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Trump hired a company that had previously worked on his private golf club for this job repainting the Reflecting Pool in DC. The company was given a no-bid contract that, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times, included a 20 percent profit margin Remember DOGE?

Fetterman just finds the issue that Dems are most upset about each day, takes the opposite side, then goes on Fox to call it TDS. On the rare occasions he can put two sentences together coherently. Rise, repeat. It’s boring. Tired. Classless. Useless. Like Fetterman.

NEW: NAACP on Supreme Court allowing Alabama to redraw map to dilute power of Black voters "We are witnessing a return to Jim Crow. Anybody who is alarmed by these developments—as everybody should be—better be making a plan to vote in November to put an end to this madness"

- the #Hacks anti-AI episode >>>>>

I'll second this. I read this when it came out and it really does go through the steps. It's not terribly long either so it's quite the beach read.

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The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

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Rampant anti-trans bigotry having infected our culture and media makes a lot more sense when you remember it's being funded by the same assholes who want us ignoring climate change ... Where you find anti-trans bullshit, you tend to also find climate change denialism. atmos.earth/political-la...

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While not a virus w/ pandemic potential, hantavirus is a warning sign about how cuts to US capacity have severely limited the ability of officials & scientists to track & understand pathogens like these—with troubling implications for rare outbreaks & for pandemic preparedness writ large.

The most embarrassing part of this correction is the reporter’s reliance on AI to do her job… But the second-most embarrassing part is that this corrrection ran more than two weeks after the story was published. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/w...

A few months ago, I wrote about the FCC demand that media companies follow the Trump America 250 script and the role of PragerU in propaganda effort: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

we don’t talk enough about how Chicago is the most gorgeous city in the country

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Here you go: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

The Trumpies are now defending ... lead pipes.

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The Trump-Epstein Reading Room in Tribeca displays 3.5 million pages in 3,437 volumes. Organizer David Garrett aims to push for the release of all files, redacted to protect victims, not witnesses or co-conspirators.

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“global events” 🙄

💊 Americans are dying in waiting rooms — forced to skip life-saving care — while we pour billions into endless wars. This is the brutal reality. It’s time to choose: Our people or their bombs. Fund healthcare. Save American lives. 👉 Please share if you agree. #HealthcareNotWarfare

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New in PN: The vanity presidency "America has suffered ignorant presidents, corrupt presidents, & incompetent presidents. Trump is all of these, yet something far worse: He’s the first to view the office not as a public obligation, but as a personal vanity project designed solely to serve himself."

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Imagine the ancestral shame people are going to feel decades from now, as they go through a deceased relative's attic and discover a taboo MAGA hat.

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School boards in Texas that have been at the center of book ban and trans rights debates held elections today. And in early results out of local elections, I'm seeing at least 5 conservative school board members who are trailing. Let's see where these end up!

NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

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Elon Musk was paid $158 billion by Tesla last year. That is double the entire budget of the U.S. Department of Education.

Streak stands at 125 😳 Mama’s gettin’ anxious 🤣 Wordle 1,777 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🧵(1/5) 🗺️REDISTRICTING UPDATE This is where the redistricting battle stands after SCOTUS ruled this week in Callais v. Louisiana to gut the Voting Rights Act, and effectively invalidate a key tool used to fight racially discriminatory maps. Here's where state efforts currently stand👇

The FBI sent a plane to Cuba to rescue a child, after learning, as Kash Patel posted, "the alleged kidnapper parent [hoped] to transition the child." Yet DOJ's own docs show, claims of a 10-year-old forced into "gender reassignment surgery" may be based on one possibly overheard statement. My story:

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🚨 THIS SHOULD SET OFF EVERY ALARM: Louisiana is about to pull the rug mid-election. Let’s be clear what’s happening. 📌Absentee ballots already out 📌Early voting starts May 2 📌Election day is May 16 And just days before voting begins, Gov Landry is planning to suspend the primary entirely.

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Restructure the court. Go to 13 seats (to correspond to number of circuits.) Go to term limits. Retroactively if possible. Investigate and if appropriate prosecute/disbar justices who have been on the take. Establish strict enforceable ethical guidelines for the court. Then move on...

With very ominous language, Justice Elena Kagan says that today’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais ends the Supreme Court’s “now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” 6-to-3 vote in favor of white voters who challenged a Black-majority district in La. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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I asked @pkrugman.bsky.social why the markets keep letting Trump hoodwink them when what he's doing is so obvious. His answer was interesting, albeit depressing: newrepublic.com/article/2096...