Anyone who shows up for this travesty is knowingly choosing to act as a prop for authoritarian kabuki because they’re too cowardly or amoral to pass up vapid schmoozing and free drinks. They deserve your contempt, and possibly a few pieces of rotting produce.

It Is Time for Ruthless Aggression The national battle over gerrymandering should be just the first step. Next up: expanding SCOTUS.

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.”

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The white house literally looks like a gaudy funeral home. A casket in front of these people would not look out of place.

I guess that's to be expected for a photo that wouldn't look out of place 80 years ago either.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Dozens of American veterans and military family members were detained after they started protesting the Iran war inside a congressional office building in Washington D.C.

Trent Pool, who worked for RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign, got his Manhattan criminal charges dismissed. He was accused of assaulting and choking a 25-year-old woman at a hotel in 2024. /

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

The people in charge of Finders Keepers have something of a mantra: don’t try.

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📸: Jamie Hale

#lincolncity #oregon #oregoncoast #theoregonian #glassfloats #finderskeepers

Can confirm my life is so much better having zero emotional or financial investment in any small group of humans and their ability to move a ball around a very expensive patch of grass. 😂

Heart preservation technique increases pool of organs available for transplant Vanderbilt Health has pioneered a safe and effective technique for recovering hearts for heart transplantation.

Scientists triple the time we can preserve human hearts. Donated hearts usually can survive outside the body for a maximum of four hours. A team at Vanderbilt University developed a preservative fluid that could triple the time the heart can survive outside the body buff.ly/fnwUtnZ
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I want you all to notice how everyone is glad Hungary voted for the opposition instead of the fascists, and nobody is like “maybe they should’ve let the fascists win again to teach the opposition a lesson”

Because that would be just unfathomably stupid to say

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America He said that the values enshrined in the 1776 Declaration of Independence have “fallen out of favor” among Americans.

Genuinely funny that Sonia Sotomayor issued a public apology today for her mild criticism of a conservative colleague on a specific, substantive issue, and then a few hours later Clarence Thomas picked up a mic and was like ALL LIBERALS ARE AMERICA-HATING COWARDS

Reminder: there's no point doing a deal with him, no matter how advantageous, because you have no way of trusting he will stick to his word.

What a breathtaking view of mount fuji from a airplane. 😍

U.S. Vice President Vance stated that ending the funding for Ukraine is one of the decisions he is most proud of during this administration's term.

Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, long-term study shows The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80.

Like all other rigorous data on this topic, this latest study—measuring community water fluoridation exposure during childhood in the U.S. and any potential impact on cognition all the way up to age 80—found no association with community water fluoridation and “any measure of IQ or neurodevelopment”

The Trump administration actually is combating inflation: here is the Secretary of Agriculture giving a bonus second lie for the price of one

Pres. Zelenskyy (Ukraine): For the first time in the war, an enemy position was captured entirely by ground robotic systems and drones - without infantry. A robot entered the most dangerous zones instead of a soldier and took the positions. Occupiers surrendered, without infantry or losses 4/13/26

No infantry needed. Ukrainian robots, for first time, capture Russian position — Zelenskyy Read more

No infantry needed. Ukrainian robots, for the first time, capture a Russian position: Ukrainian defenders managed to take control of an enemy position using drones & ground robotic systems. Infantry did not take part in the operation, states Zelenskyy: RBC UA News
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Wrote about last week's Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling, following on those jury verdicts against Meta, as yet another very problematic workaround for Section 230.

✨NASA: "Jesse, Steve, Laddy, and Vlad….such an incredible feeling to welcome you aboard Integrity after a nearly 700,000 mile journey. Forever thankful for your service to our crew and the nation." @astro_reid

platforms make choices. this is who benefits.

Trump administration fires Boston immigration judge who blocked Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk’s deportation - The Boston Globe More than 100 immigration judges across the country have been fired since the start of the Trump administration, with the Boston and Chelmsford courts hit particularly hard by the purge.

Donald Trump tried to deport an innocent Tufts student to fill Stephen Miller’s inhumane quota.

Now, he’s fired the judge who rightfully stopped him.

This is the stuff of dictators.

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Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.