More of this, less of bombing other countries

(From @acyn.bsky.social )

Seeing President Obama and Mayor Mamdani reading to kids and singing "The Wheels on the Bus," while doing all the hand gestures is a reminder that they are human.
Whatever is evil ruling us now is not. They would never...

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

Queen being sentenced to The Phantom Zone in a Superman: The Movie deleted scene
#SupermanDay

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...

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying them for sex. I feel this needs to be emphasized much more than it is.

I love how everyone is acting like Zohran Mamdani talking in Mario Kart metaphors is somehow unbelievable. He's 34... you know bro has a ride or die favorite Pokemon type and is up to his eyeballs in debt to Timmy and Tommy.

WHAT A GAME

Wow, out of all the games to watch live tonight, this was definitely it.

I normally wouldn’t be rooting for One Knoxville, but this week I’m Team Cupset. I hope they give DC United a run for their money. #usopencup

AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter.

And I think today was an important turning point

Trump Destroyed Leigh Wambsganss' Brand Even More Quickly Than He Did the Kennedy Center's - emptywheel On Sunday, Trump twice tried to disavow what a loser he is. But Texas Republicans are no longer buying it.

Because people are taking Trump's disavowal of interest in Orbán's loss as if it were true, reupping this piece on his attempt to disavow Leigh Wambsganss' loss in February.

emptywheel.net/2026/02/02/t...

Oh

TIL confederates get tax breaks.

Ayyy, it’s this guy!

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Wasn’t she too old for him?

This is definitely going to work. 🙃

Federal immigration officers shot a man six times during a traffic stop. They say he weaponized his car. Video suggests he at worst was trying to flee, and he says he was fleeing after they'd already started shooting. So far, they've been shown to have lied after nearly every one of these incidents.

Pretty good, but not spicy at all. I’ll have more on Monday from elsewhere, hahaha

Me to my game devs: You need to rest. You need to have downtime and work-life balance. You need to set boundaries for yourself and be a human outside work.

My brain: Not you, though.

Me: Oh, God, of course not me. Haha. Can you imagine?

Good morning to the woman who saw me cycling on 2nd Street NE, made eye contact with me, then proceeded to cut left directly across my lane, causing me to have to stop short and almost fly over my handlebars. I hope you have the day you deserve!

Got an Indian curry at the work cafeteria. Sat near an Indian employee who was eating chicken tenders and fries.

Life is beautiful.

cc: @nytimes.com

If an outcome of them voting for him two years ago means they don’t vote this year because they either realize their judgement is impaired, they’re embarrassed, or there aren’t any candidates that trip their trigger, I’d consider that a net positive outcome.

Called Johnson’s office. Best he can muster is he’s “worried”.

Sounds about white

So sincerely hoping the latter is just bluster.