every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

If the military industrial complex could be turned to peaceful exploration and we beat our missiles into moon rovers -- WHAT A WORLD WE COULD HAVE!

Americans overwhelmingly love and value the Post Office, Library System, and NASA. We understand that our lives are richer because they exist. We don't care about NASA's budget. It's possible to have a great society with pro-humanity programs without foregoing wonder.

This is the most brilliant bean cooking thing I've ever seen and I'm buying a steamer basket to try it out immediately

For anyone like me who has been pining for the Clinique Almost Lipstick in the shade Almost Bare since they discontinued it (robbing you of your perfect nude lippy), I am *delighted* to report that their new Pink Honey shade is a beautiful replacement.

This just can't be a coincidence anymore, right? He's riding bell hooks' SEO coat tails, and hoping that his own bullshit will overshadow her incredible work -- yes? How could he have TWO books that share near identical titles with her otherwise?

It’s Holy Week and ICE is currently detaining a pastor with no criminal record who is legally in the United States seeking asylum. They have also refused to give him a Bible. substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is so, so well-articulated.

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

Maybe I'm totally naive, but why doesn't the House just impeach the president once a week every week? He's committed enough impeachable acts to give them an endless well of options. Put it in the history books that they at least TRIED to do something Re: Checks and Balances.

Your moment of zen: my snail taking a turn around the feeding hoop

This is re: restricting SNAP so it can’t be used for sugary stuff

i’ve been asked a few times recently about why it’s so important to me as a journalist to describe things plainly—like referring to the planned ICE warehouses as concentration camps. seeing the term used in a letter to the secretary of defense is proof that journalists’ word choices have impact.

Ordered 4lbs of Greens at King Soopers. Got 1.1lbs . PAID FOR 4 POUNDS. BETTER BELIEVE I REQUESTED A REFUND FOR THREE. This is happening all the time now. WHY aren't these people getting sued for lying about what they're giving us???

heh

When I was a little kid my dad told me that one of my cousins who was a few years older than me and I'd met maybe once was now a child actor, and had been in a couple movies, and I was like, "Cool!" And then he got into one of those 90's Kid And Animal movies and I was like, "Cool!"

Yep, a mom's COVID shot during pregnancy protects her baby, a large study finds--benefits of COVID vaccination during pregnancy is the passage of antibodies to the newborn, and then that protects the newborn against COVID www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

I got a pair of the Old Navy linen blend wide leg pants on their Easter sale, and yesthankyou this is now my new summer uniform. I'll take em off in September.

I tried to read a paper book 2 weeks ago (instead of ebook/audiobook), & the act of holding open a book with a wee bit of heft & a slightly stiff spine reactivated my post-election-doom-crocheting-induced hand injury so badly that I've been sleeping with a balled up sock in my hand for a fortnight.

Iran put out an absolute bop on top of a Lego movie spoof as a video, and it's the most effective propaganda I've seen since Hanoi Hannah.

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

I would read a book that just takes writer/artists, and lists all of the support (financial and logistical) that they received while writing. Also the state of their health, and whether they were caretakers of any kind. It would be encouraging and enlightening on so many levels tbh.

Someone stopping mid-badinage, mid-repartee, mid-flirt to tell you that they really love to be funny, and then have them drop into obligatory-getting-to-know-you small talk? It's like they've just broken the 4th wall. Like, why'd you spoil the illusion here, buddy? Why'd you break the spell?

I'm a corporate travel agent. Every one of my clients is a VIP (C-Suites, Board Members, etc) from globally recognized brands. Between the middle east being a no-go zone, TSA disruptions, the LaGuardia crash, and ICE showing up at airports --- my clients are cancelling and altering their travel.

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

The No. 1 reason aviation is so safe is that there are at least two of absolutely everything, redundancies on the redundancies. No single human should have ever been expected to perform this perfectly, it isn’t possible and shouldn’t even be legal. We need hearings now.

How it’s all going at LaGuardia this morning: insane lines for unpaid & short-staffed TSA while 20+ ICE agents just hang out and chat.

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I’m still collecting stories and I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

Asthma Baddies -- Colorado has had a historically warm/dry winter, feeding seamlessly into a historically hot/dry spring, which means FIRE. Fire season has already started. Months early. Please share every unhinged tip/trick/strategy you have for staying breezy not wheezy.

I need to just frame this tweet in my bathroom so that I remember instead of rediscovering this like brand new information every 3-5 years

you ever fantasize about telling off somebody who absolutely doesn’t care that they hurt your feelings many years ago except of course in the fantasy they do care & apologize and also a magic judge shows up and bangs a gavel and says a jury of your peers has taken your side in the matter? me either

Still true

These were ***so perfect*** I'm gonna make a whole Tupperware full of em and keep em in the fridge for a lil treat.

I Dub Thee : Ingredient Household Clusters (Corn flakes, pecans, broken Ritz, coated in melted chocolate chips and dusted with flaky salt) (So freaking good I ate 3 before they could set)

Please share your favorite snacks/meals/treats/nutritious food that you like to have on hand for your period. Or just like, your favorite feel-better hacks for a rough cycle. (yes, I'm aging, yes my uterus is mad about it. I'm working on changing my habits so I can be prepared)

This kinda shit always bakes my beans. Just get divorced already; you're making the rest of us sad.

looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles

George W Bush was such a bad president that it only took a year of him being in office to override my entire childhood of Moral Majority, Rush Limbaugh, Focus on the Family, Evangelical Christian, Southern, Deep Red programming, and make me forsake the Republican Party forever.

It's only 8:30 am and we already have today's Quiet Part Outloud winner

After decades of watching Harrison Ford become curmudgeonly and visibly unhappy with the work he was doing, it has been an absolute JOY to watch him light up while doing Shrinking. He's talking about the process! He's talking about the art! He's madly, platonically in love with Jessica Williams!

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

Dear Academics - for the love of all that is understandable, would you PLEASE give us a road map before you just plunge into your work? I'm 30 pages into recaps/speculations/distinctions of all the scholarly theories for the last 80 years, and I STILL have no clue where we're going with this.

She's clean! And I lost the little fake pearl out of the heart charm in the cleaning process but I luckily had a real pearl from an old broken earring so I just popped that in instead!

Mark 1 on the bracelet.... I think I extended it a bit too long. Gonna remove 2 links, reposition those charms, and see

So when I was like 12 years old my Great Aunt Jan gave me a silver charm bracelet, and told me that she was going to buy me a new charm for all my big life stuff. Then she died when I was 14, and I never got any more charms

I've taken up a new hobby, which is being mean to "non-political/other" men on Hinge. Instead of just ignoring those likes (my habit), I've been matching, sending flirty little messages followed by, "So who did you vote for?" then attacking their character and masculinity when they answer badly.

OH MY GOSH I FIGURED IT OUT. I was having a discussion about ICE in Minnesota with a man who is a reflexive contrarian, and his takes were so bad and misinformed I asked him what news sources usually are, and he rattled off the names of some twitch streamers/podcasters which I wrote down

Just went into my notes app for the first time in months, and if anyone can figure out what I was thinking about when I wrote this you get a gold star

Here is my EXTREMELY CORRECT prediction for this season of The Pitt The hospital *does* get attacked by a ransomware hack + something happens at Anthrocon to send a pack of furries to the Pitt = the furries (who are all high level IT professionals) save the hospital from the hackers.