Bell Stinks

Daughter, 15, woke on her spring break in NYC this morning hoping for better weather and was offered only 40-degree weather. "I hate 40-degree days. It's a day that can't decide what it wants to be." I took my phone to You Tube and found the clip. "Check out this scene from an old TV show..."

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

Trump says his $40B bailout for Argentina's failing libertarian economy is "not gonna make a big difference for our country." Really? Imagine if we invested those billions on healthcare and housing for Americans, instead of bailing out Trump's pals abroad.

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

I actually don’t want to live in a world where the ideas Charlie Kirk Pushed are supported. NOR DO I WANNA LIVE IN A WORLD WERE PEOPLE A SHOT IN PUBLIC, and everyone there is gonna have to live with that memory forever. And that my friend… is empathy

Every truly evil person has had a mindset that boils down to "people suck." It justifies anything under the guise of "They'd do the same to me!" So if you feel a "people suck" mindset seeping into your brain, you should react the way you would to a smoke alarm at 3 am. You are in danger!

every interview with this guy makes me tear up

Pepe Mujica, the anarchist guerilla who became president of Uruguay, has passed on. He leaves behind as good a legacy as it's possible to leave. So it goes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Has anyone ever gifted you a plane?

Dear god let this man cook.

When it comes to people with autism, particularly children, RFK Jr wants to make it easier for parents and quack doctors to "experiment" and force dangerous and unproven treatments on them. And he wants to make it harder or outright illegal to counter disinformation that harms this industry.

i think people are missing the forest for the trees with this one. RFK Jr wants complete centralized knowledge of every American's health in order to exact control on what medications are allowed and in order to fabricate "evidence" for each and all of his nonsense theories.

ok but "does not pay taxes or write poetry" is a much better descriptor of what it means to be a Kennedy

The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.

John Roberts is the Roger Taney of our time. And the ghost of Dred Scott is hovering around a gulag prison in El Savador. We are no longer a nation of laws, but of man. Really vile, soulless men.

a lot of people think you need a lot of money to buy clothes. now you're right. ok. my bad.

Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

FYI

I blame George W. Bush. He softened America up to the idea that we could have someone stupid in the White House and things would still function.

they should. not doing so would be exactly the kind of failure that got us into this mess. people need to holler if action isn't taken.

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.

One of the reasons the liberal establishment abandoned MeToo—and joined + solidified the backlash against it, leading to the refusal to call out egregious sexual violence on the right—is because sexual violence doesn’t discriminate by party. There are abusers anywhere there’s power

Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.

new video youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?...

Quote of the day: there are more measles in Texas than there are trans athletes in the NCAA.

All the talk about how to combat misinformation online often leaves out a core problem: misinformation is free, real journalism often isn't. Proud that @freedom.press is partnering with @wired.com to do something about that. And shoutout to @404media.co and any other outlets also doing this.

get good at practical things that have nothing to do with your job and look for opportunities to do those things out in the world, competence is sexy.

🚨 THIS IS DICTATOR BEHAVIOR 🚨 Trump just declared that he will VOID Biden’s pardons — including for members of the January 6th Committee. This isn’t just an attack on Biden — it’s a direct threat to political dissent and a chilling escalation of political persecution. @polrev.bsky.social

pretty good representation of the mask off era here

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Are we not angry enough

the good thing about being an American ought to be NOT respecting anyone who tries to rule you refer to the Virginia state flag for more information on this topic

i don't know how to prove this in an academic sense but I've always believed a major reason the U.S. survived the first age of fascism is that we'd created Hollywood a little earlier and all our most charming narcissists had something better to do than politics

oh wow a Democrat who knows how to message succinctly and effectively what's happening here why do I smell toast

I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.

Just got fired from being a freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities. They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.

Illinois respects the sovereignty and borders of Ukraine — now and always.
 Three years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine without warning or provocation. Peace and freedom requires resistance to tyranny and oppression. 
 Slava Ukraini!

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

Do me a favor and compliment someone today. Tell an artist/creator or whoever that the thing they made is cool. This year has started off unimaginably horrible, and it's probably not going to get better anytime soon. Spread a bit of love. Make someone's day. We all need that now more than ever.