They think you're stupid.

There is some footage of the hearing, anyway

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

The My Lie massacre

Fuck it...let's live skeet the Senate Labor sub committee hearing of RFK Jr. I'm in a MOOD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5yu...

Trump’s words could be considered as a threat to companies that do seek refunds for the tariffs they paid, as would be their right under the Supreme Court’s ruling. In the past, he has praised companies whose executives have cozied up to him or donated large amounts of money. trib.al/dqj7wUV

Spanish Flu. Someone should google it.

Trump has agreed to end the war in Iran if Iran agrees to rename the Strait of Hormuz the "Strait of America".

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein? KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."

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.

The president is currently trying to steal 10 BILLION DOLLARS from the American people and it’s not the main news story in the country… not even close

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Hannibal Lecter's victim inviting him to dinner and asking what pairs well with liver.

Another scandal ridden GOP ass.

This is very good

Definitely looks like Betty Yee's going to drop out of the CA governor's race, there's a press conference in 90 minutes. If we had ranked-choice voting Betty would have been a solid choice. Unfortunately she couldn't compete and was fracturing the field.

Re empathy and whether we should have it or not-- We should live in a world where people give a fuck about each other because it is a big pain in the ass for all of them if they don't. Do the math. We need to get out of each other's way. Thank you and have a good Monday.

I will die on the hill that U.S. culture suffered a grievous and potentially mortal injury when we retired the concept of "selling out"

This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

In a nutshell. 😊

Alaska's Mary Peltola taking the lead in the predictive market U.S. Senate race would give Democrats 51 seats and control of the Senate. Long way to go but it's a very good sign of things to come.

Trump has destroyed federal guardrails meant to ensure secure and fair elections. Some fear his actions are aimed at making sure the upcoming midterms go his way.

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Two very different newsletter takes this Monday morning on Saturday’s NYT shadow docket reporting (www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...) Steve Vladeck: www.stevevladeck.com/p/221-chief-... Will Baude: blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-non-sc... As it happens, I’m with Steve.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Your information is inaccurate. Judge J. Michelle Childs wrote the dissent Childs said the court's majority has trampled on Boasberg's authority "in a way that will affect not only these contempt proceedings but will also echo in future proceedings against all litigants" www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

The Justice Department has moved the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to drop the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys seditious conspiracy cases. Four Lawfare contributors who had intimate involvement with the cases discuss the decision. youtu.be/tho_W0Yg86Y?...

how am I only just learning this stunningly apt word

Other things aside, I'm not even sure why "president quotes from bible" should be news, other than the fact that Trump is both illiterate and the antichrist

You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

Just sent out my free weekend update. This week the big story was that Germany bet on Ukraine, not as a supplicant but as a defense partner. The USA, otoh, bluffed and then, as it always does, protected Putin. Shame on you who fell for it. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

The U.S. just flew a war-zone surveillance drone along Cuba’s coast for 6+ hours. • Loitered near Santiago & Havana • Same system used in active conflict zones Officials: “no comment.” Routine… or escalation? www.usatoday.com/story/news/w... #BlueSky #Cuba #PoliSky #Lawsky

Ossoff: "Never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption." That's the message. Every faction of the anti-Trump coalition, however divided, can rally around one thing: Accountability, investigation, and when convicted, jail time. Make this the focus.

Discontinuing this work is insane.

Just calling balls and strikes

That's just half of it. The 2nd half is Roberts explicitly saying he's probably going to rule it illegal before reading any briefs or hearing oral arguments. He's just an extreme political hack. Also a bad lawyer. No serious lawyer would put something like that in writing.

The reporter defends her reporting as you’d expect but also makes the most important point: why are people leaking at a moment when leadership is polygraphing agents to find leakers? Because they’re scared of what might happen if Patel stays in charge. youtu.be/QpOD12q81cY?...

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

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...

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hahahahahahahaha Oh my! Is this an opening para or is this an opening paragraph? This alone should end any normal human cabinet secretary.

Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.

HANK, 49 Twice divorced, twice widowed, and looking for fun. Are you a buxom seventeen-year-old and also first cousin to my late second wife and also willing to ignore that I am nearly thrice your age and also in my direct line of sight?

just spitballing here but one thing that might turn down the temperature is top CEOs not doing and saying insane and extremely harmful things all the time, such as enthusiastically embracing fascist movements

A traitor to both his party and his country.