Here's wishing every single hospital administrator who complied in advance a very wakes up in a cold anxious sweat every day until they a) reverse course and b) apologize.

when our grandkids ask "how could you not see the Republic of Gilead approaching?" we'll have to explain how someone threatened to launch the Republic of Gilead every couple months and it was hard to tell which ones could actually pull it off

It's harder to measure but I feel like RFK Jnr shutting down funding for MRNA research is actually up there with DOGE cuts and this latest Iranian war as a contender for Most Evil Things Trump II has done. Accounted properly, this regime is really wracking up 20th-century-dictator kill counts imo.

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

A photo from behind the scenes on filming Revenge of the Sith. Against a bluescreen backdrop, George Lucas snarls and raises his hands to the sky, as Ian McDiarmid in full costume as Palpatine, does similarly in the background.

can't believe we're really getting the taxation of trade routes being in dispute *and* a blockade of deadly battleships

New EGOT just dropped.

The "I made this" meme but the first guy has an Iranian flag, he's handing a globe to American flag guy Iran: I'm blocking the strait America: you're blocking the strait? (concerned) America: (thinking) America: I'm blocking the strait

if you want a shot of optimism remember that ten years ago Victor Orban's position seemed unassailable and today he and his movement are failing.

One of the most powerful lessons I’ve ever learned in social change is to clean your house first.

If Democrats want to create the necessary momentum to hold the men in the Epstein files accountable, then they have to lead by example with Swalwell.

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

Same goes for literally anyone in absolutely any creative profession.

RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

"If Swalwell was guilty, his accusers would file charges" is a thing I keep seeing. But here's the thing: it's absolutely NOT how the system works.

ONLY PROSECUTORS CAN FILE CRIMINAL CHARGES IN THE US LEGAL SYSTEM.

Very thrown by the desire by a small cohort to circle the wagons around Eric Swalwell, a guy I would never expect to inspire such devotion.

apparently today's a good day for this

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide.

Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session.

Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

Impeach Trump.

something like No Kings is essential merely because it gets people in the habit of saying “this is not OK, I don’t have to accept this” instead of just checking out, and i think elite passivity in face of Trump promotes popular apathy

if you’re not willing to do *anything* disruptive about it, you’re going to be inclined to just deny it is happening at all

so there is a resistance — not just in GOP but among many institutions that collectively determine how administration is portrayed and financially respond to it — to acknowledging reality. if you concede there is a crazy man with a gun wandering around outside a schoolyard, then it

Friends, Native people are, indeed, Native to this land. But they were not Native to the United States. We all need to, somehow, collectively unpack the presumption that the U.S. is (and has ever been) the only instantiation of "this land." There were, and are, many other governments here.

Israel bringing back the death penalty that it had previously abolished *specifically* for Palestinians is an absolutely hideous crime

And formally, according to our law,
Depose him

“No Kings” Organizers & Indivisible Pivot to May Day General Strike Dozens of unions and Indivisible have backed the May Day Strong walkout

"After No Kings, Indivisible, one of the lead organizers of the "No Kings" protest, is pivoting to building support for...May Day Strong. The May Day Strong coalition is calling for "No Work, No School, No Shopping" on May 1st."

reporting by @mikeelk.bsky.social

paydayreport.com/no-kings-org...

Handmade sign on a rectangle of cardboard, in black marker and red paint. “TO DO<br>☒ buy milk<br>☒ feed the dog<br>☐ hold them accountable<br>☐ never let this happen again”

see you there

Scale of Hegseth purge of Black and female officers:

"NPR has also learned that a Black colonel and a female colonel from another branch of the military were taken off the promotion list .... This would bring the total to at least six promotions blocked by Hegseth."

www.npr.org/2026/03/27/n...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the rhetorical mode of lament lately, and this is a wonderful example of what it is best at, holding loss and possibility in frustrating but honest tension

SUCCESSFUL CHANGE REQUIRES BOTH POLITICAL PRESSURE AND COVER. WHICH CAN ONLY BE DONE AT THE SCALE OF MASS PROTESTS.

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵:

These protests are important b/c:

1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

thoughts on today:

1) the protests are good, actually

2) you should go to one of you can

3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy

4) you might meet people who you can organize with

5) there are more of us than there are of them

6) we are going to win