WaPo: giving us a taste of the question, "What if all news sources were like Fox News?"

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

Dude taking pictures for a map app in Central Park today

Trans moms represent!

Roe V. Wade

Hangry fliers will be no joke. Smart flight attendants will start carrying dart guns with glucose ampoules for the worst passengers.

Happy Mother’s Day!

My wife and I have mutually destructive shopping waveforms and it *sucks* going to Costco together. Would much rather go alone.

This is possibly the dumbest thing done by enough morons to be called a movement. Outside of a cult, of course. "You might call it ballmaxxing—the pursuit of bigger and bigger balls by fluid infusions—and according to scrotal-stretching obsessives, it’s an exhilarating endeavor."

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

There's some fuckery in West Virginia youtube.com/shorts/sgvxl...

Dems running for president in 2028 should consider pledging to replace Trump's ballroom with a museum devoted to American democracy and all our struggles over it. For good measure, let's throw in an exhibit about Jan 6. END newrepublic.com/article/2101...

Supreme Court justices should not have publishing deals and be doing publicity tours at all, even for a kid's book.

Found a family of geese in Chelsea today

Who among us could have foreseen

ISAAC CHOTINER: So, the food bowl. It's empty, you say? CAT: That's right. IC: And has it ever not been empty? C: Not that I can recall, no, it has not. IC: Fascinating. And this bit of food caught in your whiskers, where would you say that's- C: Now hold on, this is about the bowl, not

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? https://newrepublic.com/post/210013/fbi-investigation-atlantic-reporter-kash-patel-drinking

What could possibly go wrong

Some cops nab an indigenous kid for drinking, rough him up a bit, leave him to die of exposure, and cover it up. An uncurious investigator buries the evidence. An inquiry later discovers all of this. Someone writes a book about the miscarriage of justice suffered by *the cops.* What happens next:

Remembering the 1997-1998 one Letterman called "El No-show" until it just destroyed Southern California with floods

This would be a pretty solid argument in a slightly different universe, but it's undermined the fact that *turkey* burgers are a thing, and since chicken and turkey are basically interchangeable, chicken burgers must be a thing too.

Live your life in such a way that your descendants never find you in a similar MAGA database someday.

As obsessive as American history and cultural production has been about the Civil War, those of us who believe in multiracial egalitarian democracy should be 10x as obsessed with Reconstruction.

Fuck John Roberts all my homies hate John Roberts www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

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With alt text because I love a good correction

This administration conflates war crimes with winning. We won against the Nazis while treating their captured soldiers humanely. It's completely doable. And they were Nazis!

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

This is so heinous, I do not know what to say. This shit devastates me. Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

...and it's now time pushing $90 a barrel

Advisor: "Sir, people are talking about your friendship with the pedophile." President: "Let's start a war to distract them." [war goes badly] Advisor: "Sir, people are talking about the disastrous war." President: "Let's start another war to distract from the last one."

Stop Trump before he launches yet another war — this time against Cuba.

Starting to think oil traders are morons who believe Trump's about to (against all we know about him) do something rational any day now for weeks at a time. When will they realize he's a belligerent madman who's unable to stop himself from hitting the hornet's nest in anger?

I feel at a very base level the human mind hasn’t accustomed yet to being around so many other people. A world made of people instead of a world that has people in it, sometimes.

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...

I still remember when lin manuel miranda was out there trying to make ticket scalping a felony instead of taking the obvious and correct policy position: ticketmaster go to jail one thousand years www.theverge.com/policy/91268...

my newest in Liberal Currents: in celebration of Tax Day i make the case for liberals to collect more taxes, not less www.liberalcurrents.com/actually-col...

One of my grandfathers was an IRS agent and they rock!

They’re the ones that chose to make everyone ignoring them their defining characteristic.

It's always so vital to read the original underlying study. So many don't say what the articles about them say. And when they eventually take on lives of their own, that can cause real harm. Many things contributed to the opioid crisis, but the landmarking of Porter and Jicks was not irrelevant.

Omg Hegseth thought this was real youtu.be/x2WK_eWihdU

We murdered four more people in a boat today

"If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican." Did Donald Trump just neg himself while complaining about Pope Leo?

Feeling pretty good about my choice to buy an EV (not a hybrid) in 2022

👀 Oh. My. Gawd. Now we know why Melania gave that Epstein presser on Thursday. An interview with Amanda Ungaro is about to be released by El Pais on Sunday morning (and it’s after midnight right now in Spain). And on Monday, she will be on CNN.

That's not good

So Mexico now has universal health care but apparently we can't afford it here