Bookstore Romance Day is an unalloyed good in the world ! But it doesn’t happen by magic, and Billie needs our help right now.

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...

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

UNSUNG HERO: Iris Long was an unlikely AIDS activist. A married chemist from Queens, she barely knew any gay people. She joined ACT UP to use her expertise to fight for treatments. May her memory be a blessing.

By Richard Sandomir, w/ a small assist from me.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

YEP

trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now

Yes, they do, because they work very hard at that, and many succeed. I'm cis, and I do not gaf about "hotness". I do like seeing their joy when they have a safe place to display it.

Black women are still working twice as hard for less, new economic report finds Despite leading in education and workforce participation, Black women continue to lag in pay, wealth, and retirement security.

A new study shows that Black women outpace every other group of women in workforce participation. Yet they are still paid less & retire in poverty at twice the rate of white women. This is a system. It is long past time this country started carrying them the way they have carried us.

lmao and shit like this is exactly why Disney is currently midway-through relinquishing the crown of gold-standard animation pacesetter.

Mark my words, they'll be stuck playing catch-up within the decade.

They were bought by vampire capital (private equity), and this is what it does. America is going the same way.

They were bought by vampire capital (private equity), and this is what it does. America is going the same way.

They were bought by vampire capital, and this is what it does.

They were bought by vampire capital and this is what they do.

That was weird. My browser said I had 12 responses. It reloaded while loading, and suddenly I had 1.

Bluesky is kyriarchal algorithming too.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE TAGGING ME IN ON THE VATICAN / PENTAGON BEEF HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

So sorry they need to do this. News Guild is my union so I support this.As a reader of ProPublica, let me just say no "AI." I want trustworthy news, not made up slop.

It's almost like that editor had never read any French history.

I despise means testing. Means testing basically creates a permission architecture to arbitrarily deny people social benefits because of...*reasons*.

"I'm sorry, but just because you happen to be blind, deaf, and quadriplegic, that does not automatically mean you qualify for disability benefits."

I'm not relaxing until he's dead, buried, the taps are empty, and the cake has gone stale.

Yeah....my experience is that white people really resent when I do that.

Oh no. You have a 45lb cat.

It's also why the New Deal for Black people was the same old shit deal they'd BEEN getting. When politicians talk about a new New Deal, they mean all of this, too. It ain't for Black people.

This is what white Leftyists approve of, because it's what they voted for. They seem to care about Palestinians, but brown people in the US are either slaves or meat. Graham Platner, had to cover his Nazi tat, but not his Nazi views! Leftyists LOVE him.

Struggling families like mine don’t talk about the cost of living any more – now it’s the cost of survival | Ella Michalski Trying to make ends meet is an impossible effort, and things are rapidly getting worse. It’s time the government listened to people like us, says Ella Michalski of Changing Realities, a project workin...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

( You and many, many others Ella)

This Phoenix dad, husband, and doctor just helped change abortion rules in Arizona Local doctor Paul Isaacson helped change Arizona’s abortion rules after years of fighting for his patients to have the freedom to make their own decisions.

The inspiring story of Dr. Paul Isaacson of Phoenix Arizona. He's spent the past 17 years overcoming fears about his personal safety and advocating for women’s rights to make their own choices.

The best part of that article is when they're discussing how just quietly the entire writing profession doesn't talk about money stuff?

You're either silently piecing together side hustles or coasting on family money.

People (cough*men*cough) seem to view "amends" as a one-time action rather than a pattern of behavior. You apologize once(ish, sincerely) but you make amends by how you live the rest of your life