Jicymi the blockbuster news about Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS from the weekend ▶️ “The scoop highlights the conservative justices’ brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now — and the ways in which they are now ignoring the concerns that allegedly animated their action a decade ago.”

This guy is a fucking lunatic. I'll bet he's laughing behind the scenes at the kind of shit, he sends to the public. He doesn't even believe that nonsense. Kennedy is a punchline.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

One thing I wish we acknowledged more is that the anti-woke coalitions have won—both in the Democratic Party and in much of the country more broadly—and yet they’re still complaining.

This will be one of the worst of the many terrible legacies trump leaves the world if this comes to pass

Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done. Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.

In other words make it easier to hire more right wingers and white supremacists.

A rule of thumb that has served me incredibly well here is that if I see a white person not take it to white people as hard as they go at not white people, there is a high probability they are just racist. That thought has yet to let me down.

If Democrats in power are not using every lever they have to obstruct Trump now, why would you believe they would do it later?

Encouraging that an alliance seems to be forming around Cuba's rights to self-determination.

A Whole Regime, motivated by a single Premise: "Donald Trump has to stay out of Prison"

In case you missed it... We all know he's racist. This is more proof as a new class action lawsuit will exemplify.

"I've got all the Chronicles, folks. They're all great, and here's two of them, oh, it's the seventh. Here's the 7-11, you know, they're closing a lot of them. I told Joe, Biden couldn't, he couldn't do this. I said Joe you need the egg sandwiches, like in Japan, they love me in Japan. Big fat hugs"

That’s not a “no I don’t” response

The wild cultural overreaction in the wake of Kirk’s death looks increasingly bizarre the further we get away from it. variety.com/2026/tv/colu...

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

These 7 AIPAC Dems gotta go ✌🏾

Analilia Mejia is winning NJ-11 by nearly 20 points, about 12 points better than Kamala Harris did. This is the type of red-to-blue suburban district where Dems typically nominate center-left mods. A paradigm shift if a Bernie-AOC progressive can dominate vs a Republican here.

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry. These points stand out:

That Palantir would do this is both shocking—not because this is some weird heel turn, but because it is a fully mask-off moment for tech bro fascisti—and also the least surprising thing from a company that has always been creepy as fuck.

... and when this is all over, there will be people who will say we need to move on. The federal government will need detrumpification and it needs to be merciless.

“Men who kill their female partners/wives should, at the absolute fucking minimum, lose their right to be called partners, husbands, or family men.” “These men made the choices to change their relationship status from being life partners to being life-takers. And our coverage should reflect that.”

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Couldn't come a minute too soon.

Ossoff: I don’t know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week. Don’t worry—no one showed up. The stadium was empty.

“The ads, plastered over paid placements and circulating widely on Instagram, take aim at Amazon's warehouse and delivery labor practices, as well as the company's reported ties to immigration enforcement through Amazon Web Services, its cloud-computing arm.”

I talked to @polphilpod.bsky.social about reactionary centrism as a demand to embrace some magic amount of intolerance in order to win—and why that's dangerous.

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

liberals have become much more agressive, pushing for sweeping reforms & 'nuremberg 2.0' my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped

The @nytimes.com just soiled itself again 🤦🏻‍♂️🤡🙄

"A series of disjointed, hard-to-follow & sometimes-profane statements capped by his 'a whole civilization will die' threat ... and his head-spinning attack on the 'WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy' pope ... have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power."

Damn seriously why does the media fall for every lie the man spews. The Post definitely didn’t attempt to verify a single word Trump said. Iran was calling out his lies yesterday but they printed his lies anyway. Looks like just another act of market manipulation by Trump, media & GOP.

This is quite a story. www.cnn.com/2026/04/18/u...

If you want to protect your ocular health in the long and short term, avoid these behaviors.

In our "death-phobic" society, few of us make the effort to prepare for death — but the ability to do so is a gift that no one should turn away.

“Proper nutrition is the foundation upon which our mental acuity and vitality rest."

As a lawyer, this was a fascinating and horrifying read. Roberts is responsible for the end of a deliberative, careful SCOTUS, in favor of an illegitimate ideological rubber stamp. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

“The good news is that, from Zohran Mamdani and [Congresswoman] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York to Pedro Sánchez in Spain, from Lula in Brazil to [Green Party Leader] Zack Polanski in the UK, we may be seeing the early signs of a new cross-border alliance taking shape against global oligarchy.”

I feel like more people would understand this if the corporate media reported on this accurately and reminded folks of right wing policy failures going back to at least Hoover. And if business schools permitted the teachings of Marxist/leftist critiques of capitalism.

Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.

Hard agree. If you win the nomination you still can’t take your Democratic Party base vote for granted. Woo them. Engage them. Don’t just assume you have them banked then run off campaigning with Liz Cheney or whatever the fuck. Do like Obama and Biden did for much of their gen elect campaigns.

If you'd like to go back to the prosperity of the 1950s, Tax the rich and corporations, as they should be taxed, support Unions for fair wages & vote Liberal. With thanks to Jeff Tiedrich for the quote.

CNN exposes a global “online rape academy” that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone.

re patel. so this quote is famous for a reason. and yet if you know trump’s history - eg his brother’s alcoholism and early death - and his views on alcohol, it’s genuinely weird that he’s fine with having alleged alcoholics as some of his most important lieutenants.