what about *your* indiscretions while in office, pal?

nearly all of these MAHA influencers are being compensated by tobacco companies, and very few disclose it. in many cases, they are marketing to children. nicotine pouches harm child brain development.

thank you bell hooks

BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.

climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...

what happened to your moral authority mr president..?

isn't that something worth reflecting on and making adjustments for?

Fascists cant be shamed. They arent committed to rules & institutions. When they overturn them there is no cognitive dissonance. A political strategy aimed at calling them out wont stop them, because the problem is not that they're inconsistent.

It's the conservative "I've been canceled" media tour. Standard grift

I am a PhD sociologist who works outside academia and I approve this message.

To Fight Heat, NYC Sets 2040 Tree Canopy Deadline, With Riskiest Areas First How the plan will be funded is unclear. The Mamdani administration has not earmarked money for its tree-expansion initiative.

trees as cooling infrastructure! this is a fascinating story from @smaldo.bsky.social:

Anyway, at the risk of sounding like a weirdo who is too online--

I'm really grateful to y'all, Bluesky. We are strangers-- but not, as many of you have supported me through the WaPo firing, my fighting journeys, through my father's passing--

--and basically rebuilding my life at nearly 40.

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report LEVEL UP FOR ROMANCE! By Gita Jackson Imprint: Mira Aftermath co-owner Gita Jackson's LEVEL UP FOR ROMANCE!, a debut LitRPG romance in which an overworked game developer is transported to the cozy town featured in the farming simulator she's creating and falls for the town's snarky bartender-a character who wasn't even supposed to be romanceable -as she's forced to confront the fact that her career in the gaming industry wasn't what she thought it was going to be and figure out how to get back home, to Emma Cole at Mira, in an exclusive submission, by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary Agency (world). Fiction: Romance April 21, 2026

Hello. I’m writing a novel. @editrixemma.bsky.social @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

Maybe it's just me but I don't think Jeffrey Epstein's clients should be the ones to decide if Jeffrey Epstein's clients should be prosecuted.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

British universities paid security firm to monitor pro-Palestine students - Liberty Investigates Horus provided reports about student protesters' social media use and undertook background checks on a Palestinian guest speaker

My former employer is selling one of its campuses, ending almost all journal subscriptions, and shutting down programs (& laying off staff) left and right, but it has plenty of money to subject its community to surveillance and thought policing.

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages

As an Indian this fills me with a particular flavor of dread and recognition of how fully genocidal Israeli policy in the West Bank is

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Bowling pins around a bowling ball labeled "strike!" Red text: HGSU on strike! Join us on the picket line! Tuesday April 21 starting at 8:30 am, Harvard Science Center Plaza

Harvard grad workers are on strike! Get to the picket! 🌹

Fascists and Nazis hate history, and historians; but understand the power of history. Thats why, across the world, they work so hard to control HOW we tell stories about the past, to drive out diverse critical voices and perspectives, to ensure a narrative that makes them look good.

Just want to be clear: I acknowledge I wrote qual instead of quant.
1. His thesis was not distinguished thus originally when he posted on Bluesky, to much pushback.
2. The Chron is allowing him to shape the narrative.
3. Please focus on his rampant contempt for his colleagues/rightwing grift.

It is DEEPLY important to get non-millionaires, non-tech-industry-hacks, and non-Wall-Street people onto Boards of Trustees of Colleges and Universities. I've seen @syed.nyc in action in the Working Families Party and hope you'll vote for him if you're a Wesleyan grad.

honestly i’m really struggling with the shallow acceptance of the michael biopic. from peers even!!!! i feel insane.

Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy.

I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all.

Out in October with Random House.

How to get a decent public return from Australia's gas resources — A 25% export tax? Or something else? Cameron Murray explain how a scaled variable royalty does the job of a super-profits tax while avoiding the accounting trickery in order to share risk and get a better public return from resources.

Aus owns its gas yet we see little for it even in a boom. Profit-based taxes are easy to game & a 25% levy as proposed by David Pocock is too blunt. We prefer scaled royalties: higher when prices surge, lower when they fall Cameron Murray writes: www.prosper.org.au/2026/04/how-... #auspol

this Pitt finale unnecessarily leans into the trauma plot, a trope as tired as ER docs in their fifteenth hour.

it is hard to be a public servant in a beleaguered instution! it is hard to be a covid care professional+lose mentors! it is hard to teach! no abandoned kid backstory needed.

The audacity of the man to complain about OTHER PEOPLES’s ‘human slop’ when this is his writing

Reforming the existing university system is going to work about as well as reforming the existing police system and both fantasies are driven by much the same kind of liberal ideology, even if the liberals on the university faculties love to tell themselves they’re Marxists.

i don’t really think i wanna watch this show

Found by our delighted son, not sure where.