Say what you will about her she regularly manifests the only type of appropriate energy for the moment we live in

The Epstein files should have been released months ago.

Trump should have been imprisoned years ago.

Indeed. Complaints about redistricting are invalid. Republicans did it everywhere and invalidated a Constitutional Amendment so they could do it on explicitly racial lines.

There are two choices: use the same levers of power as Republicans do, or let them win. There is no "principled" opposition.

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

When we get sane admin back, we'll need to go back and apologize to all these folks, bring them back here and/or make restitution.
There's no good reason for this kind of treatment, it's almost like the purpose, the design, is to ruin the brand of the US as trustworthy partner. Wonder who benefits?

The Paul Manafort method of moving $$$ tax free...

Trump's war in Iran has forced Americans to pay over $8 billion more at the pump.

So naturally, his priority is to bail out his family's business partners in a foreign country.

The new money from the Senate reconciliation plan could be used better by directly helping Americans instead of providing more funding for the Department of Homeland Security Select services and how many people could receive any of them through the end of fiscal year 2029 with funding equivalent to what is called for in the Senate Republican budget resolution Table with 6 columns and 2 rows. (column headers with buttons are sortable) People covered by Medicaid Children receiving free school lunch People housed in Section 8 Children given free child care Adults with free community college tuition (two-year degree) Senate stated deficit increase target ($70B) 2,188,000 22,702,000 2,412,000 1,364,000 2,196,000 Maximum allowable deficit increase ($140B) 4,375,000 45,403,000 4,824,000 2,729,000 4,392,000 Notes: Funding could be used for any of these individually, not all in combination. See Methodology for more details. Figures in the $140-billion deficit increase line may not appear to be double the $70-billion line due to rounding. Source: Author’s calculations from U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget, “Concurrent Resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035” (Washington: 2026); Congressional Budget Office, “The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2026 to 2036” (Washington: 2026); Elizabeth Williams and others, “Medicaid Enrollment & Spending Growth: FY 2025 & 2026” (Washington: KFF, 2025); Food and Nutrition Service, “National School Lunch, Special Milk, and School Breakfast Programs, National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates,” Federal Register 90 (140) (2025): 34827–34830; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, “Assisted Housing: National and Local” (last accessed March 2026); U.S. House of Representatives, “Division — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20…

New from me: Trump's plan to pump more money into ICE and CBP is a missed opportunity to help Americans.

Republicans want to give $70 bn to ICE/CBP, funding them through the end of Trump. Here's what we could do with that money instead.

Read more here: www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

The Third Trajectory and Hopes for Rebuilding - emptywheel The global catastrophe Trump created in Iran may provide an opportunity to disrupt his authoritarian trajectory.

For Taco Tuesday I wrote a long post which, buried w/in it, includes a description of 2 acute psychological dilemmas Trump is facing.

1) To win v Iran, Trump has to fight Putin
2) To make a deal, Trump has to admit Obama is smarter than him

Neither is tenable.

emptywheel.net/2026/04/21/t...

Nile River captured from the international space station (ISS)

Oversight Republicans are canceling hearings and hosting “round tables” where there are no rules; no motions or subpoenas allowed; and Democrats can’t call witnesses.

They’re scared that we’ll get to the truth in our Epstein investigation. Well, we won’t stop until we do.

No one is ever going to trust us again. Gravely immoral, and gravely damaging to our national security.

Trump pardons allies who boost his crypto coin.

Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating.

Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business.

The list goes on.

We must not become numb to this corruption.

The Vindication of Bidenomics Are we finally ready to acknowledge its successes?

"America at the end of the Biden years was still a hugely unequal society, but less so than it had been for a generation." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-vindic...

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

Key evidence disappears from Tesla involved in bizarre crash The network card that stores and transmits crash data to Tesla's servers was physically removed from a Tesla Model Y involved in a violent 90 km/h crash in Bergen, Norway.

you might be surprised by how often Tesla's data recording systems randomly break, fail to function properly, go missing, or are otherwise mysteriously unable to perform their functions precisely when they are needed most

then again, you might not be surprised at all

electrek.co/2026/04/13/t...

Cancel the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner The White House Correspondents Dinner shouldn't invite a president who is an enemy of free speech. Better no "Nerd Prom" than this one.

“Cancel the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner”

— my @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social latest

washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/21/c...

Fires burn swiftly, but insurance battles linger: New bills propose consumer-friendly regulations California lawmakers roll out new bills attempting to further regulate insurance companies like State Farm.

Would like to learn more about that approach.
Attended discussion last week w #CA senators Ben Allen & Sasha Renee Perez, sponsors of insurance reform bills arising out of the LA wildfires last year, but focus was on renewals if homes hardened against fire.
calmatters.org/economy/2026...

who raises the cattle that you cook? who grows & harvests the vegetables that you prepare as a side? who transports it to the stores that you buy it at? who maintains the pipes that fill your glasses with clean drinking water? and who cleans the water?

when's the last time you truly fed yourself?

It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

thank you bell hooks

How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

If you're thinking of Tim Cook's legacy, this piece from last September: How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs. www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/h...

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.

He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).

Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.

And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.

Remember this.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

impeach trump
push for repeal of bbb
re-fund every program that trump defunded
subpoena every motherfucker
make it so those assholes can't make a single breath without 20 congressional committees investigating every atom

The original notion behind choice was to increase options _within_ public_schools, otherwise, you’re just funding segregation academies, subsidizing upper income households w private school tuition.
IIRC, in LA, wave of charters hurt not just public schools but also Catholic schools

She is awful and should be fired but man that is three women out of the Cabinet and not a single guy

Vladeck, aflame: “Roberts didn’t change his mind sometime between 2016 and 2025; he’s just being a hypocrite. It’s irreparable harm for Republican presidents; just not Democrats”