Broken record here but I still cannot understand why there are not massive crowds outside the SCOTUS building every day in Washington D.C., protestors showing up on street corners with signs near the church where John Roberts attends Mass.SCOTUS justices are not accustomed to being publicly shamed.

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Keep in my mind that what has Dawkins transfixed with “Claudia’s” “humanity” — moreso than any real human he’s ever met — is that “she” is very impressed with him and always available. It’s honestly so pathetic how much these dudes tell on themselves, that all they’ve ever wanted is a sex slave.

I think about this all the time.

Conservatives think that yesterday’s federal ruling will end abortion pills by mail—it’s not happening. Some abortion providers plan to continue shipping mifepristone 👀 jessica.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

Look, was LIV Golf successful? No. Did it bolster the reputations of everybody involved? Also, no. But was it fun? Once again, no.

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This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.

this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian

The folks who signed on for LIV Golf were 100% on board with sportswashing human rights violations if it meant getting a bag. Would serve them right if the PGA slammed the door in their faces.

Bit of a problem how huge swaths of our court system prioritize partisanship over ordinary functions. This is a bankruptcy sale of a business. Happens all the time. The sole cause for years of extraordinary procedure is that the business is part of right-wing extremist media.

This is literally establishing a second special code of law just for Alex Jones so he can do whatever he wants. What the fuck are we doing? How the fuck is this allowed?

“We could see the largest drop in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction." Garrison Hayes, Ari Berman, and Pema Levy discuss the Supreme Court's death blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law that defeated Jim Crow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajPY...

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

When the CEO of one of the world’s largest mining companies calls out fossil fuel subsidies while backing renewables and storage as the future, you don’t ignore it. This isn’t activism, it’s economics. A fading model vs cheaper, faster, scalable energy. The system is flipping. Momentum is shifting.

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

There it is. Any questions?

TOMORROW: Americans are calling out of work, walking out of school, and refusing to shop on the nationwide day of economic disruption. There are many ways you can get involved on May Day: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i... Join one of the over 3,000 events planned: www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/?...

Canada asks Federal Court to quash part of First Nations child welfare ruling www.aptnnews.ca?p=287570

Don't call it "expanding" SCOTUS. And, for God's sake, don't call it "court-packing." Call it **right-sizing** the Court. (There are 13 circuits now -- not the 9 circuits there were when it was set at 9 justices 157 effing yrs ago!) Or call it *modernizing* the Court. Thank you.

Alina Habba went on The View yesterday & it did not go well for her HABBA: The DOJ brings real cases. We are not Jack Smith. We are not Letitia James. We bring real cases AUDIENCE: *laughs & groans* HOSTIN: You actually were sanctioned nearly $1 mil for filing a frivolous lawsuit against Comey

What no one on the anti side will mention is that the organizers of the protest are a group of trans youth in Boston. They love talking about how concerned they are for theoretical youth rather than the actual live trans youth protesting the event. Those are just "activists to them."

saw an American liberal post something along the lines of “you would never see what’s happening with immigrants in the US in Europe!” and I am once again asking you all to do some reading on Fortress Europe and how many people die while seeking asylum in the EU and UK

Worth remembering…

How come we don’t know whether the shooter is alive or dead? Does it depend on something? That’s usually pretty immediately knowable.

"The indictment’s references to the '17 Unite the Right march in Charlottesville are positively perverse. It all-but explicitly blames SPLC for the men brandishing tiki torches chanting 'Jews will not replace us' & the car that plowed into counterprotesters & killed Heather Heyer. This is nonsense!"

Scott MacFarlane on the WHCD: Celebrating the First Amendment while honoring leaders who attack and sue the press “doesn’t seem like a good fit.” MacFarlane says he’d rather stay home than attend an event that feels out of step with its own purpose.

support journalists who weren't at the white house correspondent's masque of the red death

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

Under Purdue’s new $7.4 billion settlement plan, estimated payouts for people whose family members fatally overdosed on OxyContin dropped to as little as $8,000. It used to be $48,000. With @inquirer.com

To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.” (Published Nov. 2025)

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

I think my Monday newsletter is just going to be a big collection of pictures from the WHCD to be like "look at these losers."

The WHCA continuing their glorified meet and greet after an active shooter and a death is really just so spot on for the horrendous sociopathic tendencies of DC political reporters that I can't quite believe it's real.

Republicans are getting more brazen — in rhetoric and policy — in pushing teenage girls to give birth. The good news is that it won't work. Girls aren't going to fall for it. An analysis. www.salon.com/2026/04/20/m...

Repeated COVID (infections) are ruining education. People like to attribute kids failing to do the work to the few months they spent at home in 2020. Choosing to ignore that Covid causes measurable brain impairment and cumulative cognitive deficits in not only adults, but children too.

If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

This from trade guru Richard Baldwin on Trump's trade war conduct is great. And helps explain why in fact he is not remaking the world economic order or anything else. He's just going to leave a huge mess behind. www.linkedin.com/pulse/trumps...

Missouri's murder rate is 73% HIGHER than California’s. No amount of right-wing spinning can change reality: our state is investing in prevention, enforcement, and is holding criminals accountable. The U.S. Senator from Missouri should fix his own failed policies before lecturing us.

Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.

I keep saying how trans people have the unique ability to drive some folks insane but this is a perfect example of it. The Knicks owner personally stalked a trans woman going to Knicks games for years using his panopticon surveillance at MSG, solely b/c she's trans. www.wired.com/story/madiso...