As for me and my house, we will stan Benjamin Sisko.

My favorite hot take is that airport restaurants should offer breakfast items until noon, if not all day, because people are flying from other time zones and sometimes it is nice to have a breakfast sandwich in the afternoon during a connection

When I worked at PopSci one of the stories that routinely hit the top 10 was 10 ways you can tell for yourself that the earth is round. TBH that should have been my clue to quit journalism and go live off grid.

I AM MAD BECAUSE THERE IS A BILL TO BAN ALL BOOKS WITH TRANS CONTENT FROM SCHOOLS OKAY

JD Vance has me pulling out liberation theology books I have not looked at since I was a grad student traveling to Nicaragua for a course on intercultural communication just so I can keep stepping on that man's neck.

YEAH!!!

They’ve got the morale boost of hitting multiple US aircraft, and dining two. Why on earth would we think that they’d say yes. This is one big reason why following the modern rules of war matters. It is very hard to negotiate anything with no trust.

now that the Christian Right no longer feels they need the political heft of the Catholic Church to get a pro-life SCOTUS, the post-Roe alliance is fracturing and they’re suddenly remembering all their spiciest theology about the pope being the antichrist, conveniently in time for a pope they hate

I do not wish to profit off stolen valor but Claire Wilmot’s article here - about Titus Andronicus, Jeffrey Epstein, and the terrifying efficacy of discrediting accusers - is excellent

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I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

This is powerful, if true. More of this. Refuse. Stand on principle.

People say Trump has no war strategy, but his strategy is quite clearly a criminal one of destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure (and killing a bunch of people in the process) unless they capitulate. We -- the United States of America -- are a rogue state and global pariah.

For the Devil is braided into our culture. He infects our imaginings. Claims a place in language. In Hookland his most common nickname is Old Clip. Under this guise he leers from pub signs, stares lasciviously at congregations from church alcoves. The Devil is everywhere. – Dr. M. Benn

Means testing costs money and burdens clients as well as service providers. It's the red tape conservatives claim to hate. Excluding the rich makes the service feels like charity to those who qualify, and it ensures that those who don't qualify have no stake in protecting the program.

Veblen goods are goods whose demand increases as the price rises. For a lot of people - especially people who aren't rich rich but can you know afford a nice home in Park Slope - they don't like nice things. They like nice things that other people can't have.

The obvious question is to ask what is the point of the article. And the answer is means testing. By saying the rich don't deserve public goods it makes it easier to say someone just above the poverty line doesn't either. They want public goods to be shit.

Remember the lady in the penis costume who was tackled by cops at the October No Kings protests? Not only have they not dropped the charges, they've added new ones. Her trial is set for later this month. theintercept.com/2026/04/03/p...

get in loser, we're doing the Wars of Religion again

If this sets a precedent, I wonder how it will interact with libel law. If you publish an interview with someone and the replies are generated by AI proxy — who is liable if the AI says something slanderous?

you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

more seriously: both an adult life spent teaching and an adult life spent on message boards and sites like this one have underscored to me that reading and communicating about reading is very much not a trivial skill. the recent tech developments further underscore this for me

Oh he doing advanced alcoholism nypost.com/2026/04/03/u...

It's not a fit for me, but someone might be interested. www.highpointscientific.com/jobs

Very important 🧵!!!!!!!

Every part of the lily plant is deadly to cats - even drinking water that lilies were sitting in can kill them. Other popular spring flowers like tulips and daffodils can also make them very sick, but there are plenty of beautiful and safe alternatives.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

Chaco Canyon is sacred. As the Trump Admin rushes to push through oil and gas leasing in the greater Chaco Landscape—they announced yesterday that they will give only ONE WEEK for public comment on removing protections for this sacred place. Make your voice heard! NO to drilling in Chaco Canyon! ⬇️

"post something random or you'll have an absolutely awful April"? no. you are safe now. Forever Immunity Dog has got you covered.

Yeah going to the moon for the first time in my lifetime is pretty cool but you ever sue the fuck out of a slimebag President

No, fuck you. You don’t get to suddenly decide that copyright matters when folks suddenly have access to the source code of your spicy autocomplete due to your own incompetence.

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

Men’s audacity simply never ceases to amaze

I guarantee Trump and his idiot supporters have no idea how big Iran actually is and have no mental framework to recognize just how much space that is to hide shit even with satellite coverage

They're going to go home as soon as they realize that life is harder here for them

If you haven't listened to the Behind the Bastards on Pete Hegseth you probably should. ALSO I realize the above could be problematic - I'm not shit talking people in recovery. But Hegseth is allegedly not.

Friendly reminder that Hegseth is allegedly an alcoholic who abuses women and is thus unfit for the position he currently occupies.

for anyone else who would like to do this, I do have an updated Google Doc where I added (with deep grief and anger) a frankly horrifying list of new names of people who had died or whose deaths had been confirmed since my last list was made docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Worth reading. Key point is Trump et al assumed this would be like previous tit for tat ops. Key different, past strikes on Iran have included a verbal notification to Iran. They were in the middle of active negotiations when this one happened. They killed Khameni Sr. That’s not going to be ignored

I see no indicator that Hegseth is on his way out. Patel, yes. Gabbard, yes. Not Pete

In the summer of 2008 in the US gas peaked at an average of $4.11 a gallon. In 2026 dollars that is $6.24 a gallon. So even at $4 a gallon, gas today is cheaper than it was in 2008.

This is well worth a read. I want to make a somewhat tangential observation. There are approximately 24,000 or so total members of the church/sect that Hegseth belongs to. His prayer sessions & attempts to remake the chaplaincy may be an attempt to expand that membership from w/in the military.

If you're a woman and you don't want the right to vote, you can just not register to vote and also just not vote.

Guillotines

Recently in U.S. v Heppner, a criminal case out of the SDNY the government seized electronic devices from the Defendant to discover he was asking AI to help him generate his defense strategy. When this was discovered the Defendant attempted to claim those were privileged communications.

A Costco membership is $65 annually. The gas there is typically about $0.20-$0.30 cheaper than the other stations in the area. My truck takes 22 gallons, and typically I fill it once a week. This amounts to savings of $228.80-$343.20 per year, net savings of $163.20-$278.20.

She may be fired, but she is not above the law. Bondi must still comply with our subpoena and testify before the Oversight Committee about her criminally botched Epstein Files release.

Pam Bondi was a total disgrace: wildly inept, deeply corrupt, and solely focused on protecting Trump. Her behavior during the Epstein hearing was disgusting. The worst AG in American history—and it ain’t close. Good. Riddance. Let’s hope Hegseth gets the axe next.

Hey Colorado, time to yell at electeds about protecting Wilderness designation? This time it's in Montana.