Taking a few more minutes to savor "Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic."

Seeing folks dunking on the Times for doing a focus group of Trump voters, but the collapse in his support among people who liked him in the past is the most consequential political fact of our current moment.

Be aware that the poll release contains no meaningful methods section, and calibrate your assessment of it accordingly www.texastribune.org/wp-content/u...

In Seattle's Pike Place Market, vendors claimed that removing cars would cripple them. Nope. Sales actually rose. Remember: Studies show that biz owners consistently exaggerate how many customers drive and undercount those who walk, bike, or ride transit. Info: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trump DOJ lied about the SPLC's role in Charlottesville. Using informant-provided info, the SPLC handed the FBI a 45-page "Event Alert," including names, photos, associates and criminal histories of the rallygoers—and their "weapons of choice," per a new filing. Background buff.ly/AwMBRNa

I know it's too easy to take shots at these people and also WHAT what WHAT what WHAT

all these people keep trying to justify their decision as picking the lesser of two evils and … that’s just flat out not true. it’s an excuse and a crutch to hide their actual reasoning because that reasoning is embarrassing as hell and probably can’t be said in public

AND further evidence of confusion about what teaching (and even knowledge) actually is. Knowledge is NOT a synonym for information. Teaching is not just communicating information.

Credit where credit's due alert: hiring a longtime Democratic-aligned pollster to do a focus group about how a bunch of Trump voters think Trump sucks ass now is the kind of thing a newspaper that doesn't like Trump and wanted him to lose would do www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mike Ezell, the Republican Congressman who represents the Mississippi Gulf Coast community where the Makoka brothers live, responds to the reporting, saying he will work "to ensure laws are enforced responsibly while also recognizing the impact these situations have on families and communities."

in limited defense of michelle she is taking the L squarely, on the chin. like just absolutely clotheslining herself with the L. if people took their L's like this more often we'd be doing much better. L-taking should be a sacred rite

these focus groups are just further anecdotal evidence for my view that trump is is understood as a totem for wealth and prosperity. these people are genuinely bewildered that he isn’t, and might in fact be a human being with ulterior motives

This, everyone, is why New Jersey is raising public transit ticket prices for the World Cup, not because America sucks for public transit and pedestrian access. They don’t want Jersey taxpayers getting stuck with the bill.

The current FCC is a travesty

An official adviser for the First Lady is on television urging a private company to fire an employee over what he said, then yes, it is absolutely a free speech issue. But if "half the country disagrees with them, they should be shut down" is the new standard, let's talk Fox News and the rest.

A must read.

New Mr Beast challenge

ok. but at least the acolyte didn't get a second season bsky.app/profile/carl...

I’ve begun including “barring incident, the president’s term begins and ends in an odd-numbered year, the year following the election” among the basic civics I discuss at the start of my university-level “intro to US history”

also Jimmy Kimmel is not committing B&E in every American home every evening. If he’s on your TV you put him there.

not entirely sure the Trump administration has thought through this “50 percent of Americans disagree with him so he’s gotta go” stance

Some people should be more careful about vetting information and not engaging in conspiratorial thinking. Other people should not immediately employ bullshit verbatim talking points to exploit tragedy for political advantage.

We aren't at the end of this Epstein stuff. We are barely at the beginning.

🟡 SCOOP: The FCC is is moving toward a review of Disney’s broadcast licenses, a maneuver that would up the pressure on the ABC owner as it faces fierce scrutiny from the administration — again — over a late night monologue. www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

I've now been to two different conferences where my takeaway from AI tools is that no one trusts them but people are convincing themselves they have to use it to save time.

Yes and it’s not just violent rhetoric, he’s a primary source of violence and state violence, here and abroad, period.

Trump's latest budget requests $1.5 trillion for his "Department of War," and he's cutting taxes on the rich, but we don't have money for this? Even by the estimates of fiscal hawks, cutting this SSI assistance for SNAP beneficiaries will save a mere $2 billion per year. Gratuitous cruelty.

it was a mistake to let guys who teach the statute of frauds to 22 year olds think they are public intellectuals

This is so sad. Targeting Hispanic populations led to a decrease in crime reporting, which then led to a major INCREASE in crimes against Hispanic victims. Our government is actually creating crime, making people less safe, by making part of the population afraid to engage with the justice system.

So many people are mad that things that used to have stigma and shame attached to them were embraced or moving towards acceptance. This, just like the MAHA movement, are pro eugenics and need stigma to exist to serve their plans

Did Trump write this? I've seen pro se sovereign citizen filings with better arguments and less ridiculous rhetoric.

Uh, this is kinda wild *UAE DECIDES TO EXIT OPEC, OPEC+ STARTING MAY 1: WAM

The GOP doesn’t have a midterm turnout problem. It has a Trump problem. “Republicans just need to get their voters off the sidelines” is a much more comforting story than “voters saw the Trump presidency and decided they don't want it." But the data is clear. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-28...

I just see this instant leap from "you're calling Trump a fascist" and "you're calling for him to be assassinated" - no, liberals have their Timothy Snyder books, they want to win elections, you're thinking of anarchists.

I've seen (not from Greg) slippery criticism of the language Dems use. It's assumed, for example, that calling Trump "fascist" is prima facie a call for his removal by any means necessary. But five minutes ago American liberals were celebrating the peaceful Hungarian election! That's their model.

You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...

Excellent article. The “liberal consensus” they’re dismantling is the shed where the guillotines are locked away.

"We're listening. Tell us what you want." /Suburban MSNBC types and everyone who shops for groceries baying for the blood of reactionary billionaires and social democratic policies, eyes turning completely black, a keening unfathomable in its savagery "I think I heard 'targeted tax cuts for cops?'"

About as directly as you can possibly intervene to raise electricity costs for Americans.

If you’d like to read the paper - “The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

what if we made the whole country out of ballroom

"I know you're trying to watch the NBA and I'm sorry. Steal your parents Peacock password like everyone else" St Louis NBC Chanel 5 weather man reporting on a confirmed tornado in Clinton County, Illinois. #stlwx

Andor, Interview with the Vampire, Daredevil: Born Again, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, It: Welcome to Derry, Alien: Earth—I think the argument could at least be made that franchise filmmaking is doing better on TV than at the movies

New: President Trump lied on TV about the origins of Unite the Right, feeding his base a narrative that "Southern Law" did it. But the white supremacists who planned UtR still talk about their involvement and the facts aren't up for debate. Me: michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/white-supr...

ESPN unironically teases a segment on the 22 year old Texas Tech QB who is headed to rehab for his gambling addiction and then tosses it to 5 minutes of NHL prop bets for tonight. I don’t what to say other than sports betting is a scourge and an epidemic among young men and needs to go.

It’s eight people. Eight men whose personal net worth tallies more than $1 trillion. Median US resident net worth is less than $125,000.

Scoop: When she started as editor in chief in October, Bari Weiss believed CBS News journalists were so biased against Israel that she quipped “they might as well be Hamas.” Much more in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

The Justice Department is wielding a pricey strategy to undermine cases brought against President Trump’s allies during previous administrations: high-dollar payouts to the subjects of those investigations. https://wapo.st/4eJLRE1