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

Put aside, for a moment, what a fucking mockery this makes of the law -- how plain it makes it that conservative jurisprudence works backward from its desired outcomes. Lots of other people have yelled about that. It's worth yelling about. Instead, though, let's look at the substance.

ANOTHER death in ICE detention.

Tesla paid $1 billion in taxes to China & $0 in federal income taxes to the US. At least 88 highly profitable corporations paid $0 federal income tax last year while bringing in $ billions. Disney, CVS, Palantir, Taco Bell & others are making massive profits, paying executives enormous ⬇️

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

“How do you cover a profligate liar?” is the media question of our time and somehow the answer has been “exactly the same as you cover a consistent truth teller.”

This is why any liberal platform that doesn’t include a vibrant safety net (health, housing, food, education) funded by confiscatory top marginal rates on income, capital gains, and corporate profits, should be a non-starter. Vibes aren’t gonna change until people aren’t a tweet away from ruin.

everything about DOGE was fucking wildly illegal and everyone involved in it should spend time in prison and have their assets seized

So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about. I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant

In Feb., NLRB dropped charges against SpaceX for retaliatory firings of workers. Sens. Blumenthal & Warren are investigating the labor agency, demanding evidence they didn’t simply do this as a favor to Trump’s biggest financial backer, Elon Musk… via @cnbc — www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/s...

“I actually went through the files this weekend in depth. Trump is not only named over and over in them… There is extensive discussion between Donald Trump [and] Ghislaine Maxwell [about] Trump coming to his house… Photographs of Trump with girls.” @repstansbury.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/reps...

NEW: Raskin, w/ 50 House Dem co-sponsors, formally introduces a bill which would create a commission to assess Trump's fitness for office under the 25th Amendment. Bill text here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Story TK

IMPORTANT: Under federal law, it's very hard, at times near-impossible, to sue federal law enforcement officers for civil rights violations. But legal theorists have said for decades that there is a possible way to sue under state law instead. This is a VERY big test case.

BREAKING: We're suing federal immigration agents on behalf of Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz, a legal U.S. resident who was racially profiled and violently abducted in Maine in January. Agents violated his Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights and must be held accountable.

I understand the intuition that subjecting older teenagers to adult-level punishments will reduce crime, but this has been studied and THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. Involving them in the adult system INCREASES RECIDIVISM. Pirro is taking a soft-on-crime position here.

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:

he's running for senate. senators have a lot of power. he is expressing bigotry against people with mental disabilities, and will be in a position to vote on and shape legislation affecting them. so yes, we should care when powerful people express bigotry. including trump, but not just trump.

Trump Approval Among White Non-College Voters: 🔴 Disapprove: 52% (+20) 🟢 Approve: 48% (-20) YouGov / April 2026 (% Change With February 2025)

Breaking: ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

its good to see this happening somewhere and it needs to be happening everywhere

The board can just… not leave. Occupy the Presidio. All the groundskeepers and janitors that hold keys will be on their side. Force him to send soldiers while they use the time to take him to court, with puppet master Thiel. San Francisco knows a thing or two about protests.

President Donald #Trump has fired the entire #SanFrancisco #PresidioBoardofTrustees, according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle. abc7news.com/post/pres-do...

President Donald Trump has terminated the entire board of the Presidio Trust, which manages one of San Francisco's most iconic national parks. The six members had all been appointed by former President Joe Biden.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

some good news for once. Judge Sansone has again rejected the government's claim that I am a dangerous criminal who needs strict supervision & thus as of today am free to travel anywhere in the continental u.s., no longer have daily random drug tests, etc. Thank you to everyone who helped out.

israel is going to come to regret the long term consequences of netanyahu’s contempt for american democracy for a lot longer than netanyahu will be around

Porter treats her staff like trash and ran a notoriously hostile workplace even by Hill standards, and it's not just that one video of her yelling at them that backs that up. Left-ish mood affiliation is not a good reason to make excuses or pretend it's not true.

This is the Yad Vashem database entry for Jaacob Fish. My great grandfather, murdered with his entire family, except for a sole survivor, Haim Fish (his son, my grandfather), by the SS unit the insignia of which Platner tattooed on himself. F*ck each and every one of you who support Platner.

