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To be fair, the rest of the universe probably thinks this is for the best.

Sound up! This is amazing!!

You know, those maps that your MAGA nephew keeps posting that shows red all over, like rocks and sagebrush are voters? Yeah. Dig this visualization #50501

Grift and/or money laundering electrek.co/2025/04/07/e...

I am enjoying seeing all these #handsoff protests springing up around the country in towns both big and small. It's a hopeful thing to witness in such dark, scary times. And I love these DC protest signs.

Penguin finds out about a 29% tareeef on her uninhabited island.

These are the same people that were willing to let their grandparents die so they could eat at Arby's again without a mask

Converting my 401K into cartons of cigarettes for barter before the market opens tomorrow.

"If this many different judges in this many different courts appointed by this many different presidents are blocking this many policies promulgated by the same president, we ought to be able to agree that the problem is the policies—not the judges." www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...

Worth a watch, even if you’ve read them already 20 Lessons on Tyranny snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

It’s all about skin colour and race. And it always has been. Listening to a fellow ⚪️ coworker complaining about “illegals” and anchor babies I told her my mom’s story from the 1960s. Mom was born & raised in Toronto. In 1965 she came to Detroit to visit her brother, a chemist who worked for Chevy

When is the media going to admit what is right in front of their faces? Trump is losing it. Politico ran an article today that demonstrates it in fine detail but it's never directly addressed: digbysblog.net/2025/03/29/h...

No, you’re tearing up. This eight year old Molson Canadian ad is, deservedly, making the rounds.

The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊

Anybody else seeing Michael Scott from The Office when Radcliffe is on the TV?

So, all these incompetents on the war plans chat have to be using standard phones (that allow installation of unapproved apps). If someone faked an email "From: S M Subject: Important!", who doesn't think that one of these bozos would click a link or open an attachment in it?

WAPO: "Trump critics say they are struggling to find lawyers to defend them or challenge the president in court." Between lawyers in DC and doctors in Texas, maybe we need a little more "I am Spartacus!" spirit. Or, perhaps more Franklin "Hang together or hang separately."

Important thing about this jaw-dropping story is that even if Jeff Goldberg hadn't been invited into the chat, Hegseth was sending out detailed military stuff over a civilian app that *even the other people in the conversation probably didn't need to know about* "Need to know" means "need."

Gift link to Goldberg's Atlantic article detailing the entire debacle. OMG

Where’s the uh, where’s the 1) Kennedy files 2) UFO proof 3) Epstein files 4) proof of chemtrails 5) and so on Also, why am i not in jail yet? So many people promised i would be. Hmm It’s like they were lied to

It's kind of impressive how perfectly Chuck Schumer is not meeting this moment. Like he brought in punch-up writers to heighten and refine how badly he's botching it.

Excellent. It doesn't mention the "54'40" or Fight" motto, but Vancouverians certainly remember. (The border remains at the 49th parallel.)

The Left: We need our own Joe Rogan and liberal podcasts and shows Me: Here are a bunch of great shows including mine that could really use your support. The Left: ….yeah but we really need our own “Joe Rogan.”

Canadians are right to be angry. They deserve so much better than what they've been put through.

And Morris is in "good" company: " Since then, at least a dozen Dallas-area churches or pastors have been accused of committing or concealing sexual misconduct, allegations that have ensnared some of the area’s most prominent leaders and institutions."

"First, you talk about a hypothetical government shutdown to commence next Friday. We are already in a partial government shutdown illegally. What Republicans are pushing right now is not a continuing resolution." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Each time I hit a wall, someone shares something(s) that help me brush myself off and get back to it. This is a great post. Thank you @emptywheel.bsky.social .

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is.

What a front cover...

Over the last 24 hours, MAGA has been ceaselessly spreading the claim that Democrats - from Susan Rice to Tony Blinken to me - pushed Zelensky to reject the minerals deal. Total lie. Made up out of thin air. Zero sources. 1/ A short lesson how these lies spread in MAGA world.

I beginning to think he has a bag of racism gummies that the takes before bed and then wakes up in the middle of the night dictating EOs

The GOP admits that the 2017 tax cuts shot a hole in the deficit, and they just want to make it bigger. "The accounting tactic, known as a “current policy baseline,” would make an extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts appear to cost nothing." www.politico.com/live-updates...

Great clapback from Zelenskyy. A verbal pantsing.

Perfect

But not as sick as we're going to be.

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