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"It can’t be said enough: both in the short and long term, they are trying to kill us."

unfortunately trump would probably still be in the top 25% of all popes when it comes to his personal conduct and character

This is, again, false. The video is from days ago, and the ballot boxes did not contain marked votes. The boxes were being used to transport signs, forms and other supplies needed to set up polling stations for yesterday's voting, Elections Canada said. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

this basic framework for understanding how economic royalists envision the future has held up rather well, i’d say

Holy shit, Liberals just flipped Terrebonne when the final poll reported. Winning by a difference of 35 votes, the Liberals are now just three seats away from a majority.

start cutting the ads for Michigan and Tennessee NOW

It's like the New Deal but for rich people

President Trump seeks to fire three of the five board members for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The CPB - led by a former head of the GOP - sues the White House, saying Trump doesn't have the authority to do so. My latest story for NPR www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...

NEW FLYTRAP POST ALERT‼️Co-founder Christine Grimaldi writes about her work class dad's struggles with work and education in this beautiful personal essay. theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/the-robin-...

NEW: Brad Marchand was a playoff foe for the Panthers the last two years. Now he has the close-up view of what makes the team tick. “You realize that it didn’t happen by accident.” www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/04/29/p...

So GOOD today, Hell World, and it has a bang-up review of SINNERS by @seantcollins.com www.welcometohellworld.com/all-of-this-...

As some Republican elected officials will be especially vulnerable in coming elections, Robert Kuttner suggests strategic efforts to pressure them to push back against Trump. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

thank you! we are big fans of Rommy too :D

here’s a beautiful paean to the glories of the midcentury halcyon era of mindless manufacturing jobs for all

ANOTHER OMINOUS LABOR MARKET SIGN The % of consumers who see jobs as being not so plentiful hit its highest level since Covid. Sub to the newsletter here www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

yes people often change / but memories of people can remain

Whatever this is, it isn’t journalism. Wipe those shit-eating grins off your faces and show some self-respect.

skeeting unintelligibly into the blue sky

Ira Winderman: Heat's "irrational thinking" needs to turn into cogent blueprint. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/04/29/i... This mix not good enough. So quick fix? Or patience?

the very distinct look you get on the faces of drivers who have made the decision to drive through Times Square at night

Trump will make Bezos blame the tariff-related price skyrockets on wokeness.

NEW: WhatsApp has created a new system for processing AI summaries and message suggestions for end-to-end encrypted chats that has similarities to Apple's Private Cloud Compute. But the differences introduce risks. @lhn.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/whatsa...

The number of cases reported in Texas' historic measles outbreak has risen to 663 cases in 26 counties, as of April 29. Track the spread here.

I seem to recall a time not long ago when Republicans were greatly concerned about a political party throwing around its muscle to suppress free speech.

BOOM! ABC is reviving MATCH GAME again and it's snagged Martin Short to serve as host. Expected to premiere this summer. Details up now @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/matc...

As dealmaking slows and regulatory efforts continue, private equity finds itself at a key juncture. From James Baratta: prospect.org/power/2025-0...

So what 'high value, high performance jobs' is the Trump administration actually bringing to America? Lutnick may be pretty good at performing magical thinking on TV, but try running an actual manufacturing plant on this stuff

Justice Democrats have endorsed Donovan Mckinney, who’s campaigning on a working-class agenda, in Michigan’s 13th District. From @emmarjanssen.bsky.social: prospect.org/politics/202...

Very like the reception of Obama's gracious 2008 victory speech vs. the palpable seething when McCain addressed his supporters

sycophantic BS only works as long as prices are not going up... good luck with your house of cards, Trump GOP

Okay San Antonio: Which one are you choosing?

"One of the people Theroux handpicked to make Israel look bad was Daniela Weiss who is so insignificant, she is known as the 'godmother of settlers.'" open.substack.com/pub/normalis...

It's true that Pete Hegseth just condemned the "Women, Peace & Security" program that Trump has long championed. But let's not forget that the legislation — which Hegseth called a "Biden initiative" — was also written by Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

I assume the solution is just "a bigger bag."

“One way to be optimistic about the future is to be realistic about the past.” Good JVL here 👇🏽 www.thebulwark.com/p/america-al... via @jvl.bsky.social

For anyone wondering why CBC still hasn't called a minority/majority government for the Liberals, it's because the party is only four SEATS away from a majority -- and there are about 11 ridings yet to be called where the margins suggest a flip is possible. We'll see what happens!

