I think the context that most people are missing is that 8647 is Comey’s height in centimeters

Unclear if he is a former resident, man, or if he has ceased to exist altogether.

It has the same vibe as Mangione’s: no one else is doing anything, and someone has to. He has well thought out moral underpinnings for why he’s doing it even if his conclusion about *what* he must do is wrong.

This insightful thread made me reflect on how I, a Gen Xer, was socialized to think about the political agency of ordinary citizens...and how those historical "lessons" that I'd imbibed, drawn from the history of the 1960s and 70s, just don't ring so true to today's young adults.

“…the memory of the Founding Fathers will forever be tainted by their failure to include in the Constitution a ballroom provision.”

“helped”??

It's Monday!

I decided to write about at each & every one of the 32 states with supreme court elections this year. Why? On abortion, redistricting, death penalty, & more, these institutions & their elections remain so critical. So here's everything you need to know. NEW from me:

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

Exactly one year ago today:

A year ago, I wrote that state prosecutors can enforce criminal laws against lawless federal "law enforcement" agents when the DOJ refuses to. That is now happening, and it is past time. 1/

The apartment he points to is owned by Ken Griffin, formerly the richest person in IL. He decamped for FL after successfully spending millions of dollars to defeat a referendum instituting a progressive state income tax.

New in PN: Trump's litigation extortion machine "These trollsuits are various flavors of garbage & costless for Trump. Not so for his foes, who are forced to spend hundreds of thousands, schlep down to Florida & endure months of stress & uncertainty. And *that* is the entire point of this exercise"

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We're going to win. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...

was once New Amsterdam.

Look, I went to Catholic school for the better part of 20 years and will be the first person to admit I don’t know anything about Catholicism but I have a vague recollection that being weak on crime was kind of the point.

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

"the crew is in excellent shape" in fact, one of them is... STRONGER than EVER. and another... seems to be INCREDIBLY FLEXIBLE... and another...

One of the Artemis astronauts stood up immediately after splashdown and started collecting his carryon bags even though he was seated in the back row of the capsule.

99% of Iowa private schoolers are now funded by taxpayer vouchers. Other states approaching that number. Voucher schools are simply government-funded contractors. Of course they should admit all students. But that was never the point of vouchers. 1/4 www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

Nova Scotia still charging large commercial and industrial users next to nothing for water reported by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social

Love Libby. Fortunate to live in Vermont where the wait time is only 18 weeks.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE TAGGING ME IN ON THE VATICAN / PENTAGON BEEF HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

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Iran’s Fars News Agency says all tankers passing through Hormuz have been stopped after Israel’s ‘ceasefire breach’.

All-around piece of shit, Kash Patel, is over here at #RxSummit 2026 opening up with "touch a cop and we will put you down". Very out of sync with a conference focused on cleaning up the opioid epidemic.

Oh snap! It's #RexManningDay!!!

Ben Wikler had a long-term, successful plan to flip the court, but what really set the fire under WI Dem activists was the court nearly throwing out enough ballots to steal the state from Biden. One GOP swing vote prevented that.

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

Thank you, Senator Kim! All of Congress should return ASAP. But if Johnson and Thune do not call for the return, all Democrats should return anyway and be a visible presence. Speeches on the Capital steps, going to the Whitehouse, making a plan to constrain and contain Trump.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

What a result: A Democratic-backed candidate has won the mayoral election in Waukesha, the biggest city in the notoriously conservative Waukesha County. Alicia Halvensleben will be the next mayor. She defeated a GOP state lawmaker.

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Need to see my congressional folks taking action. Stow the sternly worded messages. If y’all aren’t headed back to DC on the steps demanding recess end… what are you doing?

President Trump is threatening to commit war crimes against an entire civilization. Is there nothing he will do or say that will make Republicans join us in reining him in? We must come back to Washington and vote to block the use of military force in Iran.

Where y’at, @balint.house.gov. Hoping my one rep is on her way back to the house with articles of impeachment drafted. Crickets on the subject out of your office. Not a good look.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

In 4 weeks Trump has transformed Iran from a country where people poured into the streets to overthrow the regime into a country where people poured into the streets to stop America. Great work.

5 calls is a slick app. I appreciate it.

Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.

Did homeboy ever say what time zone he meant?

The opposition party is currently being led by People Magazine’s headline writers. people.com/trump-ramble...

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

the next mentoring day has been canceled

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.