I am so tired of seeing this shit take. I don’t actually think we need to find a woman to blame for this predicament. Ginsberg did more to advance justice in her lifetime than most could do in dozens. It’s not her fault America elected a monster to appoint her successor. Cut out the scapegoat BS.

A lot of blinders on these days. People held in concentration camps on US soil, political prosecutions, blatant war crimes. Waiting for the next election is fine for tax and infrastructure policy. I don’t know how to square it with the cruelty on display from this administration.

Infuriating. TN systematically punishes its cities for their politics and diversity. The impacts are felt most by the urban poor, who are disproportionately Black. The TN GOP just seized Memphis’s school system. Now they want to eliminate its representation in Congress.

This . . . AND Maine seems like one of the states with enough charismatic masculine outdoorsy veterans that you could find a few to run for Senate who didn’t have a Nazi Death’s Head tattooed on his chest for most of his adult life. I’d be upset if I had to vote for him.

Almost like the VRA was doing what it was supposed to do! And if anyone wonders why Black representation increased so quickly in the ‘90s, it was because the Supreme Court handed down Thornburg v. Gingles in ‘86, establishing a framework for VRA Section 2 violations. 1/2

The evil that Trump & Vance are doing in our names. AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

I’m just glad that everything gets clearly explained at the end of Death Stranding 2 . . . . 🫠

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ICYMI at @americasvoice.bsky.social: Our Haitian neighbors won a historic victory last week, when the House passed legislation extending temporary protections for a further three years. “The bill is the first pro-immigrant bill to pass Congress this legislative session,” noted the ACLU:

Deeply un-American. “Students are neither catechized on the Commandments nor taught to adopt them,” the ruling said. “Nor are teachers commanded to proselytize students who ask about the displays or contradict students who disagree with them.” They’re on the wall of every classroom! Required by law!

To RFK Jr. and all the anti-vaxxers: this is your handiwork. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

So the Clean Power Plan was never implemented. Now, want to hear something funny? The targets in the Clean Power Plan -- for growth in clean energy, for retirements of dirty energy -- were exceeded. Before the deadline. *Without the reg being passed.*

I don’t understand how any competent journalist or media outlet can leave up a headline indicating that the Straits of Hormuz are open hours after it became clear that they are not really open at all. It’s basically administration propaganda and market manipulation. Makes me unreasonably angry.

ANOTHER death in ICE detention.

Maybe the progressive failure isn’t that we’re too preachy and out of touch about a man who spent his adult life with a Nazi Death’s Head tattooed prominently on his chest. Maybe the failure is that we let the electorate slide to the point where to a Nazi SS tattoo is just youthful indiscretion.

My favorite thing about the Delta airlines app is how it sends me notifications about my upcoming flight, then when I try to look at my flight info on the app, it has no idea I’m going anywhere and fails when I try to look it up. Well played. Of course the only way to complain is on the Nazi site.

The boys love spring. Rocky in the sun, Ernie in the shade. Some things remain right with the world.

“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”

This is so well done. 👌

Yesterday I placed my first Trump “I did that” sticker next to the price on a gas pump and today I am mourning the relatively sane, non-sticker-placing-and-running person I used to be. . .

I share the fury about the Epstein cover-up. But this war is not a distraction to those living it. Thousands dead already. Imagine what will happen to Iranian women and girls if our president sets off another refugee crisis. Please don’t diminish the terror of war by calling it a distraction.

We desperately need to finish the work of Reconstruction. 150 years and the framework of the nation remains broken. What a monumental loss we were dealt in Lincoln’s assassination. One of those points - like the 2000 election - where you can see the better path and mourn its loss.

Finally. Good on the UK. I hope Ye eventually gets the help he needs, but until that happens and he accounts for his behavior, he should be a pariah. He is dangerous.

Incredibly jarring to see the product of American ingenuity and achievement contrasted against Trump’s lunacy. Makes me realize I yearn to be proud of this country again. I’ve always loved America’s great potential. I despair seeing that potential squandered in corruption, bigotry and violence.

Starting to feel like Arizona ISN’T the #1 team in the nation. . . #GoBlue

This is what happens when you let the director of the Mad Max movies loose with a bunch of animated penguins . . .

Fairfield Prep, a popular destination for people who think public schools are too woke/not “rigorous” New Canaan, once ground zero for antisemitic restrictive covenants, but with a critical mass of people working on reconciliation and inclusion and a fast-growing Jewish population

I do not give any shits about who the president fires from his cabinet. They’re all fungible. He is pursuing an illegal war abroad and a paramilitary war at home. He is a rapist and a crook. This is not the time for pages of breathless reporting on irrelevant palace intrigue.

Gotta say, Costco keeps getting it right.

JUST IN: Judge Jane Boyle (GWBush/TXND) dismisses X/Twitter antitrust lawsuit against major US companies over advertiser boycott of the platform. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.eu/article/go-f...

It took four years of hate-filled propaganda for Slobodon Milosevic to convince people of committing atrocities. It took less time in Rwanda. Steady messaging that designates internal enemies should never be taken lightly.

Last month, Elon Musk pumped $5 million into a GOP super PAC and is now calling for the ouster of Senate Majority Leader John Thune for being insufficiently conservative, while pushing white nationalist videos into X users' feeds. But his true political beliefs remain a mystery.

The true test to tell the good Russians from the rest is asking if they believe Ukraine should be allowed to strike Russian territory. Boris Akunin, the Russian writer, passed it with flying colors. 📹 Katerina Gordeeva

I want to be clear about what happened today: While Republicans keep the Senate in session to try and pass their dangerous SAVE act, they also tried to push through a ridiculous ban on transgender athletes. We blocked it.

Incredible night with Hamilton Leithauser at the Carlyle.

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable. Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours. Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

So now we’re going to pretend Trump wasn’t running the economy into the ground BEFORE he started a couple of wars of choice that upended energy markets? Memory-holing tariffs and trade wars? Why is the American press so broken?

Commentary: If you are one of Ohio’s nearly 8 million registered voters, Sec. of State Frank LaRose just gave your full name, address, date of birth, driver’s license and partial Social Security number, to Trump's Justice Department. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/11/s...

Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else? Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.

"YouTube is expanding its likeness detection technology, which identifies AI-generated deepfakes, to a pilot group of government officials, political candidates, and journalists, the company announced Tuesday." techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/y...

Just to log this, in case it escalates. This article, which claims I've endorsed an automated trading service, is a scam, which has nothing to do with me, the Guardian, or the BBC, whose logo has been mocked up. The only financial advice I'd give anyone is "don't ask me for financial advice."

@nytimes.com does an entire piece on the proliferation of Trump’s portrait throughout DC and never once uses the term cult of personality or discusses the obvious comparisons to dictators and strongmen. They treat it like a silly public interest piece on the evening news. Baffling.

We were coming home from Tanzania last week and got stuck in the Doha airport because of the blizzard in NYC. To get back we had to fly Doha->Frankfurt->Charlotte, NC, where we rented a car, drove to Baltimore and spent the night at a hotel, then drove home. And now I feel incredibly lucky. . .

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This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

I can only hope that some other media group seizes the opportunity to pick up a huge amount of creative talent that will otherwise get squandered in Ellison’s fascist-adjacent media empire.

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“This is not a perfect party.. We are not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission: Our mission, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.”

This could be very very bad for what little remains of police accountability in red states. TN is an early adopter of reactionary laws, often followed by other MAGA states.