My advice for anyone who has a ticket to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner? DON'T GO. presswatchers.org/2026/04/wash...

Trump's jokes at the WHCA dinner Saturday are sure to be terrible. If for some reason you have to watch his anti-press stand-up routine, here's a way to make it a little less boring. 🖨️ Print and play our bingo card (and donate to @freedom.press): media.freedom.press/media/docume...

TMZ — yes, TMZ — just hit Pete Hegseth with the hardest question he's faced all year.

Trump's attempt to suspend asylum access "circumvent Congress’s carefully crafted removal procedures and cast aside federal laws that afford individuals the opportunity to apply and be considered for a grant of asylum or withholding of removal." A consistent theme of Trumpism is lawbreaking.

My original headline was "Do you really want to be Trump’s bitch?" Did I make a mistake in changing it? presswatchers.org/2026/04/wash...

Interview him, sure. But applaud him? Never.

SHUNNING is the only possible moral action to be taken, other than protesting those who arrive for this orgy of immorality.

My advice for anyone who has a ticket to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner? DON'T GO. presswatchers.org/2026/04/wash...

Paramount chief David Ellison hosted an obscenely corrupt dinner last night to "honor" Trump and CBS correspondents. @brianstelter.bsky.social reports that Trump was there -- and so were some CBS correspondents. I want their names. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/177...

this headline is such a great example of “racecraft.” musk isn’t passively posting about “race,” he is actively writing psychotically racist agitprop www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Revoking kids' visas because their parents criticized Elon Musk.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

But but but how can this possibly be? I was repeatedly informed by our commander in chief that we had “unlimited ammunition.” Could it be that he has no fucking idea what’s going on? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...

LIVE outside the US Institute of Peace — tune in as me & others call out Trump & Ellison’s corruption dinner happening inside -TN www.youtube.com/live/gbaodE_...

Protesters at a dinner at the former US Institute of Peace where David Ellison is holding a dinner to “honor” Trump.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

over at the newsletter I wrote about the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and the pitiful complicity of our broken brunchlord access press

The "Yale report" argues that "improving the world today," and fostering "an ethical, interdependent and diverse community” should not be part of Yale's mission. It couldn't be more wrong. Gift link to a NYT op-ed by Wesleyan president Michael Roth, a righteous dude. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...

Every so often, my thoughts return to this: presswatchers.org/2024/10/if-t...

The shmendriks who sold out Warner Bros are getting something like a billion dollars in this deal. (The shareholder vote on exit pay is not binding.) variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Excellent read by @zgoldberg.bsky.social: The Speech I wish the WHCA President Would Give in Front of Donald Trump

Posted this morning by the President of the United States.

Here’s a righteous WHCD weekend activity: www.citizen.org/news/stop-pa...

Nothing he can say to them will be as degrading and disgraceful as their own decision to be there in the first place.

As FBI Directors normally do in totally legitimate criminal cases, they go discuss the prosecution on Hannity

I really want a senator, rather than explaining the math, to just say "We all know what's going on here, Mr. Secretary. Trump said a moronic thing and now everyone in the administration, including you, has to pretend it's real. You know it isn't real. But you can't say that because you're a coward."

Here, I made this for my newsletter a few months back. Feel free to share with any Cabinet members you know.

“We have heard your concerns and we have dismissed them” is basically what NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger says here in response to a question that raised concerns over biased trans coverage. glaad.org/releases/mot...

According to the WSJ, Hegseth abruptly fired the Navy Secretary in the middle of a crucial wartime naval blockade because he was jelly of his closeness with Trump. These are the dumbest, most embarrassing, childish nitwits alive - and they are in charge of the world's most monumental military might.

I’ve been critical of the SPLC lately but this indictment feels like a stunt. It targets one of the primary enemies of their shared cinematic universe at a time when MAGA is divided over the war. Me for MSNOW: www.ms.now/opinion/sout...

It’s imperative that we find out why. As a wildly unqualified Trump donor, he seems unlikely to have told Trump no. But maybe? apnews.com/article/pent...

May 1 is a Friday. And the goal is not just to protest, but to disrupt. It’s a big step forward – if it works. www.headsupnews.org/p/upcoming-p...

Kash Patel had the FBI investigate a NYT reporter who wrote about his girlfriend's personal FBI SWAT team. That was too much even for the DOJ. How do you recover from this? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

NEW! Upcoming protests target ICE and billionaires; The May Day action will be a major tactical escalation for the resistance www.headsupnews.org/p/upcoming-p... From my Heads Up News newsletter.

Trump knows that everyone understands what "Low IQ person" means when he says it but the press isn't willing to write it. He knows they will always cover for him and he loves that he can get away with it. He's used so many old timey racist terms he hopes no one knows but he also does this

they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement

“We were terrified they were going to kill us.” Ecuadorian fishermen recount surviving one of Trump & Hegseth’s boat strikes. Not drug runners. Fishermen. Drone strike. Boat blown up. Taken captive. By us. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

i think it is cool that the president of the united states routinely slurs black people as biological inferior

The hackish Bezos-channeling Washington Post editorial board this morning attacks labor unions, and as usual, the AI summary of reader response is just perfect. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

They think you're stupid.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators

She resigned because of corruption guys

Dan Eggen was one of the good ones, which is why Bezos’s hatchet man Matt Murray shamelessly fired him from the Washington Post immediately after the 2024 election to appease Trump. RIP.

Dan Eggen was one of the best journalists around, always thinking, questioning and making everyone's work better. His death is a tragedy. wapo.st/4mJnPv3

Court documents show President Trump knew he was going to tear down the East Wing at least two months before doing so, but he never told the public. Read more on what we learned here:

Any indictment coming out of this DOJ should be treated as presumptively fallacious. The real story is more likely to be the weaponization of DOJ against opponents of the regime. And the target should be given ample opportunity to respond and contextualize high up in the story.

The theory of the case -- that the SPLC defrauded donors by promising to "dismantle" hate groups while secretly paying informants inside said hate groups, a tactic that it has carried out for nearly half a century -- is completely absurd.

Ah, so the SPLC violated the How Dare You Be Mean To Nazis Law