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I generally dislike fuckability politics but I gotta say I’m seeing way too many people commenting on how “Bo in Sinners have no business being this hot.” Like, hot men exist in every variation please get over it. It’s not a compliment to call a man “hot for an Asian”

is it a planned economy is the plan is to fuck it up?

"Healthcare for all" is met with "where do we get the money" "Social programs to lift people off the mat" is met with "where do we get the money" "Border walls and ICE detentions centers" is met with "please sirs take this money." Our value system out in the open.

Nakba march in northern Israel canceled after police ban Palestinian flags Jack Khoury www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Feels like it's a problem that he admits he doesn't know that part of law well, yet he feels comfortable both determining whether there is a good case AND whether that case was persuasively made by listening to a debate between two people who are experts.

"Burn marks on her feet from electric shocks, abrasions on the hips and head, and a broken rib. Her hair, which she liked to wear long and tinted blonde at the tips, had been shaved." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Ken Rosenthal article: Ronald Acuna Jr. sagging his pants is a disgusting disgrace to baseball Jeff Passan article: The Pirates fucking suck and I'm going to kill Bob Nutting myself

Respectfully, huh? I know plenty of American business owners who operate ecommerce in Europe and Asia.

Episode one of our new podcast, "The Final Flight of Captain Forrester," is out now. 🎧 Listen to it here, or wherever you get your podcasts: www.texasmonthly.com/podcast/the-...

It occurred to me that there’s so much chatter about Grace in “Sinners” because folks really really want to talk about inter-community racial tension between Black and East Asian groups and they latched onto a potential example in a movie we all saw.

Two bills that would change Alabama’s bail system are working their way through the Legislature in the waning days of the 2025 session. via @alabamareflector.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/bail...

Take a woodpecker break app.mybirdbuddy.com/media/waller...

The answer... may not surprise you. Unless you were covering the 2024 campaign. Because, you know, Trump said he'd never even HEARD of Project 2025.

I went here and no one knew you

Here's even more background: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

It's roadside snack season!

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 29,1949

“All this would have been destroyed. Raising the money to fight this is not easy. But you have to, you can’t let this just slide by.”

“New York is the RuPaul of America”

I'm sure the affected workers will just get higher-paying manufacturing jobs that are pouring back into the country, right? <finger to ear> hang on: my producer, Common Sense, is giving me an update

I was struck, when listening to the latest episode of Ezra Klein's podcast, that his "abundance" POV falls victim to the same forces he's decrying. [1/n]

Andrew Cuomo has refused to release a list of his lobbying and consulting clients since he resigned from office. But we do know Cuomo has been a paid adviser for a crypto exchange company, and that his consulting firm advises the nuclear reactor company NANO Nuclear Energy.

Really good one by @seantcollins.com today on Sinners and how audiences are clamoring to see depictions of racists and fascists getting dumped in the fucking trash, plus The Pitt and Daredevil and Andor. www.welcometohellworld.com/all-of-this-...

The Consumer Confidence Expectations Index, which measures "consumers’ short-term outlook for income, business, and labor market conditions," is now *lower* than it was at any point of the Covid-19 pandemic

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 29,1947

hand to god I thought this was rupaul as I scrolled — and the replies tell me I’m not alone

BBC [cont] -- ECHR held in 2002 that UK's failure to recognize post-op genders violated Articles 8 & 12, leading to UK passing 2004 Gender Recognition Act. Supreme Court's reinterpretation of 2010 Equality Act now puts those two in direct conflict. [HT @[email protected]]

I think this is a better outcome than anybody had any right to expect in, say, December 2024, but it’s a sign of how profound the right-wing shift was and is shaping up to be

also good morning to you. Secretary of Agriculture and C/O 1994 Brooke Rollins, and Secretary of HHS RFK Jr. will be visiting my alma mater, Texas A&M University in College Station. @fbugenhagen.bsky.social will have more on the visit, which coincides with Trump's 100th day in office:

Mainstream media coverage has taken much of the hard-line, partisan edges off the group backing the lawsuits and its lawyer.

