I heard you like purification so I put some purification on your purification

Sauna

Saw this was co-written by Låpsley open.spotify.com/track/4tydTi...

Not an Elvis Guy but his country-soul period is so good

I obviously don’t agree with that perspective but I could see why people would think that way in the 1940s and early Cold War period. It’s truly nuts to fear excessive worker power *now* after decades of aggression by the business lobby and sympathetic politicians.

The feeling is mutual, I suppose.

I think about this a lot - the authors of The Authoritarian Personality kept finding a fear of working class power by people who were otherwise liberal-minded

Look at how modest this thing is! And it was a step too far for her

I voted for Spanberger so this is annoying but also not unexpected. Moderates are at their worst when it comes to stuff like unionization.

They’re pro-business and they want to win by being pro-business. Does that make sense? Not really, but as centrists their ideal coalition doesn’t include labor or the left generally.

Continue to think it’s not that they don’t understand, it’s that they don’t want to win *that way*

Wonder if this is the result of Trump opposing the 20 years thing

Also she’s playing DC this fall and I am 100% buying tickets

Have to admit that I was a little underwhelmed by the pre-release singles from Jessie Ware’s new album - but now that it’s out, I have to say it’s pretty good. Maybe not as stellar as the last two (a high bar) but still disco as hell.

“Cheese!”

Just voted!

I feel this way about a lot of the music I listened to in my late teens and 20s - just did not age well (unlike me)

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Roberts comes off like a shill for the fossil fuel industry here - but also: “not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I have my left card set on auto-renew for maximum self-righteousness.

Also a common move by people who are “members of the left” solely in terms of self-identification, rather than, like, doing stuff.

Not great that the primary mode of Iran war coverage is “market effects soap opera”

Russia-occupied region in Ukraine seeks cooperation with N. Korea | Yonhap News Agency SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- Officials from a Russia-occupied region in Ukraine have held t...

The governor of occupied Kherson has invited North Korea's ambassador to Russia to visit "for a tour of local farms" en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...

Managing expectations www.defenseone.com/defense-syst...

Fact check: Trump falsely claims Pope Leo said Iran can have a nuclear weapon | CNN Politics President Donald Trump continued his criticism of Pope Leo XIV on Thursday – in part by making a false claim about the pope’s stance on nuclear weapons.

"Pope Leo hasn’t made any statement saying Iran can have a nuclear weapon. In fact, the pope has repeatedly denounced nuclear weapons and made unequivocal calls for the countries of the world to abandon them." www.cnn.com/2026/04/16/p...

Yes - I think about this *all the time*

It was everywhere - until it wasn’t.

My guess is briefers wanted him to understand this was "scary material," but not "thing you stick wholesale into a bomb" yet. Maybe someone came up with this. Not bad, honestly, given the pathologies you're managing with this POTUS.

I have also been wondering this

You’d be surprised at how many students, regardless of their political views, enter college with the idea that research is essentially a two-sided debate. It isn’t and that idea is toxic for knowledge production. The right recognizes this and that’s why they promote it. bsky.app/profile/john...

To them, robust research that *might* lend itself to liberal conclusions is fundamentally unfair - so they cry for balance, equal time, representation from the other side, etc. But research is not cable news. An evolutionary biologist’s article should not have to be paired with creationist nonsense.

The thing about “viewpoint diversity” is it’s an affront to legitimate scholarship. What counts as knowledge should have to earn that status - but right-wingers want cheat codes so their shoddy “research” will get as much hearing as serious peer-reviewed work.

Their only frame is “Democrat” or “Republican” they’re not interested in the underlying substance of this or that academic debate