Were I not in a female dominated household, a majority share of my calories would be pizza rolls and Costco Trail mix. (Vodka would take another incalculable percentage)

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"you get more conservative as you get older" literally whomst, because everyone I grew up with has gone from the centrist Dem politics we learned from our boomer parents to "burn the whole fucking system down." Including my boomer parents

Tonight's dinner:

Aw...shit, I better figure something out.

Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.

One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.

Converting my raised garden into a Hugel mound this season because I:

1. Am a huge dumb nerd.

2. Need something that takes 3-4 years to see to fruition as a Hail-Mary towards Hope.

U.S. Personnel Who Died in Mexico Were Working For the CIA, Sources Say Two Americans killed in Mexico, previously identified only as embassy staff but working for the CIA, participated in a raid on a drug lab.

Officials who spoke to @theintercept.com said the CIA has been running covert operations in Mexico, working alongside vetted Mexican state-level police forces and other government agencies.

The sources said the Americans died after a raid on a synthetic drug lab.

theintercept.com/2026/04/21/c...

Exhibit #4123423 showing why gutting state capacity while simultaneously attempting an authoritarian takeover is very very VERY dumb.

You literally run out of lawyers, which in this case, are far more valuable than shock troops.

People born December 31st 2008, right now.

She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8

Studying the First Year of Trump’s Second Term: The Renewed Importance of Participatory Governance The first year of Trump's second administration has marked a sharp departure from six decades of federal education policy. This policy brief examines how the administration has expanded executive auth...

Alright, so after many many drafts, my NEPC education “policy review” covering Year I of Trump II is out.

A “Not great, Bob!” gif might have served as well. I end up arguing that doing the life-giving work of good education requires intensely local effort in a newly obvious kind of way.

hawking a line of branded Mountain Goats smart glasses. no matter where you look things look a little bleaker and also the wearer cannot remove the glasses once worn. I’m disrupting this sector

California Accuses Amazon of Price Fixing in Legal Filing

Amazon saw lower prices at competitors and urged the brands to pressure those competitors to raise their prices, which they did. In writing. @robbonta.bsky.social has the receipts of this cartel behavior.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/t...

There’s a long line of people who would happily volunteer to torment Tucker Carlson

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...

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Rubber poop with a portrait of Trump that says "I did that!".

I saw two of these on the walk to yoga and back tonight.
#nolasky #streetphotography #photography

I could be another about Spectrum Internet meeting out all day with no responses...

..or I could be happy that I was just forced to watch The Quiz With Balls

advertising technology in the 1990s: look at this “website” you can “surf”. it has an image of a cat on it

advertising technology in the 2020s: you must adopt this now or die. we are going to completely kill you if you don’t download this app immediately

Map depicting which parts of the US say groh-shery (mostly everybody, but particularly the midwest) vs who says groh-sery (mostly major cities, but particularly NYC metro area)

Map depicting who says groh-shery vs groh-sery, which chart showing how groh-shery is becoming the standard, especially in people born after 1995

Groh-shery vs groh-sery, based on region.

Don't you love this stuff? I love this stuff. Do you bitches have the cot-caught merger? Do you bitches have the mary-merry-marry merger even?

This is a war based on lies

Hello to all the Evening Shift of Bluesky Scrolling!

Got another mutual aid request for a sweet Kansas City family who is on the struggle bus (like all of us! 🙃😭) and could use some help! 🫶🏼

If you cannot monetarily help, that is perfectly okay! I appreciate the reposts and comments so much! 🤟🏼

CNN put together a montage of Trump saying as far back as March 9 that his war against Iran "is going to be finished pretty quickly," then him saying that same thing over and over for the past six weeks

thanks to everyone who follows me for reasons that aren't baseball for putting up with me during posts that are very much baseball

And I never will...

Goddamn, they’ve got the whole Giles v. Harris (1903) Supreme Court record here. I had to piece a lot of this together from different sites for a story did on Jackson Giles in 2022.

Summit League Baseball Reached an Epic Peak Over the Weekend Sometimes an epic win is not an EPIC WIN!!!!!!!!

Even if you already heard about the 21-inning game between Northern Colorado and St. Thomas over the weekend, I promise the headlines did not fully capture the true weirdness of this game.

to paraphrase an old buddhist koan, if you meet a man who tells you he has all the answers, kill and eat him

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying