Aaron Albright

I mean, it doesn’t fix anything, but sitting on a rocking chair in upstate New York as it cools down quickly is pretty nice. May start a fire later. And listening to DJ Riz on @kexp is good too. I’ll be back in DC Saturday to fight the good fight.

People forget that DC is one of the fittest cities in America.

omnishambles

Anything more British than standing in a queue two blocks long to get into Jimmy Carr?

Nine

Eight

7 fundraising texts so far today. Congrats Dem fundraisers.

what a despicable shame.

Sad to report the mosquitos have returned with a vengeance

maybe all those “LLM hallucinations” excuses are just ketamine episodes

This meme was prescient.

Oh look. Another stern letter

Internal VA Emails Reveal How Trump Cuts Jeopardize Veterans’ Care, Including To “Life-Saving Cancer Trials” Despite a congressional mandate to expand care for veterans, internal Veterans Affairs messages obtained by ProPublica paint a stark portrait of how chaotic cost cutting has already imperiled tests…

NEW: Despite a congressional mandate to expand care for veterans, internal Veterans Affairs messages obtained by ProPublica paint a stark portrait of how chaotic cost cutting has already imperiled tests of treatments for cancer, opioid addiction and more.

Smells like u street is burning

Also if it was for hosting family for the weekend and for Easter gifts why was all the money still there and unspent in the EVENING of Easter? The weekend and Easter were over already at that point 😂

The best parts of the show are when they vault the conflict to make it about Deb’s evolution to greatness. So I agree.

Honesty. Good job. I adore the OG version (tonight’s with Katherine Parkinson was brilliant) and have been wishing a US version would take hold. You’re doing it. With some absolute killers as partners. Keep up the dry wit and scorch absolutely everyone.

Just finished the last episode. Brilliant show.

“What keeps you up at night?”

“Well (gestures broadly). Also…figuring out the right applicator for putting a final finish coat on this old table. Yeah. That. Too.”

alt text: the nice people have tried to explain it with charts and drawings. Now it's time for the less nice people with the baseball bats

Were nearly at the ‘find out’ part of the ‘fuck around and find out’ phase

Seeing retirement and other savings going down. Put off replacing big ticket items like cars. Layoffs because of lower demand…pretty easy math.

Bob Mortimer on WILTY

‘I once imposed tariffs on an island only populated by penguins’

"crap, you might have to start looking for an actual job"

"good news, everyone seems to be hiring now lol"

about time to hide in the basement workshop for the duration of the news cycle and financial market response.

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

Have any of these people read a single story from the healthcare.gov days? “How hard is it to build a website?” some idiots asked.

Hegseth: Hold my (several) beers

Well crap that was 15 years ago…