We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

Todd Blanche is sitting on 2.5 million pages of the Epstein files, a clear violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Time for some dynamite under the keister.

We are screwed….

It’s a real problem that our elite institutions are just much stupider now than they used to be

had to go see the landback skyscrapers for myself

Thanks @democracydocket.com for citing my reporting on this. My piece from earlier this week: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fult...

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it

wrote about how rage at America's wealthiest, particularly in tech (Musk, Zuck, Thiel), and the inequality of a new gilded age is powering a wave of efforts to tax the rich — out of organizing and anger that's built from Occupy to the 2016 Bernie campaign to Zohran's election. @us.theguardian.com

So much this. Also, the tech bro mafia doesn't really like reading. They don't *appreciate* reading. So just because *they* can't spot the difference between good writing and bad writing, they think most people can't either.

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

"Under Bondi, in the first six months of Trump’s administration, DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, fraud, and drugs..." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail voting is highly likely to be declared unconstitutional and blocked by courts. But it might also screw up the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 30 ongoing lawsuits for state voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The way I know about these series thanks to @ghostalservice.bsky.social fic. Love being culturaly educated.

There it is. While families can’t afford day care, health care, or even their rent, Donald Trump is willing to spend your money instead on a never-ending war in the Middle East.

Trump and Hegseth halted funding for research to get blood to wounded U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors: "When someone is wounded and survival depends on the availability of blood, this software would have made that survival more likely. Now it will not." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...

Pretty clear this shit is just a fetish at this point.

In a “defining moment” for New Zealand’s screen industry, movie stars Jason Momoa, Taika Waititi and Cliff Curtis have bought a West Auckland studio.

NEW: Before Nick Shirley went to California this year, DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine was helping him "extract" info from a public dataset to identify targets for his YouTube "investigation" into fraud. w/ @telliotter.bsky.social More here: www.wired.com/story/edward...

Notes from the much larger and more significant war: in March Russia gained no net territory in Ukraine, and lost more soldiers than it was able to replace.

I think all these soulless “I use AI to write and there’s nothing wrong with that” pieces carry the same energy as a 10 year old saying “I want to play in the NFL but I’m going to use a forklift to do my weight room workouts because lifting weights is hard”

I want to thank our Allies for telling Trump to go fuck himself over the Iran war. You have to punch a bully in the face.

Trump admin proposed a 23% cut in NASA's budget, right as its new Moon mission kicks off. Science programs would be hit especially hard -- almost cut in half. spacenews.com/white-house-...

Some science cuts in Trump's proposed FY27 budget ❌ NIH: -$5B, including all of NIEHS, NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH. ❌ EPA: -4.6B ❌ NSF: -3.8B ❌ NASA Science: -3.4 Billion ❌ NOAA: -1.8B, including the entire Oceanic and Atmospheric Research budget ($605M) ❌ AHRQ: All of it. -$296M, 100% And there's more.

NASA released two images Friday taken by Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman as he and the other astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft continued their journey in space. 📸: NASA

If you drive a Ferrari you can afford to pay taxes and the expensive California registration. Source: I pay it and am somehow surviving. The thing about rich people is how cheap they are. www.latimes.com/california/s...

This Finnish Privacy-focused Linux Phone Wants You to Forget Google Exists "Thirteen years later, #Jolla is back with new hardware, 10,000 pre-orders, and a renewed argument that Europe deserves its own smartphone ecosystem."

The SAVE Act would be the most restrictive federal voting bill to ever be passed by Congress. Lawmakers should be protecting the freedom to vote — not restricting it. Watch: bit.ly/4dfPQrx

I heard someone say that we should be registering voters at gas stations.

Never forget that this was how The Washington Post greeted Pam Bondi's nomination. Support independent pro-democracy media. Support Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

The White House Just Dropped A Clue About Birth Control Funding open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

one of my strongest and clearest takeaways from spending all of Lent knee-deep in ICE death reporting is that Camp East Montana should be razed to the ground and every single person who built it, worked there or approved their decisions deserves criminal charges. it is beyond what I imagined.

Sometimes I learn the most from the projects that go nowhere, or from chasing down a random small thread, or writing something just to noodle out some thoughts. The practice is the joy of the work. You simply can’t get there through devouring and regurgitating other people’s finished projects.

the recap for Operation Epstein Failure – Day 34: 🇺🇸 Trump shakes up U.S. Army Top officials fired: ❌ Army Secretary Dan Driscoll ❌ Army Chief of Staff Randy George ❌ Army General David Hodne ❌ Army General William Green Jr. this is a full-scale purge of the Army’s top brass under Trump’s influence.

hegseth is a guy who gets kicked out of a social distortion show two songs into the middle band’s set for pouring beer on some stranger in the pit

#Artemis II - Has completed a successful Translunar Injection burn Orion spacecraft is on its way, for the first time in over 50 years astronauts are on their way to the moon! 🌕 Mission Control confirms good burn! View from Orion looking back at earth 🚀

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

In celebration of the successful Artemis II Trans-Lunar Injection burn, here's a 1965 proposal for a circumlunar mission - not too different from the Artemis II mission profile - from my spaceflight planning history blog No Shortage of Dreams. 🚀 spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2020/11/rend...

Artemis II is officially on it’s way to the moon 🥰🥰🥰

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen became the first Canadian in history to head to the Moon, as he and the three other members of the Artemis II crew executed the so-called translunar ignition that will take them on the next leg of their lunar adventure. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

On your behalf, I've had a look at what Donald Trump has been posting on his Truth Social. Mainly threats to Iran and pictures of his ballroom. He has not once mentioned NASA's Artemis II mission. Unrelated: there's a Canadian on board and the service module was built by the Europeans.

This shot of the Artemis II launch goes hard Credit: Brian Balail (@balail.bsky.social)

💡 Follow along the #ArtemisII mission over the next few (exciting!!!) days via NASA's interactive AROW (Artemis Real-time Orbit Website): 🧪🔭

“No one paid any attn to Shane when he stood up &shouted that there was something biologically, not psychologically, wrong w/his brain. Now he’s dead &thanks to his last act of giving, donating his brain, his life is vindicated. He died w/CTE, a serious brain disease, &it’s time we listen &change”🛟🧪

There is no aspect of voting or the 2026 elections that Republicans are not attacking. This is an all out assault on democracy. My law firm and I are litigating in nearly 90 places to stop it with more to come.

klan shit