And they remain mystified as to why it's so hard for them to find real lawyers who will work for him... Eastman: disbarred Giuliani: disbarred Chesebro: disbarred Clark: facing possible disbarment Ellis: law license suspended www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Important thread on how Palantir’s manifesto is against the core features of democracy

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

Points 9, 18 and 19 go after accountability directly. Scrutiny of public figures gets reframed as a kind of cultural sickness driving talent away from public life. The problem becomes the people doing the scrutinising, not the people being scrutinised.

The owner of MSG and the Knicks compiled this kind of second-by-second surveillance of a trans woman while they were in the arena. They're doing this at all venues owned by James Dolan of perceived enemies. Crazy, crazy shit. www.wired.com/story/madiso...

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

Just got out of a roundtable at #OAH2026 on Gilded Age corruption and now it's time to see what's in the news and

Pay attention folks. This is how it's done. Trump sues his own DOJ, run by his private attorney, for $10 billion. Normally that would go through the courts with the DOJ arguing AGAINST giving Trump $10 billion. Instead, his DOJ will negotiate a settlement OUTSIDE of court. Literally inside dealing.

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...

One has gone bankrupt twice. Another was sued for allegedly framing an innocent woman. A third lasted only three weeks in a police officer job. All were hired during ICE's unprecedented hiring spree, an AP investigation finds.

Like the 2022 @theonion.com amicus brief on parody and the First Amendment, further evidence that funny people can make serious points to the Supreme Court. GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

This just in: Minneapolis prosecutors have charged an ICE agent for assault based on pointing his gun at two people he was trying to pass on the shoulder, a clear no no. It's not the shooters of Good or Pretti, but it raises many of the same issues. I'll be posting a longer youtube shortly.

Here's your friendly Tax Day reminder that not only did Republicans give massive tax breaks to the rich last year, but Trump’s billionaire Cabinet also axed the IRS’s new free filing tool, so now Americans have to pay more to get their taxes done. itep.org/trump-admini...

The government is buying data to avoid constitutional or statutory protections using what’s known as the data broker loophole, and that data is now being fed to opaque and unaccountable AI systems. The implications of this cannot be understated.

Fascinating new paper estimating in dollars what it would take to properly fund indigent defense to constitutional standards. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I think this is correct. Congress gave Trump the personalist, violent paramilitary force he's always wanted, but without the statutory hurdles, internal accountability, resistance from the courts, and institutional pushback that would come with deploying the actual military.

The red line shows homicides between 2018 and 2025. The blue line, the number of local government employees. They are mirror images. The blue line trends w/ARPA, a $350B investment in local government. The red line trends down as 1 million teachers, counselors, and clinicians enter the workforce.

If you live here, and want more AI regulation, you should read this.

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...

It was bad enough in 2020 when he signed HIS name to checks drawn from OUR MONEY, taxpayers. Now we are just allowing this? The billionaires buying off support through official federal forms? The corruption of it all is sickening.

It’s obviously Lucifer bc the AI knows.

the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.

I’M old & jaded enough to have been around the block a few times on “weak on crime” rhetoric but dannnng did NOT have the POPE in the galaxy of vulnerable targets. Wait til Trump hears his stance on capital punishment!

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Consequences just in next two years of a swing of the Senate: *Control over nominations, including the Supreme Court. (Remember 2014 GOP wave --> no Merrick Garland --> overturned Roe). *Leverage over the budget. *Control over rules for impeachment trial (s).

The Justice Department’s new proposed rule would allow the attorney general to stall or block state bar probes into its attorneys. It’s an attempt to dodge accountability for misconduct. bit.ly/4c741wB

What does your state supreme court do, and why does it matter? Are its members even elected? We break down everything you've wanted to know about these powerful institutions in ten questions:

These would be deplorable, inhumane conditions for any prison. The majority of these people have never been accused of a crime, much less convicted of one. Most, at worst, entered the country illegally seeking a better life. Some, not even that.

ICE agents shot another driver -- on Tues. He had just asked to call his wife. They shot him six times. One bullet his jaw. Now he can't speak and has been mostly unconscious. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

This is a hell of a story. And a scary one. (Also I did *not* expect a cameo appearance by Aaron Swartz calling Altman a sociopath years before everyone else) www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

Automatic draft registration: streamlined, efficient. Automatic voter registration: creeping deep state tyranny.

This would have changed my life when I had littles…

“Kavanaugh asserted that legal residents’ encounters with immigration agents are ‘typically brief,’ and impacted individuals ‘promptly go free.’”

Brutal.

Is being called for jury duty a hassle? Yes. Did I tear up during Chief Judge Wilson’s video introduction extolling jury service as an ordinary person’s most direct expression of democratic values in a diverse community? Also yes.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

During Trump’s first term, his sons at least made *some* semblance of an effort not to engage in foreign business deals. That's out the window. Now, they’re launching one new international deal after another—even positioning themselves to make money on Trump's war in Iran. 🧵

days like today i get incandescent with rage all over again that he wasn't in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit and perp walked on jan 21st, 2021

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

I feel crazy. Just sitting around waiting to find out if our lunatic President is going to begin a world war for no reason. What does one do in these situations? What do I have for lunch? Do I take a Zyrtec if my eyes are watering? Moment to moment, what do I do?

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

Great to know that we’ll have to endure endless briefings & “scholarly arguments” & insane appeals to “original intent” in order to find out… 4 years into the nuclear fallout.

This is how to do it. Sen Chris Murphy also tells me: "Everybody in that chain of command has to think hard about whether they want to be part of the execution of that order." He predicts bombing Iran's power plants/bridges will kill thousands at the outset. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2087...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

At the same time, elected leaders must also commit to prosecuting those who commit war crimes. Make clear now that anyone who carries out an illegal order will be held accountable during the next administration.

BERMAN: Do you think Congress should have a vote if the United States is going to make a whole civilization die? MIKE LAWLER: John, you are parsing here BERMAN: I was quoting

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

This is the most horrifying, psychotic, grotesque message Trump has ever posted—openly threatening to commit genocide. This is beyond reckless. It’s dangerous, dehumanizing, and utterly unfit for any leader.

Targeting civilians would, in fact, be a war crime. This man is deranged, unstable, and unfit to lead. He thinks this is a game. Republicans need to find their backbone, rein him in, and end this reckless war before more innocent lives are lost and this escalates into something far worse.