No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

Seems like a good time to be singing this song. Again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7_b...

The euphemism "family-friendly" means whatever people want it to mean. Mostly, though, it's a not very subtle dogwhistle.

All the partisan gerrymandering was always (in part) racial gerrymandering, because the parties' politics were always (in part—but large part) about race. So when you tell Southern legislatures "you can do partisan gerrymandering, but no racial gerrymandering," they know it means they can do both.

If you don't know the story behind this, maybe wait until a day that's not Monday to read it.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

"The Washington Post remains in the midst of its weird, cheap transformation into the world's most boring conservative newsletter. Owner Jeff Bezos...decided that he was tired of owning one of the most storied newspapers in America, and instead wanted to publish something much dumber and worse."

Those who say a thing can't be done need to get out of the way of doing it.

This is really too good.

This is why they really hate him — because he’s showing government can actually do good stuff for regular people

Oh this thread 🤣

Okay, people. Enough with the gojuchang in everything.

The median American isn't really cooking.

They're not even pretending any more.

Won't somebody think of the rich people with second homes???

Well this aged terribly

BREAKING: In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect. The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Hot Take. I am exhausted by the Christian apologists who keep insisting all the white Christian nationalists aren't "real Christians". Clean your house, or just acknowledge your big tent is big enough for Nazis. I don't begrudge you your personal faith, but don't bring that nonsense to me.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

Truth. #isittoday

White hillbilly votes only in TN!

John Roberts did this.

My god, just get the fucking shot. Get the covid shot, get the flu shot, get the shingles shot, get all them shots. If you want your life to be nasty, brutish and short, I invite you to go live in your own hog-wallow and never come into contact with another human being.

Sad thing is, I expect most Americans to not know about this.

You have to support Platner or you must not like Mamdani/Talarico etc etc is a purity test built around accepting Nazi iconography. You shouldn’t do that.

Jim Crow was in my dad's lifetime. Mass incarceration and the drug war continue in mine. The Interstate highway system and urban renewal destroyed -- and continues to destroy -- billions in heritable black wealth. And that's just the most prominent, state-endorsed, institutionalized stuff.

Some of them are already saying it out loud: repeal the 19th.

absolutely hilarious how the neoliberals everywhere are running into this exact same problem, every single time. no matter how much they pander to the right, they just get called evil leftists and demonized, leaving them alone as they've pushed out both their right and left flanks.

@kameronhurley.com has forgotten more about writing than I will ever know. Still, I write. And garden. And have a day job, and I will be a Kameron Hurley patreon for life. www.kameronhurley.com/i-broke-apar...

Sigh. They've made it so fucking hard to boycott corporations, buit still...let's try.

Why don't they just bring out the fucking white hoods? Oh, I forgot -- they have no reason to hide their faces. Not any longer. I hate this country.

I wish this assessment was not accurate.

If I could do just one thing today, I would subject all Republicans to the pain that they want to inflict on others. Let them live on EBT, with rising rent, no public transit. Let their organizations be harassed and criminalized. Let their bodies be policed. Let them be detained and disappeared.

Do not break bread with your enemies.

BREAKING: A 2nd Circuit court of appeals panel rejects ICE's mandatory detention policy, splitting with the 5th and 8th Circuits and putting the case on a likely trajectory to SCOTUS The 3-0 decision rejects "mass detention w/o bond for millions." www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

if you want people to participate in democracy, and I cannot emphasize this enough, you must demonstrate that democracy will give them an opportunity to influence outcomes. refusal to hold accountable the most nakedly criminal administration in history, despite overwhelming outcry, breeds nihilism.

Entertaining conspiracy theories is an exercise in deliberately disabling your bullshit meter.

They all think they're gonna run away to Mars, or New Zealand, or Montana, or Avalon, or...

People are not gonna figure it out until we start seeing widescale brownouts.

Oh this thread

It's World Book Day! Tell me about a book you love!

Jesus H. Baldheaded Christ. Break the glass.

uhhhh

Tbh I think it's actually kind of obvious that if you think gerrymandering in a two party system is bad, and one of the parties is actively doing that and rejecting legislative efforts to curtail it, the correct move is to counter-gerrymander until you can restore equilibrium and force negotiation.

⚠️ It could take six months AFTER the Iran War ends to clear mines from Strait of Hormuz, per Pentagon. This timeline means the war’s economic impact could extend late into this year and beyond. Reporting by WaPo:

The CDC initially delayed the study, but has now blocked its in-house journal from publishing it entirely. Covid-19 vaccines significantly reduced emergency room visits and hospitalizations this past winter—but RFK Jr.'s Department of Health doesn’t want the public to know that. trib.al/ElIQ2dG