The Frog Prince I can’t quit the latest chapter of Jordan Bardella’s teflon come-up

Somewhere in someone's nostalgic flashback to the 1850s, there are two Sicilies. Jordan Bardella is sniffing around a strange tree. open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

Nominally independent media institutions celebrating press freedom by serving canapés to president fake news is some bleak, black comedy but the venue is chef’s kiss

Live by conspiracy theory, die by conspiracy theory.

he told people how high to jump for him successfully for too long for him not to keep trying.

the world is still disproportionately interested in the ramblings of young stupid men.

It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.

if we're losing all the rote work to machines, and now every think piece is telling us to lean into our specialness and humanity, this seems... ill-advised, even from a strictly jobs placement point of view.

i went to no-grades UCSC. loved it. we also learned very quickly to suss out the code words. a repetition of "excellent" meant you were getting an A, etc. we humans are really really good at discerning what's important to us.

relying on laura loomer for a sense of proportion is a fool's errand.

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I've watched too many good candidates lose because the party made bets on the wrong people. California can't afford that right now. https://youtu.be/uTiw2YHVwVk

You get these sort of claims in the charismatic movement. Influential New Apostolic Reformation leader Rick Joyner (who had considerable influence over Sarah Palin's key Alaska church) has claimed to have teleported. Such miracle claims trace to the Latter Rain movement of the late 1940s.

Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate

Did I wake up in Bizarro World today?
The New York Times has finally, ten years too late, joined the chat.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

Probably so, and it's not like we've made progress on "you're being cheated out of the benefits of your labor" in the past 50 years.

From 1979Q4 to 2025Q4, productivity is up 92.4% but hourly pay is only up 33.6%, a gap that just keeps growing.

and satire.

Joyeux #caturday

ed koch branding instincts. this is a talented politician.

Yes I love Becerra.

i find her very toxic. i worry about swalwell's ego too. with CA gov, you're always going to get someone a little unbalanced.

despite her great whiteboard antics, katie porter is not our friend. she is katie porter's friend.

UK government bans Kanye West from entering country Rapper, who is legally known as Ye, has been criticised for making antisemitic remarks including voicing admiration for Adolf Hitler

Kudos to the UK for saying, you know what? One paid ad in the WSJ is not going to erase YEARS of t-shirts, confederate flags, leather uniforms, diamond swastikas, and frankly shitty music worshipping the moustache guy. Gonna have to put in a little more effort man
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

(*that should say IRAN obvs. monday...)

His Lonely Begotten Son An Easter meditation on America’s dark princeling

He is risen. He is creepy. He's definitely not going to Iraq. For the literary nerds among us, I submit to you the scion of Gothic America.
alexandramarshall.substack.com/p/his-lonely...

Most Italian moment ever. They didn’t ask nicely so buh bye.

They're not slick.

so does his dad

they also cluster in diners sometimes, i am told.

Idk if you’re keeping up with the right’s big gathering this week, but CPAC is a ghost town and the people that are there are demoralized

no they'd cover them breathlessly like a new marauding tribe that must be reckoned with.

Get him the same medical care that migrants in the concentration camps get.