I'm very sorry to tell you that Dr. Ellen LeMosy passed away after a short illness this past Thursday. This is her sister. Ellen will be sorely missed.

This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you

The mission, is it accomplished yet?

NASA employee: oh hey you guys are back early. Astronaut: *grabs plunger, gets back on rocketship*

A day after Mike Johnson and John Thune put out a joint statement declaring a "deal" to fund DHS, the Senate voted early today to pass its bill to reopen DHS and House Republicans... chose not to vote on it. DHS shutdown continues! www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

while I think folks generally understand how Trump's birthright citizenship order threatens a ton of newborns now, I don't think it's fully appreciated how it also threatens everyone bc if he can arbitrarily revoke citizenship from them, why not from you? ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

"at $2 million a pop, that comes out to about $100 billion in revenue for Iran—more than one-quarter of Iran’s nominal GDP, and nearly twice the country’s annual budget. Unlike the U.S., these tariffs really can fund the country." prospect.org/2026/04/02/o...

The Women Who Believe Women Should Lose the Right to Vote www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

When I was living in Russia, I of course could never fully understand the cynicism and contempt people had for their leadership. But I witnessed it, and talked with people about it, and felt it at an angle as I lived among them, and holy shit is it all rushing back to me right now.

All data in this work are beautiful – look at this 3-day timelapse of in vivo myelination along a zebrafish axon! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

You know you've made some peak new tech when you have the exact same fine print disclaimers as Miss Cleo.

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Oh for fucks sake.

What in the actual fuck was that

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

watch for whichever bet spikes five minutes before the speech actually starts (which will be well after 9PM EST) to learn which of the viziers won out

Just so everyone knows, the Solicitor General straight up lied about the 1921 law review article he kept talking about. quick thread:

"A young tech entrepreneur who recently moved to Florida got upset when he ran into obstacles while trying to build a house on the habitat for the endangered Florida scrub-jay. So he filed a lawsuit attempting to strip the bird of its federal protection."

Minneapolis Wedge Cat Tour: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

Passover, a Moon mission, birthright citizenship arguments, a presidential address on ?!, and April Fools is all a bit much for one day

As someone who grew up and ministered in the Church, there’s something particularly distressing about the expansive hellscape we’re all stuck in right now: it’s all because of white, professed Christians who are committed to being terrible... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/praying-fo...

Announcing two new regular contributors at @TPM. @sarahposner.bsky.social and @rothschildmd.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/inter...

“Their vision of citizenship…would bring Dred Scott back from the dead. And it would do this in support of a political agenda that seeks nothing less than the reconstruction of race hierarchy & the rank domination of despised minorities.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o... @jamellebouie.net is right.

Boy, it sure seems like spending trillions to wedge a product into every aspect of life while bragging about how it will make all white collar jobs and creative endeavors obsolete might have backfired

Someone could ask me to compile a list of Jews at my job, in my school, on my block. I'd laugh in their faces. It's time for civil disobedience. I know people need jobs. But, if someone asks what your job is, are you gonna say: "I make the lists of Jews [fill in the blank] to send to the govt"?

You send them everyone's name. Alphabetized by middle name. For as far back as the archives go. Somewhere in that there's the list they're looking for. You reach out to all the institutions affected and you send all of their names too. Undifferentiated. Far be it from you to decide who's Jewish.

AI Facial Recognition Is Denying Food to Pregnant Women Across India Another example of how the “algorithm” was not built for women & other marginalized people. In fact, it was built to discriminate against & starve them.

I do wonder if there's anything preventing someone like Justice Kagan from asking Trump a question directly? Would he say "quiet piggy?"

Yes, it is about the babies--they will be harmed, regardless of whether their parents are documented: www.npr.org/2026/03/31/n...

There’s also a non-zero chance that Trump shows up with Roberts’ brother or nephew or some shit, the way Michael showed up to Frankie Five Angels Senate testimony with his brother.

Ohio just introduced HB798, an omnibus anti-trans bill that targets every aspect of trans peoples lives. It bans trans people from bathrooms, even in private businesses. It retroactively bans gender marker changes on birth certificates and drivers licenses. It compels misgendering in schools.

Look at these guys 🪶🌊 Long-billed Curlews, San Simeon CA, September 2025

The level of contradiction between officials, and by officials (Trump especially) over brief periods of time, is... I don't have time for this shit. This is beyond terrifyingly dysfunctional--from policy, democracy, and constitutional perspectives--if not clear by now. CONGRESS WHAT THE FUCK

Idaho Governor Brad Little has signed the law that makes it a felony punishable up to 5 years in prison for trans people to use the bathroom. He did so on trans day of visibility. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

It was just 24 days between when Zuck went on Rogan and talked about how "never again" would he suppress info based on gov't demands (misrepresenting those demands) and when he texted top gov't employee Elon Musk to say "we're all set up to take down info you want removed." I wrote about it here.

BREAKING The Jan. 6-related civil suits seeking to hold Trump liable for inciting the insurrection SURVIVE, as a federal judge rejects his latest bid to scuttle the case on immunity and First Amendment grounds. Doc buff.ly/ZjGrJOP

Timeline cleanse: his name is Bagel Jones 😻😻😻😻

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

This is almost exactly what happened in the case of Randal Reid, who was arrested on a bad Clearview AI match for a crime he did not commit in a state he had never been to. @kashhill.bsky.social and I listened to his story in 2023, and yet it's still happening. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/t...

No sitting president has ever appeared before the Supreme Court during oral arguments in the history of the United States.

Albert Podrasky, Chief Justice Roberts’ grandfather, born in the U.S. to parents who were not citizens, was an American citizen. Why not the U.S.-born child today of a migrant from Africa? Or El Salvador? Or Honduras?

The man simply can’t stop thinking and talking like a rapist.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.