Iran has shot down a U.S. fighter jet, per Iranian media and a source familiar with the incident, and a search and rescue effort is underway to locate two crew. www.axios.com/2026/04/03/i...

Crazy things Pete Hegseth did YESTERDAY alone: 1) Fired head of the Army 2) Changed rules to allow military personnel to carry personal weapons on bases 3) Fired head of the Chaplain Corps 4) NBC reports he blocked promotions of a dozen Black or female officers All further evidence for my column:

Bottled water prices are set to spike across the US. Here’s why

Two-year-old Kaleth and his mom are home. During his time at the Dilley trailer prison, Kaleth was sick—he could not eat the food from CoreCivic, was vomiting, and ran a fever while detained.

i think they hit the school on purpose.

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

Kids should be kids. Close Dilley ❤️‍🩹 Join the #ReadThemHome campaign: read aloud, share your video, and take action. readthemhome.org 📖🏡

I don’t think it can be overstated that Hegseth is a legitimate fucking psychopath and his actions will keep getting more egregious and erratic as he tests the limits and realizes there aren’t any.

NBC: Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, some of whom are seen as having been targeted because of their race, gender or perceived affiliation with Biden admin, per 9 officials.

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

NEW: In a huge setback for efforts to hold accountable those working to undermine fair elections, a Colorado appeals court ruled that election denier Tina Peters — who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 voting system breach — should be resentenced.

Amazing information.

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I joined Amanpour & Company to talk about why "working homeless"—a term that should be a scandal—has become an ordinary fact of American life. 40% of officially-counted homeless people have jobs. And that's before we get to the millions who are rendered invisible, who are never counted at all.

Friends, Native people are, indeed, Native to this land. But they were not Native to the United States. We all need to, somehow, collectively unpack the presumption that the U.S. is (and has ever been) the only instantiation of "this land." There were, and are, many other governments here.

American Samoa has opposed U.S. birthright citizenship since 1900, and remains the only U.S. territory without citizenship by statute. Its non-voting delegate, Rep. Radewagen, supports “U.S. national” status. Citizenship could fortify equal protection challenges to A. Samoa’s traditional government.

Thank you Maggie Blackhawk! Cherokee Nation sent delegates to DC throughout the post-Civil War period to object to efforts to include them through territorial and statehood efforts BECAUSE they were citizens of the Cherokee Nation.

Friends, again with respect because this is a complex issue: children born to citizens of tribal governments do not have constitutional birthright citizenship under many, if not most forms of constitutional argument and authority (incl. Supreme Court precedent relied upon in this case)./1

Read this. I'm getting stressed by the number of people interpreting Gorsuch's question as "ah-ha, so you'd can't instantly explain how Native folks are citizens!" as opposed to what it actually is, "ah-ha, so you're doing the opposite of originalism by inflicting citizenship on Native folks!"

PM Tusk: The threat of NATO’s break-up, easing sanctions on Russia, a massive energy crisis in Europe, halting aid for Ukraine and blocking the loan for Kyiv by Orbán - it all looks like Putin’s dream plan.

Few have contributed as much to our understanding of the genre as Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. This is a reminder that even the most accomplished people can be struggling in ways we don't know about - Alex needs a boost if you can spare a little kindness.

Wow. Listen to him--the Federal government is abandoning us (taxpayers) to fight wars (paid by our taxes). He must be impeached.

📽️NEW: What’s going on with the Epstein files? In our latest video, election lawyer Marc Elias breaks down the timeline of the Trump administration's handling of the ongoing scandal, and exposes how the DOJ is implementing a massive cover-up to protect Trump. This is one you can’t miss👇

New story out this morning from the Washington Examiner saying that it's an open secret inside the Border Patrol that the current Border Patrol Chief has bragged for decades about going to Thailand and Colombia to sleep with a bunch of sex workers. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...

EXCLUSIVE: “Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Casualties Under Trump in the Middle East The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or injured during the Iran War, resulting in undercounts. theintercept.com/2026/04/01/i...

Spaniard technology guarantees the survival of the Artemis II astronauts. This is for the #Anglo-Zionist pirate journalists "a discreet contribution" #ArtemisII #SPAIN #Hispanophobia #Pirates #Hatred #Liars www.escudodigital.com/en/geopoliti...

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

This racist hate filled filth is wrong and unacceptable; he must be impeached.

The Forest Service has been an extraordinary public organization. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle it. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

I was in the courtroom today as Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order faced SCOTUS scrutiny. As Trump sat on watching, S.G. John Sauer faced skeptical questions from almost all of the justices — including all three justices Trump appointed to the high court. Here’s my Law Dork report:

We had the honor of speaking with Alex, who is a dedicated and reliable volunteer with Haven Watch She has shown up to help every day for 31 days straight. She kindly agreed to share her unique perspective and describe what she has witnessed outside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, MN.

"Banks’ behavior was said to have been investigated by Customs and Border Protection officials twice, including last year, but the investigation ended abruptly while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in office, leading to more questions." It really is ALL of them.

Aside, if you also have union experience and have a hard time imagining a union that would advocate for making it *easier* for management to coerce workers into sexual relationships, that's because police "unions" aren't unions, they're gangs at best and paramilitary shadow governments at worst.

Per the Financial Times, Trump threatened to halt weapons supplies for Ukraine unless European countries agreed to help secure the Strait of Hormuz. If accurate, that would amount to linking support for Ukraine to European backing for a separate U.S. pressure campaign in the Gulf.

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#PEPFAR, which changed the trajectory of the #HIV epidemic, "is being slowly starved, through budgetary choke points and administrative fiat," at risk of dying a death of a thousand cuts, @cohenjon.bsky.social reports. www.science.org/content/arti...

Some folks suggested I put together a little crowdfund to help me upgrade my camera gear, among other things, so here it is. I plan on doing a Spring subscription drive starting next week, but for folks who don't have the scratch to subscribe to my newsletter, I've got this. No pressure obvs :P

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

Alito and Thomas are the worst. Read Gareth Gore's Opus to learn about Catholic extremism and SCOTUS. Plus this guy 👇🏽 www.propublica.org/article/we-d...

Both Roberts and Gorsuch sound intensely skeptical of the Trump administration's arguments against birthright citizenship. The three liberals have already opposed Trump's executive order. So if this holds, there's five votes against Trump right there.

OK, off early to this circus. I’ll be in the Supreme Court courtroom today for the oral arguments over Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship. There are no cameras and Trump is expected to attend, so subscribe to Law Dork to get my full report after I’m out of court: www.lawdork.com

"A committee of Trump administration officials voted unanimously on Tuesday to exempt the oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico from requirements of the Endangered Species Act, a move that would lift protections for endangered whales, turtles and other animals threatened with extinction."

More surveillance.

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Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.

Daily Memo: Hospitalizations, Car Crashes, and Kavanaugh Stops Continue with ICE

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.