If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid:
$124 — school lunch & nutrition programs
$49 — diplomacy to prevent wars
$19 — USPS
$19 — Federal Aviation Administration
$18 — national parks
and
$4,049 — weapons and war.
These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay
This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
But sure, let's invite him to our big party and ask him to speak...
You can't say that Pam Bondi didn't make her mark. She will always be remembered for establishing the Dow 50,000 exception to child rape.
thebookseller ig account saying NEWS: some editors uploading confidential manuscripts to ChatGPT to read quickly, agent claims
the guardian: I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche
the walrus bsky account: Authors are using AI. Publishers know it. And now, says publishing consultant Thad McIlroy, authors are being forced to lie about it. One cancelled horror novel didn’t just end a career—it exposed an industry-wide reckoning.
idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!
Pam bondi ignoring Epstein survivors
may this define her for the rest of her life.
she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired.
girl, bye.
every single author I know treats AI as a venomous snake made out of other, meaner snakes and wants it scoured from the face of the earth with cleansing fire
claiming they use AI is basically insulting the core of their very being
I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here.
Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.
No ICE.
No war.
No Kings.
Not sure whether you should show up on Saturday? @timothysnyder.bsky.social (an expert on authoritarianism) explains why historic protests like No Kings Day really matter.
R&M is delighted to announce that contributor Ziqr Peehu’s poem "Every Grave Starts as a Hole" has been included in the 2026 Best of the Net Anthology! Ziqr’s volta is a masterclass on how to end an already brilliant poem.
With gratitude to the good folks at: @sundresspub.bsky.social
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🚨 Some Democrats might fully cave in the DHS funding fight and back a new "deal" struck by Trump and GOP senators to fund Border Patrol and some ICE operations — potentially without any reforms.
That means we need to flood Democratic phonelines today.
There will be more protests on March 28 than any previous day in American history. Find your local No Kings event and join us in the streets again next weekend: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
Blatant lie. US aid to Ukraine was worth a relatively small fraction of one year’s US military budget and was equipment US isn’t using against Iran.
But if it were true, that means Trump launched a war of choice when the US military was woefully unprepared for one. Which would be seriously damning.
Even though Markwayne Mullin has vowed to champion the same mass deportation agenda as Kristi Noem, Fetterman just voted to advance Mullin's nomination as DHS secretary.
Fetterman could have blocked Mullin's nomination. Instead, this supposedly Democratic senator decided to back the regime.
The Senate just passed the biggest housing bill in more than 30 years.
The House should pass it immediately so we can lower housing costs for families across the country.
New #poetry from Robert Fillman: "The Other Side of Danger".
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.
The DoD (sorry "DoW") response to Anthropic is that govt should be able to deploy AI for "any lawful use"
Which isn't credible from a regime that regularly breaks the law, pretends the law says something it doesn't, and claims to have changed the law without following the legal procedures to do so.
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
Bourbon Penn 38 cover reveal. Early release available now to subscribers!
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.
I have neighbors everywhere.
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
New #poetry from Lauren Frey: "“If Your Eye Is On the Sparrow, Then Your Heart Is On Me”".
