Let's sum up Trump's tariffs.

1) They were illegal and also corrupt and arbitrary.
2) They did real damage to economy, esp farmers, small business.
3) Lutnick cheerled them while his spawn prepared to $$.
4) Corps (& some small businesses) finally getting refunds.
5) Consumers will get squat.

Thank you birthday buddy! Enjoy your birthday immunity when yours comes around :D

My New Annual Hobby, In Three Easy Steps:

1. Sneaking up behind wife
2. Gently chomp her on the forearm
3. Yell "I have birthday immunity!" and retreat before she knows what happened

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

We have the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Now is the time to use it. It's past time for Trump to be removed from office. This is a global crisis. It's time for J.D. Vance and the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

NEW: We have the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Now is the time to use it.

It's past time for Trump to be removed from office. This is a global crisis. It's time for J.D. Vance and the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

Now, at Law Dork:

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

a man in a suit and bow tie is sitting in a chair . ALT: a man in a suit and bow tie is sitting in a chair .

So far today has involved a strained back, snow, Passover, and Cheeto genocide threats

My sister was born six years earlier than me. The differences between my work trajectory and hers, despite being in the same field, were astronomical.

A conversation elsewhere caused me to realize today that there has been a grand total of six months in my life when both a) I really liked my job and b) the world was not obviously on fire.

I can't help but think that I deserved better than that. Everybody post-Gen-X did.

don't get the discord subpoenaed

A friendly reminder for this and all Supreme Court decision days

Between the conversion therapy ruling and the efforts to ban kids from the internet to “protect them” from “transgender influence,” we’re right back in a culture of violently enforced closeting. And the data around self-identifying as trans and queer already reflects this

A completely baffling decision today that seems to directly state that a medical professional’s “free speech” is more important than a patient’s life and safety.

Far as I can see this decision means it might now literally be perfectly legal for a therapist to tell you to kill yourself.

So are we gonna talk at all about the fact that they released Chiles on TDOV or

Because that shit was 1000% on purpose

Supreme Court rules against Colorado's conversion therapy ban on First Amendment grounds The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado counselor who challenged a law banning conversion therapy for minors, ruling that lower courts failed to apply "sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scr...

Conversion therapy is one of the most harmful practices targeted at young people. As a result of today’s decision, those practicing this anti-scientific, scam therapy may become more emboldened.

@democracyforward.org will continue to do everything in our power to protect LGBTQ+ youth.

Does a doctor have a First Amendment right to tell you that ingesting arsenic will cure your athlete's foot? Why would that be different from this?

I think this court's overall approach to medical outcomes as a matter of partisan opinion is really concerning, and something most people are missing because so many of the cases have to do with trans people.

also is licensing no longer allowed

that really interferes with speech, even who is allowed to speak

Banning a harmful practice that is directly tied to deaths and self-harm is not "suppressing one side of the debate."

Trans Day of Visibility is cool and all but I wish I were celebrating Trans People Get to Go Back to Bed Day

what about like. a Trans Week of Free Massages. Have we considered that as a holiday

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Okay I get that the new big thing is shitting on white organizations who are visibly doing symbolic actions, but like, maybe double check what else the org is doing before you complain that they're useless?

What a squall line is — and why they’re so dangerous during thunderstorm season Some squall lines can produce tornadoes, too. They’re often wrapped in rain and move erratically.

Thunderstorm squalls can bring destructive winds and tornadoes and can cover hundreds or even thousands of miles.

Here's how they work:

These 52 people could have stopped a national and a world catastrophe any time they chose to. They confirmed Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, et al, okayed DOGE and tariffs, and green lighted Trump’s military attacks. The country and the world reels. Fifty-two people.

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends

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Stoker: you can't just genderswap renfield!
Mary Shelley: shut up bram
Shelley: let her cook
Stoker: you wouldn't like it if someone genderswapped igor
Shelley: that's different
Stoker: see?
Shelley: CUZ IGOR ISN'T IN THE FUCKING BOOK
Shelley: WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
Poe: dawn just genderswapped renfield
Shelley: oh yeah?
Shelley: i bet bram is being real normal about it
Stoker: I AM NOT!!
Shelley: yeah wow that's a shocker

Kids, don't tell someone that a loved one is dying if said loved one is not, in fact, dying. Just don't do that. Not a good time.

Coffee, straight out of my nose.