‘Hey guys! Any of you coming to Nixon’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner? Guys?’

We murdered two more people in a boat today.

BREAKING: Florida judge questions whether she has jurisdiction to hear Trump's case against the IRS, orders briefing on the question by May 20 and arguments to follow May 27. Judge Kathleen Williams: "[I]t is unclear to this Court whether the Parties are sufficiently adverse to each other ...."

Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yeah, something like this has to be the real answer. The President can't sue an agency he currently controls, it's ridiculous.

This is an incredibly depressing but impressively reported deep look at the FBI being crippled under Patel. Lots of interviews with people fired for bad or no reasons. I started screenshooting quotes and then became overwhelmed. (Grassley comes off especially badly. Fuck that guy.)

I understand the sophisticated academic argument that there’s been a partisan/ideological “realignment” on standing, but can we maybe indulge the possibility that the courts are just being inconsistent?

"'I have no confidence, whatsoever, that my administration will support faculty if academic freedom is under assault,' one [survey response read]...'In the past few weeks, administrators have told faculty to not speak, teach or research certain things.'" www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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.

Journos and others who attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner will be sitting "alongside authoritarian censors like Brendan Carr, and enemies of press freedom like Kash Patel, in order to sit silently and absorb abuse from Trump himself." www.offmessage.net/p/you-are-ac...

Sen. Hassan: Did Trump approve of your decision to fire all 17 members of ACIP (the CDC's advisory panel that develops evidence-based recs for vaccines) and replace them with your own picks? RFK: "Yes he did."

Measles outbreaks have exploded on RFK's watch. Over the last year, he has minimized measles outbreaks in TX, emphasized personal choice over science, baselessly claimed the measles vaccine leads to “deaths every year” + misleadingly suggested the vaccine “causes all the illnesses" of measles.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Armed 'No Kings' counter-protester in Tenn. faces new charges, including child porn www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act. Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

The DOJ is now 5 month in breach of releasing the Epstein files. Holding these criminals accountable should be the Nuremberg of our time.

You know the Supreme Court be playing fast and loose with the shadow docket but I'm telling you, qualified immunity cases? Some of the fastest and loosest Let a lower court spell out why cops should stand trial, & the Supreme Court lifts it without explanation ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...

The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

Hegseth on dropping the flu vaccine reqt for the military: We will not force you to take it, “because your body, your faith and your convictions are not negotiable.” OH REALLY? Replace ‘flu vaccine’ with ‘abortion’ and we’ll see how ‘negotiable’ my body, faith, and convictions are.

Maybe we'll keep some InfoWars content up.

A short academic paper about how a comparatively tiny number of online influencers have wildly disproportionate effects on what gets attention in media. And they're pushing bullshit & lies. It's bad.

You know, if Zuckerberg is this replaceable, maybe he doesn't need to have this job and get paid what he's paid.

my angry post about this case this morning is now an angry article Roy Anthony Scott was in a mental health crisis and called 911 asking for help Cops came and killed him, & now the Court is casting doubt on whether the cops can be held accountable for his death ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...

John Roberts' wife is not the only Supreme Court spouse to shake down people with business before the court to give bribes. Ginni Thomas has a "consulting firm" (AKA a PO Box for checks) to funnel money to Clarence. #Corruption

As much as $63 million is now missing, say Dems, all of which is required by law to go toward charitable purposes.

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

On point. These guys wrap themselves in the flag to deflect any criticism of their cash grab. They're basically high-tech bank robbers who insist that bank robbery is the price we must pay for freedom.

The Supreme Court will decide whether Colorado violated the First Amendment's free exercise clause by requiring schools participating in its universal pre-K program to abide by a non-discrimination policy that Catholic schools reject. (Exceedingly ominous.) www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

If you read one piece today, make it this one: -Crops ready to be harvested last week are rotting in fertile fields -Entire industrial clusters have been shut down for weeks -Air travel...veered toward chaos. 92,000 flights canceled worldwide GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...

'Bell removed Romeo and Juliet from his syllabus because “in Act III, Romeo and Juliet have sex, and that falls under this very broadly defined sexuality [topics ban].” He also didn’t teach about Joan of Arc this semester.' What an actual lack of freedom of speech looks like in universities. 3/3

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

First & foremost, @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is more than deserving of this endorsement. Second & just as important, fuck this headline. Lindsey didn’t accuse Cuomo of harassment. Cuomo harassed Lindsey. Period. She is not an accusor. She is a survivor-advocate. Show some respect. Report the truth.

Read the full statement here: www.aclumich.org/press-relea...

“There’s no peace in the Middle East bc Palestinians refuse to believe in the Torah. The Torah says it’s our [Jews] land. And that’s why America must always stand with Israel.” Wow. He just came right out and said it. He really needs to step down

On Wednesday, the IDF hit the same target four times to kill as many medics who’d rushed to the site to help as possible.

Pete Hegseth Nailed It. No Really. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pete-...

This is … not how pocket squares work?

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

It sure would be nice if top Democrats would understand that we need activists right now more than ever, and stop trashing them to pander to the right wing.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled conversion therapy is free speech. Some LGBTQ+ advocates say the ruling applies to gender-affirming therapy, too, while others say the courts won’t protect them.

stg if you live in or even approximately in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois and do not block off your calendar to go to every single one of these pictures you do NOT deserve the Music Box Theatre my G-D this is a LINEUP

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

"The effort comes in response to longstanding criticism that Harvard’s faculty leans overwhelmingly liberal." Golly, I wonder why faculties tend to be overwhelmingly liberal? Are liberals more drawn to teaching? Have conservatives been engaged in a long war on science and knowledge? WHO KNOWS?

you should discover new music by accident. go to small shows where you haven't heard of most of the artists. dig in the crates of a record store and ask the person working there for a recommendation. ask your friends what's been in their ear recently.

I seem to recall some Supreme Court precedent saying you can't cancel contracts with a religious entity because of disagreement with religious principles. Something that like Schmulton v. Schmity of Schmiladelphia.

For me, a big “aha” moment in law school was when I realized that every year, the handful of normal, median-ish guys (they were all guys) who would land huge clerkships seemingly out of nowhere were all officers in the student FedSoc chapter