Today in American history, Andrew Johnson avoided conviction for high crimes and misdemeanors for his obstructionism with Reconstruction post Civil War. Johnson repeatedly attempted to veto Reconstruction Acts, forcing Congress not only to override his veto, but to seek a supermajority to stop him.

"Dawdling about in a way not endurable to a third person" = relationship goals. Like, dying-a-week-apart-in-your-90s type peak companionship. 🛁

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Everybody read this. I keep talking about how it's not going to be possible to kill the drones on the ground. Here's why:

tech ceo: we regret to inform you that the torment created by the Torment Nexus is the fault of the depraved author of beloved novel DON’T CREATE THE TORMENT NEXUS

ok I guess my question here is *who has ever cared about ball size.*. like, are there women - or men - out there being like 'I like a man with a scrotum like a tanuki'

As @jmritchey.bsky.social wrote: If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Trump’s Jim Crow Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act—and within hours the GOP was targeting Memphis. They want to redraw the lines, erase Black voting power, and hold onto power any way they can. I’m not letting that happen without a fight. Join us today at the National Civil Rights Museum.

With @romanpalace.bsky.social apparently being told to knock it off, it quietly seems @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social had also gone dark. If this is a wider trend in the museum space it's to be regretted. Museums don't just exist to hold stuff. They tell stories about the past - and ourselves now.

I see it's been a good time to be offline

Pride & Prejudice, that famously under- appreciated book

Tired: worrying about catching hantavirus after reading something on the internets whipped up by grifters and alarmists. Wired: worrying about the destruction of infectious disease and pandemic preparedness research and programming by OMB Director Russell Vought and Donald Trump.

Start your day with good news.

JOHN FOGERTY: I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain JAMES TAYLOR: okay, you’re not gonna fucking believe this

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 made multiracial democracy possible, and it should still fully be law of the land. There is no legal basis to roll back voting rights.

inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"

I had great fun writing this about David Attenborough's childhood fossil collecting. I went to Leicester for the day, tracing his route from his former home (on the university campus) to the fossil sites like Tilton-on-the-Hill which he visited as boy #earthscience www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Paul Pressler is one of the most influential figures you may have never heard of. The onetime judge remade the Southern Baptist Convention, and helped forge the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. As he did so he also committed decades of alleged abuses. A long look at his legacy:

For those of you who enjoyed the swag game at yesterday’s Truck Touch in DC, a little word of caution - @dcwater.bsky.social’s giveaways hold up in the dishwasher, whereas the Department of Public Works’ very much do not.

We asked our readers about the proposed 2027 D.C. budget cuts. A few of the programs we heard about have hearings coming up this week: • Access to Justice Commission: May 6 • D.C. Food Policy Council: May 6 • Charter school operating expenses: May 7 • Pay Equity Fund: May 7 Here's how to testify:

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

Israel’s National Security Minister Ben Gvir received a birthday cake decorated with a giant gold noose from his wife. The Hebrew text reads in part “sometimes dreams come true”—referring to Ben Gvir’s now-achieved dream of legalizing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

Where are all the buttdogs?

Shelby Co., Tenn., is a maj.-Black county with 930k residents, in a state where congressional districts hold an average of 769k residents. Drawing a compact district where Black voters elect the candidate of their choice is far & away the easiest course—but the Gingles test means nothing now, so …

So I know Dulles will be phasing out the people movers at some point. Do we know what will happen to them? Might any of them go on sale to the public? It is really hard to overstate how much I want one of those.

There's a lot of alarmist coverage of the Supreme Court. Rick Hasen does not engage in it. This isn't stuff he'd write lightly.

Oh, look! A new thing Arkansas is the worst at. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Pandora served me CCR’s “Cotton Fields” this morning. Two thoughts: 1) this must be the only song ever to mention Texarkana, which 2) is way more than a mile from Louisiana.

oh hey look, I wrote some stuff you should read, this time about enshittification and the decline of the quality of... well, everything

Penalty for putting your robot in a bike lane should be robot seizure. That should be the law and any city that doesn't do it is a coward city

TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?

Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Birds That Invest More Energy Into Parenthood Age Faster And Die Younger “Aging is an evolutionary balancing act with reproductive effort.” #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #aging #reproduction #evolution #LifeHistoryTraits www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2026

Telling another cowboy to stand down:

Gonna write a book called "IASIP's Fables" that shows how Its Always Sunny is actually a modern day collection fables for adults. Fables in the sense of them being fictional tales meant to subtly provide a moral point about human foibles and how not to behave.

Delighted as I am to see Abu al-‘Abbas the elephant getting some love, there are a lot of problems with the idea of a military alliance between the Carolingians and the ‘Abbasids. 🧵 #medievalsky

It says an enormous amount about the Royal Navy in the late Victorian period that they could essentially build HMS "Fuck That One Ship In Particular" as and when required.

This is a really great article about women and ADHD and hormones.

FAFO: Caitlyn Jenner Angry That Her Passport Lists Her As 'Male' #CrooksAndLiars

15-25 year old me: tee hee i love all the deaths in the final destination movies 40 year old me: this is what happens when you get rid of regulations and oversight. Everything is shoddily built and they’re cutting corners

Happy spring break, y’all. As my mom would say, I wonder what the po’ folks back home are doing?

We all have days like this

"We need to spend more on defense" folks have to reckon with the fact that we have blown colossal amounts of cash on DoD and CENTCOM's emotional support activities and the American voter does not see anything positive received in return for this spending.

everything you could want in a story: FIFA, private credit, Trump, world cup ticket price gouging www.ft.com/content/234f...

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

"Households tend to take pantry food for granted, but canned beans, powdered cheese, and bags of moist cookies were not designed for everyday convenience. These standard products were made to meet the needs of the military."