Pinwheels and the ‘lobster district’: How Virginia Democrats drew up a US House map to all but lock out Republicans | CNN Politics Virginia Democrats hope the new congressional map voters approved Tuesday will flip four Republican House districts, delivering 10 of 11 seats in a state former Vice President Kamala Harris won with j...

If no one opens up a new Virginia seafood restaurant called "Lobster District," it will be proof that America has truly lost its entrepreneurial spirit. www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/p...

Which would only be consistent if Alabama is expecting all its students to become monks and nuns.

Bring back vagueness! Draw a cow's head on the chalkboard! Call menstruation "the curse" and advise girls to be "clean and dainty!" Tell boys that thing they do in their bedrooms will make them blind!

Lord knows we don't want any sexually explicit information in (checks notes) sex ed. 1819news.com/news/item/iv...

Strong Barbara Stanwyck vibes

Let’s All Find Things to Be Mad About All the Time, Together: The Story of America Since 2016

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz: both open and closed.

fairycosmos on tumblr: "you actually don't have to go on dating apps to find girlfriends. many beautiful women are waiting for you on rocks out at sea" doing-90mph-in-central-london: ⓘ This user is a malicious entity made of seafoam.

An exit stanchion in a building reads “Dramatic Exit.”

This rehearsal studio understands its customers.

the nonbinary rapper who frequently gets misgendered as a man: Mx. Sir-a-Lot

Out of my cold, dead—though definitely still made of meat and bone—hands.

Sure seems like we're relearning why gambling has been considered a vice since the dawn of human civilization

Sam Malone: "Now I know why they weren't afraid to let me play. They were great out there! They were like the '27 Yankees."
Woody, to Norm and Cliff: "He's exaggerating. There were only nine of them."

youtu.be/J5XdQ5q2PIA?...

Damn. I am so sorry. I can at least keep reading your Substack, but this sucks.

Two emails: an American Prospect newsletter with the subject line "Cutting utility assistance to pay for Itan" and one from City Journal with the subject line "Free gender surgeries for illegal immigrants."

Even if you disregard which "team" you're on, are these equally national concerns?

The "super-El Nino" talk is unhelpful clickbait hype. Current consensus forecast is for a Nino3.4 index of ~1.3C to materialize later this year. That's a *moderate* El Nino; pales in comparison w/ recent (e.g. 2016 & 2024) events.

The truth remains bad enough!

www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...

Mmmm coagulation

Hahahaha isn't that wonderful and such a gift to science phobia what phobia hahahahaha

So far as I can see, not a peep from him on Hungary since Sunday.

Johnny Carson as Reagan, a "Who's On First" spoof YouTube video by seahorsegil

It's probably the lamest thing on earth to share your Boomer parents' fondness for Johnny Carson, but whoever it was on the writing staff who figured out you could do this with Reagan and his associates was a genius. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evt...

Monty Python - Lumberjack Song YouTube video by Oduncu Gömleği

Some might say it hasn't aged well, but I prefer to think Bevis is an innovative drag artist leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia, ignoring the haters, and living their best life. youtu.be/FshU58nI0Ts?...

I still think people are more opposed to change as they age. It's just that Trumpism itself was such a radical change from status-quo politics that it turned off the Boomers for whom the system more or less worked (they're VERY prominent at No Kings rallies).

look, there are only two political orientations, right wing and the exact same kind of communist as me

It's hard to pivot away from the idea of America as at least a halfway competently run hegemon—if only because the alternative, given the size of our military and nuclear weapons arsenal, is so terrifying.

I love airborne chonks. A hopeful example for us all.

And though I am just a data point of one, I would more seriously consider trying to develop graphic design skills for a potential career pivot if the Adobe suite weren't $840 a year.

For me it's about how tech creates new barriers to entry and introduces ever-more-regular payments. Participating in public life now requires a smartphone and an internet connection. Post-secondary instruction can be prohibitively expensive and require student loan payments.