The city would be a lot safer without all those congressional representatives.

We stopped in over the weekend. Will be returning!

California and Virginia actually let their voters have a say in redistricting! Did Texas let their voters have a say? Nope!

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Ever do that thing where you're prepping to get to bed early and you put a playlist on in the background, but then your ADHD activates and you remember a dozen other things you haven't heard in a while but absolutely must play right now instead of going to bed and all of a sudden it's Music Night? 🙃

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

We don't know which Cabinet secretary will be forced to resign next, but we know it'll be either Brooke Rollins or Linda McMahon because they're the last two women left.

Today (April 20) is the 27th anniversary of Columbine.

I was a sophomore in high school when it happened, and I remember the school's response was to "ban trench coats." 🤔

People might kill people, but guns do it faster and more efficiently.

We needed gun control then and we need it now.

"Living real live never feels as serene as our fantasies. ... Myths are meant as inspirations, not as measurements of our lives." #sober #sobriety

Book Love Bar Ypsilanti, Michigan's Local Independent Bookstore

Ypsi denizens: If you haven't checked out Book Love Bar downtown yet, might be worth stopping in. Seems like a very cool vibe. #ypsi #ypsilanti

booklovebar.com

Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?

We all known A*azon tends to sell books bellow list prices, but I've recently found them selling books at below WHOLESALE prices. I know this because I own a store. That's fucked up.
Anyways, support your local book stores. Shit's tough.

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

Apparently the WSJ thinks we have “stopped appreciating the value of honest labor.”

Oligarch’s Mouthpiece.

LAX is not a great airport, but it is conveniently close to Randy's Donuts.

I could probably just get over it!

Luckily for me, my neighborhood appears not to be a Weed Killer Zone. I *am* trying to pull out the dandelions though. Old habits etc etc. Pretty in bloom but not a fan when they go to seed.

ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.

'There Is Only One Majority in This Country, That's the Working Class,' Says Mamdani | Common Dreams "It's time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what it is that we're pursuing and not as part of the appendix."

Mamdani: Democratic socialism viable anywhere. “...this is a politics that can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country – that’s the working class, and it’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of [public policy]..." www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

god grant me the audacity of a Catholic convert sincerely telling the Pope he’s wrong about theology

Keep making the Senate R’s vote in favor of this debacle. Put them on the record.

Keep pushing, and put them on the record.

It will be extremely funny if Vance manages to get himself excommunicated before his book on becoming a Catholic releases.

If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid:

$124 — school lunch & nutrition programs
$49 — diplomacy to prevent wars
$19 — USPS
$19 — Federal Aviation Administration
$18 — national parks

and

$4,049 — weapons and war.

These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

“The pope should be careful before talking theology” is just extraordinary stuff. Top-shelf. You write one book that gets turned into a Ron Howard movie and suddenly you’re nailing your manifesto to the cathedral doors.

CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS: "We need more religion in politics."

[Pope uses religion to criticize Trump.]

CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS: "Keep your religion out of our politics!!!"

Remember, Donald Trump is not the disease of our politics. Only the worst symptom.

Yes, let's defeat Trump. And let's defeat the system that allows corporations and special interests to buy and sell politicians in a way that leaves it rigged against the rest of us.