The Court's decision last week in Slaughter expanded the president’s control over executive agencies, yes But it also laid the foundation to further shrink those agencies’ ability to actually *do anything* that conflicts with *the Court’s own policy agenda* ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

The individuals releasing statements saying they spoke with McConnell all say they spoke with him for about 20 minutes:

Can't wait for the national media freakout about this!

Congressional Report Alleges Fraud in Fundraising for ‘Christian Nationalist’ Freedom250 talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Legacy corporate media is permantely broken.

People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?

Between this and the bribery case a couple of years ago, they've really decided to let Kavanugh be the point person on *allowing billionaires to buy politics* and *unvarnsihed public corruption.*

Once again, today:

Now read THE APPEAL by John Grisham.

i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media

NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:

This is a fantastic piece by @jaywillis.net on Clarence Thomas's villain origin story. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/clarence-t...

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

Trump’s election was, in effect, the passage of the Crimes Are Legal If You’re a Republican Act.

Public health researchers and advocates are making a huge mistake by partnering with MAHA on this

Let's be clear: - Hantavirus is NOT a bioweapon - Ivermectin doesn't help. - It has nothing to do with COVID vaccine - Etc etc etc Uncertainty & fear fertile ground for bunk. Hantavirus conspiracies are spreading open.substack.com/pub/garyschw... by @garyschw.bsky.social

They left out admin keys for govcloud accounts for 6 months in a public github repo in a file called importantAWStokens. Any script kiddie could have compromised critical government systems with that. Who knows how many state actors did so. gizmodo.com/the-worst-le...

Alito: mailing abortion medication violates The Fugitive Womb Act bsky.app/profile/stev...

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

The president’s mental health is a global crisis.

the will instead attend the White Collar Crime Strategy Session

Alito has now written two opinions drastically limiting the fundamental rights of ethnic minorities and women, which was the kind of thing you would have expected from a guy angry about both groups being admitted to Princeton, something known at his confirmation www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

The Most Corrupt SCOTUS in History

Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Map and Destroys Key Voting Rights Act Provision www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

Tennessee Republicans salivating at the chance to draw out the last Democratic seat in Tennessee We get 40% of our budget from the federal government. At what point to Blue states stop sending us money? This all has a very secession-y vibe to it. #SCOTUSReform #UnpackTheCourt

Another low point for the DOJ

I'd love to see someone like @davidhogg.bsky.social make the point many of us are: What WHPC went through last night only begins to approximate what school kids across the US experience far too frequently. Thus far, this is being treated exclusively as a Trump thing, not a gun violence thing.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

I've been to two past WHCD: In 2018 and 2022. Pres Biden attended in 2022. At both there was extensive security including metal detector checkpoint before entering ballroom. You are NOT a "conspiracy nut" to raise MANY, MANY questions about how this attempt happened in DC at a secured location

Congrats, Miranda!

It's put up or shut up time for Republicans complaining about Dem redistricting.

Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

Trump didn’t create it. Over decades “we” have allowed the Supreme Court to become what it is.

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

“They have invented new standards, twisted old ones beyond recognition, played Judas with our Constitution, and Thrasymachus with our republic. These rulings are not criminal. But they are politically delegitimizing.” www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

It’s so funny that they pubbed this the day before “john roberts invented the trump era shadow docket to make sure fossil fuel companies could keep killing you and make money doing it” bsky.app/profile/cris...

This is looting of a government by its leader and his family in such a bold and open way that a Boss Tweed or Huey Long would have stood righteously opposed and explained to underlings that they should dare. It's stealing in plain sight. And everyone involved will need to be one day prosecuted.

This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.

Like I said www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... bsky.app/profile/wash...

A Baltimore-based thread to explain one singular, overriding reason why American journalism is incapable of compassing and explaining the astonishing misrule and the implosion of all our governing norms. To wit: A few decades ago, as a police reporter covering the Baltimore department, a new...

These people are OUT of their minds.

Yes, that Trump is a master of “the deal.”

Journalistic malpractice and democratic betrayal.

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Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.

"My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it."

The birthright citizenship case shows how Trump-era Republicans have embraced the convictions of the proslavery Senator John C Calhoun, who believed America was a “white man’s government” and the integration of nonwhites onto the polity would destroy the country www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...