Made a #MayDayStrong zine! Here's what we're all doing on Friday, May 1, 2026, friends -- and why! Check out the zine in this thread and check out maydaystrong.org for events near you!

And the thing is!!! With Ossoff actually running right now, it's clear he understands this is a winning message.

In honor of Tim Curry’s birthday, here’s a picture of Dante with Tim’s memoir, which is a lot of fun. (And what a great cover photo!)

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

THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.

Hegseth is threatening a war crime, and it’s impeachable. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

I'm officially off the other site thanks to being hacked, but I miss people I followed there. If you come across this, all you fellow writers, follow me. Pleaseeeeeee.

Confirmed with 98% reporting: Tisza still has 138 of the 199 seats, a bunch more than the supermajority it needs to amend the constitution.

Take note, U.S. Democrats who would prefer to win elections

even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them

historic rejection of JD Vance

The thing we need to remember, amidst all the awful other things, is that the authoritarians, on both sides of the Atlantic, are going to lose in the end.

We really sent the guy who couldn’t pick out donuts.

Wondering why T often leaves out direct objects in his speech. Maybe a cognitive issue, and/or because he doesn’t recognize recipients or consequences of his actions.

This is also a very good thing to have on a rainy afternoon recipes.oregonlive.com/recipes/pota...

Enjoying this on a rainy afternoon bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Weather in Half Moon Bay

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

The JDV Effect

Beautiful day in Half Moon Bay today

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

This is catastrophic.

Here's the full version of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello singing the Clash's "Working for the Clampdown" at Kia Forum in Los Angeles, April 7, 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxIi...

Solidarity with the great folks at ProPublica. It’s truly wild how much effort it takes behind every story and video, yet most of my favorite journalists don’t have a fair deal.

Looking, again, for a steelman view of this. Is there ANY plausible argument that we didn’t just kill a bunch of people to no purpose and hand a giant geopolitical victory to an extremist regime after making it more entrenched and more extreme?

Dismissing this pause in fighting as another episode of “TACO Trump” doesn’t acknowledge the deeply dismal moment we face. Our president is deeply unwell, and the Cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

We habituated ourselves to the reasonable expectation that Republicans would insulate Trump from meaningful accountability, and gave up even trying to stop them. But that is a decision all of us, particularly Dems, can revisit, starting this morning. www.offmessage.net/p/impeachmen...

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.

Various flora at the Benicia State Park

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

Poetry: Respite Walk with my Husband at Mer Bleu Bog by Nancy Huggett We falter along this perilous boardwalk through a winter bog of sparse tamarack and spindled birch.

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

Trying to stay off my phone more, but can’t resist a little schadenfreude scrolling

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

When I confronted John Cornyn at the airport, he said it would be “not acceptable” to fund TSA workers without more money for ICE. He caved, and now House Republicans did too. When Democrats stand and fight, we can win.

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

Watching old Muppet Shows and googling guest stars to see who is still alive. Mac Davis is not alive :(

www.nasa.gov/history/nasa... My late father was a NASA engineer (aeronautics) at Lewis (now Glenn) near Cleveland. I will always love NASA and the “meatball” logo—also from Cleveland!

Good luck to our NASA siblings tonight who are making the Artemis II launch to the moon happen!  They’re leading the charge in scientific research and discovery on Earth AND in orbit – and their @ifpte.bsky.social and AFGE union contracts should be restored. 🚀

Grateful for Jennifer Rubin's shout-out for my work on mass protests. www.contrariannews.org/p/how-mass-m...

Submissions Open We are reading all genres through April 15th. Send us your best!

"I used to think stories were like engines. You give them fuel, you push a button, and they start. But they’re not." Our latest must-read essay at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk is by Fendy S. Tulodo - "How to Kill a Story Before It Breathes": ruadanbooks.com/how-to-kill-...

“Females can be very difficult” merlinbirds.org/species/comg...

"The third No Kings protests were an unmistakable display of political force..." "Two-thirds of participants live in suburban, small town or rural areas, a 40% increase over last time in protesters from outside big cities..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

I realize the irony of posting this online, but this is really important. Read it then put down your phone (note to self). Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

there it is, all 7 continents

This was amazing. People were cheering each time the dial was spun.