This is horrific. I feel physically ill. (Reposted with ALT text)

McClatchy has fallen.

NC and GA would like a word

This would be more persuasive if there wasn't really clear evidence of large persuasion gains, especially outside of Dixie.

Saving this in case NC-11 flips.

Possibles: -announcing arrest warrants for the entire Atlantic masthead -the Obamas have been deported -upcoming Rosie O’Donnell perp walk

This is gonna be good. Sadly I will not be able to tune into Kash’s Save My Job presser.

It doesn’t make sense. The Pentagon was supposed to be planning a major war with Russia or China. Also, we have literally spent trillions of dollars on defense. Surely we have a massive stockpile of weapons. Right?

Trump has created a defence crisis for the US. The military has heavily depleted key missile stockpiles during the Iran War, raising concerns about readiness for another major conflict, CNN reports. One expert warned it has opened “a window of increased vulnerability”. 1/

Used up: * 45% of Precision Strike Missiles * 50% of THAAD interceptors * 50% of Patriot air defence missiles * Tomahawks and long-range missiles down by 20–30% This creates a “near-term risk” for any conflict with a major power like China. 2/3

Substack's CEO now trying to scare people into *only* distributing their content through their proprietary app, not email. (The link he posted warns users away from email.) It's not enough that Substack's locking in publishers & readers with "notes" and comments, now they're escalating tactics.

Seizing old ballots on flimsy warrants is a way to do performative pandering to the crazies (incl. Trump). There are little to no legal protections for old ballots, which are usually destroyed fairly soon anyway. Finding a rubber-stamp judge is easy. It's very unlike the situation w/ live ballots.

A horrifying new case shows just how far the Supreme Court is willing to stretch qualified immunity. slate.trib.al/rTQdPxT

"Instead of addressing our concerns, our legitimate concerns — instead, they turn toward investigating me... And I was instrumental in leading the group. So I think that clearly they were trying to chill [the] activity of workers and that should scare every worker across the country." #Pinks

Armed 'No Kings' counter-protester in Tenn. faces new charges, including child porn Federal grand jury returns superseding indictment against Elijah Millar, 20, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Armed 'No Kings' counter-protester in Tenn. faces new charges, including child porn www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Pedocon Theory

We know this bill won’t become law, but the fact that there are MAGA members willing to say the quiet part of fascism this loudly should concern every single American who believes in our Constitution.

Pete Buttigieg reassures woman in tears over fear of where anti-trans politics will go - buff.ly/Bk9780r

SPLC on the Senate rejecting the SAVE Act: “Let’s be clear: this is not the end. Those who seek to restrict the right to vote are relentless, and our commitment to fighting them is unwavering. This is a huge win for voting rights! 💙 #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

NAPOLEON (returning from the dead after 200 years): You can prevent soldiers from getting WHAT????????????????

This is your fault, Martha’s Vineyard dinner party hosts. If only you had been as nice as the people on Epstein Island, this poor beleaguered man would still be cited on Fox News as “even liberal Alan Dershowitz.” But not anymore. You just had to take it too far.

BIG DAY FOR @wired.com, congrats to my genius colleagues www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

It'd sure be nice if Kamala Harris' campaign organization wouldn't constantly promote Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and whatnot. But oh well.

Corporate centrists are absolutely obsessed with the idea that defeating fascism is dependent on extremists “coming to their senses” when in reality the people moving away from Trump are becoming more extreme and will radicalize their followers if material conditions aren’t addressed.

Even once he gets confirmed, he's just one BoG/FOMC vote. He doesn't set rates himself! It's all highly contingent! Plus there is ~zero correlation between what any Trump Admin nominee has said to Congress and what they do on the job. All a massive waste of time to focus on.

Unless Tillis reverses everything he has said for months now, he does not have the votes. So then it becomes a waiting game for Trump to tell Pirro to back off. At which point he will have the votes (assuming it happens before a potential Dem Senate flip in November). It's all noise.

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

Senate Judiciary Republicans are wasting another day relitigating the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump lost. He desperately tried to overturn the results with the help of Congressional Republicans. And now he wants to do it again in 2026 and 2028.

Huge win for ICE raid trackers! Federal judge ruled Trump officials illegally pressured tech companies to silence tracking groups. The First Amendment won. #VoteYesVirginiaToday

More U.S. soldiers have died from infectious disease in the last 250 years than from bullet wounds

Trump consumer finance watchdog ends key civil rights-era anti-discrimination protection - www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

NEW Economist/YouGov Apr 17-20 % who approve | disapprove of Donald Trump U.S. adult citizens 38% | 54% (-16) Last week 38% | 56% (-18) Start of term 49% | 43% Dem 6% | 92% Ind 27% | 60% Rep 84% | 11% 18-29: 28% | 56% 65+: 48% | 50% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

Remember the guys who smeared shit on the walls and beat Capitol Police were just “excited tourists”. But these veterans are the “real” enemy🙄 @libradunn1.bsky.social I can’t take much more of this shit.

These fuckers are dressed like cosplay soldiers but on D-Day they would have been like “hey General Eisenhower I know you told us to go to the beach but it looks like there’s a lot of shooting so we’re gonna wait until that dies down.”

They expected the Democrats to roll over… so glad California and Virginia have been able to fight back, not just “strongly worded” letters and speeches.

6. Reminder: Huckabee also invited Jonathan Pollard, the unrepentant convicted former U.S. government employee who spied for Israel and betrayed the United States, to meet with him at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. And now this?

3. A sitting U.S. ambassador publicly cheering one foreign minister’s attack on another ally’s foreign minister, particularly from a NATO ally, would be unacceptable in most administrations. Poland is one of the most strategically important NATO allies today.

1. Why is Mike Huckabee, the sitting U.S. Ambassador to Israel, involving himself in a dispute between Israel and Poland? This is outrageous. Huckabee is in Israel to represent the interests of the United States, not the State of Israel.

NEW: The immigrant Catholic bishop overseeing Mar-a-Lago had a statement read at Masses across the diocese calling Trump's attack on Pope Leo XIV “disrespectful and violent.” This comes as Bishop Robert Barron once again whitewashes the war, saying it’s not the Church’s place to judge it.

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

$1,700 is roughly the FIT burden of a household of three filing joint making 65k, to put that into tax perspective.

IF you make 65k or less, the tariffs effectively doubled your tax rate, and in fact, if you make much less than that it made the percentage increase incalculable because if you make less than like 50k and have a household of three you don't pay FIT net

BREAKING: A broad-based challenge was filed today in federal court in Maryland to the March "anti-DEI" federal contractors executive order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Donald Trump, 79, reportedly threw such a tantrum during a fraught rescue operation in Iran that his aides banished him from the room as they were briefed.” www.thedailybeast.com//white-house...

White House insiders told the newspaper that Trump was banished from a briefing on a rescue mission for two American airmen who were missing in Iran, with aides opting to update Trump at intervals instead of having him in the room. l.smartnews.com/p-7zgT8o00/s...

I mean, yes, "allegedly" and so on, but I have a lot of trouble imagining The Atlantic got a *dozen* FBI/DOJ sources on the record for a story that is not, at least in the broad brushstrokes, largely substantively correct, even in the vipers' nest of the Trump administration.

You first, Trump!

The Kentucky Supreme Court has denied the plaintiff's request to remove Judge Cohron from presiding over the murder trial of Sheriff Mickey Stines.

Leave it to Trump to fuck up the US role in WW2. LLMs won’t make us dumber; the Trump Admin we’re already positions. But it will allow us to indulge our stupidity, without being to understand what it is we are saying or where we get our facts from.