I really want her to challenge Schumer's Senate seat in 2028.

If your job is actually working with clients/customers a smile is pretty much mandatory. I worked in a call center where I always had to have a smile in my voice and would get dinged if I sounded like I was having a bad day.

Republican leadership intended to vote to gut the Endangered Species Act today… and then didn't have the support needed, so they pulled the bill.

Happy Earth Day! 🌍

I just don’t know who to trust when it comes to my child’s health: their pediatrician or these garishly-bronzed, elderly pedophiles who can’t do basic math

1-just a fragment
2-…of the only boring bit.

But still. Wow!

With Orban gone the EU has now approved the 90 billion Euro loan to Ukraine and another package of sanctions on Russia. V good news.

This is a senator L. Louise Lucas appreciation post

Democrats did not step back. We fought back. When they go low, we hit back hard. We won Prop 50 in California, reclaimed a seat in Utah, pushed back extremists in Ohio and halted toxic GOP efforts in Indiana, New Hampshire, Nebraska and Kansas. Tonight, thanks to the relentless work of Virginia Democrats, led by Governor Abigail Spanberger, Speaker Don Scott, State Majority Leader Scott Surovell and President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, “YES” won and Donald Trump lost. Virginians spoke with a crystal-clear voice, voting to stop the MAGA power grab and protect the integrity of free and fair elections. This war is not over. Next week, Ron DeSantis is hauling the Florida legislature back into a special session to redraw maps because Republicans know they are on the verge of an epic defeat in November. DeSantis is clearly more interested in illegal gerrymandering than lowering the high cost of living or fixing our broken healthcare system. Right now, nearly 5 million Floridians are facing higher premiums because Republicans failed to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump’s dummymander in Texas. We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast. We are prepared to take them all on, and we are prepared to win. Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”

Hakeem Jeffries puts out a FAFO:

"We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast....

Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time"

Colonialism, the antebellum South, apartheid South Africa, the Soviet Union and their vassal states...the tiny elite keeping all of their money to themselves while the majority of the population can barely get clean water. We just have to look at MS and it is depressing as hell.

I wonder how many times the word "uppity" will be used by Fox News/WH Propaganda machine tomorrow when referring to AOC.

Cruz and Kennedy have been making some mouth noises about listening to voters, but they will still vote the MAGA line. It is easy for them to say since their seats are safe for another couple of years.

The President spent more on bombs in ONE WEEK of his war with Iran than we spend in an entire YEAR to help parents afford child care.

Trump & RFK Jr. are asking to spend $500B more for war—but they won't increase funding for child care by a cent.

WWI Combat: 53,402 deaths
WWI Flu: 45,000 deaths

Pete Hegseth: “Let’s make the flu a threat again!”

Apparently, “readiness” now means making our troops as vulnerable as they were in 1918. Bold move.

omg this is so good.

"FBI: Most Wasted" YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Thank you, Stephen Colbert
youtu.be/il7hYkPI7oU

You're going to want to watch this.

I remembered the title - "On Beauty" - and it had a marble bust of Apollo as the cover illustration. WHY does something I hated so much live nestled in my brain?

For some reason I keep thinking of Camille Paglia's big moment back in the early 90s. I still remember the first chapter of that stupid book, because I was so angry I stopped reading it. A Real Man doesn't need empathy is a terrible way to view the world.

I have a sibling who is a narcissist. Had to sue her for the 50% of my (small) family estate b/c she preferred violating probate over me "winning". She likely admires Trump for cheating the system and becoming rich, b/c she relates to him.

A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children should stop this country in its tracks. Instead, the Shreveport tragedy disappeared from the headlines in a day. We cannot allow this level of violence to fade into background noise. Ending America’s gun‑violence epidemic is a moral oblligation.

I knew it would be really bad, but since I am not a sociopath the depths of depravity and corruption still shock me.

Yearly post of Gertrude Michael singing ‘Sweet Marijuana’ in Murder at the Vanities (1934). Happy 4/20!

I think a more direct framing is "when did Elon Musk decide it was safe to publicize how hard Right he always has been?"

Hassett's lies are bad enough. It's that smile/smirk he has when he is spewing them that makes me loathe him with every fiber of my being.

My mother's later stage dementia and end of life were during COVID. Visitors had kept her a bit grounded; just my dad and me - plus the caregiver - accelerated her decline.

My mother had peripheral neuropathy and dementia. Check with your doctor about Visiting Nurses or Bayada in your region; my local Bayada started with someone showering my mom a couple of times a week. Try to keep up basic grooming - right until the end she wouldn't sit around in a bathrobe all day.

While Bill Watterson may be the philosopher of our age, Gary Larson is its prophet

Boots on the Groundhog Day

Tiny goats in tiny coats will boing away your Sunday sads.

We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it.

He’s just burning your tax money.