Even the ad for this was a hot mess. And that disappointed me because Carey Mulligan is magical and I usually want to see anything she makes, but this, oooofffffff.

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

I will never pay for a Substack. Look, if I won't subscribe to George SAUNDERS'S Substack, I certainly won't pay for yours! Whoever you are, just leave Substack.

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.

"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."

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May Day Strong zine, page 8. NO SCHOOL NO WORK NO SHOPPING Cartoon person throwing hands up in the air says "SHUT IT ALL DOWN!" maydaystrong.org v1 - 04-19-2026 - © 2026 Greg Pak - zinefun.fyi

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Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones. Abortion bans are failing.

Abortion rates in red states have not decreased, aside from medically necessary ones. Pregnancy has become much more dangerous. slate.com/news-and-pol...

There is something about jet lag that makes the shriveled cortex absorb coffee like the first drops of rain in spring. (Something something adenosine levels, mumble mumble competitive antagonist whatever you're jet-lagged forgetaboutit).

ID: An image shows a selfie of Mustafa Talat, a Pakistani doctor, in personal protective equipment including a high quality mask and hooded coverall suit. He also wears stylish wire framed glasses. The image is repeated three times - two of them have a light blue filter. The text reads, “The Sick Times. I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me. By Mustafa Talat.”

We’re here, we’re still practicing, and we deserve better than silence and self-management. Medicine asked for our bodies. It’s time medicine made space for what became of them.

Mustafa Talat developed #LongCOVID after working the first COVID-19 wave in a hospital in 2020. Without clear diagnostic criteria, he received no diagnosis despite limiting symptoms. The system that trained him to diagnose couldn’t acknowledge what had happened. bit.ly/4vFu9Yz

"An object that never tires can cover ground much slower than any athletic human can sprint, and significantly slower than the fastest humans can run a mile, so we let it keep going until its speed sounded impressive."

Cool. My electric mixer stirs faster than my finger

A lot of people are still in the denial about how much the median Democratic voter, the median Democratic volunteer, and the median Democratic activist has shifted on a variety of issues. Well here's the handpicked candidate of Chuck Schumer being booed, about Gaza, at the Dem convention.

Graham Platner is an Embarrassing Liar Last month, I talked about “cointelpro,” the secret US government plan to infiltrate leftist groups in order to discredit and disrupt them. I specifically brought it up in reference to the Trump ad…

It's likely too late at this point to actually promote a good candidate, but if you're interested in understanding exactly how embarrassing Graham Platner is, I talked about it back in November. The tl;dw: it's not even JUST the Nazi tattoo. He's also a terrible liar. skepchick.org/2025/11/grah...

The Kikkoman is a good sign. This is the sort of place that turns out to have shockingly good coffee, but when you ask the guy what it is he shrugs and says it's just packets of ground Colombian medium roast and swears that never cleaning the coffee machine is the secret.

This is bullshit. It’s buying into the right’s framing of liberalism. Very, very few people talk like he’s saying. It’s not a real issue.

#Canal24Horas | España propondrá este martes a la UE romper el Acuerdo de Asociación con Israel: "Viola los principios y valores europeos" dozz.es/8d0ogbmv

Oh it turns out that vanquishing the college student who uses they/them in their email signature is not bringing you the fulfillment that you hoped for? You are still working in your crappy and unfulfilling job, paying a mortgage you now can't afford, and dealing with your annoying kids... I see.

My sister saw a guy in our pretty small Texas town with one and he told her that he was given the custom-painted trash heap for free by Tesla, they are so desperate to make them look popular.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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April Wilkens has spent 27 years behind bars for killing her ex-fiancé — after years of abuse, stalking and calls to the police that went nowhere.

Her story underscores a legal experiment in Oklahoma, where a new law called the Oklahoma Survivors’ Act offers prisoners like her a chance at freedom.

Today in Baltimore, We Proved This Fight Is Working DHS went to court to defend their ICE warehouse plan and walked away with a judge openly laughing at their argument.

"Over the past several months, our community has built a blueprint that other communities can use when federal agencies attempt to move detention infrastructure into their neighborhoods..."

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The Marine Corps probably told Platner what the Totenkopf is The hate symbol likely prevented him from returning to active duty in 2009.

“Somewhere in the USMC archives is a file with his name on it containing photos, signatures and other docs that establish every interaction he had about his tattoos. Those files are just waiting for his opponents. God help him if he thinks privacy policies are going to keep them out of view.”

[an awkward minute passes as Death struggles to pick up change from the countertop]
Death: (embarrassed) ha ha slippery coins
Drugstore Clerk: nah man it’s cuz you got them bone hands

Happy Superman day

"I can't do my wuuuuuuhhhhrk!" is one of those pop culture references that has become shorthand in our family.

Two grey striped tabby cats (one with a white vest!) sit in mailing boxes and stare judgmentally at the camera.

uh-oh, I have been reliably informed that my interest in orchids above kitties is resulting in a mass-mailing of kitties outta this chicken outfit.

Awww, who's a pretty ki--[record scratch] Nice Oncidium!

More than 100 writers quit French publisher in protest against rightwing owner Vincent Bolloré Tycoon’s media empire accused of pushing far-right ideas, as writers say: ‘We refuse to be hostages in ideological war’

Rightwing media capture cont'd. Hachette's fascist-adjacent owner forces out Grasset's famed editor. And if you think 'That doesn't affect me,' he owns Little Brown, Orion, Conran Octopus, Cassell, Mulholland, Voracious, Abacus, Constable, Corsair, Piatkus, Sphere, Virago...& probably ones I forget

Ooooh, nice design! And the site colors and aesthetic really work with the selfie headshot. Bending a "rule" about not using a selfie as one's author photo is also pretty on-brand, ha.

The real conflict for the souls of American boys isn't Vance and Newsom IMO, it's Vance and Ossoff, a theater kid whose pre-politics tweets were about stuff like whether ATLA was real anime but who has infinitely more rizz simply by not visibly hating himself and everyone he meets