Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

song of the summer www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b6...

I see why he bankrupted casinos.

It’s almost overdose awareness month and we bought a button maker at work. And we’re planning to distribute a 1000 Narcan kits.

Book news from me. Been a long haul to here. xo

the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

What *is* their worst fear about the left? That the left also cares about the lives of Palestinians?

Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.

Boebert was a central participant in January 6. she should have been booted out of Congress on January 21 2021

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

the hard times doesn't miss @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social

Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here.

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

This is so class-war coded. As if gay Harvard grads and plumbers are somehow at odds with each other. How does this “divide the electorate” shit still work. They would love us to believe that workers are enemies to one another. It’s always giving: don’t look behind the corporate overlord curtain.

daddy’s home.

when you let gay children play their music in the living room.

finally, someone is standing up to the homeless

Conservatives are already calling him the woke pope.

“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc

What if she walked out of the conclave.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Steve Bannon on NPR, saying he’s worried that people won’t have an appetite for the incoming constitutional crises … is something that we agree on. Where does his monstrous hunger for terror come from.

Hegseth on his phone more than a New York City cop

might have to start writing fantasy fiction so that this can be my new author photo.

If someone said “Saeed, it’s important to be respectful” and I interpreted that message as an indictment… well, you’d be right to be concerned about me and for me.

Felt like the vibes were off in this first episode of the new Last of Us until fucking Catherine O'Hara shows up being so serious. God, she can act. I immediately sat up straight. 🍽️ that’s the emoji for: we’re eating.

god is dead

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

gavin newsom you could be a hero

If I send you this it means I accidentally killed my dad.

It must have been the delight of his life calling all them grandbabies to the dinner table.

Just woke up thinking about how “In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon” is a first sentence that goes so hard.

This poem is my everything. Thank you, @theferocity.bsky.social for sharing poetry on the Vibe Check podcast.

He would be pushing 90 years old before he left office. These people are in a death grip. Not to bring Joe into this, but what is the opposite of ageism, where we crave leaders who are out of touch with reality so that we can participate in the delusion that the future isn’t coming for all of us.

I don’t believe in much these days, but I believe in peaches.

I’m addicted to this movie. I need to watch it every year to feel alive.

Do you ever just think about how fucking gorgeous Ts Madison is. Like, what is going on.

glad everyone is getting their jokes off but George Santos being sentenced to prison sends a chill through the gay Latino liar community and I can't help but notice many have not checked in on me

oopsie. but also is this maybe just a little homophobic?

We used to joke in grad school that there should be a reality show about an MFA program but mostly we assumed it would be in-fighting and messy hookups because imagine how thrilling it’ll be to just watch people write. Susan and Eric at their desks all day? Lee on her laptop at the coffee shop?

uh, people definitely know what oligarchy means? the hell?

This is what I want to see.

I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.

A coworker came into my office and caught me taking this picture. My career is over.

you should be able to get minor surgeries done at the claire’s piercing stand

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

RIP little robin. Also have just learned that no one knows why the egg is this color. Top guesses are: thermoregulation, UV protection, it’s pretty.