it is racial discrimination to try ensure that the representation of a minority group is roughly in line with its proportion of the state’s population. it is equal protection to allow a state to obliterate a minority group’s representation.

this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian

Engaging with high profile accounts in any way is always a good reminder that Bluesky is not the ivory tower bubble a bunch of folks pretend it is. On the other hand from their most recent posts, this person is clearly an expert on 'loser mentality', so maybe I'm wrong.

This is exactly the justification used by many, many Trump voters, including much of the Christian right. I don't believe it's the road to anything better.

Let's friggin go, fellow Millenial dads.

Flock is an evil company & represents some of the worst of overwhelming government surveillance. They're also a security nightmare and have a history of software vulnerabilities, making their streams publicly available. Push back against them in your community at all costs.

Pig Pen announces cleanliness initiative

Chrome looks set to ship an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. We feel it has a large interoperability risk, and Google imposing T&Cs on a web API sets a dangerous precedent. Full details: github.com/mozilla/stan...

I remember w hen this seemed like an overwhelming amount of ads and more 'reputable' sites would never have this many. Now please excuse me while I try to read a news story from a major outlet on my phone two lines of text at a time, squeezed between header, footer, inline, and pop-up ads.

I know it's a childlike view, but the Supreme Court's job is to interpret and apply the Constitution. It's not an enormous document, and it's fairly straightforward. The scope of precedent, court-created doctrine & power over law has become so great that it no longer resembles its original purpose.

yep. been like that for my entire career and arguably it's never been worse

‘Disappointed’ ‘Surprised’ ‘Betrayed’: 12 Dogs Who Were Given a Bath After Being Embraced and Told ‘It’s Time for Your Bath’

When the children gather around the fire and ask "Elder Millennial, what was YouTube like in your day?" youtu.be/L7D7KCs6PNE?...

It is an emotional day for me. Two years ago tonight, I had a brush with death when I found myself in the center of a borderline EF4 tornado while in my car as it ravaged Sulphur, OK during an outbreak of >30 tornadoes. ICYMI: this long read is my story of what happened and what I experienced.

The White House bunker has never been intended to be a place a president would actually run a crisis from long-term. Why is Trump evidently trying to change that now & build a super-bunker? There's no scenario I can think of where this makes sense—except one: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-troubl...

I'm catching up on the WH correspondents dinner guy and 'will cause another week of Stancil discourse' wasn't one I would have guessed, but if it hasn't yet it's coming soon.

"Legalizing sports gambling & online gambling / prediction markets was a mistake" is one of my old man takes that is quickly becoming blindingly obvious.

you just can't be the party of Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and Pete Hegseth and get away with this weepy nonsense. first cast out the beam out of thine own eye bitch

Stop trying to be president, son, and start trying to be PRESENT for your SON

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

I loved the 2006 Mitchell & Webb TV sketch show, but I never imagined “are we the baddies?” would graduate from funny catchphrase to the defining philosophical aphorism for our age

bsky.app/profile/jaco... Crushed inflation!

@philsturgeon.com Question for which you're an SME now - what's your favorite way to protect small (single twig basically) trees and shrubs after planting from wildlife?

Spirit Airlines is the Canary in Trump's Fossil Fuel Mine emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/s...

I hope she leaves nothing behind but bones and sinew by the time this lawsuit is over.

Pistons do it! First home playoff win by a Detroit team at LCA!

There are people on dating apps in their mid 30s and older still putting "no kids never married, looking for same" on their profiles and y'all what are we doing here?

There are few things more Downy soft than the MAGA / Republican pivot from 'gerrymander all the things' to 'NUH UH THAT'S CHEATING' as soon as Democrats stopped taking the high road and started fighting back. I'm usually a 'be better' guy but this might convert me.

Look everyone, Gov Reeves is just honoring an old tradition that stretches the whole way back to…1994, 129 years after the Civil War had ended and, just coincidentally, a year when the Gingrich-led GOP cemented its hold on the white voters of states like Mississippi.

I mean, sure. I'd agree that Trump has 'crushed affordability'. Then again I also have a basic understanding of words mean.

Exactly one year ago today:

Listen, I think it's significant that the Pope is standing up to Trump. I think it's good and I think it matters. But a 'war of words' between a pope and a political leader is definitely not unprecedented. Maybe it hasn't happened with a US president, but it's not new.

I would love to see a breakdown of the science here and what may be happening from someone with expertise in ultrahigh-voltage lines. I'm guessing it's an incredibly high-powered EMF but there has to be some crazy science there.

No disrespect to my GenX friends, but that generation has been working hard for the "worst living generation" title for a while.

In a way, I have less long-term hope for Detroit sports now than I have at any point in the past 25 years. I do not believe that Chris Ilitch is truly invested in building winning teams. Even though the Wings & Tigers were/are supposed to be good this year, the future seems dim.

The Detroit Red Wings and the New York Islanders are the only two teams in the NHL who cannot make the playoffs OR potentially get the #1 pick in the draft. As the season wraps up, I think that's the sweet spot for where you absolutely don't want to be.

Find someone who looks at you the way NYT Crossword creators look at the word 'Epee.'

When Google can no longer recognize that this is a spam (and scam) email, what are we even doing? Sketchy link, text, email address and TLD and not from a contact or matching any previous emails. The internet is experiencing it's own form of Kessler syndrome.

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

my mind is so blown, when humans aren't being the absolute worst we're actually capable of extremely and unbelievably cool shit. one day i hope we lean into that aspect of existence. let's just give it a shot, we might actually fuck around and build something beautiful.

I wish PowerShell had a baked in Whois tool. #lazyweb

You would think my capacity to feel horror and shame would be gone at this point, but it's really not.

These two would have been sitting down to a late night tea and discussing the next days plans and social activities on the Titanic as the lifeboats left and the ship sank.

I mean, honestly, this is pretty amazing.

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid." Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid. ...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

We may have reached the situation I worried about but always considered to be the likely outcome even before this war began:

Last year Dreamhost let me know that I'd no longer be seeing any residual income from the referral codes I put onto the internet 22 years ago in 2004, but it looks like the big bucks are rolling in one last time.

This is the greatest product placement of all time.