engaged. Time for tRump to do something incredibly stupid to snatch the attention back in 3, 2, 1...

It's also a reminder of what the Times can get its powerful hackles up about—a woman using home email at work, a thirty-year old footnote, an 81-year-old man being 81. But not a vividly antisemitic wannabe dictator building a system of concentration camps.

In a notional past when journalism worked, it surely would've realized that not only is Trump an abuser but he trains his workers to be abusers, none of which has anything to do with a "comms strategy" By abusing journalists, fascists convince the worst sort of person that journalism doesn't matter

AI does not "recognize" student behaviors. It cannot "confer" with anybody. It cannot "observe" anything. Anyone who so blithely and uncritically anthropomorphize these tools--as Khan does--simply cannot be taken seriously as an authority on education. He's a huckster chasing a buck, nothing more.

Taylor Sith @phobosdeimos.bsky.social #May4th

I would take of it that three of the people bylined are fairly comfortable in their role of getting scoops by whitewashing fascism.

1. Pick some guy you don't like 2. Sell him like a slave to El Salvador 3. Court tells you you have been a very naughty boy and undo your fuckup 4. "oof, ahhh, sorry, he's a prisoner of another sovereign nation now, we can't make them do anything. what do you think we are, imperialists?"

As many of the replies note, Making America Great Again never seems to include taxation at the rates we had back then. I ascribe all this fake nostalgia to people who think The Wonder Years was a documentary.

Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

Getting my pork on

I finally talked to the author of one of my favorite columns of 2016—a casino executive who worked with Trump in the 1980s. The company decided "terminating" the partnership was the best course. Will today's GOP ever see the light? My latest @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/our-compan...

Hey! Share the sunbeams!

My purpose in retirement: cat furniture.

Musk ~z

Zelenky stood in front of the American government, in the seat of our democracy, and thanked our entire nation. Every farmer, teacher, engineer, nurse, and cop. Thanked us on behalf of his entire country. youtu.be/7gjwlCe5T6M?...

No, it is not dinner time yet.

"I am going to threaten to conquer our NATO allies, align with Russia in the UN, & destroy our most important intelligence-sharing alliance" Imagine Barack Obama or even George H.W. Bush had said this. The Senate impeachment conviction would already have happened.

He sang as if he knew me In all my dark despair And then he looked right through me As if I wasn't there This line shook me to my core when I was young. TFW a song comes on and you're blown away because you've been seen in front of everyone. Rest in peace, Roberta. Thank you.

Interesting timing here between this and OPM's reversal. I'd bet cash money that DoJ got this motion for sanctions on Sunday, called OPM to tell them to knock it the fuck off, and then today OPM accordingly knocked it the fuck off.

So stinking cute...

I wonder which Trump seaside resort Tulsi will do first: Crimea, Gaza, or perhaps Xi will let her build near Taipei?

Exactly. Reactionary movement always phrase their concerns in the most sympathetic light. "I'm not against school desegregation, I just want local parents to have a say in education!" The idea that all of this was necessary is absurd and only serves to coddle power. bsky.app/profile/miss...

The geographic disparities in waiver decisions are deeply intertwined with extreme racial disparities. Waiver practices disproportionately impact children of color and result in disproportionate rates of adult incarceration.