A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

I seem to recall some Supreme Court precedent saying you can't cancel contracts with a religious entity because of disagreement with religious principles. Something that like Schmulton v. Schmity of Schmiladelphia.

Two doors - the ‘male’ entrance is wide and square like a door. The ‘woman’ entrance is a cutout of a very thin long haired woman in heels.

This cartoon by Naked Pastor is SO GOOD. Sums up what I’ve been saying for ages about what happens when you start gatekeeping womanhood (and spoiler alert it’s the opposite of feminism).

STATE CONSTITUTIONS MATTER

The Backlash, from over a Decade of 45's sickening bullshit, is going to boomerang us into an Epic FDR-Style Reconstruction the likes of which the world has never seen before, and I'm here for it! All Power to the People! 💪💙

Former TIME editor Richard Stengel: “He is repeating every foreign and domestic policy mistake the US has made over the last 5 decades, but he’s doing it with a gracelessness, cluelessness, and corruption that has no precedent.”

Social Media moving from What Your Friends Are Doing to What Hot Rich Strangers Are Doing has ruined society, basically

The long-term solution to the fossil fuel crisis is *not* more fossil fuels.

This must hit so hard if you’re incredibly stupid.

Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

"Driving is a privilege, not a right"

Okay then why is our entire country built around car dependency, to the point where you literally cannot live or work in most places without a car?

Pam Bondi Wanted a Graceful Exit. But Trump Wanted Her Gone.

It says a lot about where we are that one can read the entire @nytimes.com story on the firing of the Attorney General of the United States without a *single* reference to that officer's duty to uphold the Constitution—which might just sometimes make it just a little hard to do the boss's bidding:

Anything less than a 9-0 unambiguous affirmation of birthright citizenship as settled law that cannot be changed except by Amendment is properly understood as an assault by those Justices on the foundation of American values, law, and government. To even humor this shows the institution has failed.

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

Fun fact, most catholics get yelled at by the pope exactly zero times in their whole lives but Censures Georg here has managed it like five times in six years

The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions 9.12.25

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

Meditation for Palm Sunday at Gethesmane Meditation for Palm Sunday at Gethesmane Jerusalem, March 29, 2026  Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, may the Lord give you peace.  We are here at Gethesamne

Wow.

So...having been denied entry to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, it appears that the Latin Patriarch held services outdoors.

At Gethsemane.

10/10 use of symbolism, no notes.

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The way the Civil War gets taught: there was mounting resentment between the industrialized North and the agrarian South; the divergent interests sowed discord between the regions

Actual Union Soldiers: fuck these slave-owning bitches I will send their souls to Judgment for their sins

Democrats shouldn't concede the legality of Trump moving to pay TSA agents and they should double down even more on their position to withhold funding for ICE and CBP - until Republicans have agreed to every single one of their demands to rein in ICE/CBP agents.

movie about all the world's nations working together to stave off an environmental apocalypse succeeds by completely avoiding politics

No idea if it’s true but it seems extremely likely.

Billions of people, possibly including you reading this, are alive today because you can run natural gas into a reactor and spit out ammonia (Haber Bosch).

A large % of the installed base for that process is shut in or exploded. It’s northern hemisphere spring.

It’s so fun how this is basically the third time in 6 years that we’re doing the “oops supply chain brokey” shit

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

Washington DC is not the President’s personal real estate empire. Our public buildings belong to the people.

That’s why I introduced the Federal Facilities Protection and Oversight Act—to protect our historic federal buildings and ensure no president can demolish or remake them on a whim.

Ohhh

The US Is Counting Traffic Deaths Wrong By emphasizing the number of people killed per mile rather than deaths per capita, traffic safety groups risk normalizing the factors that make American roads so deadly.

Counting traffic deaths per mile driven is like counting deaths per cigarette smoked

My guess -- he spoke to:
1) First-term Trump
2) Nixon's Ghost
3) That portrait of Lincoln whose eyes follow you everywhere.

If nothing else you should probably not teach your children to try and entrap the fae so they can make a bargain with them, that's how you end up with a changeling in your house.