Christian Nationalist company towns are popping up across the country. The rich people behind this movement somewhat resemble the Gilded Age moguls who built libraries, but they are even more ambitious in their vision for how the rest of us should live. opb.org/article/2026...

In 1988 when Dhillon was the editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth Review her paper was accused of trafficking in antisemitism when it published an article comparing conservatives on campus to Holocaust victims, and comparing Dartmouth's Jewish president to Hitler.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Like the weak SPLC and Comey cases, the best way to think about this is an attempt to sync up law enforcement with the right-wing media narrative machine.

Bari Weiss did not claim to be tilting CBS towards her personal preferences, but towards the public’s, arguing that a small elite of radical Maoists had captured institutions and forced unpopular views on people. Similar to Elon Musk with X. They really seem to believe it. Reality does not align.

this is very funny as well as good evidence — you know, beyond what we can see with our own eyes — that there is not some epidemic of anti-white discrimination

The most infuriating thing about this is that his entire campaign was him saying “this time I’m going to be so much worse, you fuckers have no idea how shitty I’m gonna be”

Sad news about Gerry Conway, who famously crossed over between comics and TV writing and wrote a lot of wonderful comics. His PARALLEL LIVES graphic novel remains one of my favorite Spider-Man stories. He'll be missed. variety.com/2026/film/ob...

People who have described President Trump as "fascist" include individuals who served in his first term as his White House chief of staff, defense secretary (x2), and chairman of the joint chiefs. It's not name-calling -- it's a warning. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how...

Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . You were found to be a rapist by a unanimous jury, Donald.

As the WHCD had been twisted into a new ritual of authoritarian consolidation of the media... and now another pretext for Trump to destroy "the enemy within" to further consolidate his power... I'm reminded that the insurrectionists were pardoned and even rewarded for their loyalty to Trump.

I didn't see this one coming, but the MAGA argument that the Southern Poverty Law Center has been working to *support* white nationalist terrorism in the South and the Republican Party is trying to *stop* that might be the combo punch that finally breaks me.

Did the White House write this for you? jfc... let's just abandon objective reality altogether in the name of "fairness to fascism!" Spineless idiots.

The ADL permanently sacrificed its reputation to get in good with a massively dangerous antisemite and white nationalist. They defended him and stood up for him even after his Nazi salute. Here's how he repays them. This is what happens when you think you're using bigots. They're always using you.

Even as a critic who has tried to write about MJ’s legacy with nuance and grace, I appreciate the clarity the director of Leaving Neverland brings to the table

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

New: Kash Patel's FBI launched an unnecessary raid on the home of a former Capitol Police officer, based on Jan. 6 conspiracy theories from right-wing media outlet The Blaze.

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

The one thing that has taken a U.S. aircraft carrier offline in recent years was not enemy action. It was COVID. Deciding now to put anti-science culture war signaling over military readiness is a bad idea.

If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

Doing this video with a painting of Washington in the background is a level of irony that even he’d probably cross the Delaware again just to get away from

Maryland has, for now, stopped ICE from converting a warehouse designed to hold commercial products into a warehouse used to hold people. Similar lawsuits have been filed against ICE's warehouse detention camp plans in New Jersey and Michigan.

She's leaving Congress to, uh, spend more time with her family, her ambassadorial dreams are ashes, her career is over, and maybe it's okay to stop asking her stuff

This is exactly right. It’s not a dilemma though. It’s a line in the sand that will at once once collapse what remains of the rule of law and regulatory infrastructure designed to protect the public.

This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

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.

Is “seeks to overthrow the Constitution due to deep philosophical objection to the idea of ‘We the People’” a good trait in a defense contractor? The sort the government should pay billions of dollars to and integrate into sensitive systems? Because that doesn’t seem like the most reliable partner.

Pretty much every fascist manifesto frames itself as a defense of Western Civilization. These modern technofascists are endlessly proud of themselves for reinventing fascist wheels.

Palantir put plans for techno-fascism in a document. Like a techno-fascist manifesto with themselves at the center. Features fascistic distortions of language and declarations of inherent superiority that should be acknowledged and made permanent, but driven by and with a more central role for tech.

Jared Kushner is incredibly corrupt. He corruptly distorted US foreign policy in Trump’s first term to get more money into his and his father-in-law’s private accounts, and he’s accelerated those efforts in term 2. Anyone who praised his Gaza real estate scheme as “peace” helped perpetuate it.

Follow up on the suspicious claims by Summer Naqvi of having been detained by DHS. She has a bizarre local history of lying and going to absurd lengths to cover those lies up... and now she's done so in the national limelight. www.cnn.com/2026/04/18/u...

The lawsuit filed by Schmidt alleges Naqvi, rather than being transported to Dodge County, WI from the Broadview, IL ICE facility, arranged for transportation from a Hampton Inn & Suites in Rosemont, IL to Wisconsin: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Your regular reminder that John Roberts authored the opinion that gifted presidents immunity from criminal prosecution… @brennancenter.org

However low your opinion of the Roberts Court, it should be lower.

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

Exactly one year ago today:

Trump threatens to leave NATO if European countries don’t join the US war on Iran, but it isn’t working because he has no credibility. Who trusts that he’ll honor NATO commitments? Who buys that Europe joining the war would make him back NATO? Who believes he’d even tell the truth if they did help?

lol, perfect "After the vote, Catanzara shouted and used profanity at the members of the committee as he left the hearing room." news.wttw.com/2026/04/13/k...

The individuals referenced here are adjudicated terrorists. They were found guilty of conspiring to use force against their own government to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. A conservative, Trump-appointed judge applied terrorism enhancements to their sentences.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

Bribery and corruption being legal and awesome now per the Supreme Court, I suppose this was inevitable. After SCotUS effectively killed the rule of law back in July 2024, we're still going through motions, as if this joke of a system has any credibility left. Clearly it does not.

“Two can play at that game” is literally the Drebin quote here when he takes an innocent woman hostage to cluelessly fight the enemy

This chart is stunning.

That Trump/Jesus post from yesterday seems to have begun as a February 2026 post by the bizarre, try hard Australian-American MAGA grifter Nick Adams. One difference that stands out is the “angelic” figure in the middle.

Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about going out of their way to defend this guy against charges of antisemitism.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

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