ANOTHER death in ICE detention.

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.

Grijalva to RFK Jr: "You apparently once cut the penis off a roadkill raccoon"

The Lancet: "The politicisation of women's bodies and choices is part of a wider attempt to roll back human rights and freedoms of women and marginalised groups. ...It is a fundamental right of a woman to decide whether and when she has children, and is central to gender justice."

Over on Xitter people who claim to know Kash well INSIST they've never seen him drink (at all, on or off the clock), which is nutty bc this was treated as a business trip. www.youtube.com/shorts/NmR5Q...

This is disappointing and also hinders accountability. We used to archive to expose an entire NYT rewrite. open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...

Like dying

As the daughter of a Marine Corps veteran, I can attest to this. The quiet part that politicians won’t say out loud is that denying everyday Americans things like college tuition benefits, subsidized housing, and healthcare is a military recruitment tool. They don’t want everyone to have access.

Breaking: Iran has re-imposed restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz — accusing the U.S. of violating the deal to reopen it. Iran says it will continue to block transit as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remains in effect.

“They’ll never close the Strait again” lasted a solid 10 hours. Masterful negotiation (read: market manipulation) from Trump

Great Question, Winona.......

In Germany, officials of the far-right Alternative for Deutschland, have reportedly discouraged party members from publicly touting their visits to the United States to meet with Trump-aligned Republican politicians. trib.al/QukEYm1

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

This is today 1045 am Columbia MO!

"Fascism cannot be appeased; this is a core assertion of resistance liberalism." Good overview here of the new anti-Trump counter-mobilization and the deeper forces driving it:

APNewsAlert: CAIRO (AP) — Iranian gunboats have fired on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, British military says.

The rise of Swalwell was not surprising — stupid bad men succeed all the time. His fall, however, has shocked me. Part of why he faced consequences is the horrific nature of what he did. But I also suspect it’s partially bc of the way the story broke: Content creators were the tip of the spear.

“we’ve devised a grim reality for younger Americans. If you want to watch porn or place a prop bet, the wind is at your back. If you want to go to college or start a business, the wind is in your face.”

Politico: The president has prepared an Old Testament reading for an event at the Museum of the Bible. Old Testament?!

I put out a montage of him a while ago sniffling in nearly every podcast interview he did for two years, but maybe that wasn’t the only thing he had going on.

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

She is the best

What are the signs of a sociopath‽‽

NEW: Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again over continued US blockade of its ports, state media says. Trump keeps losing this war over and over! www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

Last night the US quietly lifted sanctions on Russian oil for another month - two days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it wouldn’t happen.

On Friday night, the treasury issued a license “Authorizing the Delivery and Sale of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products of Russian Federation Origin Loaded on Vessels as of April 17, 2026”, valid for another month

How the hell has the stock market not learned that Trump just lies?

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

In case you were wondering whether the Strait is open or not, Trump just reissued another reward to Russia for helping Iran. ofac.treasury.gov/media/935526...

Straight up milking the market

Big sigh. Like, men, you could just NOT 🧪 www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

Trump on the nuclear dust: "We're taking it. We're taking it. Very simple. Very simple. With Iran. We're going in. With Iran. We're taking it. We will have it. I don't call it boots on the ground."

The folks in charge at 9NEWS let me write a 30-second love letter to Colorado, the power of journalism, and finding common ground with our neighbors. It's been an honor to do this job here for the last 19 years.

WATCH — @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social : “What does ‘OPEN’ even mean at this point? Every tanker Captain is being asked to gamble a billion-dollar vessel and a full crew, and potentially their lives, on a situation where the rules aren’t clear.” Full: youtu.be/N2Nfaurs5yM?...

Let me help those who don’t understand this. The Pharisees were Jews. He is blaming the Jews who “control the media.” He’s an antisemite. Fire him.

David Rothkopf argues RFK Jr.'s raccoon penis mutilation story proves the Trump administration has gone dangerously nuts, with Trump's AI Jesus and Hegseth's Pulp Fiction prayer as further evidence.

Incredible satellite imagery of the tornado outbreak underway across the central United States.

Tim Kaine rips the shit out of Russ Vought.

The Kennedy Center will shut down this July for two years, as part of a roughly $250 million renovation. In the lead-up, there’s been a wave of layoffs and a controversial rebranding. https://to.pbs.org/4cRRjDu

Just two days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States would not extend a sanctions exemption on the sale of some Russian oil, the Treasury Department did just that on Friday, per NYT. #PutinPuppet

The Trump admin’s rewriting of rules governing college accreditation “obliterates” autonomy & is is being described as “a cluster bomb being dropped on American higher education.”

Fox News broke an incredibly important story (sarcasm) about undocumented immigrants getting CA state funded gender affirming care. The state health dept. disputed most of the story. This is a montage of a segment on The Five about 'tax payer funded breast implants.'

Whatever they’re billing it as, it’s a monument to Trump, just like he’s trying to turn the Kennedy Center into a monument to Trump (just wait: Today, he shares billing with JFK; there’s no doubt that plans are afoot to erase JFK from the center entirely). trib.al/qpmT2iL

Question: “Now that you’ve met with him -Trump-, you’ve spoken with him multiple times, do you still think he’s a fascist?” Zohran Mamdani: “Yes” Question: “And do you tell him that?” Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”