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Just gutting. Fuck you, 2025. variety.com/2025/music/n...

this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president

A federal judge just ordered ICE to release (on bail) Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia student and green card holder from the West Bank who was detained at his citizenship interview this month for what his lawyers say was his pro-Palestinian advocacy. To Trump, he said today: "I am not afraid of you."

Yeah I use AI—actual intelligence I earned from 2 degrees, in addition to 20 years work experience of putting up with tech bullshit

Many of us: unemployed The news: this 23 year old hacker with a background in stealing your bank account information has the nuclear codes

A scan of more than 300 of Trump’s public comments between 8/24 and 3/25 as well as more than 3,000 social posts since 1/25 show a correlation between Trump administration contacts with Putin and subsequent comments echoing the Russian leader’s own positions on the Ukraine war, NATO and Zelenskiy.

President Trump and Elon Musk promised taxpayers big savings. Now, as he prepares to step back from his presidential assignment to cut bureaucratic fat, Musk has said without providing details that DOGE is likely to save taxpayers only about 15% of what he originally pledged to save.

This account, @un-manuscripts.bsky.social, sucks ass and you should block them. This is a cruel and shitty thing to do to writers who have no power in the publishing world, done by a person with much more power. This is punching down and it sucks.

The Trump regime isn’t just sucking up to the anti-science crowd with its foggy messaging on vaccines. It’s promoting measles, which can be fatal, especially to children under age 5. I can’t say it any more plainly than this: Republicans are killing children.

Three users on X who feuded with Elon Musk in December saw their reach on the social platform practically vanish overnight, The New York Times found, signaling that Musk or others at the company have the power to punish critics and that they may be willing to use it. nyti.ms/4lF3pm1

This is a *fantastic* response piece, and I urge everyone to read it.

this fucking BANGS

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BREAKING: Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican announced Monday morning. Vice President JD Vance was the last public official to meet with the Pope, just hours before his death.

Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech: “How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”

There is more evidence behind the claim "JD Vance killed the pope" than there is behind the claim that any of the people renditioned to the slave camp in El Salvador are gang members.

JD Vance this month broke Ohio State’s trophy, made all of Greenland want to beat his ass, and killed the Pope. Frank Grimes is the VP.

Prove that you didn’t just snatch a legal resident of the United States off the streets and ship him to a foreign country for illegal detention. Has he been convicted of a crime? Has he been formally charged and appeared before a court? This administration is behaving like the terrorist.

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

The house always wins

“Being an American Jew is a mindfuck. And now we’re in more peril than ever because the destruction of this country’s university life and the lives of university students is being done in our name.”

Jeffries: "So many of these people are crooks, liars, and frauds, and Marjorie Taylor Greene is of course exhibit A ... we do need to change the law so that sitting members of Congress cannot trade stock. Period. Full stop."

Calm down Dorothy, I've spent longer putting the bins out

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

Janet Mills Governor of Maine in response to Trump’s bullying : “I have spent the better part of my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness”.

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

Every college and university should do this to remind Americans that attacks on these institutions are actually attacks on all of us.

Anyway, in honor of Katy Perry going into orbit: youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4

HUGE WIN: A federal judge just issued a lengthy TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from freezing federal funds to Maine over their policies protecting transgender youth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Always missing George Carlin, the prophet.

Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down. Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.

Trump is trying to deregulate crypto as his personal businesses get more involved in the industry. He also just gutted the DOJ team that investigates crypto fraud. This may be one of most overt conflicts of interest in presidential history and it's hardly a blip on the news.