I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

Today, I urge everyone to find and financially support an independent news outlet — one that will not be attending a spectacle dinner tonight to schmooze with the Trump administration while they berate the press.

Happy Miss Congeniality Day to all who celebrate!

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Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

Anyone who shows up for this travesty is knowingly choosing to act as a prop for authoritarian kabuki because they’re too cowardly or amoral to pass up vapid schmoozing and free drinks. They deserve your contempt, and possibly a few pieces of rotting produce.

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

You can’t do that to rural voters! What are they, black people? bsky.app/profile/coll...

most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators

They think you're stupid.

One other good thing about YES winning is that Peter Thiel just set a pile of money in fire for nothing.

Today is election day! Vote “Yes” on redistricting! The polls are open from 6 am to 7 pm.

Go vote if you haven’t already

Absolutely. "These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that." That's a pretty simple and effective message.

And so I will circle around to my constant point: the instinct for a comforting aristocracy is endemic in the human populace, and the job of democracy is to ruthlessly destroy it whenever it appears. Not build a political, legal and moral (prosperity gospel) framework which fucking encourages it.

What’s interesting here is they say “culture” when they mean “people” but they think that this maintains a veneer of deniability about what they’re really saying. In any case it’s true that the “culture” of the tech billionaires is morally and intellectually depraved rot bsky.app/profile/elio...

I dunno, maybe Palantir has a point: can anyone deny that Silicon Valley has produced a regressive and harmful subculture? That things would be better if we excluded their inferior subculture from America? 🙃

Again, for the dumbasses in the nosebleed sections. There are Israeli Jews who are in Israel protesting daily to end this conflict. And you broad-stroking all Jews is no different from folks broad-stroking all Americans as Trump voters.

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

If Harvard is looking for professors who will provide "viewpoint diversity" in exchange for $10 million, I'll happily preach communism at Harvard Business School or teach courses on anarchy at the Law School. Hell, throw in a 3BR2BA and I'll be the creationist in your Biology Department as well.

@johnrogers.bsky.social this could have been the plot of a Leverage episode.

Hello! I’m a historian of religion who’s written extensively on the crusades, on the modern invocations of holy war, and am writing a book on the long history of Christian violence! Ask me why Mike Johnson and JD Vance don’t know what they’re talking about

Reagan's GOP liked to call their coalition a "three-legged stool" made up of the Religious Right, libertarians and anticommunists. Trump's GOP has its own coalition, but it's made up of white supremacists, pedophiles and traitors. And its leaders are often all three!

This needs a @kenwhite.bsky.social signal to find someone who will sue Target pro bono.

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HOWLING

For many years people have avoided fucking corpses. Jeffrey Dahmer is taking a different approach.

Gen X likes to think of itself Jack Black from SCHOOL OF ROCK, but it’s always mostly been Jack Black from BOB ROBERTS.

This whole thing was a setup for TV and that any news organization takes this even remotely at face value is going to turn me into the Joker.

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

If Hungary can get rid of its autocrat, so can America anntelnaes.substack.com/p/viktor-orb...

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

I'd KILL for an entertainment news site that didn't include any "news" about influencers and also ignores the Kardashians exist.

donald trump is incredibly stupid, but he believes you are much stupider

it'll be back in three days

The Pope didn’t “push back.” He’s refusing to engage. He said he’s going to keep doing his job. DJT’s words don’t matter. This isn’t a debate. Don’t let DJT create one.

It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

Carl, any idea when Wall Street will master object permanence?

Send JD Vance on the campaign trail

J.D. Vance is like if Ted Cruz were into international politics instead of Texas sports team.

There are multiple allegations in the Epstein files that Donald Trump raped children. Weird how quiet she’s been about that.

It seems suspiciously like the person feeding positive J.D. Vance stories to the press is none other than Vance himself. by John Barron

yea i feel like this is being glossed over?? like he’s admitted to at the very minimum being a creep, so why would you want him to be governor?

a criminal conviction isn’t required to say someone does not have the moral character to run for office and i don’t understand why this needs to be said over and over and over again.

Jared Leto is the AI of actors. Everyone hates him, a couple of rich oligarchs keep pushing him on us, and we wish he'd just go away.

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Today April 11 is Super Saturday in Virginia Early voting is taking place across the Commonwealth Every county and city has at least one early voting location And dozens of satellite locations are opening in bigger jurisdictions Link for your location: www.elections.virginia.gov/casting-a-ba...