It matches my tuxedo

Socks

Thanks to @chirpradio.org for the wide-ranging music blitz every day, AND for these socks to keep my tootsies warm in the fall. (Honestly, folks, find CHIRP where you are and tune in.) The Chicago Independent Radio Projects rules!

Coming soon: THE FORGOTTEN DIVINE by Mark Russell and Russ Braun AHOY Comics presents their first ever Kickstarter — for a graphic novel by an Eisner-award winning writer and the artist of THE BOYS!

Be sure to sign up to be notified when the Kickstarter for THE FORGOTTEN DIVINE by @manruss.bsky.social and Russ Braun officially launches next month: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

When the gummies kick in.

Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change The agency is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences.

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace.

But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

Senate Republicans pushed through a budget resolution in the early morning hours that clears the path for major ICE and Border Patrol funding increases, with zero Democratic votes. The 50-48 tally came after an all-night session on Capitol Hill.

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

Trump DOJ will avenge the KKK by taking out SPLC The racism is not subtle.

"From a legal standpoint, this indictment is crap. From a political standpoint, it’s an effort to avenge the KKK and enshrine white supremacy in America. Both should be dismissed with prejudice." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Alternet: Adam Kinzinger: “Texas redistricts without a vote, Republicans cheer. Dems in Virginia respond by putting it UP FOR A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, it passes, Republican cry foul.”

Without hypocrisy, Republicans would have no values at all.
#ProudBlue #Pinkks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

I hear ya.

Shakespeare in a ball cap

C Julius César Salazar

LHP Danny MacDuffy, Nestor Cortes, Álex Claudio
RHP Octavius Dotel, Antonio Alfonseca, King Lear

MGR Connie Mackbeth

2/2

In honor of Will's birthday,
THE MLB ALL-SHAKESPEARE TEAM!

1B Jim Bottomley
2B Marc Anthony Rendon
SS Caliban Ripken, Jr.
3B Sal Banquo

LF Willy Hortensio
CF Tybalt Cobb
RF John Titus Andronicus

1/2

bardball.com

I think we should ban all gerrymandering.

The GOP would never vote for it, though. Marginalizing the non-white vote is the only way they stay relevant.

Reminder: in 2019, Dems tried to pass the “For the People” Act which would have expanded voting rights, changed campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of money in politics, and banned partisan gerrymandering.

Mitch McConnell (R) blocked it from coming to a vote in the senate.

You muppets, you can't convince Quebec to give back the apostrophe S's they stripped off every store in the 70's that they've got stored in a secret warehouse in Ville St. Laurent, they're certainly not going to give up a ban on US liquor because it hurt your fucking Yankee feelings.

If you show up to this, you deserve the humiliation

John Cornyn has been in office longer than I’ve been alive.

He’s had 40 years to lower the cost of housing, healthcare, groceries, utilities, and gas.

What’s the hold up?

Memphis May Day Canvassing! · Tennessee For All Join brigadistas in town to support Memphis Community Against Pollution, knocking doors in Boxtown and Westwood to invite folks out for May Day to join the fight against xAI and demand that our electe...

Memphis Peeps!
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#sheshed

THERE IS NO PLANET B.

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

It's true! They have a word for everything!

I love Lina Khan and her tenure at FTC was a great example of government actually working and doing great things

One of the smartest people I've ever seen in government

This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS HATTER

Honestly it's a complete miracle that there have been no major terrorist attacks on US soil in the last 16 months.

The Scale of Iran’s Advantage Comes Into View The country is beginning to wake up to the sheer level of...

Josh Marshall: "The mainstream press is now saying more openly what's been clear almost since the beginning of the conflict. Trump started this war on an impulse. In strategic terms he lost almost immediately."

THIS JUST IN: Members of the FSU women's soccer team and coaching staff visited the White House on Tuesday as President Donald Trump honored the Seminoles 2025 national title-winning squad.

Lmfao the FSU soccer team got a White House invite & exactly 2 players showed up

ICYMI, the folks at THE DEMONSTER shared the entire first chapter of ANCESTRAL RECALL, the epic historical sci-fi love story by @jrsosa18.bsky.social and Atagun İlhan.

Give it a read before heading to pick up the full trade paperback at a store near you: www.thedemonster.com/p/exclusive-...