Eternally bitter that we are losing true darkness.

One thing that I was thought was revealing about the divisions within Canada: When Carney acknowledged Poilievre's hard work on his campaign in his victory speed, the crowd of Liberals cheered. When Poilievre mentioned Carney in his concession speech, there was loud booing.

Splitting the G (For You)

As a Canadian, seeing these Americans giggle at the idea of taking our sovereignty is fucking harrowing and offensive.

This is what "making it up as we go along" looks like.

For anyone wondering why CBC still hasn't called a minority/majority government for the Liberals, it's because the party is only four votes away from a majority -- and there are about 11 ridings yet to be called where the margins suggest a flip is possible. We'll see what happens!

This is ALL happening now in the United States.

This means there are now *six* lawsuits against the Trump administration filed primarily by faith groups, with *dozens* of houses of worship, religious orgs, and entire religious denominations among the plaintiffs.

This means there are now *six* lawsuits against the Trump administration filed by faith groups, with dozens and dozens of houses of worship, religious organizations and religious denominations among the plaintiffs.

moving insurance has some wild exclusions

Cheeseheads assemble

and live from new york...

New: The Texas Lottery Commission unanimously voted Tuesday to ban lottery courier companies from selling tickets online amid lawmakers’ ongoing criticism of the practice.

I'm introducing my 9-year-old to 'Jurassic Park' (the book, then the movie) and so figured I'd read the sequel novel, 'The Lost World.' Wow, even by Michael Crichton's very low standards in this regard, these characters are awful cardboard cutouts. Just egregious telling-instead-of-showing writing.

“The detained are aid workers, journalists, business owners, local politicians, church leaders, and anyone suspected of resisting the invasion. They are being held at more than 180 facilities in the occupied territories and inside Russia itself.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

There’s a very weird thing happening on Facebook where right-wingers are impersonating popular non-political creators (in this case a car reviewer and a comedian), building huge audiences off of their stolen content, then flooding these fake pages with click-bait Trump content. Beware.

Reports coming in about an alleged shooting in Uppsala, Sweden with several injured — more to come www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

The ignorance and cruelty of Trump and DOGE is setting back American society in so many ways… and harming the most vulnerable above all one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5345...

Read this story about the final months of the incredibly brave Viktoriia Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist who died, age 27, in Russian prison last year. Her body showed signs of torture; the Russians returned her remains with her "brain, eyes, and larynx" missing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

IT'S BEEN A 100 DAYS OF TRUMP AND MY DICK HASN'T GROWN NOT ONE CENTIMETER

Unparalleled corruption, in plain sight. “Several investors in World Liberty’s coin managed firms that the federal government accused of wrongdoing. They include an executive whose fraud case was suspended after he invested millions of dollars in World Liberty.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

@ninajankowicz.com is a goddam hero open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

Idiocracy, IRL edition

Hey ⁦‪@newyorkcityfc‬⁩ fans. Keep this in mind on Sunday if you are attending the #NYCvCIN at Citi Field. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/f...

At an Intel Foundry Event in San Jose, California, Lip-Bu Tan, Intel's new CEO, praised Trump's administration policy on semiconductors. "We are the only company that does all the semiconductor development process, from R&D to manufacture, in the US", said Tan.

Wildfires have become part of the Western landscape. Recent events on the East Coast show they're a part of our collective future.

NEW: This story is just nuts. (Yet it's also quintessentially American.) www.thebulwark.com/p/america-al...

Submit confidential news tips to the Sun Sentinel www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/04/28/s...

“A trail of social media posts and online campaigns hint at the struggles Kai-Ji Adam Lo claimed to have endured since his brother died in what Vancouver police said at that time was the city's first homicide of 2024.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NEW: "As Trump's approval ratings plunge and his lunacy levels fly off the charts, it's getting gosh-darn hard to keep up. Perhaps this quiz can help sort things out." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-fir...

I'm also reminded of Trump promising voters, "I want to do away with executive orders for the most part," and the time he condemned executive orders as "the easy way out." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Barber's arrest, btw, came after he *also* spoke at the Capitol Steps sit-in hosted by Minority Leader Jeffries and Sen. Cory Booker, where Rev. Dr. Leslie Copeland-Tune of the NCC and Rev. Jimmie Ray Hawkins of the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s Office of Public Witness also addressed the crowd.

I’m at the 2025 Craft Brewers Conference here in Indianapolis. I’ll be covering the country’s biggest craft brewing convention over the next few days for @vinepair.com. If you see me on the floor—difficult, because I inadvertently matched my shirt to the wall color—say hello!

