And the Senate’s Trump-can-fuck-off caucus grows by one

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

"Republicans blocked a law to keep your taxpayer money from going to convicted pedophiles"

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

My "this is not a golden calf" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered...

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

Women and minorities bore the brunt of NIH grant cancelations last year. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I know y’all have other things you’re going but this CA gubernatorial debate is lit

42,000 Louisianians voted absentee before Gov. Jeff Landry suspended primaries for the state’s six U.S. House races

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

There’s so much to say about the remarkable reporting from Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak—and I’ll say a lot of it in Monday’s newsletter. But the most striking thing about all of it is the role & behavior of Chief Justice Roberts. “Calling balls and strikes” this ain’t: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

"He is erratic, suspicious of others, and prone to jumping to conclusions before he has necessary evidence...a management failure and ... a national-security vulnerability." The FBI Director! Thanks Chris Wray for standing down and the GOP Senate for confirming this charlatan

Tens of millions of dollars in almond, walnut, and pistachio exports are being CANCELED. Diesel and fertilizer costs are WRECKING shipping plans, machinery fueling, and future planting. Trump's war with Iran is devastating California consumers AND producers.

On Saturday, a U.S. boat strike killed another five people, leaving one survivor, bringing the number of people who have been killed in illegal boat strikes by the U.S. military to at least 168 since the Trump administration began targeting boats in early September. apnews.com/article/boat...

Host: In a major shift, Cook Political Report has now moved 4 Senate seats toward the Democrats (NC,GA, OH, NE). That's on top of 5 House races that Cook Political moved leftward just last week, all partly due to Trump's unpopular war in Iran that sent gas prices skyrocketing.

What does a guy have to do to get impeached?!?

Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime

Something you will never see from Republicans: Swalwell loses all 21 of his endorsements from Democratic colleagues

The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.

You know, there are a lot of other Democrats running for governor of California who *haven't* demonstrated a clear patten of abusing their public office for personal gratification

Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:

First rule of fascism: own the means of communication.

JUST NOW: House Democrats were set to try to pass a resolution to halt Trump's war with Iran — but the Republican presiding over the session, Chris Smith of New Jersey, gaveled out without calling on Rep. Glenn Ivey, who going to introduce the resolution. Democrats shouted in protest.

My latest @npr.org story: To figure out how to boost student voting, colleges have relied on a study about campus voter registration and turnout rates. A Trump administration probe has cut off new data, leaving schools in the dark in a midterm election year www.npr.org/2026/04/08/n...

This is a United States surrender. We surrendered a war we started.

Delaying booking a return flight back to my house in case my idiot president launches a nuclear war tonight. Even if he eats shit and walks away tonight, don't let anyone forget how fucking stupid this moment was. Don't let kids forget how close we are to annihilation, provided we make it.

Uh, Bret, I was KIDDING. You absolute dolt. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/o...

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

NEW: Donald Trump is underwater with registered voters in **135** GOP-held House and Senate seats. His approval is <45% in 44, including 10 senators. Should be a warning for Republicans in Congress weighing electoral cost of Trump's war and crazy tweets. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-07...

By my count, there are now over 50 House Democrats, along with two Senate Democrats, who have called for Trump to be impeached or removed via the 25th Amendment for his post on Iran. More here: www.axios.com/2026/04/07/t...

The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator. The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization. Congress is on recess. This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.

Thune should immediately call the Senate back into session. Trump’s unhinged threats to commit massive war crimes against Iranian civilian targets show an increasing mental and moral instability we can’t ignore.

Ca Gov Gavin Newsom: “The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator. “The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization. “Congress is on recess. “This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.”

For almost the first century of America's existence we allowed noncitizens to vote in federal elections

Just in case folks miss this due to the block

No comment needed 🤡👑

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we are reminded that visibility is shaped by data. Our research shows that since Jan 20, 2025, 360 federal data collections have removed questions about LGBTQ status. Of those, 338 removed the option for people to select their gender identity. tinyurl.com/SOGIdata

Headed to @wpsa.bsky.social with a box of matzoh in my bag

That's right

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥

While a lot of people argue that the No Kings marches were preaching to the choir, seeing that millions of people across the country are protesting makes opposing Trump increasingly acceptable. Opinions are shifting.

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...