I can't help but remember a year ago (I think? Maybe two?) when they were all trying to sell us on Bitcoin. What happened with that?

Hes got a Petfinder page and everything:

www.petfinder.com/cat/hue-51e5...

That’s our money. Money that we paid into the treasury.

House Republicans roll out landmark data privacy push The proposals would preempt dozens of state data laws and set a federal standard for how tech and finance companies handle their customers’ data.

This bill is dangerous.

It does not protect privacy. It lets Big Tech and Telecom do anything they want with your data.

And it blows up all state and many federal privacy laws that we already have.

Most dangerously, it may nuke all state civil rights laws.

Here are some examples:

1/n

I'd take that, too.

PREACH.

CBS invites Hegseth and Stephen Miller to be guests at 'hard to stomach' press dinner Donald Trump will be returning the White House Correspondents' Dinner, after years of boycotting the event and attacking journalists for their reporting on him.According to reporting from Status's Ol...

yall if you're going to this shit lol ur reputation

"CBS News has invited Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Trump advisor Stephen Miller, as special guests [...]

FCC Chair Brendan Carr, described by Darcy as Trump's "lapdog," will attend as a guest of Paramount, CBS News' parent company"

Oh dear, sending good wishes for healing! (And planning to put this book in my TBR pile soon!)

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

I feel secondhand embarrassment for everyone involved. 🥴

Congratulations!!

Me, too, Gumbo. Me, too.

Reading texts you want to throw out the window is great! Especially when you have the chance to talk with others about *why*--about what your values are for literature, and again, why that is. I'm glad we both had that experience. I wish students now could.

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

Thirty. Minutes.
Jesus fucking Christ.

Trump administration begins refunding more than $166bn in tariffs Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs

So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.

The Art of the Deal.

Sending good wishes that couch time is restorative. 💕

An onion will do well for such a shift

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

If you're like me, it would be "lie on the floor and whimper" day. Hope yours is better than that!

Good luck, Ohio. Glad we left, and sorry for the people we left behind who will continue to be screwed over by the state government.

Remember that time when U2 put their new album on everybody's iTunes without asking first and everybody got really mad and they had to remove it and apologize?

(This is a post about AI.)

Discovering Prince, Ten Years Later - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decadesq of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. anildash.com/2026/04/20/p...

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."

Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote.

Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California.

techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...

The weird thing is that this is approximately the percentage of people who voted for him. So they are still happy with him & feel like they got what they wanted. Which I have a hard time understanding... because I don't like thinking humans are that horrible.

Zine cover reading: MAY DAY STRONG Friday, May 1, 2026 HERE'S WHAT YOU DO No school, no work, no shopping

Made a #MayDayStrong zine! Here's what we're all doing on Friday, May 1, 2026, friends -- and why! Check out the zine in this thread and check out maydaystrong.org for events near you!

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

202 articles have been written about NepoBaby Kushner's role in Iran Negotiations yet only 6 mention he's accepted $2 Billion from the Saudi Government’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and that he's collected over $110 Million in management fees since?

popular.info/p/the-media-...

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

Yikes!! Hope you stay safe!!

They want the *U.S.* to fund the *U.A.E.*???? WTF?!?!?!?!