If you look more closely at the quote you can see that this is actually an attempt to prep the ground to argue that supply-chain shocks are the fault of retailers, not Trump: “I wouldn’t think that we would have supply chain shocks. I think retailers have managed their inventory in front of this.”

NEW: "To mark Trump’s first (worst?) hundred days, I thought it might be fun to look at all the impeachment articles against presidents and figure out how many Trump has already matched or surpassed. "Spoiler: It has not been fun. And the answer is pretty much all of them."

Trump is planning to send Congress a rescission package to try to give DOGE's cuts a fig leaf of legitimacy — the illusion they were approved by the legislature. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is [email protected].

Spain’s blackout, logically, took away the spotlight (no pun intended) but yesterday Nothing announced the CMF Phone 2 Pro: For 245 euros, it’s downright crazy. Good finishes, AMOLED screen 120 Hz and 50mpx main camera + telephoto + wide angle + front camera. Unfortunately, not available in the US.

Justice Gorsuch on wrong house raids: "Checking the street sign? Is that asking too much?" Updated story: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

I don't know whether Rod Dreher actually believes this, but if he does he must be the only person in the world who supports Trump not because he loves Trump but because he loves his country (unless he means Hungary, in which case it makes sense).

Statement from Yale Divinity School, where Rev. William Barber teaches and founded the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy, on his arrest yesterday:

I miss hiking in the palisades and going to will rogers.

NIH director Bhattacharya signed the termination letter sent to Board of Scientific Advisors members at NCI. In it, he wrote that "success of the NIH has been due in large part to the willingness of people like you to participate on advisory committees." Which raises a few questions!

It's called a Killer Instinct. Not everyone has it

i genuinely wonder if he understands how much he’s turning into david broder — very much including his increasingly metaphysical insistence that the Ds must “moderate” (while failing to clearly and consistently define what that actually and practically means)

Friends, join me for a Substack Live at Noon ET today with @migrantinsider.com editor Pablo Manríquez — he’s fearless in his coverage of immigration and the Trump administration’s actions and a vital resource

Amazon is not actually going to do this so it's moot, but simply itemizing the tariff cost would be a far more powerful piece of free-market commentary than anything the revamped Post would end up producing

i would change my mind on AI if they can do a Siri that talks like Parker Posey's white lotus character

Quite the biblical reference from Kennedy

these interviews are all such good encapsulations of the fact that American folk wisdom is just not sufficient to meet the complexity of the modern world. like what does this person think "American goods" are?

"To the extent that Canada's election will make news in the U.S., it will be presented as a story about Donald Trump – as a personal repudiation on the eve of his 100th day in office." www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

NEW: Mike Flynn has spent years helping to propagate conspiracy theories. Turns out, he can dish it out but he can't take it. www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-premi...

On a case-by-case basis many of these were accidents. In the aggregate they constitute an ethos: a determination to break things in a way that the next person won’t be able to put back together—to shatter a way of life so that in the future, no one will even try. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Don't read Frank Luntz poll, don't quote Frank Luntz poll, don't form your idea of what your fellow citizens are like based on Frank Luntz poll. He is a worthless bullshitter who has done nothing but harm for many years

Speaking of law enforcement breaking and entering

I'm excited to bring you our new writing fellow James Baratta's first story: It's about how private equity is under serious pressure: regulatory scrutiny that hasn't let up since Trump, a bad environment for deals, investors seeking to exit. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

"‘Shock And Awe’: How Trump Took Over Washington—And The World—In 100 Days" @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com

Since Jan. 20, Congress has passed six bills, the fewest of any president in the first 100 days of an administration in the last seven decades. Via @nikpopli.bsky.social time.com/7281249/cong...

Me, on my deathbed: I have one last thing to say Family: Yes? Me: Wait, I just got an email. Gotta delete it. Inbox zero, baby

Thanks for the shout-out, @maddow.msnbc.com!

Leaving MAGA tales are stunning. No one comes around like you'd expect. "Now that I was sober, I started thinking rationally. I thought, 'Trump doesn’t know you, & the fact that you’re even thinking about his feelings proves you have an unhealthy obsession.'" open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

In which @timothypmurphy.bsky.social likens the first 100 days of the Trump administration to the "soft opening of Jurassic Park" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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If you want to know why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is head of HHS, here's a broad hint. www.wonkette.com/p/is-celine-...