I kind of assumed the dim bulbs in the White House thought they could order Automatic Patriotic Wartime Effect (APWE) the way you order pizza, then skipped all the steps like warming up the public and having a reason and a plan, and well it's not working and we're not forgetting the Epstein files.

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

Claims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence. If you insist that a given outcome is inevitable, you are lobbying against resistance.

“We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don't surrender it to those who would destroy it.” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/between-the-...

@repyassansari.bsky.social is new, part of Arizona's new deep blue wave, and great.

I can't believe we have reached this point, but this bears crystal clear emphasis: Our global climate system ensures that even "limited" use of lower-yield "tactical" nuclear weapons against civilian or industrial targets would have major regional-to-global scale consequences.

And yet in their fear of rocking the boat, they've become powerless; the legislative branch of government has, under the leadership of Thune and Johnson, surrendered the power of the purse, the power to declare war, and most of its other powers, except when the Democratic minority prevails.

The war on Iran raises doubts that the Non-Proliferation Treaty can hold as a central pillar of international security, writes George Perkovich. If it doesn't, will US-friendly countries seek nuclear weapons, and will China and Russia follow the US-Israeli example and forcibly try to stop them?

"I don't want to happen but it probably will" is classic abuser language: "look what you made me do." Except it's not on the scale of a household, but of a nation of 90 million and millennia of civilization.....

“The horrible but undeniable fact right now is that America has a terrorist president. And the whole world knows it. But we still have a chance to show the world that he is an aberration, that we are not a terrorist nation” @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Congratulation to Astronaut Christina Koch to be the first woman in history to get that far away from dangerous sexual predator Donald Trump.

It’s probably nothing. 🤡 @dkthomp.bsky.social

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

This movie is implausible and otherwise disturbing.

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

"There just is no constitutional power for the president to really get involved in the election process at all. The framers of the Constitution clearly saw elections as a state function," says Professor Dan Farber: https://bit.ly/4dxEQWp @abc7news.bsky.social #BerkeleyLaw

At the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. annual Hunky Jesus extravaganza in Dolores Park, the festivities began by canonizing three locals on the stage where the pageants would take place later. I was one of them and my saint name as you can read here, is Esperanzapedia.

"The present is different from the past, but that’s no use if you can’t remember the past. With feminism, the immensity of its achievements over the past 50 or 60 years disappears if you forget things used to be worse in ways almost unimaginable to those who didn’t live through them or study them."

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

A few weeks ago I wrote that everyone loves to write feminism's obituary. Then the NYT, of course, published ANOTHER obituary for it.

You should watch this video just to see @anandwrites.bsky.social's spectacular suit, but it was a good conversation with one of the thinkers I admire most....

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

Great essay by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social "the very resistance by the political right to marriage equality as an equal right is because it demonstrates that marriage can be a freely negotiated relationship between equals, which threatens the patriarchial order." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Historian here. What have I been doing over my sabbatical besides meeting multiple commitments? Getting started on the new book on feminism. Here is a preview from Ms. Magazine which I read as a young girl in India. Big Gloria Steinem fan here! msmagazine.com/2026/04/02/t...

“It's like we're at a time that somehow we think we have to give equal time to the people who believe that the Earth is flat,” says retired judge Nancy Gertner. “I mean, you don’t.”

An excerpt from my new book, THE DAY AFTER. If you'd like to support my work and read more about how Democrats must exercise power when they get it back, please pre-order here (and thank you!): www.harpercollins.com/pages/theday...

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

Sometimes threats are also criminal confessions.

13% cut proposed for Interior. The president wants to cut national parks, wildlife refuges, and public lands by 13% so he can pay for his illegal war on Iran without raising taxes on his billionaire buddies.

Good for this retired four-star general (but the correct verb is purge).

I've thought of trying to get an online army to just tag all these pieces of bad news #theydidthis and this is a big one. When the catastrophes, the hunger, the breakdowns happen, please trace it all back to #theydidthis.

Full-on political purge of the U.S. Army, in the midst of an unpopular war and repeated talk (from Trump) of turning the military on the American people.

'Senior Army officers reacted with anger...to the news of General George’s dismissal' The reason for the dismissal? Gen. Randy George disagreed with Hegseth blocking the promotions of 2 women and 2 black Army officers. Arguably the more consequential firing today. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Every chance they get Democrats should speculate that Trump fired Bondi because she was about to follow the law & release the rest of the Epstein files. Epstein files have lost a bit of news momentum. It needs to get back to previous levels of attention.

Not that I'd ever defend Noem, Bondi, or Gabbard, but it is striking that only the women in the administration are under fire and it's not because Hegseth, RFK, Bessent, Burgum, Lutnick, etc are paragons of anything except stupid malice.

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.

The state of New Mexico now provides universal free day care, and the city of New York a limited version of it, but the old death cult guy: nope for caring for life.

Is there a master list, so to speak, of child sexual abusers in Trump's circle (including all the January 6th guys)?

no one more bad ass than the iranian girl on a swing in bandar abbas

What a great thread about #nokings in small-town America. Read it through.....

To our trans and non-binary Minnesotans: we see you, we value you, and we love you. Minnesota will continue to fight for love over hate every step of the way.

Wrote a thing.

This....

Happy Farmworker Day, California. Wrote about the shift from celebrating an individual to a collective.

"Stop overreacting, they're never going to do that."

Let's focus on something we ALL agree on: #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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The colonialism of clowns.

It's like there's a softening agent you can add to journalism.