Revering 'the heartland' as the one true America for my entire life (and I'm sure long before) has had pretty shitty results, let's give the coastal elites a shot

Nothing says respect for the Georgia Women's Tennis team than relegating them to the being the background of the picture.

Annual flu vaccine no longer required for U.S. military, Hegseth says The move alarmed some public health experts, who warned that it would weaken troop readiness.

NOT SO FUN FACT—half of all U.S. war casualties during WWI were due to influenza. Today—Trump’s War Secretary remove the flu vaccine requirement for all U.S. military. Plus, bragging about this to all enemies is just absolute idiocy. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

It’s true: AI will make you lose your butt. Thank you @colsonwhitehead.com for saving our asses: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics:

Jeremy Hansen's patch for the Artemis II mission CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen's patch was created for his participation in the Artemis II mission by Anishinaabe artist Henry Guimond. It includes personal and Indigenous elements important to Jeremy.

TIL Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen had a Canadian First Nations designed mission patch

Good shit

This thread is a masterclass of informed critique.

“Verification gets reduced to selective fact-display. Deliberation runs as theatre while the questions that matter are ruled out of order. Accountability gets pointed at critics while leadership is left untouched. This is VDA as simulation.”

I am not kidding at all when I say that every Democrat with a microphone should mock JD Vance every chance they get between now and 2028. Call him weird and feckless. Laugh at his eyeliner & dumb beard. Talk about the nazis & freaks he follows on Twitter. *Brand* him.

Mom should be wearing the clown suit, tbh.

"The University of California system, the California State system, the City University of New York — these are the institutions actually educating America’s workforce, actually moving first-generation students into the middle class, actually delivering on higher education’s democratic promise."

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

Denver's weather has got RANGE ❄️☀️

Get a quick education on how Russia operates in this excellent thread by @andrewchak.bsky.social, drawn from his recent article in the @kyivindependent.com.

A promotional image for DC Public Library's National Library Week, April 19-25, 2026. Text reads "What sparks joy for you at the library?" and encourages sharing library experiences on "I Love My Library" cards. The image features three scenes: someone using a computer in a library, another examining a book, and a person holding library materials smiling.

National Library Week is almost here! What sparks joy for you at the library? Stop by your neighborhood library, fill out an I Love My Library Card, and share what you love about DCPL. https://bit.ly/4dV5zMU

We should be learning from other countries...

Imagine being Catholic and siding with Trump over the Pope.

A person who genuinely believed that a population collapse threatened their country's existence would favor dramatically increased immigration to offset declining birth rates. That the Millers favor the opposite is because of racism: a whiter America is more important than a thriving one.

When you feel imposter syndrome sneaking up on you, just remember that JD Vance lectured the Pope on theology.

National Library Week National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries and library professionals play in transforming lives and strengthening our communities.

National Library Week kicks off on Sunday. What concrete actions will you take to support your local public libraries? www.ala.org/conferencese... - Bonus points if you live in NYC.

Trump’s Humiliation in Orbán Defeat Stunner Is Only Just Beginning For Viktor Orbán’s epic loss in Hungary to have real meaning in America, Democrats and liberals need to proclaim themselves part of the global anti-authoritarian movement.

The authoritarian nationalists treated the Hungarian election as a global moment, and democrats should too, writes @gregsargent.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2090...

Some States Protect Freedom, Melt ICE State and local government action is helping eliminate “one of the Trump regime’s key tactics for mass deportation and family separation,” one advocate said.

New Mexico’s new law that in part bans local contracts with ICE makes the state a leader in “comprehensively” rejecting “involvement in a deportation system marked by violence, abuse, and death,” advocates said: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/how-some-s...

Please manifest this and I will send you my money.

Really looking forward to JD Vance campaigning for Netanyahu later this year.

They don’t know how war works and they don’t know how negotiations work—but they do know how grift works. Our oligarchs will make money, Putin will make money, and that’s the only "victory" they care about. As a war this is obviously a defeat for the US—had the US won it would be dictating terms.

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

Dan Wilson is too slow to go to the 'pen.

It's time to reconsider the Dave imperative.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

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Protect the Pecos! The Trump Admin is moving to reverse protections for the Upper Pecos Watershed just as they have with Chaco Canyon.

This follows years of our communities in NM speaking out and our delegation fighting to protect this area. We must keep fighting to protect the Pecos Watershed!