If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

The Strange Death of Orbánism Franz Pokorny

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

This is fun

Trump has basically enacted DeSantis' entire hate slate, aka, Made America Florida.

The Internet’s Favorite Lawyer Says We’re Living Through ‘Multiple Watergates per Week’ Devin Stone turned punchy legal explainers into a YouTube empire. Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration scandals is distorting reality itself.

"Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration scandals is distorting reality itself."

Um. Yep. But Trump has been doing that since 2015. With a little break in 2021-2022 when DeSantis mostly took over.

Commonwealth Court rules the state constitution includes a fundamental right to abortion • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Susan Frietsche, of the Women’s Law Project, said the Medicaid coverage exclusion was the single largest barrier to abortion access in Pa.

This is a wonderful decision for Pennsylvania! And calling abortion a fundamental right is a satisfying slap in the face to the extremists on the Supreme Court.

FCC chair Brendan Carr, who has threatened to revoke the licenses of broadcast outlets whose Iran war coverage displeases him, plans to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as a guest this Saturday.
The suck-up media will never learn: When you invite fascists to dinner, they devour you.

Pay attention folks. This is how it's done. Trump sues his own DOJ, run by his private attorney, for $10 billion. Normally that would go through the courts with the DOJ arguing AGAINST giving Trump $10 billion.

Instead, his DOJ will negotiate a settlement OUTSIDE of court. Literally inside dealing.

With this new InfoWars, we will democratize psychological torture, welcoming brutal and sadistic ideas from everyone, even the very stupidest among us. It will be like the Manhattan Project, only instead of a bomb, we will be building a website. The InfoWars of tomorrow will converge into a swirling vortex of content about content, talent acquiring talent, rings of concentric media mergers processing all human artistry into one endlessly digestible slurry. This will be a dank, sunless place, one where panic and capital feed on each other like twins in the womb of a hulking, unknowable monster—a monster known by many names, but which I like to call modern-day America.

What a beautiful piece of writing from my boss, @brycetetraeder.bsky.social.

theonion.com/at-long-last...

I hadn't really thought about the risks of making yourself The Bad Object to the most unhinged people in the world

Mr. Onion willingly accepting those risks in order to turn something incredibly vile and cancerous into something extremely silly is beautiful

Patel is desperate.
He is desperate to keep his job and the perks he so enjoys. He is desperate to stay in Trump's good graces.
A desperate, beholden FBI Director is a dangerous person - dangerous to liberty & dangerous to democracy itself.

New study from Denmark shows that Tylenol is not linked to autism A Danish study involving over 1.5 million children has found no significant link between prenatal Tylenol (acetaminophen) use and autism.

Well this is interesting: New study from Denmark shows that Tylenol is not linked to autism

Hope that everyone in the 🍊🤡 administration reads this!!!

www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

The kind of energy I want in the White House and government in general.

Nothing got The Gift Of Prophecy harder than the Simpsons episode where people saw a bear rummaging through garbage and demanded a bear patrol with vans and helicopters and stealth bombers and then people got mad because they had to pay for the bear patrol and the mayor blamed the immigrants

Opinion | Artemis II Crew Brought a Human Eye to Photos Christye Sisson writes about how photos taken by the Artemis II crew demonstrate the value of human photography.

OPINION: "In an era when image authenticity is often questioned and with the capabilities of autonomous, AI-driven imaging, NASA’s choice to train astronauts in photography has placed meaning over convenience and prioritized their human perspectives and creativity," Sisson writes.

One of the California initiatives I'm really excited about. Not only do the solar panels generate power, but they also reduce water evaporation.

The teachers pushing back on screens in schools It's not just phones anymore. More teachers and even entire U.S. school districts are cutting back the time students spend on laptops and other screens. How do students really learn -- and do screens ...

The teachers pushing back on screens in schools

It's not just phones anymore. More teachers and even entire U.S. school districts are cutting back the time students spend on laptops and other screens. How do students really learn - and do screens help or hurt?

NPR On Point -Meghna Chakrabarti 4/14

That Palantir would do this is both shocking—not because this is some weird heel turn, but because it is a fully mask-off moment for tech bro fascisti—and also the least surprising thing from a company that has always been creepy as fuck.

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

This German political illo is a play on the idiom "to step on someone's tie" - which is our equivalent of "stepping on someone's toes."
Kudos to Die Zeit.

I feel seen.

Wasn’t this Ivanka’s pet issue in the first term??

I think most people would prefer this. #Science

Adding 'the oil lobby gleefully weaponise online harassment and far right extremists' to my ever-increasing list of threats to worry about

I wrote a rather famous version of this kind of story, mostly about Fox news, a few years back. bsky.app/profile/luke...

Aaaaand @raygunsite.com has shirts. www.raygunsite.com/collections/...

Has anyone checked on Ron DeSantis?