If you see this, post something orange from your gallery

the world wide web was described this way in the initial years

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears.

"She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.”

“'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."

azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

AFSCME members are celebrating a huge victory for public services. Today, we succeeded in protecting funding for IMLS, a federal agency that supports public libraries and museums across the country.

Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

Slept in my Pixies t-shirt and now I've changed my name to Art Michaels

i would assume it was a previously unreleased bonus verse to a Paul Simon song probably.

Watching Miami of Ohio basketball

The fuck kind of answer is this

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

is watching this squad not some kind of prison already?

Spurs are going down. I can't f'ing believe it.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the US from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection, according to ICE. A tooth infection. He's death number nine.

the right also owns the headlines. the right also did a great job convincing way too many people about the notion of a "liberal media". Very few if any "liberals" sit in ownership chairs in the media space.

This well reported piece tracked 23 DHS warehouse purchase/lease attempts, how they have attempted to skirt local regs & officials, & avoid opposition.

"'If they are going to house people there, it is a death camp. I don’t say that lightly,' said Arizona Sen. Analise Ortiz." shorturl.at/fmMj9

Even without the political messaging

The MAGA pitch is my "yeah we're creepy and evil and brutal but you need us to protect you from *the other*"

Here's "the other" you need to fear: a bunch of hot people dancing and having fun

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

crazy to see PREPA make the superbowl half time show

What can you do with a history degree?

telemundo. practice some spanish

sorry nfl, an ad about los angeles being on fire is in bad taste

using auto-tune for the superbowl national anthem is cheating

he's dated both Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick

What do you say to those who claim you’re not American? I understand it’s confusing to encounter an American who can speak two different languages.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-int...

Eric Clapton maybe. Elvis. Tons of actors.

nbc superbowl pregame seems to be mostly about the stadium. telemundo's superbowl pregame seems to be mostly about Bad Bunny and Owen Wilson

It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.

Obamacare enrollment drops after enhanced premium subsidies expire | CNN Politics More than a million fewer people have signed up for Affordable Care Act coverage for 2026, according to federal data released Wednesday. The drop comes after the expiration of the enhanced federal pre...

One million fewer Americans have enrolled in a healthcare plan through the ACA because Trump & the GOP allowed vital tax credits to expire. This is going to leave our communities sicker, poorer, and worse off. www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/p...

Minneapolis’ Hotel Workers Are on Edge Staff across the city told NOTUS how their lives have changed since the start of the federal immigration operation. “It's frightening,” one said.

I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff.

They're afraid.

One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”

@notus.com:

www.notus.org/immigration/...