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Twitter user cosy_love_: I don't support all women, some of you are really unhygienic and dumb! <headline from article: Gen Z gals on growing out their body hair: It's 'sexy' and 'empowering'>

Still remarkable to me that half the world is doing 'unrestricted social media usage is bad for kids' and 'we need to put chatbots that tell you to kill your family in every classroom and every toy' at the same time

A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work Thirteen federal workers who were laid off during the DOGE cuts told NBC News they struggled to find work, had to move or took major pay cuts after their agencies were gutted.

A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work

Bad Vibes and Broken Promises More thoughts on the roots of Americans’ anger about the economy

"This is consistent with the view that a significant number of Americans believed Trump’s impossible promises about the economic miracles he would conjure into being, but now realize that they were lied to." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bad-vibes-...

Pressed by Laura Ingraham about "folks on the right" who want to see Barack Obama investigated, Acting AG Todd Blanche says "these investigations have to be done in secret"

The Vatican vs. Mar-a-Lago Pope Leo XIV is making it impossible to reconcile MAGA politics with Catholic faith.

this is excellent jacobin.com/2026/04/vati...

"Relax—he hasn't got to you yet." Herblock on Ike's passivity about McCarthy and his reckless anti-communist crusade, March 1954.

How Prior Authorizations Limit Access to Health Care Putting Patients and Physicians in an Unnavigable Maze

New from at Can We Still Govern?
Prior authorization is a big barrier to accessing care. Drawing from her new book, @mirandayaver.bsky.social breaks down how it serves as a time tax on physicians and patients, often resulting in forgone care. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-prior-...

Report: Meta will train AI agents by tracking employees' mouse, keyboard use Move highlights the difficulty of finding high-quality interactive training data.

While Meta’s US employees will have their actions tracked by the new software, similarly monitoring European Meta employees would likely run afoul of several national laws limiting how an employer can track employee actions.

North Carolina Farm Stole H-2A Visa Workers’ Passports: Lawsuit - The American Prospect A new class action lawsuit against Jackson Farming Company of Autryville highlights how agricultural employers abuse immigrant workers. New GOP policies aim to make that more common.

Today from me in @prospect.org: a new class-action lawsuit alleges that North Carolina's Jackson Farming Company and its contractors trafficked workers from Mexico on H-2A visas and forced them to work in inhumane conditions. They used the threat of ICE to keep workers scared.

Q: Joe diGenova said 'there's no doubt that John Brennan was the progenitor of this whole counterintelligence investigation.' Isn't there a conflict of interest in having him oversee this investigation?

BLANCHE: I'm not sure what the conflict would be. I just completely disagree with the premise

Coyote vs. ACME | Official Trailer YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme

Coyote vs. ACME

This looks like a lotta fun.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-43...

John Roberts embodies MAGA cowardice The Supreme Court's shadow docket shows the conservative justices fear debate

The shadow docket expose reveals that, despite his pretensions, John Roberts is the same intellectual coward as the rest of MAGA.

They can’t win arguments, so all they do is avoid.

An analysis.

www.salon.com/2026/04/22/j...

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

The two takeaways of the Great Gerrymander War of '26 are:
1) No one whines or pouts like a Republican partisan. They fuck around, then go to straight-up tantrum when any finding out occurs.
2) Shit is ridiculous. In a real republic, electoral districts would be set by non-partisan entities.

It is objectively bad for democracy that both blue and red states are doing extreme gerrymanders.

But the only feasible solution — a national ban on partisan gerrymandering — has only been endorsed by one party. And it's not the one complaining about Virginia right now.

Rep. Randy Fine on Democrats: "I wish my Republican colleagues understood what we are dealing with, which is evil"

"Send us money to help build a border wall" and then instead buying yourself 18 more rumpled polo shirts to wear simultaneously, that's donor fraud. "Send us money to help research and track extremists" and then spending that money on obtaining information about extremists groups is... not fraud.

Happy Earth Day.

“We were terrified they were going to kill us.”

Ecuadorian fishermen recount surviving one of Trump & Hegseth’s boat strikes.

Not drug runners. Fishermen. Drone strike. Boat blown up. Taken captive. By us.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR delivered the opinion of the Court. Under 28 U. S. C. §1446(b)(1), a party sued in state court who prefers to proceed in federal court generally has 30 days after receiving notice of the state-court action to remove the lawsuit to federal court (if there are grounds for doing so). In this case, petitioners (collectively Enbridge) unquestionably did not meet §1446(b)(1)’s 30-day deadline, instead waiting 887 days after being served with the Michigan Attorney General’s state-court complaint before removing the case to federal court. Enbridge argues that the District Court nevertheless had equitable discretion to toll §1446(b)(1)’s deadline and excuse this late filing. This Court disagrees. Because §1446(b)(1)’s text, structure, and context are inconsistent with equitable tolling, Enbridge’s removal was untimely and remand to the Michigan state court is required.

The Supreme Court's first (but not last) decision of the day is Enbridge v. Nessel. Per Sotomayor, the court unanimously holds that this removal to federal court was untimely. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Detailed watercolor painting of a California Condor soaring in the blue sky with wispy clouds. One of the wings is pointed upward and one is pointed away from the viewer. A black wing tag with the number 50 is visible on one wing, indicating that this is Condor #550.

Day 21 of #repostyourart: Cloud

A tribute to California Condor #550, who I watched soar past the clouds. I think is the first time I've posted the scan of this piece, which I'm very happy with!

#BirdArt #SciArt #Watercolor #FineArt #repostyourart26 #AnimalArt

I have to admit I was already aged out of watching SpongeBob SquarePants when this episode originally aired.

But my younger colleagues told me to watch this clip.

Second (and *last*) ruling from #SCOTUS is in Hencely.

For a 6-3 majority (with the Chief Justice, Justice Alito, and Justice Kavanaugh dissenting), Justice Thomas holds that the Boyle contractor defense does not bar state-law tort claims arising out of a suicide bombing by a contractor's employee:

Chatgpt is the opposite of a disability aid. It induces the very problems it claims to help.

It doesn't help autistic people communicate, it makes it *significantly harder* to understand text due to badly and sloppily altering its meaning because it has none.

Headline: World’s biggest condom maker set to raise prices due to Iran war

oh great now where am I supposed to get my world’s biggest condoms

Daffy Duck railing at his own artist as the artist erases him, in Duck Amuck

Yakko, Wakko and Dot from Animaniacs outside the Warner Water tower

Wile E Coyote in a courtroom holding a placard saying 'acme sucks'

Looney Tunes Characters: openly at war with their own creators/owners since forever

So How Did Artemis 2's Heat Shield Hold Up? The First Results Are In Concerns had been raised about the durability of Orion's heat shield after Artemis 1.

So How Did Artemis 2’s Heat Shield Hold Up? The First Results Are In gizmodo.com/so-how-did-a...