It’s not about “guts.” They’re not being cowardly. Trump is giving them exactly what they want, the kind of power they could only dream of. Why would they want that to stop?

I don’t speak spanish but when bad bunny says “solo con usted, con usted … yo bailo con usted” … I’m actually fluent

A judge on Monday temporarily blocked Missouri Attorney General’s subpoena seeking records from a nonprofit that assists women seeking abortions. via @missouriindependent.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/atto...

Good morning - The Furries Bill - now cosigned by 54 members of the Texas House, including former speaker Dade Phelan -will be heard in the House Public Education Committee at some point this morning. I will be providing commentary as it goes along. #txlege

Good morning - The Furries Bill - now cosigned by 54 members of the Texas House, including former speaker Dade Phelan -will be heard in the House Public Education Committee at some point this morning. I will be providing commentary as it goes along.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 29,1946 During World War II, nylon was used extensively for parachutes and other war materials, such as airplane cords and ropes and the supply of nylon consumer goods was curtailed, Causing shortages of women’s nylon hose

If you see this, post a witch 🩸 www.asherelbein.com/store/ghost-...

bring back when newspapers were called like. the Highland Park Democrat-Reporter-Times.

too many startup news companies have stupid names. why is it called punchbowl

I love having a bearded dragon who nearly died a few years back after eating a firefly who is nonetheless absolutely bound and determined to eat another one (she was prevented in a nick of time)

! But also: this is more like it, House Democrats.

I don’t understand. I thought these numpties were proud of the Trump tariffs. Don’t they want credit for them?

Mike Flynn took the QAnon oath. Look where that got him. He's now the target of a conspiracy. New from @willsommer.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-premi...

Soup 16? Minestrone with zucchini, carrots, potatoes, spinach and whatever 👩‍🍳 @mishkafrances.bsky.social

The solution to this is to raise the cost of having irrational political beliefs, which trump is currently doing a great job at. The only downside is that it sucks

Should Canada join the European Union? In this essay, I will—

“You can tell that the [guards] at SCC don’t consider us their people, so we are treated differently, like we are less than them,” H. said. “It eats at you after so many years.”

*sotto voce* biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch

Chris, I don’t know how to tell you you’re the stupidest motherfucker that has ever walked the earth, but you’re the stupidest motherfucker that has ever walked this earth (and these goddamn racists will never let your wife in this country if they can help it)

"My body froze up and I tried to act as if I were already at my vacation destination, somewhere far away from the container of my anatomy. The indignity of being singled out flooded my mind, and I blacked out until I was allowed to cross over to the other side of the line."

Our newest Digest also includes: • Omaha Democrats eye runs for swing House seat • Veteran Virginia Democrat is the first member of the House to announce an outright retirement this year • Referendum to repeal Utah's anti-collective bargaining bill set to qualify for ballot

We choose to go to the moon — not because it’s easy, but because apparently some of us think it just up and leaves for a week. www.dailydot.com/debug/kambre...

Here they go again. Still printing out things and holding them up to cameras in small type.

An interesting addendum to this story... 🧵

Hegseth announces the end of DoD’s Women, Peace and Security programs, which among other things works to address sexual assault and harassment in the US military. (Note: stems from a law signed by Trump in 2017.)

The "Environmental Justice" grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was administered through the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. DPH used the funds for in-home environmental remediation to address asthma in residents and communities disproportionately at risk.

When you buy a Blue Heron Farm calendar you will never see the words Columbus day. But you will see cute AF animals.That's the Blue Heron promise.

cranks used to be fun. now you can tell nobody really believes their own shit

Today is Tuesday, April 29. Good morning ❤️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.

All of Bezos's bowing and scraping doesn't amount to a hill of beans when the rubber hits the road. I guess now we'll see which is more important to him, his stated commitment to "free markets" ($$$) or his desire to placate dear leader

At This Private Prison, Hawaiians Are Treated Worse Than Mainlanders.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, who has won a string of victories in the closely divided 2nd Congressional District, is running for U.S. Senate to replace Sen. Tina Smith. via @minnesotareformer.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rep-...

