Hung Cao—who compared abortion to the Holocaust on the campaign trail and claimed combat injuries with no documentation—just became Acting Secretary of the Navy. This is what the collapse of institutional standards looks like in real time.
The owner of Coachella is a right-wing nationalist and gives lots of money to anti-LGBT organizations.
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I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages!
If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is
BREAKING NYT:
The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about Kash Patel using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter.
Former Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren on the Warsh confirmation hearing.
"As of this writing, the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law."
That's awesome!
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
The Roberts court is a pathetically bootlicking and suborned iteration of SCOTUS.
Its the fucking easy access to guns. We are slaughtering our children for no good goddamn reason.
Patel is a fucking loser dragging the agency into the mud.
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
Palantir needs to meet the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43_Group
The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
The age of men is over. The time of the Orc has come.
This is such a nauseating stew of simmering pathologies and resentments of subnormal techbros.
One morning Toad sat in bed. “I have many things to do,” he said. “I will write them all down on a list so that I can remember them.”
He's a vile former mercenary. Of course his position will always match the weathervane.
Fuck the neonazi Platner and the "Mills vs Platner" bullshit as if that's the only choice. Back an actual progressive @andrealaflamme.bsky.social
View through a window of two bunnies on a carpet of petals nibbling on grass beneath a tree.
Every hotel room is an invitation to alter to your needs. Then it becomes a battle of wills between you and the staff.
“Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-Calif., is asking whether the nation’s top financial regulators are examining a number of trades placed moments before President Donald Trump provided a major update on the Iran war.” by Garrett Downs @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/04/17/h...
The scene was concerning enough to prompt the homeless shelter staff to call the fire department. A woman using a walker had shown up, incontinent and carrying “a large bag of medications.”
This Day in Labor History: April 16, 1836. Massachusetts passed the nation’s first law limiting child labor. It required that children under the age of 15 working in factories be given three months off per year to attend school!
ATTORNEY: “Please don’t tell me Trump cares about law and order. He doesn’t. Look at all the people he has pardoned… Galanis: $200M fraud… Schwarz: $38M… Duran: $205M…. Watson: $60M… fraudster after fraudster… Pardoned, all of them.”
(From @cogdelllawuncensored)
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
Ouch. ⛽️⛽️
Who needs to exploit copilot vulnerabilities when you have MSbuild?
NEW: During a committee hearing, House Republicans repeatedly raised hypotheticals of coordinated voter fraud as they pushed for the passage of the MEGA Act, an anti-voting bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote.
The GOP argues the proposal is meant to curb fraud, which is vanishingly rare.
