Rep Schrier (D, Washington) is drilling RFK Jr. about the “RFK Spillover Effect”. She asks him to say for the record that parents should give their newborns the vitamin K shot. He refuses to do so, putting millions of newborns at risk for brain bleeds and brain damage.

for all the talk of how AI is going to replace your job, let's make sure we also talk about how AI is degrading work today. we uncovered a political campaign by ShiftKey & Clipboard Health to spread surveillance wages.

North Korea Constructs "Tactical Road" North of Military Demarcation Line, South Korean Military Announces news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/n...

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to block its bid to build a national voter database using private voter data from every state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Chad Mizelle, Former Trump DOJ Official, Wants Trump to Issue an Executive Order Purporting to Return Parts of Virginia to Washington DC in Effort to to Fight Virginia’s Potential Democratic Gerrymander electionlawblog.org?p=155568

Florida’s attorney general said his office was issuing subpoenas to OpenAI, seeking information about how the leading AI company approaches user threats of harm to themselves and to others.

Here's a link to the latest filing in the special prosecutor debate (a few pages are out of order in the official court filing — Page 2 actually begins on Page 12 of the PDF): cst.brightspotcdn.com/dd/a5/4eb73f... And here's the email in question from Eileen O'Neill Burke's staff:

Compare to George Washington mandating smallpox inoculation for the troops in 1777: "Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require the measure, for should the disorder infect the Army ... we should have more to dread from it, than from the sword of the enemy." www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Engineers have created "neurobots": tiny, free-swimming assemblages of living cells that organize into self-directed systems, complete with neurons that wire themselves into functional circuits. spectrum.ieee.org/neurobot-liv...

Odd thing here: he cites religious objections, but appears to be limiting this to the flu vaccine in particular. Religious objections to vaccination were actually relatively rare pre-COVID, but have grown since the pandemic. But I'm unaware of religious objections to *only* flu vaccines?

SPLC says that the Trump administration appears to be conducting a criminal investigation into the organization, potentially over its use of informants.

Iran to charge tolls in Rial for Hormuz transit. -Mehr News t.me/mehrnews/373...

BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

This isn't the first time labeling ransomware as terrorism has come up. A Senate bill that proposed the same thing (later watered down into a "sense of congress" legislative provision) did the same thing in 2024. cyberscoop.com/ransomware-t...

Pete Hegseth cancels ‘absurd’ flu vaccine requirement for ‘brave warriors’ in military

“Good Law Project can reveal that the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation (RSLF) has received…more than 90% of its funding – from Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) since 2023. This private college based in Budapest has close ties to Hungary’s [former] …prime minister, Viktor Orbán.” 2/12/26 … 1/

If you look up “Roger Scruton Foundation Memorial Lectures,” the first lecture posted on RSLF’s website is a 2023 lecture by Peter Thiel (JD Vance’s mentor and benefactor).

The mighty @gilduran.com, one of the great modern chroniclers of the broligarchy, was suspended from Twitter for the tweet below against Palantir! He joins The Left Hook at 530 pm ET @tparsi.bsky.social joins us at 6 pm ET to discuss the Iran War debacle. thelefthook.substack.com No paywalls.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

LIVE: Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh faces Senate nomination hearing reut.rs/4tp0Vvh

APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says administration is weighing a currency swap with UAE to help bolster finances of Mideast ally rattled by war.

Trump on Anthropic

America 250 is being commemorated in communities across the United States. What happens or doesn't happen in Washington, DC is important, but it shouldn't be the sole focus for how we measure success. Focus on your local community and help create a meaningful commemoration that you want to see.

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U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned on Monday amid allegations of misconduct at the department.

Russian interior minister arrives in North Korea for talks reut.rs/4ckeHcI

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford is operating in the Middle East again following a nearly month-long sojourn in the Mediterranean Sea, a U.S. official confirmed. From Stars and Stripes' Alison Bath:

“While breaking bread with Carr isn’t quite on the level of “honoring” Trump’s anti-press White House, it is still appalling.” What a nauseating guest list: Trump, Carr, Hegseth and Steven Miller. A stunning error in judgment by these journalists.

Sound on! You do not want to miss this. Listen to the whole thing. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Beirut born artist Helen Zughaib mixes familiar imagery to bridge East and West #WomensArt

TENNESSEAN: “Tennessee is poised to become the first state in 🇺🇸 to require all counties to participate in an optional federal partnership on immigration enforcement…” GOP = Government Overreach Party, exhibit infinity. The Stephen Miller slate. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

NatCon is the Thiel-backed conference that has helped propel both Christian Nationalism & JD Vance’s political ascension. Its Statement of Principles—signed by (among others) Peter Thiel—was co-authored by John O’Sullivan, founder of the Danube Institute in Hungary. 1/

I'm guessing this lawsuit is designed to make it harder for Trump to fire Patel now since otherwise it makes the president look like he believes the Fake News™

Kash Patel is suing The Atlantic for $250M www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

PA Commonwealth Court: reproductive autonomy is a fundamental right under the Pennsylvania Constitution, embedded within the right to privacy and other recognized rights, even if those currently interpreting the U.S. Constitution disagree. www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

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Per whip notice, Rep.-elect Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) will be sworn in tonight, which will bring the party breakdown in the House to [actually checks notes] 217 R - 214 D.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court takes up two new cases for next term, including a case over Colorado’s exclusion of Catholic preschools from public funding. The case specifically raises a question the court has circled around for years: Whether 1990’s Employment Division v. Smith should be overruled.

UPDATE: Vance has arrived in Pakistan, according to the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

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Good morning. U.S. District Judge April Perry is set to hear arguments shortly over whether to dismiss a lawsuit over National Guard deployment in Illinois as moot.

Sandwich chain Jersey Mike's confidentially files for IPO

Supreme Court agrees to review a Colorado law to determine if preschools that decline children of same-sex couples may receive state funding https://cnn.it/4cFPPer

A granddad who was the subject of a celebrated reimagining of one of America’s most iconic paintings has been detained by ICE.

This is part of a broader push the Trump admin began in term one (that Biden didn't roll back in any way). First each visa applicant had to disclose your social media handles. Now under Trump 2, the U.S. government demands that you make your social media accounts public so they can scan 'em.

100s of journalists — Dan Rather, Sam Donaldson, Jackie Judd and others — have written to the WHCA asking to take a stand against Trump’s efforts to trample freedom of press. Shared by Scott MacFarlane

Kash Patel’s threatened lawsuit and his copious use of FBI jet are causing problems inside the Bureau Big problems Just filed ====> youtu.be/uQEyFbv2ua4?...

The U.S. military struck another boat in the Caribbean, killing three people.