Reminder that Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai, Nebraska Med, Tampa General and more US orgs also use Palantir. #medsky, do you know if your org does? They may be considering it, considering contacting your admin if this matters to you!

even the creme de la creme of the conservative intelligentsia are sleazy liars who misrepresent sources like some gamergate youtuber if a conservative cites a source you can be 100% certain its been cherry-picked, discredited, decontextualized, or embellished

In December SCOTUS claimed it was too close to election to block Texas gerrymander but now allowing Southern states to straight up cancel elections to resurrect Jim Crow

The rest of the world is transitioning rapidly away from oil and gas. Trump wants us to be a buyer of last resort for fossil fuel assets that will otherwise be stranded. Our money lining the pockets of his oil paymasters

Purely out of curiosity: I want to hear Trump’s response to: “would we be at war with Iran if Kamala was president?” I want to see which wins out of his two synaptic knee jerks: 1. The worst things possible would be happening if somebody else was in charge. 2. No one could do what I’m doing.

The Virginia state govt losing most of its electoral support and getting six months of bad press and constant attacks in order to scrape out four new districts while Florida does it overnight with no discussion or controversy is going to be the story of the next few years of post-VRA gerrymandering.

Powerful words from Kagan in #SCOTUS voting rights case: The VRA "ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people’s representatives in Congress."

Kagan is describing a judicial coup

How do you feel about Donald Trump's actions as president so far? [adjacent to an artful and flattering black-and-white sketch of me] Jon, 43, white "I no longer call it the Sun. I call it the Hot Moon. You cannot catch and eat the Hot Moon because it moves too fast because it is late for school."

The 85-year-old widow “was chained by her wrists and ankles to other inmates and loaded onto buses and a plane ‘like a potato sack.’ After two weeks in detention in Alabama and Louisiana, she said, she feared she might die.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

This is someone who has been sucker-punching other bar patrons for years complaining that they’re being punched back, but continuing to refuse to allow the bar to pass a No Punching rule

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

“I’m getting the shit beat out of me for absolutely no reason by some psycho I sucker-punched at a bar. What’s worse, the other patrons are actually *applauding* assault!”

this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes Roberts accepted $10 Million in bribes disguised as recruiting fees from Law firms with cases pending before the Supreme Court. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

The most striking bits of the Shadow Docket docs: Lots of hand wringing over costs to power plants, not even a mention of the benefits of cutting CO₂ pollution. Yes, the 5:4 SCOTUS majority doing the fossil industry's bidding, and not even trying to hide it www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

No one has ever NOT believed in a just God more than Russ.

if this guy ran through an ICU turning off machines he’d get tackled by an orderly, but he gets away with doing the same thing from a distance at scale

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

We'll see if the media presents the Trump inflation this way (as they blamed it on Biden) or if they'll just treat it like a situation he inherited and had nothing to do with

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

Speaker Mike Johnson said he hadn't seen that particular nuclear strike from the president, so he wouldn't feel comfortable commenting on it.

Tragic

What a beautiful moment.

several tubs had been filled with the fragrant sperm

The US has been proudly acting like the asshole at the party all night, then wonders why nobody wants to drive us home.

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

A crucial part of Project 2029 has to be performative trials and draconian sentencing for Trump administration officials up and down the organizational ladder. Treat all of them like Timothy McVeigh so that the gravity of their criminality and treason become enduring images in American history.

"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births." gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...

The details here are pretty bad. Hegesth personally intervened after the military officers in charge refused to block the promotion. The officer was told "President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events" by Hegseth's Chief of Staff.

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

My cylindrical son Gurm is so based he went to the Louvre and ordered a motorcycle. The docents were shocked! They said "This is a museum." Gurm said "then I'll have medicine?" The docents realized he was bleeding from his ear. "This child has been neglected," they said as he was tended to. #sigma

Number of unfilled #residency positions ie missing future #doctors in these fields - #FamilyMedicine - 899 - #InternalMedicine - 537 - #Pediatrics - 175 - #EmergencyMedicine - 140 - #Psychiatry - 65 Smaller numbers for other specialties, but 1,816 doctors we’ll never have thanks to Stephen Miller

An American hero who provided medical care to the Boston Marathon bombing victims had his home destroyed by Israel today in an attack on a civilian area. In any world, that should be headline news here in the United States. Journalists and editors, where you at?

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal was evacuated from Afghanistan by the United States in 2021 because he helped US forces fight against the Taliban. He was kidnapped by ICE on Friday morning while dropping his children off at school, and by Saturday morning he was dead, leaving behind his wife & 6 children.

This is why there is a 'world war' aspect: The US-led order is at war with the confrontation states - Russia, China, Iran. It has a limited capacity of Interceptors, munitions, THAAD air defense, drones etc. Hence: Theater prioritization "Iran war may leave Ukraine without critical air defenses"

I just can't stop thinking about the sheer narcissism in this administration people.com/kristi-noem-...

Dozens of documents detailing FBI interviews with an Epstein victim who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her as a high schooler are being kept under wraps.

13 is middle school