Honestly, what the fuck do those Pauls feed their children? (These are all fucking horrible people.)

Fuck. 👉🏻 "The FDA’s deputy commissioner for food, Kyle Diamantis, will now assume Makary’s position in an acting capacity. Diamantas, a personal friend of Donald Trump Jr., does not have a background in medicine." www.democracynow.org/2026/5/13/ma...

If after yesterday's SCOTUS ruling you're still one of those lefties who proudly brags about not voting because that is somehow an act of resistance (it's still not but anyway), you can--and I say this with every ounce of my being--fuck right off.

Is 47 chopping up and shorting adderall again?

Thanks to the team @status.news for making me aware of this. Byron Allen is now the owner of Buzzfeed. Because online news wasn't already weird enough. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Really, CNN editors? That's the hero image you ran? The woman who negotiated COVID relief payments and kept her literal (and the People's) House in order to certify the 2020 vote during a fuckin riot? In a mask? Maybe be more thoughtful before the software people start running/gutting your company?

When you can't disable the "for you" feed on Threads and this happens. What's the fucking point if this is the outcome? Meta can't even make good social software anymore. But ok. I'm sure your AI lab is going to be gangbusters. (No shade to @ohhthatsrich.bsky.social who is awesome.)

I had a very complicated mother who died 20 years ago this year. Starting in my late 20s, my dad called me every year so I could wish *him* a happy Mother's Day. Parents are complicated, but unconditional love isn't. Love is behavior, not biology. Whatever you do today, do it w someone you love.

Increasingly, here's what you can expect from here and on Threads. If you say "the dems need to do (whatever thing)!!!" and don't specify which dems? I'm for sure going to ask you. Is it your statewide party? Is it Dem Senate leadership? Is it your local party? Your local dem committee?

I'm going to need @repwesleybellmo.bsky.social to tell us when he's planning a town hall to discuss racist gerrymandering and what he's planning on doing to help the Western side of the state as well as MO2 if he wins the primary. ESPECIALLY after what happened in TN.

I'm going to need to see a whole lot of college students in the northeast protesting these Jim Crow power grabs in the south.

IMO: he current leadership of @bsky.app needs to get clear about the "WHY" of this app and then get really serious about executing. I really do want any alternatives to the current gross and awful social landscape to succeed. But I'd argue that Substack's Notes is landing better than Bsky.

Jesus H Fucking Christ on a popsickle stick.

For everyone who genuinely believes that the solution to the supermajorities in midwestern states is "branding" and "putting in the work" on the Dem side, I'd like you very much to look at what happened in Indiana's state legislative GOP primaries.

Vibe check. How are you all holding up? Even if we knew that decision was coming, it doesn't make the loss any easier, right? Today: I'm doing some patio gardening, hanging with my dog, and managing the grief of the impending one-year anniversary of my husband's death. How 'bout you?

People who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Harris? Listen up. If you don't put voting rights at the top of your to-do list and work as hard as the rest of us to counterpunch what the GOP will do to maps in 2027, then you're as morally bereft as you are intellectually lazy.

And to think I started this week wanting to talk about how much I was really, really loving Season 2 of Beef.

If you would to peruse a thread where smart, funny people are (correctly!) tearing apart a dumb and problematic CNN article about "food", this will give you the good vibes you need on a dark day. Smart, funny people: I love you. Don't you change a thing.

You can argue with me in a thread if you want, that's fine. But I'm too old and too tired for you to share my post in your feed just to start a fight. I know how platforms work, thanks. Please don't do that.

Today feels like a fuckin year and it's only 11 a.m.

Today would be a very, very bad day to tell me that both parties are the same.

If you're from Missouri (and maybe now not just that) you're already aware that Mark Alford has the reputation of being an absolute total fucking idiot. Another former TV anchor in DC who's doing a fuckin bang up job of sucking.

Dear Media: Maybe consider that if your header needs to start with the words "Trump says" than perhaps it's the wrong story to publish. Trump's words are nearly almost always a fucking lie. Write. Better. Ledes. Please. You've had TEN years to learn how to deal with this man. Honestly.