In our magazine, a comic from @katfcomix.bsky.social: "Every day, my community bears the weight of injustice ..."

He's so brave, let's give him a round of applause! Secretary Duffy: you are free to drive your car. This does not impinge on your "freedom" (there is no fundamental right to drive a car, though that's a different conversation). But your "freedom" comes with responsibilities, like paying a little $

I feel like all of us need this. Mark Carney dancing after his win: VERY happy for you, Canadians.

FEEL PUNK TODAY?

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 29,1944

Hahaha www.instagram.com/reel/DJA8Yf5...

more big news for affordable housing hunters, from @smaldo.bsky.social:

since last year, john lithgow has been starring as the lead in a west end play about the stretch in the eighties when roald dahl went from beloved children’s writer to mask-off antisemite, and he seems to have thought about what the play is about not a single bit in all these months

It should read “girls’” not “girl’s” in “keeping boys out of girl’s sports,” and also how pathetic for that to be a top-three accomplishment

good morning, good morning. quick question. why do *you* subscribe to Hell Gate?

imho this was one of the big failings of the Biden Era. There should have been a wholesale effort by Democrats to examine the first Trump Era and all the ways the government was vulnerable. Both to actually safeguard our institutions and also politically to build a case to warn everyday people.

they got a right to be hostile, man, their garbage is being persecuted

Fritzi Ritz By Larry Whittington 06-14-23

Fritzi Ritz By Ernie Bushmiller June 28,1938

The letter looks nuclear-level bad now. But even then, it was pretty unserious to go so hard at “cancel culture”. It felt like a lot of people who make their living being shock jocks with the written word were worried that type of writing might become less lucrative.

In communities along the border, empty freezers, fired workers and fear tell a story of Trump’s return to power.

New Pope

I don’t want to suggest I saw “the devil” this morning but I passed a brand new Escalade with license plate CAPITAL

SLUGGO’S TUESDAY JAM

Essay: To rekindle pride in American values, we should not only expand mandatory Holocaust education beyond the current 29 states, but spotlight America’s role in post-liberation rebuilding of Europe, writes Karen Kirsten.

Democratic Rep. Angie Craig has launched her campaign for Minnesota's open Senate seat by blasting "an out-of-control, unelected billionaire trying to take over our government and burn it to the ground." She would be state's first LGBTQ senator.

this is also true of writing about near future sci-fi post apocalypse. I toyed with moving the timeline forward but I decided to just let it be an alternate near future timeline. Eventually it'll overlap with ours anyway. Wars, wars, wars.

Seems not great www.wsj.com/business/ear...

Of the 58,220 U.S. military service members who died in Vietnam, more than 1,300 were from Massachusetts. These are the stories of the men who were among the first and last to die on Vietnam soil.

ok so has anyone figured out what happened to Comedy Central last night during @thedailyshow.com

BBC [cont] - McCloud argues that the Court's ruling now makes her _both_ a woman _and_ a man for legal purposes; that her female anatomy makes it dangerous to use male facilities; & that Court inappropriately refused to hear testimony from trans people. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Feels like “no kings” and “a government of laws, not men” could have been crafted for expressly for the Trump era. The founders would have despised his anti-intellectualism as well

You do not have to hand it to Robert Kraft. Don’t let him try to massage the situation. Things should not be hard here.

Yet another Trump endorsement becomes a kiss of death. Gotta love that.

BBC [29 Apr 25] -- UK's only trans judge (former) High Court Master Victoria McCloud taking Supreme Court to European Court of Human Rights on behalf of 8k others like her whose GRA certificates make them female but who are now also male under the UK Equality Act [email protected]

A federal appeals court in New York on Monday paused a lower court’s order to transfer Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk from a Louisiana immigration detention facility to Vermont for a hearing.

Yay! And thanks everyone at the CBC because that fucking guy had it out for you

Go back to the shadow.

Come CBC just fucking call it. Think about how good it’ll feel.

Elon musk tried really hard to throttle carney's reach btw