Is there any valid reason someone would go through so much effort to protect the KKK? Dark days indeed

The right gambled, tried to rig the election, lost, and now it’s excuses and tears.

Thanks for everything, Virginia. 🙏🏽

Pervs of a feather.

1/2 The military moving backwards on vaccines reverses a long history that (as @katelynburns.com highlights!) goes back to Washington and smallpox, and has continued to the (almost) present day - see below from Open Evidence (go-to medical AI resource).

Only a matter of time.

Gates Foundation Is Conducting an External Review of Its Epstein Ties

If they really do it, great. But transparency or humility have ever been part of the fabric of the place.

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

Trains were free in Germany with a ticket for the 2006 World Cup.

😂 alliteration for the win!

People are scared of telling the President of the US the truth. This can not end well.

Why isn't this the headline on every paper nationwide? A promise not kept!
#proudblue #pinks

Our anger has a message..... it will be heard. Release the files. Change the world!

The US military lost more soldiers to flu than to enemy weapons in WW I, 1918-1919. In all, about 45,000 died of flu.

This is brilliant military strategy by our adversaries.

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

- Harry Truman

As Trump proves often, the reverse of this is also true.

It’s amazing how much you can fuck things up when the only thing you care about is getting the credit.

The Liquor Cabinet

pass it along

Oof.

Artist: Dennis Goris

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

Loss aversion

This big tech firm wants to reinstate the draft A look at Palantir’s bootlicking new manifesto.

I wrote about that Palantir tweet reason.com/2026/04/20/t...

Eli Lilly agrees to acquire cancer drug maker Kelonia in deal worth up to $7 billion Kelonia is developing technology to reprogram patients' T-cells inside the body so those cells can attack cancer, called in vivo CAR-T.

Eli Lilly agrees to acquire cancer drug maker Kelonia in deal worth up to $7 billion

Honestly in my reporting of this all I could think was: I really think I need people to be a little more afraid of needles.

Not afraid of needles, but more cautious of INJECTING RANDOM UNTESTED SHIT INTO YOURSELF.

Stuff that isn't just unapproved, but actually banned!

Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared.

I love these students & I am worried.

Another day, another study showing once again that there’s no link between Tylenol in pregnancy and autism—RFK Jr’s claims are not based on data, only his own “vibes”

Clownishly evil sociopaths like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Larry Ellison and Benjamin Netanyahu should be *nowhere near* the levers of global power—and increasingly both the left *and* the right see it. So what do we do now?

PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a ‘weakness’ in address to Canadians — CTV News In a direct address to the nation, Prime Minister Mark Carney has reframed Canada's long-standing relationship with the United States as a 'weakness' that must be urgently corrected under the shadow o...

PM Carney: “The U.S. has changed we must respond.”

Our biggest strength became our biggest risk.

Time to stop relying on a neighbour acting like a rival.

Canada builds: new allies, new markets, new strategy. 🇨🇦

#cdnpoli #Carney
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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My new thing is that when someone asks me what I think about 2028, I ask them what they think about 2026. Because this November is the next election. Focus. There'll be plenty of time to talk about 2028 after we're done celebrating over washing Republicans out of Congress this November.

🔊 Iranian navy to ship attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz:

“The Strait of Hormuz is still closed. We will open it by the order of our leader Imam Khamenei, not by the tweets of some idiot.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration expects banks to comply in collecting citizenship information from customers.

Undocumented immigrants contribute $97 billion yearly in federal, state, and local taxes. They paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022.

Bessent is galactically stupid.

www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/b...

Trump’s Authoritarian Project Starts to Take on Water Viktor Orbán’s defeat is just the latest example of the administration’s European ambitions’ being stymied.

Trump's bet on Viktor Orban flopped. His war in Iran is massively unpopular. His insanity is becoming clearer even to erstwhile supporters. My latest Authoritarian Watch column for the Nation explores Trump's dog days. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread. Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want freedom Just as you. Langston Hughes

Ukraine Has Written Off the United States Zelensky has stopped pretending that Trump might be an ally.

Latest in @theatlantic.com The Ukrainians are now longer pretending that Donald Trump's USA is their friend. Their honesty is important as they seem to understand how much Trump is helping Putin and how important it is that Europe stick together. Gift Link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...