The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Happy Earth Day 🌎

A poem from Wendell Berry

The most accurate indicator that something bad is about to happen.

remember when they were big mad about obamacare death panels

"This is an important thing to think about."

The verdict of a prominent conservative website and magazine:

"A 79-year-old man who has long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, his good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum—he never had those...

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges by Alabama grand jury Justice department’s inquiry focused on the civil rights organization’s prior use of paid informants to monitor hate groups, the CEO said

The Trump regime doesn’t like the Southern Poverty Law Center labeling hate groups as hate groups, so it’s weaponizing the Justice Department to try to destroy the SPLC. This is DOJ taking the side of the Klan.

I struggle with the reality that some of the nation’s least wealthy people continue to support a man so deeply, irredeemably corrupt he routinely uses the power of public office to enrich himself.

Maybe it’s the raccoon dick he has stuck in his ear.

A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss

The world’s richest man and a kid named “big balls” brought 6.7% unemployment to DC, put uniformed Fed troops in the streets and per conservative estimates cut programs that’ll result in the deaths of millions of people: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Inside the Parallel Universe Where a Nonpartisan Alito Is Under Assault from the Rabidly Violent Left At first glance, Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway’s Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped...

Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway’s new Alito book, a simpering hagiography of the court's most open partisan, reveals a deep right-wing obsession with imagined leftist violence.

A reminder:

"Elon Musk cooked his brain online. Marc Andreessen and others seemingly struggled with being in virtual spaces where their ideas and status were challenged, and rewired their political beliefs as a form of cope."

Good deep dive into tech broligarchy madness:

Without committing to specific numbers, a federal anti-SLAPP law for high-government officials should clearly be on the agenda of the next sentient Congress.

Holy @#$#@! I can't believe this is what we've become.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Absolutely.

"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."

That's a pretty simple and effective message.

Trump says U.S. negotiators will return to Pakistan for talks with Iran The president told MS NOW the U.S. delegation will include Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Two senior U.S. officials told MS NOW that Vice President JD Vance will lead the delegation.

If it’s Sunday…the Administration will hint the Iran War is kinda almost sorta over to calm jittery trade markets yet nowhere closer to peace AND to kick off some likely insider trading/prediction market fraud www.ms.now/news/trump-u...

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

they're creating new Trump cultists in a lab and putting them on Fox News. get a load of this guy.

They literally came to existence in and due to the culture they now deride.

Case in point- the federal government is not a business, has never been a business, and was never intended to be a business. Businesses hold no social contract - governments do. Businesses exist because we the people, through our government, allow them to and set up the structures by which they do

Case in point- the federal government is not a business, has never been a business, and was never intended to be a business. Businesses hold no social contract - governments do. Businesses exist because we the people, through our government, allow them to and set up the structures by which they do.

As we read this about the Roberts Court let’s remember the shadow docket grievously harmed American scientific research, cancer cures, and public health over the past year.

For ex, KBJ’s “Calvinball” quote was in an NIH case. More, short 🧵 1/

Ossoff: I don’t know who placed those trades, but I’ll tell you this: the SEC better find out. And if they won’t, when you elect this new majority in Congress and you give us gavels and subpoenas, we will.

shouldn't be allowed to choose their own clerks, shouldn't be allowed to accept fees for speaking or prize money or awards. shouldn't be able to get book deals, etc. etc. if what you want is to be famous, well, no one is forcing you to be a supreme court justice.

#MedicareForAllNOW

It seems like it’s as easy as picking between…… Jesus & the devil, good & evil, right and wrong, the Bible and The Art of the Deal…..

Not many people know this, but the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is responsible for making sure the coal industry is never inconvenienced. Pretty sure it's part of the oath he swore.