Ever think about how these idiots are robbing us of some of the last few habitable years

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

I used to get shit for leaving Trader Joe's on my resume after college.

Honestly, it was a screener. I don't want to work for someone who shits on other jobs and professions, anyway. 🤷‍♀️

Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in

Cool. My electric mixer stirs faster than my finger

🧵

I am raising two boys. Due to Covid (on several levels—#pwLC), their age 0-7 years were very different, and it shows.

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Pre-sunrise stripes of light blue and pink behind a skyline of still-barw trees—two out of three trans flag colors

No one will ever convince me that the sky doesn't fly this flag on purpose

Huh.

How about that?

The Paper of Record is hiding its record.

/lights journo degree on fire

Also, shout out to the new hemoglobin-checking devices! No more finger-sticks!❤️

Gave blood today for the first time in about 3 years. Made my next appointment before I left the building.

I used to do this like clockwork. I'm O+ and an easy donor (Double Red today), and my dad set the example—when you can, give.🤷‍♀️

One more piece of me sliding back into place...
#pwLC

War! What is it Good For? Who is it Good For? I look at all U.S. use of military since the end of WWII. Our government is the greatest danger America has ever faced.

I ask the bottom-line questions about our military and war:

Why do we have a military?
Who does it benefit, who profits?
Who does it not benefit, who pays?
Can our military even protect us if it had to?

Our government is the greatest danger America has ever faced.

If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid:

$124 — school lunch & nutrition programs
$49 — diplomacy to prevent wars
$19 — USPS
$19 — Federal Aviation Administration
$18 — national parks

and

$4,049 — weapons and war.

These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay

Jesus motherfucking Christ.

(Haven't shopped at #Target in years and wasn't about to start, but JMFC.)

Okay, 50min in and the Champlain Valley Expo concert got me. 😭

Stg, if Noah Kahan's "Out of Body" came out while I was still Oakland, I'd have bawled my eyes out and started packing.

But I'm home now, so I ain't shed one tear yet. 💚

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

This is NUTS

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

🫂

I need every medical professional in my orbit to put at the top of my chart, in bright red capital letters: WAS A COMPETITIVE ROWER, CANNOT ACCESS EXERCISE DUE TO CHRONIC ILLNESS, SEE NOTES.

It would save time and the regular retraumatization of explaining why I can't row 45k a week anymore.

BREAKING:

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result, ending 16 years in power.

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Anyway, if you're still struggling with this I urge you to take a moment and try and see how you would feel if it were you. I, for one, would want to make sure those reporters gave a shit and did their due diligence.

Extremely good work was done today, and those women are brave as fuck. That's it.

It's about trust. Building trust, maintaining it. It's the only way we can do this job. If sources aren't ready to go on record, then that's that. You don't just dump that info into a rumor mill, lol. Any journalist worth their salt would sooner go to jail than break that confidentiality

If a reporter doesn't have the resources, patience, the PERMISSION (i.e.: a source willing to go on record), the legal backing, the whatever they need to tell the story right, with empathy for the survivors, and with enough details to nail that sucker to a wall, then they aren't going to pursue it

There's an important bit of journalism ethics here: do your best to minimize harm. This means taking a trauma-informed approach, not rushing the story and shoving survivors into the worst, period, hell, period before they're ready, and it means getting it right the FIRST time, not later

When you're taking on someone with that kind of pull and leverage, and you're asking these women to talk about their experiences on the record, you want to make sure that you're not dragging them needlessly into a punishing spotlight for nothing

That kind of work takes time and effort

Additionally, we're talking about extremely fucked behavior from a progressive candidate who apparently, now we are learning, had a reputation for being (and I'm putting this lightly) a fucking prick groomer of interns, and was powerful enough to ensure silence and/or complicity for years. YEARS.

1. It takes an army of folks to make sure that what they're getting down to is cold, hard facts. The evidence, to me, looks pretty unshakable.

2. It started with victims willing to go on record, who also needed to be willing to stick all the way thru the process, which is painful and repetitive

Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:

My grandparents were Catholics' Catholics; I was raised in the Church but lean Pagan/Taoist/Unitarian, etc.

I can't speak for Pepère, but Memère would've absolutely LOVED this pope. I wish she'd lived to see this.