Prickly

Still true.

Maybe you should focus on what your VP’s real name is.

Somalian. He's Somalian. www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

Chiminea! If I have to say this word more than once a month, you have ti take it, Sam.🐝

They need to start modifying these statements with "among people who respond to unknown phone numbers."

Rape is the core of the MAGA ideology, the metaphor of dominance and degradation that motivates all their actions, and their rhetoric descends very quickly from the symbolic register down into a literal one.

If the Trump administration can find a way to make life a little worse for any federal employee, even a TSA agent, they'll undoubtedly do it www.jezebel.com/tsa-agents-c...

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

LIFE HACK: Don't vote for people who try to keep you from voting.

I'd kill for news sites to have a chronological tab for stories. It's absurd in this age that they offer every organization option but this. Yes, I do want to read about Ratko Mladic's death right after the notice about the boil order! Just for subsbcribers, maybe? @nytimes.com @theguardian.com

Cathy Tyson in Ride or Die: a nice comic spark I haven't seen before because I'm an American with no VPN. Her career has not been what it should have for a remarkable ground-breaker.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

"Universal health coverage is not merely a technical goal to be achieved; it is primarily a moral imperative for societies that wish to call themselves just." —Pope Leo XIV

Why isn't USPS considered a service? DHS and most other agencies do not earn revenue.

Kansas Republicans are trying to ban abortion by proposing an EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT and sneaking fetal personhood language in

By @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Love this so much! open.substack.com/pub/storiesb...

Happy Turner Prize week to all who celebrate @mccallsmith.bsky.social 's 44 Scotland Street series.

Ken Burns’ ‘The American Revolution’ Ends With Number To Call If You Considering Founding Nation

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social is the original journalist responsible for stopping Epstein. Salud, and thanks, JKB!

A recent essay, “The Great Feminization,” posits that the growing influence of women is harming U.S. institutions. Sophie Gilbert argues that the real problem facing American culture is quite different: https://theatln.tc/kUfY14fc

Cran is an important word. #nytbee

I have to commend the Spanish-speaking construction crews working on streets in front of houses with Trump flags. You guys have true grit.

Hegseth hates War Fighters who have Lethality!

Let's not forget @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, without whom no one would know about Jeffrey Epstein. She has never gotten the full credit she deserves. If you don't read her book, you don't know the story.

I want to commend Cynthia Nixon on a brilliant performance, keeping it together as Andrea Martin enters in her very special dress. 🥂 (those are virgin) #gildedage

Marfa Public Radio! Home of the greatest music show in the world Texas Music Hour of Power, 7 p.m. on Saturdays. Streamable! Listen once & you you might support it. I'm only 1 West Texas ex-pat in a blue district that has abortion! This station is in crisis. It's my social whole life! SOS!

"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."  —FDR, 1932

Book of the day

"One of the most important, and most overlooked, functions of protest is to prevent the dreaded 'spiral of silence,' which can begin when people wrongly believe that their own point of view is not widely shared," Betsy Levy Paluck writes:

Here's a starter verse.

This, in a nutshell, is what most stands out to me about the last three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade: Conservatives desperate to codify a worldview that women actively oppose.

By day and night he wrongs me, every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other That sets us all at odds. I’ll not endure it. His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle.

Pierbattista Pizzaballa’s cousin Pier Luigi was Roma’s goalie in the 60s. I submit this to the conclave www.siamolaroma.it/2025/04/25/p...

DAD: What should we name the baby? MOM: Well we want him to cover the Civil War for the New York Herald so I was thinking “Sylvanus Cadwallader.” DAD: But will he LOOK like his name is that?

I heard the orange felon hates this hideous portrait of himself and his demanding Colorado officials take it down from being displayed in their state Capitol. Don’t you dare continue to spread it around. 😏

James Bond Sequels To Focus On Evil Amazon Factory Workers Trying To Form Union

I'd be so happy if I could indoctrinate some students into MLA Style. Having to tell them not to write in all-caps is getting in the way of my agenda. #academicsky

Someone ask Elon whether all federal workers may bring their children to work now!

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

YG! Thanks be that you've arrived!

Kaine: "He let Musk force the resignation of the FAA administrator. He disbanded an aviation safety committee... he's got an OMB director who's pushing a hiring freeze & saying 'I want to traumatize the federal workforce'"... he's got an anti-safety agenda..that's why he went the race-baiting route"