I seem to recall some Supreme Court precedent saying you can't cancel contracts with a religious entity because of disagreement with religious principles. Something that like Schmulton v. Schmity of Schmiladelphia.

Remember back in December when I warned that *actual* ACA enrollment would drop by a LOT more than the initial numbers would suggest? Remember in January when the WSJ did exactly what I warned of and claimed that ACA enrollment only dropped nominally? Yeah, guess what?

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

FBI reported 1700 arrested "child predators" in 2025. That's around 1/200k. There have been now 7 pardoned J6ers arrested for sex crimes against kids, out of 1600 J6ers total, around 1 in 230. You can play w the denominator a bit (135M adult males) but it's still around 350x the rate

and this was before this latest one! bsky.app/profile/myri...

We will be taxing the ultra-wealthy and global elites.

Love seeing conservatives argue for separation between church and state but only when religious doctrine conflicts with blowing people up

“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.” @heathmayo.bsky.social

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

Israel has accepted a Russian vessel carrying stolen Ukrainian grain from temporarily occupied territories. Kateryna Yaresko, a journalist for the SeaKrime project of the Myrotvorets Center, reported this. www.facebook.com/kattyfun1?lo...

Regular Car Guy reviews got a hold of a Cybertruck. "The Cybertruck is a truck that hates the human inside." youtu.be/L3oO510dyVI?...

DOGE turbocharged the deficit, achieving no savings. The IRS reductions from funding and layoffs have likely resulted in about $861 bn in decreased revenue. The layoffs from actions like DOGE alone have likely resulted in $597.8 bn in decreased revenue over the 2026-2035.

NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate. This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

NEW: An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and racking up billions in fines. “In many ways fines have come to replace taxes."

It turns out that the DoorDash deliverer earlier at the White House was a Republican staged event. Sharon Simmons of Arkansas was used last year by the GOP to promote their “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

Ongoing scam is 13F scraping of stock changes -- ours are all Direct Index, and not opinions on individual stocks -- then falsifying quotes about it No, I have not endorsed #$GILD or any other stock NATIONAL TODAY are the latest grifters to be pushing this... ritholtz.com/2023/04/buy-...

It's my term for the SpaceX IPO. Musk has rolled Twitter and XAI into the space company because they aren't viable on their own... he is dumping his "bags" on the market to an unprecedented degree, hence the term BAGNAROK (Ragnarok is the apocalypse in Norse mythology)

This is FANTASTIC news. A street redesign that connects Grand Army Plaza to Prospect Park will be a huge win for a safer & a more livable Brooklyn. (1/2)

Happy 80th birthday to Al Green

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

Can't believe the combined efforts of Donald Trump, JD Vance, Vladimir Putin, Sergi Lavrov, Alice Weidel, Javier Milei, Marine Le Pen, Robert Fico, Andrej Babiš were unable to convince the people of Hungary to resist the efforts of a globalist cabal trying to sell out their country to foreigners

”Orbán is fighting the globalist elite.” His supporters: the globalist elite

EVs are winning. They're obviously going to win. The US is punching itself in the dick by clinging to ICE vehicles.

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

Germany’s former Vice Chancellor Habeck: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: Hungary just saw a stunning political shakeup. Opposition leader Péter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán personally called to congratulate him on his victory, marking the imminent end to Orbán’s long grip on power.

In France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

"New York’s climate plan calls for 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2035," "[O]nly 1,800 megawatts are set" In NY, "97 communities have enacted moratoriums on battery storage" Nuclear shutdowns, e.g. Indian Point, "removed a large chunk of carbon-free power." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/c...

You're a foreign official campaigning in a foreign election for one preferred side, JD. Think about it. Take all the time you need.

US intelligence indicates that China is preparing to provide Iran with air defense systems in a matter of weeks. Beijing is expected to ship shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles known as Man-Portable Air Defense Systems to Iran, according to the report.

By the way, this Canadian production is just excellent, and the host is a great presenter/explainer.

This won't kill this technology, it just makes pharma a sector dominated by European, Chinese and Indian corporations

ROSENBERG: “.. consumer sentiment at its lowest level since the series began in November 1952! .. undercutting the lows of all the prior eleven recessions .. the 1970s oil shock,.. the Asian financial crisis .. the tech wreck and terrorist attacks of 2001, the GFC of 2008-2009 .. the 2020 pandemic.”

“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18. Ask yourself why they won’t” Josh H.

Non-Catholic rightwing talking heads slowly starting to put a voice to anti-Catholicism advocacy.

We can be fairly certain Melania's statement last night was at least partly an attempt to stave off Amenda Ungaro's claims bc AFTER she made it, Paolo Zampolli told the Daily Mail he would back her story under oath. emptywheel.net/2026/04/09/m...

Elena Baronoff also introduced Trump to Paolo Zampolli. Who claims to have introduced Melania to Trump. And got her first H-1B visa pagesix.com/2019/07/11/p...

For people just catching up to the Amanda Ungaro / Paolo Zampolli story (she was an Epstein victim, then the mother of his child; he just had her deported by ICE), here's the bigger context: it was Zampolli who brought the Slovenian model Melania Knauss to the US and introduced her to Trump. 1/

Gasoline prices rose 21% in March from the prior month. That was the single largest monthly increase in gasoline prices since the series began in 1967

this is a wild story. this level of detail cannot come without many of the principles talking to the reporters. this reads to me a whole lot like vance and rubio - especially - trying to cut their losses and throw the president under the bus. it's like something from W's second term circa 2007.

Melania ratchets up her effort to Streisand Effect the Epstein files.

www.mirror.co.uk/sport/golf/m... don’t ya just love it take that you low life POS

Iran posted this. What a humiliation for Trump.

Liberals now have significant majorities on all three "Blue Wall" state supreme courts: 5-2 in Wisconsin, 5-2 in Pennsylvania, 6-1 in Michigan. Their latest win, tonight in Wisconsin, is a romp: Chris Taylor leads by about 20 points, having so far flipped 15+ counties that went for Trump in 2024.

About 450,000 New Yorkers are set to lose their health insurance July 1. Here’s what experts say you should do to prepare now.

This, in its own way, is as delusional and disastrous as his pledge to wipe out their civilization just yesterday.

Imagine if jill Biden did this

H5N1 is surging in New York urban wildlife, jumping from migratory birds to a growing number of mammal species. Experts warn that crowded live animal markets and global connectivity make the city a high-risk zone for potential spillover to humans. Cate Twining-Ward reports for #Mongabay.