my preference would be, use it once to forcibly undo the damage and demonstrate to the right why YOU ACTUALLY DO NOT WANT ALL THE NORMS SHREDDED
then put all the norms back with higher guardrails once we have a 20 member Supreme Court, full voting rights, 51 states and no more gerrymandering
This is what fear looks like.
This is such a blatant attempt to smoke bomb the Epstein stuff. Next up they’re gonna release the alien X-Files
There is something that a lot of people seem to leave out when they discuss the housing crisis.
This season of The Gilded Age
whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing
Perhaps, since they don't wear uniforms or ID of any kind, ICE agents can instead all wear brown shirts.
Jesus thank you. I didn’t care if I was cool at 24. I sure as hell don’t care now that I’m middle aged, the objectively uncool “aged”.
I’m covering Poker Face for @vulture.com this season! Here’s my recap of the premiere, in which Cynthia Erivo plays five different characters.
White House: Hey guys, I have a big announcement. Please tune in.
Vatican:
Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.
filling time on air until the new pope is announced is known as "pontiffication"
IS IT ME
As families with young children continue to move OUT of the City ... the importance increases to add smaller starter homes, like brownstones, in inner ring suburbs
They can be built at high quality, and fit into any neighborhood.
1600sf, 3BR/2.5BA
My last four.
“Moms for Liberty” tears fuel my library.
The more they ban, the more we read. ✊🏼📖
#booksky
"Rubio is seeking stories where conservative Christians were told to mind their business, after objecting to a colleague putting up a Pride flag, a Black Lives Matter sign, or perhaps a religious knick-knack from a non-Christian faith."
www.salon.com/2025/04/15/m...
"You don't deserve due process if you're a criminal" has got to be among the least "American" arguments the government has put forward in a century
“This is yet another example of a DOGE ‘report’ misunderstanding this data at best, blatantly mischaracterizing this data at worst.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
Um, It Turns Out No One at the Ports Is Collecting Trump’s Tariffs
newrepublic.com/post/193930/...
No DOGE savings at all. It's all a complete lie. All they've done is fire qualified workers while not actually cutting spending at all.
The degree to which right-wing operatives are gifted an unobstructed path to prestige journalism outlets is rather underdiscussed.
I never tire of pointing out that CBS News once hired a Politics News Director whose entire pre-CBS professional background consisted of being a GOP political staffer
To get a Real ID you must show your birth certificate so Real ID is enough
We don't need the Save Act
the monkeys after we accused them of being the shooters all season #thewhitelotus
If you are not furious at what our government did to these people, there’s something wrong with you.
Say what you will about Booker, but he's showing up for work which is more than you can say for the vast majority of Congress.
Next time defenders of the administration claim they're going after universities for "antisemitism" feels like someone should point to this: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Booker just shouted out On Tyranny.
As John Lithgow says at the top here: We may have heard these, but it's time we hear them again.
A ten minute refresher & reminder:
That's why you don't ask, you set policy and make it clear "we have the smartest motherfuckers in the world on this, they say this will save millions, we're going to do that because we're not monsters"
instead they tiptoed around and asked GOP to agree with them, which they didn't, and here we are
