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Aaaaaaah! Meg has seen my book.

Grandpa Chaos is losing all self-control. You don't have to be a geriatrician to recognize the signs. Many of us have/had relatives w/dementia where that social filter is completely *gone* or occurs during sundowning. We wouldn't hand them keys to the car, let alone serve as POTUS. 📺 is.gd/iTKa0x

😜 Just two more weeks, guys!

At last, something ALL Americans can celebrate! The stewards of our nation’s mighty Supreme Court have confirmed what so many of us already knew: Racism is a thing of the past! Thanks for your help, Voting Rights Act - we’ll take it from here! @theonion.com

The below thread lays out what the economy looks like right now: it's being almost entirely propped up by spending on data centers while inflation is rising and people's incomes fall behind. All of this is noisy data, but it still feels... tenuous.

1/2 ❗🚨 The Roberts Court proudly owns this — LA Gov. Jeff Landry plans to suspend the May 16 primary so the congressional map can be redrawn. - ONE DAY BEFORE EARLY VOTING. - BALLOTS MAILED OVERSEAS WEEKS AGO. White power eagerly ascends again — w/the approval of SCOTUS. Gift 🎁: wapo.st/4vWGlnX

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW YOU DAMN FOOL LUNATIC TEENAGE DRIVERS?!?!?!?

Ridiculous things that happened in book tour, part 1: thebloggess.com/2026/04/30/a...

"Eight miles out, six feet down" sounds like folk etymology that someone dreamt up to explain 86, which all reputable sources trace to the hospitality industry.

Peter Thiel imbibes the blood of the young and Bryan Johnson does...this:

Not least because the upshot is that there are no official channels. The administration can treat personal accounts as personal when it suits them and as official when they want.

Under-emphasized in the redistricting fight is that when Alabama got its second Black (&hence second Democratic) congressional district, no one GAVE Black voters a majority. In fact, there were still more eligible white voters. It just gave them a winnable one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Putin just threatened the US not to escalate in Iran. (Not that we should escalate in Iran, but Putin is on Iran's side.)

Trump gets worse every day and the midterms are in the future, so yeah.

Everything the administration says and does is pushing a deal with Iran further away by lying and belittling them. Deals are promises and you won't get one as long as your counterparty has no reason to trust you.

Every time a new exposé of police sexual violence comes out people act like it’s a new issue or a “breaking story” - it’s not. Decades of research in the report below & multiple ways you can take action whether you are working on police violence or sexual assault in the accompanying toolkit.

It’s not a gotcha if the answer is no.

The problem with the category of "ultra-processed food" is that it's so vague. It includes too much and too little. And it calls attention to some legit unhealthy trends like taking all the fiber out of foods so we can scarf them down without chewing to harmless stuff like food dye & stabilizers.

The conservatives on the Supreme Court killed the voting rights act on the premise that racism is over. The SPLC prosecution is based on a more balls-out-crazy variant of the same delusion: Racism is so over that the SPLC has to fund the Klan to fundraise off of it.

More like $40-$50 billion when you include the cost of repairing all the trashed military bases and destroyed equipment:

Warrior codes exist to differentiate warriors from the violently antisocial, but Pete Hegseth's warrior code is simply to be as violently antisocial as possible.

There are no Planned Parenthoods in Louisiana because they closed them over a year ago...

just in time for May Day, my column on what general strikes are, and what they are not, and why it matters to think in terms of power, risk, and strategy. progressive.org/magazine/str...

Hello from the West Los Angeles Little League parent-run snack bar that is out of peanut M&Ms.

It's so crazy it just might work!

1/2 And FELON47'S planned ginormous Arch & his edict that Treasury put his sig on currency are deeply unpopular with Americans, incl non-MAGA Republicans. (Anecdotally, even r/conservative is tired of these narcissistic acts by Trump is.gd/cRHNb3, esp the passport [not in the poll]) 🧾 is.gd/DRzMGf

Republicans always deliver... - higher prices for groceries; - higher prices at the pump; - corruption, fleecing taxpayers; - restrictions on / suppression of voting rights because of their shrinking numbers. - alienation of allies. Because they can't win on their failed policies. 📺 is.gd/FZUkGn

This #MayDay groups who have been organizing around policing, immigration enforcement, and abolition of ICE for decades like BAJI @criticalresistance.bsky.social @detentionwatchnetwork.org & @interruptcrim.bsky.social wanted to offer some clarity around what it means to demand to #AbolishICE #NOICE

Excellent example sentence from the OED for "eighty-six": "Shortly after the guidebook was published in April, he found himself trashed (by a rival guide) in the local paper, eighty-sixed from a local cantina, and called a ‘hillbilly creep’ via e-mail."

