Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

Modern day sundown towns

trump's former "commander-at-large" of the border patrol greg bovino says mass deportations, not deporting "worst of the worst" will "correct" places like Plano, Texas having a diverse population

A common thread among newer cyclists is realizing just how awful drivers are. There are things you simply don't notice — behavior that has been normalized — when you mostly drive. Biking, walking, or rolling through the world changes that.

70 Minnesota children. Delta Air Lines, who likely flew nearly all of these kiddos out of MSP, could publicly condemn this and end the practice tomorrow, as the airlines did in 2018 with family separation, but it’s easier to stay silent.

Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.

Stacy Mitchell has the best command of this subject. She explains how Amazon's ability to match any discount absolutely shreds competitors trying to give you a lower price. To hide these powers from nosy reporters, Amazon shuts off the magic algorithm during holiday shopping season and Prime Day.

With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U.S., Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins and who loses when education meets the free market.

Grifters gonna grift

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

If only there were a way for our elected representatives to remove a President for good cause.

Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater. Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

What's especially frustrating is these domestic homicides are among the most preventable — if we took violence against women seriously. Nearly all family annihilators or wife killers have a history of violence against women. And yet, they so easily get guns. Look at the Justin Fairfax case.

this sounds kinda like a "who cares" achievement but its a very exciting milestone for rich guys who are extremely invested in a future where robots they control are slavedrivers and prison guards for the rest of the human population

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Ok so they talked about how the plan would change the energy industry and be a burden on these companies but no one-not even once- mentioned the existential threat posed by warming climate and why that may also pose a “burden?” Who speaks for the fucking trees, my friends? Not SCOTUS, apparently.

An online rape school. Trigger warning if you read this, obviously. Fuck this. edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

An advocate to end forced prison labor hopes a recent court ruling will finally stop Colorado prisons from sending people to solitary confinement for refusing to work. But, she cautions, “there’s going to have to be a lot more pushing.”

Learn whatever you want about "law," it doesn't matter because GOP Justices blew up the entire process of deciding cases based on chats with rich friends and stuff they watched on TV. That was the entire basis on which SCOTUS switched to the shadow docket.

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

”The problems with his conduct go well beyond what has been previously known, and include both conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

damn, dark as shit

Clarence Thomas is a right-wing freak. This is an indistinguishable from what unironic retvrn guys post on X about, like, women being allowed to have bank accounts. Anyone who tells you he is a profound thinker or a serious jurist or whatever is not to be trusted.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever experienced something truly that bizarre and absurd as, like, seeing a law enforcement agent concoct a narrative to arrest me, to press charges against me." must read (and watch) new @propublica.org/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social investigation & documentary from A.C. Thompson

There’s been lots of news about the City Council voting down the appointment of Toddrick Barnette. This is a public memo from my office on the ways his leadership has missed the mark and what we want to see from the next Commissioner of Community Safety. lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/Fil...

Ok. So why didn’t it?

Some true-to-life “are we the baddies?” stuff, right here. Like putting “we’re villains” up in neon lights.

A new anti-trans law in Kansas effectively forces trans voters to obtain new documents with inaccurate gender markers, or abstain from voting. “We either won’t be able to vote or participate in public life, or we change our documents.”

*rubs temples* It would legitimately be easier to just impeach him than do this. I do not understand it.

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

The thing where voters don't believe republican policies could be as evil as they are apparently extends to the republicans actually in charge of the government just mindlessly implementing them

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

Periodic reminder: if you were to break down the Bill of Rights clause-by-clause, more than half of them make it harder to investigate, arrest, prosecute, and punish people for crimes It is the most profoundly anti-law enforcement document the Government has ever had And that's a good thing

Awkward fact: The Strait of Hormuz is already open... for nations that used diplomacy to re-open it for themselves. Any military action from the US, would likely close it for them again. 🙂🙃

The tl;dr takeaway from this very long thread: 1) There is an entire underground market for any type of account you can imagine. 2) Sites know about this and work to detect people buying and repurposing accounts fast, because even an extra half hour can make a huge difference in profit.

It’s a good question, let’s clear the air: 1) Disco is awesome, like 25 all-time classic tracks in a 4 year span, 2) Disco was hated because it was queer, brown, and black, 3) Disco was hated because it paired women and men in a different power dynamic. 4) “Disco Sucks” was a “ MAGA” test run.

A reminder that Todd Barnette wasn't very good at being the city's highest paid employee.

WSJ printed a selection of the 4k+ messages of a 36-year-old man who fell into AI delusion with Gemini after he and his wife split up. If an adult can spiral this badly, this quickly, I don’t actually think all of us raising kids are worried enough. This was a very disturbing read.

so, what virtually every other rigorous empirical study shows about the effects of work requirements

AP publishes a good multi-state rundown on pushback all over the country against plans for huge Trump prison camps: apnews.com/article/immi...

Legal eagles noticed, and there’s been SOME mainstream coverage. But overall the political class has underreacted to this month’s OLC opinion, ordered up by Trump or on his behalf, declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. Things are likely being stolen and/or destroyed *right now*.

None of these would be valid. No amount of exaggeration about the pardon power can overcome the express mandate to the President in Art II, Sec 3: "He shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." He can't pardon people for breaking the law on his behalf. Contrary arguments are invalid.

Please share this story far and wide, not just on this platform, especially if you live in an area with an outbreak right now (like ours in Southest Michigan where there is an official #publichealth department recommendation for early MMR vaccination for babies 6-11 months old right now)

Reminder that as a judge, Todd Barnette appointed many of the Charter Commissioners who are now trying to remove the Minneapolis City Council’s power to approve several department heads, an approval Barnette just failed to get as a department head.

we’re winning

If only there were some kind of democratic process we could use

how much money does the marine corps lose