“Slop” was Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year, defined as low-quality digital content produced by AI. But the ISA conference was a reminder that the vast majority of slop has always been human slop. The academic journal system and big conferences in much of the humanities and social sciences were slop factories long before anyone had a ChatGPT subscription. Yes, I really mean that most research is slop.3

Goddess, please give me the arrogance of a man who mentioned a dictionary definition of a word and then goes on to redline it on his own.

The guy who threatened to annihilate an entire civilization is worried about America not being a moral nation? Sorry, but that ship sailed when 77 million American morons made a convicted felon and rapist the POTUS.

Why is the Maga project teetering? Because not even Trump supporters voted for this dysfunction | Moira Donegan The president’s fixation on culture-war grievances is a colossal misreading of voters who just want prices to come down, says Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan

Why is the Maga project teetering? Because not even Trump supporters voted for this dysfunction | Moira Donegan

When the GAO finally isn't corrupted by trump they will find that tariff money didn't all find its way to the treasury.

Award-winning librarian and ‘Reading Rainbow’ host Mychal Threets to serve as 2026 National Library Week honorary chair Award-winning librarian, author, and new host of the children’s program “Reading Rainbow” Mychal Threets will serve as Honorary Chair of the American Library Association’s National Library Week, April...

Celebrating National Library Week this week.
I will share the fun and add the 2025 top banned list to my little free library. 📚 see list below.
Also, today we also celebrate the Librarians 🥳🎉. Give a shoutout or hug a librarian 🤗. 1/2

#SheShed

www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Heavy snow warning as 2 feet to hit: Travel could be "impossible" Nine states are likely to affected by snow, wind, and sub-zero temperatures on Tuesday.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Winter: The Director’s Cut. You thought you saw snow before? Oh no, that was the trailer. This..this is the full cinematic experience. Two feet of snow! Two feet! That’s not weather, that’s a home renovation project.

In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control In a story about a mass shooting that left eight children dead, Forbes is encouraging readers to bet on the news with fake money.

Forbes has long been a joke (who wants to tell Mika?) but this is below even my low expectations for it. Thoughtless greed.
In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control
futurism.com/future-socie...

Ya think?🤔

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Trump on CNBC talking to Joe Kernen claimed Iranian leaders killed 42,000 protesters. This has been debunked. It’s a lie. Both Trump & Kernen know it’s a lie. It still amazes be that facts no longer matter. This is so dangerous. It leads to totalitarian control and the state creates its own reality.

They not only won’t cancel; they’ve handed the entire event over to the fascists.

Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth are sitting at CBS’ table.

FCC’s Brendan Carr has actually been invited, while he’s trying to take away press freedoms.

remember that atlantic article that pretended to be a first person account of a mother's loss of a child from measles? this is the real thing and it's brutal.

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

We have a lot to lose in the most terrible farm bill, I can remember.

Please call your reps! It is morally depraved!

Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end Trump's elfish toady is quickly losing control of the House.

New in PN: Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end

"Johnson has such a small majority he can’t afford to alienate anybody, & he has nonetheless managed to alienate everybody. The coming months will be brutal for him & are likely to end w/his speakership destroyed in a humiliating, titanic blue wave"

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages

Israeli soldiers & settlers are using sexual assault to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank―residents reported forced nudity, invasive/painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals & threats of sexual violence. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... #PINKS

Leaders like Magyar create templates for the future and for future governments. Like Mamdani in NYC who is creating a template for other cities. Sad that the US needs pointers on how to do the right thing, but since 2025 we no longer have a government--we have piracy.

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

Trump did this. 👇🏼
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

“I get scared in the middle of the night. I can’t sleep well. My ears still hurt,” Palacios said. “I think that’s it for me. I’m done with fishing. Going back out there is impossible. I thought they were going to kill us."

Dems need to win in Virginia to take back the House. It’ll be tight. If approved, the redistricting effort could deliver Democrats a 10-to-1 seat advantage in Virginia, which amounts to a net pickup of as many as four House seats.

“I always thought THIS VA campaign would be close,” Democratic strategist Jared Leopold.
Can VA voters in the light blue state set aside long-standing distaste for partisan gerrymandering to counter a redistricting fight set in motion by Trump last year?
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

🔥 “I’m so glad people are finally waking up to your cruelty — and to the idiocy of your star disciple Pete Hegseth.”

@wajahatali.bsky.social eviscerates Hegseth’s pastor Doug Wilson (with @timmiller.bsky.social & piers in the front row)

George Ariyoshi, 100, America’s First Governor of Asian Descent, Dies A Democrat, he served three terms as Hawaii’s governor (1974-86), rising out of a tough district of Honolulu. He tried to diversify an economy heavily dependent on tourism.

George Ariyoshi, a Honolulu-born Japanese American politician who shattered voting traditions in the nation’s only state with an Asian plurality, becoming Hawaii’s — and America’s — first governor of Asian descent, died on Sunday at his home in Honolulu. He was 100.

Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Excellent article

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.

www.npr.org/2026/04/21/n... "Thomson Reuters, which is headquartered in Toronto, is also facing pressure from shareholders over its ICE contracts."

Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

Southwest Airlines jets involved in close call near Nashville Two Southwest Airlines jets were forced to take evasive action late Saturday afternoon just north of Nashville International Airport to avoid a potential midair collision, NewsChannel 5 Investigates h...

VIDEO POSTED: Two Southwest Airlines jets were forced to take evasive action late Saturday afternoon just north of Nashville International Airport to avoid a potential midair collision, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has discovered. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Trump’s inflation, the Iran war, plus strong Democratic recruits, are putting red-state Senate seats in play. Polls show Democrats tied or leading in four GOP-held seats: Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and Alaska, with Iowa and Texas cracking too. (NYT)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

Ohio!
Let’s get Sherrod Brown back to the senate. You tried someone else & can see, it did not work out so well for the people of OH.
Sherrod is union strong & is a huge advocate for the working class, seniors, farmers, veterans, & families.
Stop corruption & vote blue!
#ResistanceUnited #Pinks

Judge J Michael Luttig "EVERY AMERICAN AND EVERY CITIZEN OF THE WORLD MUST COME ONTO THE BATTLEFIELD NOW TO SUPPORT THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY FIGHTING ON THE FRONT LINES."

When the elder conservatives request the left join with them to rebuke the threat of MAGA we must surely realize we are in danger. #pinks #resist

Trump Is dooming his party to a midterm blowout It's almost as though he wants Republicans to lose.

New in PN: Trump Is dooming his party to a midterm blowout

"The difference between '18 and '26 is that not only has Trump become even more repellent, his actions have made everything worse. In fact, it’s hard to imagine what more he could do to enrage voters & ensure his party’s defeat in November"

Maddow: "Do we think our servicemen and women are in good hands? Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for?"

OPINION: "Donald Trump’s presidency is a morality lesson. He is a living example of what happens when a man is given power that far exceeds his character." thehill.com/opinion/whit...