I've got a friend who thinks he's a glove made from a yellowy-brown condiment.
I said to him "you're pretty weird, you mustard mitt".

"No, no, no, Cheney said she disagreed with Harris on policy!"

I'll be real: the ideal politician is someone who makes people on the hard-right like Liz Cheney scared that all the work she put into government would be washed away and replaced with something better.

Not a President……a terrorist!

This is 100% correct, no lawyer has ever lied, not once

How many Doctors now have long Covid and why aren’t the BMA calling for preventions? Preventions will stop this cycle. We must start preventing long COVID. Very disappointing they aren’t doing this.

Sen. Warren: "Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?"
Handsome Kevin: "ummm... errr... "

His response raises real questions about whether Warsh is independent of the President and if he has the courage to tell hard truths.

Nothing pisses me off quite as much as politicians attempting to throw civil servants under the bus for their own blunders, and the blunders of their moronic, over-confident and inevitably rude political staffers.

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.

We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.

Pennsylvania's appellate court confirmed that access to abortion is a fundamental right under the Pennsylvania Constitution.

This decision is a win for all Pennsylvanians.

The government shouldn't be making your healthcare decisions - you should.
www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."

"This is an important thing to think about."

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

Menswear writer here. 👋 Let me tell you why you shouldn't wear an armband like that. 🧵

However! You can not under any circumstances draw any of the obvious conclusions from the fact that he's contradicting himself--ie, that's he's dumb as a rock, deluded, trapped in a bubble of sycophants, increasingly senile, fending off narcissistic injury, etc. Obvious conclusions are "subjective."

Verge headline: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration of a brain melting in the sun

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy

This reminds me of a “multistakeholder convening” I was invited to years ago, intended the solve the problem of “lack of trust in tech.” When I suggested the real problem was that the tech industry wasn’t trustworthy, the bros looked at me like I had three heads.

The real failure to look in the mirror is academics falling back on comfortable “we’re partly responsible because we enforced left wing orthodoxy“ thinking rather than the less comfortable truth that Trump/MAGA are bad faith actors who will only be satisfied with resegregated MAGA academies

"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV

This particularly resonates with me, when I see our precious science infrastructure get dismantled.

We have long road to recovery when Russel Vought et al. are out.

So much damage has been done within one year.

IT’S ELECTION DAY 📢

Virginia, stop Trump’s power grab, vote YES.
#VoteYesVirginiaToday

WELL NOW, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

A dozen red states want to help defend Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order Democratic plaintiffs argue that the executive order would unduly restrict mail voting access and insert federal agencies into election administration — a role the Constitution explicitly reserves for...

NEW: A dozen Republican attorneys general moved to defend Trump’s sweeping executive order targeting mail-in voting.

While Democrats argue it would restrict mail voting access and insert the federal government into the election administration process, the AGs argue it would actually help them.

Of course it is petty and stupid and evil to be angry at someone else's success, but I think it is also desperately fucking rude to tell someone "HEY I'VE OVERTAKEN YOU IN MONETARY SUPPORT IN A SHORTER AMOUNT OF TIME, SO HERE'S A TOKEN OF PITY." Reactions like this from people made everything worse.

Today I used AI to clear a drainage ditch. It worked perfectly and the water flows much better now! And by "AI" I mean a shovel.

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”

My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

FBI director Kash Patel files $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic | CNN Business FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/m...

ICYMI 📰
FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

This article is heartbreaking - a first person account of losing a child because of people like RFK Jr insisting getting vaccinated causes Autism.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

New university free speech complaints system to come into force this year Universities could face fines of £500,000 or 2% of their income if they are found to have failed to protect free speech.

This reporting suggests Bridget Phillipson's legislation will muzzle those of us who want to protest against Far Right speakers who say our Black family are intellectually inferior and our Trans family are all potential sex offenders and are mentally ill.

What an unbelievably terrible Government.