I get it but it’s a medical condition so can we please not?

I despise with the heat of a thousand suns the way I have to be suspicious of all art I see now while I investigate it's authenticity, because this couldn't be more diametrically opposed to the state of mind one should be in while taking in all art.

I don’t know how I’m going to get to sleep after that utterly bananapants third period

Goddess. You and I disagree on a lot of stuff but this is wild hyperbole on your part

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.

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.

Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

”How is this legal” is a really funny thing for a republican to say in 2026

Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering A Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama, today returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspi...

1. The central claim in the indictment of SPLC is a lie.

The DOJ/FBI accuse SPLC of lying to donors about seeking to “dismantle” extremist groups while secretly funding them. But the funds were used to infiltrate & help law enforcement dismantle these groups. Kash Patel knows this is the truth…

Trump proposes cut to Hawaiian Home Lands funding Trump argued that Native Hawaiians should not get money under a federal Native American Housing law because they are a racial group and not a tribal nation.

Trump proposes cut to Hawaiian Home Lands funding, arguing that Native Hawaiians should not get money under a federal Native American Housing law because he considers them a racial group and not a tribal nation.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/04/20/t...

elaine may 94th bday........ur all actually legally required to buy my book today. most people don't know this but it's true bit.ly/missmaymacmi...

Define Jewish State The phrase is even more complicated than it appears.

After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

We fucking warned y’all that this was the goddamned end goal for those smart glasses.

Zimmerman: In March of last year, about two months after President Trump returned to the White House, I traveled to Washington for a meeting of American education scholars. The opening panel focused — appropriately enough — on Trump's threats to university funding, free speech on campus, and more. Then it was time for questions, and I raised my hand. I said that I agreed with all the critiques of Trump, but I also wondered what those of us who work in higher education might have done — or not done — to bring about this awful moment. Could we use it to look in the mirror, I asked, and not just to circle the wagons? Dead silence. Then another member of the audience spoke up. "I just wanted to say that I was deeply offended by Professor Zimmerman's use of the term 'circle the wagons, which connotes a hateful history of Native American displacement and genocide," she said, as I remember it. More awkward silence. Finally, the moderator of the panel interjected with something along the lines of: "Thank you for reminding us that we need to be careful in the language that we use to describe others." So the panel began with a diatribe about Donald Trump's assault on free speech and it concluded with a warning to watch our words.

I'm afraid that I'm unconvinced that this illustrates anything resembling a serious problem with academia

Wow a whopping 3% APR for three months? Huge if true!

Narrarator: Three month treasury bills are at 3.6-3.7

The man who introduced obligatory vaccinations to the US Army was George Washington.

If we want to help families out because of the pain they are suffering from the unconstitutional tax we can… just do that

Not a “boo hoo poor companies” thing but I don’t think “fuck them let’s do it” helps reestablish the rule of law

I saw the windfall problem coming and like the EQUITY of sending the money to consumers (even if not 100% had been passed on)

I am still uncomfortable with the use of funds from an unconstitutionally executive-imposed tax for any other purpose than directly refunding payments. What authority here?

The Supreme Court Is Making the Constitution Optional For Cops The conservative justices continue to expand qualified immunity in order to erode your right to be free from police abuse.

Qualified immunity is a scourge that must be driven into the depths of hell

No really, what happened to Molly?

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Mmmmmm plain old classic *drools*

A LITTLE????

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Meh. GoT died at the hands of the fans in the sense that the B&W were fans. The moment they got past GRRM’s material it was clear they were not actually good writers

MLK had a 63% *unfavorable* rating with Americans in a 1966 Gallup poll.

Nelson Mandela was legally considered a terrorist by the U.S. government until 2008 (!!).

People saying this shit almost certainly would have hated both and found a way to delegitimize their causes at the time!

Marwan Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian alive and has expressed support for a partition along the pre June 1967 borders into a separate state.

Barghouti has been in Israeli jail for two decades and is routinely tortured and even threatened with murder by Israeli politicians and guards.

A hand dropping a ballot in a box; the box is a complicated, many-geared machine. On its faceplate is an 'I voted' sticker that has been modified to read 'I voted?'

After Bush v Gore, I got involved in a bunch of ugly tech policy fights over voting machines. The hanging chad debacle prompted Congress to appropriate funds for states to purchase new touchscreen voting machines based on a robust, open standard. Problem was, those machines didn't exist.

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Rockwell guy standing up painting

This chair is uncomfortable.