Brad

Anticonsumption groups are thinking this will lead to "less stuff" and it will... but some of us depend on prescription medicines to live despite what our diabolical HHS Secretary is saying.

China is a key part of that supply chain.

I yearn to live in uninteresting times

This is why Republicans in the House passed a law saying women can't register to vote if their last name is different from their birth certificate.

Yes, that happened.

Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.

NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

Gov. Tim Walz State Address: "We have university students shoved into unmarked vans and fathers being tossed into Salvadorian gulags without a hint of due process. If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn't freedom, it's privilege."

The Man Who Sold the World

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

DHS is doxxing people

*28 point swing* in voters' confidence that Trump can 'make good decisions about economic policy'

and once again I remind you: the economic pain has not yet begun, this is all just stock market vibes

republicans don't care whether people live or die literally

If six months ago you'd told me that in autumn 2025 I'd have to go to Canada to get my annual COVID vaccine but I wouldn't do it because coming back through immigrations was too risky for someone who had criticized the government, I would have looked at you like you were having a stroke.

Heard in my complex analysis class: "Hyperbolic geometry comes up naturally when you're just trying to mind your own business and do some complex analysis."

That makes it sound like a door-to-door proselytizer. "Have you heard the good news about Euclid's fifth postulate?"

#math #mathematics

This why allowing people to hide their racism, misogyny and bigotry behind letters is a disservice to us all.
When someone says they are "anti-DEI" always challenge them to own their hate. Do they oppose diversity? are they offended by equity? or is it the inclusion of others that offends them?

I’ve said this repeatedly but I’ll say it again: if you’re able, get an IUD. it’s easily removed but otherwise lasts for years. (voice of experience here: ask for a paracervical block pre-insertion, and if they refuse, find another dr)

Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves. Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered. “The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail is still on the shelves. The 1973 novel, which envisions a takeover of the Western world by immigrants from developing countries, has been embraced by white supremacists and promoted by Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser. “The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled. The Trump administration’s decision to order the banning of certain books from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library is a case study in ideological censorship, alumni and academics say.

Some horrifying details on the white supremacist book purge at the Naval Academy library:

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Davis, California, Faces Bomb Threats, Harassment From Anti-Trans Bomb threats forced elementary schools to go on lockdown and a library to cancel a LGBTQ+ event this summer in Davis, California, after anti-trans activists including “Libs of TikTok” and a Moms ...

New: Anti-trans extremists have disrupted life in Davis, California.

The story started when one mom's child came out as non-binary. Then came Libs of Tik Tok. Then came the bombs threats targeting schools and a library:

www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...

I think I'm done with BlueSky. See you over on Mastodon.

I'd bet that grew with the uptake of Covid hobbies.

Next time I read about a weird respiratory virus crossing borders, maybe I'll invest in art supply manufacturers...

ACLU warns city that anti-homeless measures violate constitutional rights “It has come to our attention that the Greensboro police intend to seize the private property of unhoused people living near the Interactive Resource Center in downtown Greensboro.”

My article on NC ACLU response to threat by Greensboro police to seize property of homeless people. @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

www.yesweekly.com/news/aclu-wa...

This is newsworthy: BlueSky is apparently ignoring security vulnerability reports, incl some significant ones from journalist & software developer Jason Parker. After notifying them and being ignored, he has released exploits github.com/qwell/bsky-e...

Original post: fosstodon.org/@north/11105...

The last time Apple had an all-new, revolutionary iPhone redesign, didn't they ship the phone we were all holding wrong?

No, it really is *not* amazing that we can now charge our iPhones with USB-C. That's been table stakes in the rest of the market for *years*. What horseshit.

The primary function of the NYT appears to be to normalize whatever horrors the American right is getting up to this week.

Does *anyone* *ever* tell this guy to his face when his ideas are bad?

That wacky El*n, amplifying hate speech for teh lulz

Except Neil Gaiman, who appears to have moved in

Bluesky: It's like Twitter, but without the Nazis, or any of the people you follow.

This is over a year old and I don't know why I haven't shared it sooner: soundcloud.com/synkr3tyk/fo...

In any case, it suits my mood right now.

Confronting a pair of dangerous arguments as trans people remain under attack On protecting transgender people's lives and dignity in the face of this week; Yglesias's "compromise"; and Singal, Powell, & Drum's anti-advocacy cry.

Trans people are under attack, with government laws that take away their rights. For some, the pushback against that hate is the problem. “Compromise” is needed, and “aggressiveness” is a problem. This is a dangerous path, and I address it at Law Dork.