Before anyone does the "Oh, wow, how can King Charles even STAND the Trumps? How demeaning," etc., please take a moment to remind yourself who is brother is. Thanks.

A kind reminder that during moments of national crisis (yes, the WHCD counts as a crisis) you can wait 24 hours for the adults (the room was full of fucking reporters, you guys) to share or spread any information. www.wired.com/story/staged...

They don't want to talk about fuckin January 6th, either. Ever. Under any circumstances. Violence. It's their brand.

If you share any tinfoil hat "this was staged" bullshit on here, I'm blocking you. You should all do the same. Reality is sometimes (and usually) as ugly as you think it is.

@profgalloway.com singing high praise for a by-the-numbers white supremacist (what a fuckin rookie move to have Shapiro come on his channel FFS) is a total own goal, but JFC people don't fuckin attack @karaswisher.bsky.social over it. Galloway is free to step in it on his own channel.

Everyone? You need to watch this from @reckless.bsky.social. It's the idea that's been forming in my own head, this man is an actual professional. "Software brain" is the term I knew I needed and I'm using it all the time now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKG...

Hey team. I'm really proud to be working for @findoutpodcast.bsky.social for many reasons. But one big one? We're launching our own social media app. Big thanks to @timfullerton.bsky.social and the team for this. LFG! findoutmedia.substack.com/p/five-reaso...

It really is like your racist grandpa who never learned how to use a smart phone properly was suddenly given access to the most powerful tools and people on earth.

Hey Fediverse veterans? You've got to stop treating people new to the concept/Fedi instances like we're brand new. That's not fair and it's irritating. We have jobs often that require us to spend hours (and hours) using existing tech stacks. Being utterly patronizing to us is tired.

Thank God for St. Louis Magazine. www.stlmag.com/news/midtown...

We have officially entered the lawsuit era for Big Tech. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

If this doesn't get reported on Fox News, MAGA boomers will have no idea it even happened.

I was so supportive of this app being wonky and middling when I created my profile. I thought the model was interesting. I liked the leadership. And so on. But if it keeps crashing I'm going to stop using it. That's no way to run a tech company and that's a strong signal for a bad future. Nope.

And he's going to get confirmed anyway.

I just want to reiterate that Gardner is (from what I've heard) a very good person who was also a disorganized, terrible leader who just wasn't remotely ready for an administrative job. I hope she finds meaning and structure in her life going forward. She doesn't deserve .01% of the vitriol.

I really, really wish there had been a captive audience for the conversation I had yesterday with my reasonably nice neighbor last night about why she voted for Trump. I live in what is arguably the most progressive district in Missouri. Every leftie in NY and CA needed to hear it.

We've reached the "dumb/bad" AI start up era. I've seen several ads for "AI headshot" apps which has to be the dumbest and least necessary application of AI I've seen yet. We've had filters on phones for, oh, how long now? Giving late '00 vibes for sure. Bad ideas w/the right buzzwords attached.

To my former home state of 25 years (and who lived in a district he represented in the House): Don't fuck this up, California. Elect this person.

Most people are victimized by people w/whom we share proximity. It's the people we trust who are most likely to hurt us. Colleagues. Friends. Bosses. Family members. They have the means and opportunity, and so we let our guard down. We shouldn't have to keep saying this.

What an absolute fucking dipshit. thehill.com/policy/keepi...

YAY LAWSUITS!!!!!!

After the HUGE success of the center right in Hungary yesterday, I now want to see a serious discussion from Republicans about how they can forge a path in their party for center right candidates who aren't also billionaires. Center right candidates belong in the GOP. They don't belong in my party.

YOU GUYS!!!!!!!! HOLY SHIT!

I think all accounts that mention politics a lot are being throttled again over on Threads. I'm so sick of billionaire-controlled tech.

I find it **fascinating** that Sam Altman spend untold millions to purchase an influential tech podcast network days before @ronanfarrow.bsky.social and @newyorker.com dropped a deeply disturbing and unflattering investigative feature about him.

Hey family? This is what happens when good creators do journalism. It's this. Fuckin A, this is amazing.