🔥 ICYMI: If you want to watch the slice and dice of #DUIHireHegseth at today's hearing, here's a good roundup by MSNOW — questioning by Democrats of the incompetent, compromised, ludicrous head of the Pentagon. 📺 youtu.be/i418caFvLyQ?...

“We want constitutional maps. All states that have unconstitutional maps should look at that very carefully, and I think they should do it before the midterms.” — House Speaker Mike Johnson Shocker 🙄! MAGA Mike calls for Red states to unashamedly fly their racist freak flag. 🎁 wapo.st/4mZlFHT

#DUIHireHegseth denigrates service members who are alarmed — and have reported — the Christian Nationalist propaganda being pushed by Hegseth's fellow zealots in the ranks. If troops fear coming forward, then that's a culture of religious intimidation. 🧾 is.gd/MkHbbx 📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...

When they wanted a ceasefire, Trump and his goons pumped themselves up by claiming there were no targets left to bomb in Iran. Now that they want to start bombing again, they're claiming that there are so many left they'll need two more weeks to get to them all. Pathetic. Sick. Weak. Disgusting.

Everything is a conspiracy theory with this crowd.

Doing the month's numbers, and if things continue at the rate they have been going we are likely to break 3000 appointments this year. Just appointments. Most people receive multiple services per appointment. Services will be closer to 7000.

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social details how Pete Hegseth was shown to be “incapable of actually planning for the most obvious contingencies of war,” which is preserving the lives of the American military sent into war... 📺 youtu.be/Nrw_ze34C0M?...

If Trump says "their Navy is at the bottom of the sea " one more time, I'm going to become the Joker.

Tillis eventually caved on the Warsh nom (on the regime promise to not prosecute Powell - it's already backsliding). The bar he has now set for AG: “Anybody who equivocated on the Jan. 6 rioters, I just can’t support.” Has any Trump nom answered honestly "who won the 2020 election?" 🧾 is.gd/kP86WW

When *Kansas Rs* (& all of the cowardly sycophants) are bleeding bc of Trump's lunatic destructive policies, you know the GOP is panicked. NEW: The pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the U.S., Rev. Adam Hamilton, just jumped in for the D nom. 🧾 abcnews.com/US/wireStory...

#DUIHireHegseth burns himself with his own words... 💥 BOOM! 🫠 📺 youtube.com/shorts/e4X8K...

There's little that @amirarose.bsky.social loves more than F1, so I got her to talk about it on @burnitalldownpod.com. We talk about the new regs (and she puts on her engineering cap, folks), current driver and constructor standings, and what to watch for in Miami: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JVL...

‼️ @jamiedupree.bsky.social: "58 House members missed the last vote of the week on FISA. 33D, 25R. 9 were missing from Florida (6R,3D). 8 from California (7D,1R)." #SurveillanceState 🧾 CNBC: is.gd/FiBo5e 🌐 Call your electeds: 5calls.org/issue/fisa-s... 📺 is.gd/uP6TYW

👀 After the SCOTUS ruling essentially scrapped Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, FELON47 is feeling pumped up. He knows he must suppress votes bc he *needs* to ensure permanent R control of Congress. He wants to taste victory w/passage of the Save America Act. 🦋 bsky.app/profile/atru...

1/2 🙄 "The only place Americans belong in the Persian Gulf is 'at the bottom of its waters.'" — Khamenei Didn't Grandpa Chaos & Kegsbreath say (after $25B spent blowing sh*t up) Iran's leadership is "confused," "decimated" & in a "state of collapse"? 🧐 Sure doesn't sound like it... 🧾 is.gd/ASbO5V

This what happens when Trump's peers, along w/the captured access press, & corrupt SCOTUS, will not recognize this demented bastard & his cult are destroying this nation, relationships w/allies...& they are OK playing into Putin's hands. We won't forget who enabled this. 📺 bsky.app/profile/theb...

"Disrupting our marriages & our families is a smokescreen generated by ignorance, prejudice & a very ugly strain of Christian Nationalism. If Faust & her group cared about families, they would tackle...actual problems for families such poverty, job insecurity, & healthcare." 🧾 is.gd/EfvDKr

📣 “While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else – the fight – to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources.” 🧾 www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Wow WTF Teamsters

Brown writes about the possibility of "members of Congress approving a pardon," approving of a pardon maybe, but they have no say in who the president pardons.

Is there a reliable account on Bluesky that reposts Trump's Truth Social posts. There are various accounts that claim to do this that aren't regularly updated or otherwise seems sketchy.

When *Kansas Rs* (& all of the cowardly sycophants) are bleeding bc of Trump's lunatic destructive policies, you know the GOP is panicked. NEW: meThe pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the U.S., Rev. Adam Hamilton, just jumped in for the D nom. 🧾 abcnews.com/US/wireStory...