A lot about the world is very heavy right now but if a college football podcast that got jettisoned by Vox during the pandemic for not having a marketable audience can raise this much money for refugees in Atlanta in two days then just think of all the stuff we can all do together
just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
AOC is in full Boricua🇵🇷 mode here: leaned in, hands out like “¿pero tú te estás mal de la cabeza?” 😤
RFK Jr.’s body language is screaming, “I did not prepare for this.” 😫
It’s giving: Congressional hearing meets Abuela energy, with full attitude. 💅🔥
What would you say to him? 🤔
Virginia voters were projected to approve a constitutional amendment paving the way for new congressional maps to be used in this year’s midterms.
www.notus.org/virginia/vir...
another afternoon where it's impossible to post videos (or post at all?) on Bluesky. at some point you would hope this problem would be addressed
Spectators held a variety of signs to support the runners along the Boston Marathon's 26.2-mile route.
Here's a look at some of the best ones so far.
And why is it only the women facing consequences
(Rhetorical. I know the answer)
At this point is there a cabinet member who’s not drunk
Is there anyone in Trump’s orbit that hasn’t taken Russian money?
Apple will never get a better ad than this.
The sign that read in large block letters “Runners welcome. Walkers tolerated," was taken down just days before the Boston Marathon. trib.al/xAqy9jn
They’ve been reaching out to a bunch of sportswriters. Almost as if they have some regrets.
I have seriously lost track of how many times we've completely obliterated Iran's military and how many times Trump has reopened the Strait of Hormuz.
Here are some of the day’s top developments: Trump has said that US forces have taken custody of an Iranian-flagged vessel that tried to get through the US blockade of Iranian ports. Iran’s military confirmed an attack claimed by the US military on a ship returning from China, vowing it will “retaliate soon”. Iranian state media is reporting that Tehran is not currently planning to attend talks with the US, citing the ongoing blockade as well as Washington’s shifting positions and “excessive demands”. It comes after Trump ordered US negotiators to travel to Pakistan on Monday, just days before a two-week ceasefire expires.
I'm starting to think this is not going well guys
"The jury was specifically asked whether Mr. Pharms fired a weapon. The jury said no." And yet "the district judge sentenced Mr. Pharms as if he had used a firearm, lengthening the sentence... a common practice called acquitted conduct sentencing." Cato cert amicus asks reversal [Matthew Cavedon]
Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙
She has a name and it is Connie Ballmer.
"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..."
www.eenews.net/articles/oil...
Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement—
If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”
Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater.
Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
lol sure kash
Important story from the Times on the rise of AI influencers for Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...
If you don’t know, Iris ran informal “teach-ins” where AID’s activists learned virology, immunology, and trial design. Then she made sure those people led ACT UP’s Treatment and Data Committee, which became one of the most competent patient-advocacy science groups ever created. She was a titan.
It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
This Lego video for drunk FBI Director Kash Patel is fantastic.
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This means that HHS can no longer initiate investigations of gender clinics for trans youth based on the Kennedy declaration or try to terminate federal funding through Medicaid and Medicare.
This is an unequivocal win for the 22 states that brought this suit to protect access.
Ossoff: I don’t know who placed those trades, but I’ll tell you this: the SEC better find out. And if they won’t, when you elect this new majority in Congress and you give us gavels and subpoenas, we will.
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.
