Holy sh*t

THIS IS THE KIND OF AD DEMOCRATS NEED TO MAKE!!!

Expose Republicans as the out-of-touch ASSH*LES they are.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!!

#EarthDay

I’m just watching it now at your recommendation and it is like a thriller. I’m scared for her infiltrating—such a daring and heroic thing to do.

I hate to break it to you (and it still shocks me) but I’m 66. Am I an outlier?

Picture is of a very fluffy black terrier curled on a white down comforter and snuggling with his teen’s Drew Starkey blanket

Moostache on a very fluffy down comforter and my teen’s Drew Starkey blanket

Texas republicans illegally gerrymandered their maps and never once asked voters how they feel about it.

California and Virginia let voters decide.

That’s the difference. They started this fight and Democrats are going to fucking finish it.

A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

Tracking the Trump family’s business deals and profits in his 2nd term In his second administration, President Trump’s family members, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and sons Eric and Don Jr., are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions o...

In his second administration, President Trump’s family members are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest. https://to.pbs.org/4tTfPdh

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The road to winning back the Biden skippers

And more importantly, I think, how to win them back:

Beyond the UK and US manosphere lies a deeper, darker global problem In this week’s newsletter: the rise of misogyny around the world; the Sudan war enters its fourth year; and a key vote on slave trade reparations

"Women with public roles such as politicians, journalists, activists are vulnerable to online harassment and worse, forcing them to withdraw from digital spaces or grow a thicker skin. The effects go beyond personal harm. Silencing women is a threat to democracy."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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

CALL YOUR REPS: Stop the Federal Book Ban Bill! Your voice matters, and together we can help protect the freedom to read.

As of Sunday night this was over a 100 calls from its goal of 600 calls to House members to oppose HR 7661, the national book ban. Can we hit the goal by tomorrow?

I live in Northern California where I long for peonies and have to buy them at Trader Joe’s for $10 for 3 stems so these seem like a godsend.

Wow peonie tulips! Fabulous.

Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.

"It just felt like the floor had fallen out. Like all the support that I thought we had was gone. Maybe this is naive, but I didn't think that would happen in Massachusetts."

there is functionally a conspiracy to gaslight you into believing that, so it's understandable
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

Essential reading. If you have not yet read this, please do.
"Narrative Warfare and the Breakdown of Reality"
@mariaressa.bsky.social and colleagues.

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."

In Marin County where I live the rails used to go to the ferries to San Francisco until the Golden Gate Bridge was built. Now we have traffic jams.

It all makes sense when you understand that VC-backed tech companies want to insert themselves as a monopolistic, corporate tollbooth into EVERY human activity.

Transportation, communication, payments, farming, reading, listening to music, finding information, and now— with AI, *thinking*.

If you'd like to go back to the prosperity of the 1950s, Tax the rich and corporations, as they should be taxed, support Unions for fair wages & vote Liberal.
With thanks to Jeff Tiedrich for the quote.

At the #PENLitAwards, we took the chance to ask some of the best writers around to share (if they would) their best (and their worst) writing advice. Here's what we heard.

#writing #writers #writingadvice

Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.

Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.

This is what corporate greed looks like.

Flow chart showing the U.S. spends $445 billion on mass incarceration each year.

Happy Tax Day. Just a reminder, as you potentially owe Uncle Sam: Mass incarceration costs the U.S. $445 billion every single year.

An obvious and very welcome decision.

And note the incredible messaging opportunity here for Democrats: Trump literally dropped the case, he did not want to stand up for the American people being gouged for tickets.

O good Horatio, I’ll take the ghost’s word for a thousand pound.

Remember, if they're watching Fox News, they think: (a) war is going great, (b) economy is awesome and (c) the awful liberals & foreigners are getting what they deserve.

They're trapped in a nearly impenetrable epistemic bubble. Trump's approval rating has a mid 30s floor until that bubble pops.

DOJ moves to undo Jan. 6 rioters’ convictions for seditious conspiracy President Donald Trump last year commuted the prison sentences of 12 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

The coup never stopped. He isn't leaving legally or peacefully.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The covid amnesia shell game happened DESPITE THE DATA, in part bc we never had a reckoning or real memorialization

The *moment* we replace this regime, they will memory-hole everything they did. If we don't keep clear records and then make them into public memory, they'll get away with it.

Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus?

That was this week.

I knew we were really in a dystopian nightmare but wow that’s bleak. The fix would be a union, but all they do is union bust.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.