Reminder that companies do layoffs at the end of the month because they're legally required to pay for health insurance through the end of the month of the firing, so dropping the axe on, say, the 25th saves the corp money while maximally fucking over the workers.

I left the Church years ago. I can’t go back. I do not demand that the Church change for me. But when the Holy Father says stuff like this I feel so connected to the depths of my faith, to the part of the Church that I did not and cannot leave, and I am so happy to feel that way

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

The message: If you oppose people kidnapping your neighbors and disappearing them in concentration camps, you might get sent to prison for the rest of your life. The Constitution is nothing but a set of suggestions.

I don't even know what to fucking say. An average of one immigrant dies a week, they've straight up murdered people, they're mowing people down in the streets, like at what point will even the people who think that this shit can be reformed realize that it needs to be fucking obliterated.

if the cops hadn't been there though, some diapers might have gone missing

It was so nice talking about some of the things I wrote for Destiny 2! Thanks, Nathan Grayson and Aftermath!

Its just this meme over and over again. STOP BUYING STUDIOS TO CLOSE THEM

Mainstream media is 24/7 saturation of poor people committing petty crimes. Shoplifting out of control! Venezuelan thugs are stealing your apartment! Meanwhile billionaires are genocidal serial killers and treated like the pillars of our society

"Marsha Griffin, a pediatrics professor [...], called the period of infancy and toddlerhood 'probably the most harmful time of their lives to have them in detention.' "'Our immigration system is breaking children,' she said."

looks like candy crush is back on the menu boys

Yes. (That's just the first stanza, you can (should) read the entire poem here: shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...)

Like, the reason libraries are trying to revise pricing models is because publishers are charging us up to $150 for digital titles with leases we have to renew every year. Authors aren't getting that money. All that goes to the publishing CEO so he can buy another yacht.

RESIDENT EVIL CODE VERONICA LET'S GOOOOO

Welp there’s no unseeing this

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

The lesson Israel has learned, time and again, is that it can commit genocide and other atrocities with near-total impunity. Now it's exporting the Gaza playbook to Lebanon. Israel's war in Lebanon is killing thousands and displacing millions. NO MORE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL.

They're blocking the straits for Pride

The way the chyron here attacks Talarico for simply loving trans kids is pure evil imo. It expressly situates hating, shunning, persecuting trans kids as the correct position, which I know it is to these people but I hate that they can be so brazen about it and not be roundly condemned.

Ilana Glazer and I are both proud Jewish New Yorkers who believe unapologetically that our safety is inextricably bound up with that of our neighbors, including Palestinians. And that AIPAC and the candidates they support aren’t making any of us safer or freer.

A third-person sneak-around story game starting a hot guy? I think Bond: First Light could ruin my life.

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

Today’s chalking. THEY FOUND $ FOR A WAR, A BALLROOM AND JAN 6. TRAITORS— BUT NOT FOR YOU.

Destiny changed my life. I'm proud of the work I did there and grateful to all the friends I met. It's an incredible team and they deserve the world.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

I have a superpower. It's not a very useful one, but it's real. I can get anyone to enjoy the film Batman and Robin.

Whatever your thoughts about The Boys' finale, it made Elon Musk mad, which the show's creator and cast think is hilarious.

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Who doesn't agree with taxing billionaires more? Oh right, the billionaires! They may whine about it (and even try buying elections to stop us), but the movement is growing to tax obscene wealth — and use it to fund child care, health care, and affordable housing. (1/2)

OH COME ON.

Trump just announced he plans to suspend the federal gas tax. You know what would be a much better solution to skyhigh gas prices? Ending this outrageous, illegal war funded by our taxpayer dollars. (1/2)

here we go again, the new york times calling an increase of 115k jobs under Trump "solid" while it called similar or considerably bigger gains under Biden "disappointing" or "weak"

Part of what we're seeing is the long-foretold victory of Lee Atwater's covert racism strategy. Forty years later and journalists still have no ability to accurately describe a racist who doesn't use the n-word in public.

Masked federal agents tear gassing & pepper spraying children is a feature, not a bug, of Trump's America. Devastating @propublica.org report about the harm ICE has inflicted on kids. Sickening stuff. You can't reform an agency this evil or violent, you must abolish it.

This will be my third mother's day as a mom and I don't think I'll ever stop reminding everyone in my life that I was sliced open at 2am on my first mother's day after being in labor for about 30 hours straight. That just won't ever get old.

No better reality check than when you're hoping for a "So true bestie" and your oldest friend instead hits you with "Ooooof lol. Well."

The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,

Peter Claffey needs to be cast in a rom com ASAP

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Socialize the Knicks and correlate ownership share with MTA usage

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

I can’t believe this is real

how much money does the marine corps lose

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

Ms Rachel is leading the charge to close Dilley Detention Center, a modern-day concentration camp. c.org/gVxvXV2pY7

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...