It’s an absolute outrage that someone so unreliable has been put in charge of the vital work of Female Body Inspection

The opening scene is from ONE WEEK AGO.

“On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Guys, my 3-D print shop just got the weirdest order!? And I think it's from RFK, Jr???

April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.

If you give the corporation your food money they'll donate a tiny amount of money (which they will claim as a charitable deduction) to offset the poverty caused by corporations not paying a living wage. YOU'RE WELCOME

Ah, radium. Is there anything you can't do?

This aerial shot from a real estate listing feels like art

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

"Charlie would be loving this"

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award

I haven’t said anything because I’m superstitious but now I can: hi other challenger trauma kids who also ended up working their whole lives to be like Ronald McNair. Unclench your jaw.

Maya Glover, daughter of NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, celebrates father's accomplishment to Korn's "Freak on a Leash" (2026)

In the first year of a new Democratic administration, we very much need the Kennedy Center Honors to return, and for Weird Al Yankovich to be amongst the honorees

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

Wonderful

they’re so goddam stupid they fucked up surrendering

An anti-pope based in Texas is the only result from this broadly terrible decade in politics that would make me laugh.

Son described the Wrangler as the Jeep Wombat because it's a cube-shaped piece of shit

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Our entire lives are a Princess Bride gag now

Marco Rubio does not believe that Trump understands the word "farcical" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

I'm guessing that when the average price of gas hits $4.50 per gallon, Trump will threaten to nuke Tehran - and will mean it! - if the canal is not re-opened. At $5.00, he'll do it.

This is good, right? I mean, when the same thing happened in 1893 the world had a catastrophic panic, but this is different, right?

Confirmed! Airman rescued www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/u...

“Ants have very high IQs” “Fun fact: IQ tests are rooted in race science and eugenics” “What is race science” Me:

A Good Friday job opening at Ressurect Bio is some sci fi nightmare plot

The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio, 1610

Wow—the Pope is going with full-on liberation theology:

Helium *and* oil can't go out by water, hmmmm?

EXPERTS IN WHAT EXACTLY

the CIA posts stuff like this so you can feel like you're part of the ruling class by purchasing a pair of $150 loafers off eBay instead of asking for affordable housing, free healthcare, and better working conditions

Let's rebuild Denver's City Park bandstand after the 1929 landmark and centerpiece of City Park Jazz was destroyed by fire. Word of Thanks Fund donors will contribute about $40,000 in microgiving to start. I'll match the next fifty $5 donations: denverparktrust.networkforgood.com/projects/298...

An especially good one

Trump is now apparently willing to leave Iran in control of the Strait of Hormuz because reopening it will take too long What an incredible own-goal. If this happens, it will studied in our textbooks as one of the most disastrous, and self-inflicted, strategic blunders in military history

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

In keeping with tradition, tapas are now Freedom Bites®

There are career stuntmen who have flipped fewer cars than Tiger Woods.

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

“.. even if the conflict is wound down within weeks, fertiliser disruption alone would cause US food inflation to rise from around 2 per cent to 4 per cent year on year. If fighting drags into the summer, she warns, the increase could reach double digits.” www.ft.com/content/27e0...

Orban's Hungarian government accused of mass voter intimidation and electoral bribery ahead of election www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am in Muncie Indiana this week doing research for my book about the Klan-fighting editor George Dale. 104 years ago tonight was the moment that everything changed for George. I spent this evening in an empty lot thinking about the porous lines between then and now. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

Official statement re: Dan Bongino

These were *so* good

An actual war hero from Maine, Joshua Chamberlain, quit his job at a college and learned how to defeat Lee by reading a book about how to be a military officer. He read a book. Anyway. They should have hanged Lee outside the White House.

Holy shit truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...