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.

The most striking bits of the Shadow Docket docs: Lots of hand wringing over costs to power plants, not even a mention of the benefits of cutting CO₂ pollution. Yes, the 5:4 SCOTUS majority doing the fossil industry's bidding, and not even trying to hide it www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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...

Conservative white women always think they are going to fare well with misogynistic men.

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

Bad news for transparency: “Judicial Conference Abandons Amicus Disclosure Reforms After Dark Money Pressure Campaign” 3/27/26 courtaccountability.substack.com/p/judicial-c...

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

This. The court may even pair the release of the ruling in favor of birthright citizenship with the one gutting the Voting Rights Act, and the usual suspects will proclaim it’s a sign of moderation

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

Honestly the justices (particularly Justice Sotomayor) sound ... somewhat taken aback that they're even hearing this case. And ... same? Also - you didn't have to! You could have just issued a summary op saying "See the Fourteenth Amendment"! Even last year in the nationwide inujunction case!

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Supreme Court overtuned a Colorado law banning conversion therapy. It's 8-1 with Ketanji Brown Jackson as the lone dissent. Surprised by the vote, but not the outcome. MAGA is on a march to erradicate the LGBTQ community and the Supreme Court will help them.

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A hard look at what's happened in schools with edtech means a hard look at American technophilia, the capitalist push to treat schools like businesses, and persistent myth that schools and teachers are stubbornly stuck in the past.

Finally. Let's be honest: blaming the kids for excessive phone use came a lot more easily than blaming the adults in and over schools for forcing them onto screens for much of their day. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

“If people do not know their history, they are liable to repeat it." Bryan Stevenson on the importance of facing our past honestly, the power of hope, and the opportunities that emerge when you stand with condemned and disfavored people. @edwardluce.bsky.social @ftweekend.com

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

Besties since the 1960s. Did not expect to be protesting our government together sixty years later. #NoKings