Mound Bayou, a self-sufficient Black town in Mississippi founded by formerly enslaved people that thrived for decades. Mamie Till was famously protected there as she sought justice for her son. Today, White South Africans are displacing those descendants www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2...

Ironic that the only document that proves my citizenship might have the ugly face of the man who would push for my denaturalization

Comey's attorneys to the DOJ:

SSI is already the most burdensome public benefit in terms of absurd rules and means-testing The ONLY reason for this proposed rule is to punish folks with disabilities and low-income older adults

The worst people are acting exactly as expected

if he's not dead, then put the basketball game back on

According to MSNOW, they are actually gonna try to continue the WHCD within the same building where a shooter may or may not have been killed minutes ago

There's an episode where Bandit quotes "Scarface", which confirms the existence of dog cocaine

Pack the court includes the 5th CA

Came across a post by a tankie claiming the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was a CIA operation. Not even 8am and it's time to log off for the day

There was a small part of me that was worried Dallas would have picked Ty Simpson based on recent precedent

I'm sure humiliating Italian soccer fans by offering a pity invite to the World Cup is sure to mend relations

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Sucks that we're likely in the final hours of the Voting Rights Act

Time to gather round and watch that Virginia "No" vote make its way south of 50%

BREAKING: Eight children were killed in an "extensive" mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, police say. The suspected shooter is also dead.

Speechless at whatever Donnarumma just did but thanks anyway

"defamatory per se" Drink!

Remarkable SCOTUS reporting in the NYTimes, which pretty much confirms what observers have always assumed, but still astonishes. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Who could have seen th-

Come learn all about the poplar legal field of Tree Law

When my 4 year old is told he needs to wash his hands and face again

Having trouble remembering all the Jan 6 rioters whose only talents are committing more crimes? Luckily, there's an Insurrectionist Tracker for that!

Basic military logistics is now woke

The folks in Cairo just cannot catch a break. Decades of racist, segregated public housing administration led to uninhabitable conditions and the eventual loss of over 300 housing units (in a county with a population of under 5k!) Now, more broken promises

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

Hopefully, Peter Magyar and Tisza have the foresight to quickly and ruthlessly undo all of Orban's autocratic policies and strengthen democratic rule once again

The only good Monarch

Remember when Musk got involved in Wisconsin's supreme court race last year with disastrous (from his pov) results? Vance about to replicate that in Hungary

amazing things are happening

What if they made the whole pizza out of stuffed crust

Perfect

More please

Important to remember that we can't definitively rule out that during the 6 mins of communications blackout, that the Integrity didn't get breached by aliens, who took over the crew, and are now impersonating them ....and we never will

i bet one of the astronauts immediately got up, grabbed their stuff and moved to get closer the exit

That was marvelous to watch

As a midwesterner, I'm loving the commentator's use of central time on the Artemis re-entry

There is no palatable bacon-wrapped food

The president posted an uncensored video of a woman being murdered in an (another) attempt to incite a pogrom against Haitians Every day he brings about unprecedented depravity

How many FOIA requests does the state of New Jersey think is too many to file in a year and worth getting banned from filing anymore FOIAs for a year? 14.

“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/s...

Chris Taylor will replace Rebecca Bradley, who compared COVID stay at home orders to internment of Japanese-Americans, wanted to overturn the 2020 election, wrote a 30-page legal tantrum about DEIA CLEs, and was caught editing her own Wikipedia page

Thousands of Iranian and Lebanese civilians died for absolutely nothing

If you're a congressional dem and not going in front of a camera to demand his immediate removal from office by impeachment, resignation or invoking 25, then quit your job

If anyone looked right beneath the surface, they’d be able to see that Red Lobster’s real downfall was not offering endless shrimp — it was private equity’s endless greed.