He didn’t object to the illegal, immoral, astrategic boat bombings campaign, nor to the attack on Venezuela. No public statements or leaks of internal discussions. He didn’t have any criticisms of Trump’s first term foreign policy, which includes multiple precursors to the current Iran war, either.

🧵ICE has not just murdered people - in corporation run ICE detention facilities, 48 have died since Trump took office and many survivors have received negligent care. This deep dive by the @sfchronicle.com will hurt your heart & enrage you. 39 yo Ismael Alaya-Uribe, car wash worker, beloved..

Running a sophisticated and expensive automated bot network from God knows where while pretending to be a genuine civilian trying to survive a genocide is not, in fact, a victimless crime.

The thing about feeling bad for people with cancer is that Ben Sasse is in that small, infuriating number of people with cancer who literally once voted to destroy the ACA, and is now benefiting from exquisite medical care despite that

I used to like Philz... but they sold out to private equity and this is the predictable result. #uspol

This is driven by a huge drop in 13-17 year olds getting knocked up with no recourse so just take that into consideration

“HarperCollins recalled approximately 60,000 copies of Andrew Lownie’s book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York (about Prince Andrew), to remove claims that Epstein introduced Melania to Donald Trump.” 🔗 w.wiki/L2uQ @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social on IG: instagram.com/reel/DNYLmKmukY_

“An armed, masked man who showed up during an anti-ICE student walkout three months ago at Hamilton High School is a Phoenix police sergeant” “He’s a supervisor — to try to orchestrate a conflict with juveniles, in my view, is beyond the pale”

NEW: Two women just joined the lawsuit seeking to overturn Arkansas' abortion ban. One had an ectopic pregnancy and was sent away by three emergency rooms in two states and another—refreshingly—didn't want to be pregnant. Both forced to go to Kansas. First case since Dobbs showing broad harm of bans

I am deeply concerned about the fact that Iran is really good at propaganda, they’re antisemitic as fuck, and they’re aiming they’re incredibly good antisemitic propaganda at us at the exact time the American populace is most primed to receive antisemitic messages.

hey i’m being real fucking serious right now call your reps. this is insane. he already had thousands of jobs removed from the us fish and wildlife service. dismantling the us forest service will have a devastating impact on habitat protections. im too mad for words.

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

In Trumps detention centers 70,000 detained. Even kids denied medical treatment, safe water, sleep deprivation, overcrowding, brutality, rape. States are trying to impose accountability on Trump detention system designed to avoid it. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/trump-w...

Last night I gave a talk at the Princeton Adult School on the legacies of the civil rights movement and the links to our world today. Just posted it on CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

Rep. Jim McGovern is calling for immediate congressional intervention, warning that unchecked executive war powers risk crossing legal and constitutional lines. The question now is whether institutions act before escalation becomes irreversible. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu

Polls close at 7pm ET in Georgia. They close at 7pm local, meaning 8pm ET, in Oklahoma. They close at 7pm local, meaning 8pm ET, in Missouri. They close at 8pm local, meaning 9pm ET, in Wisconsin. They close at 7pm local, meaning 10pm ET, in Arizona.

"Some active-duty Marines are already calling Mr. Hegseth’s agency the 'Department of War Crimes.'" With good reason. At any other point in recent decades, the congressional Armed Services Committees would have put an immediate end to this madness. Now ... crickets. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

I am not sure people understand the degree to which foreign grad students (and especially Chinese ones) are propping up our universities.

okay SO much to report but let's start with how wild it was to be in a living room that skewed like 85% Catholic Grandparents for an event which began "as we all know, we are living under authoritarianism. and now, here is abortion rights advocate Dr. Maxine Dexter" THE TIMES, THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'

New DHS Secy Markwayne Mullin, in an interview with Bret Baier, says he wants to consider pulling Customs out of international airports in “sanctuary cities,” which would effectively shut down a huge amount of international travel to the U.S. LA, NYC, BOS, SF, Chi, SEA, Miami, DEN, Phil, SD….

THREAD As antisemitic conspiracy theories & language evolve, we must keep up. Abulhawa's post is a perfect example of a new dynamic. Connecting the idea of "Jewish supremacy" with "the Epstein class" is an old form of antisemitism grafted onto new conspiracy theories. Let's explore why:

the 'electability' question is increasingly clear www.sosavstate.com/p/gavin-news...