More good people like this in charge, please.

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

Indeed—Elect more women!

Haha 🤣

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Trump called every reporter in the observable universe, who all dutifully repeated his updates about Iran, and all those updates have fallen apart in fewer than 36 hours. How long will legacy media keep doing this?

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

We are living in a timeline so dumb it's exhausting.

Drunk snowflake Kash is still crying.

Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong. Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT

Ossoff: I don’t know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week. Don’t worry—no one showed up. The stadium was empty.

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

I hope that Makary and Bhattacharya realize how humiliating it is for the heads of FDA and NIH to be shunted to the side so a testosterone-injected podcaster can get center stage. Grifting over science 🤦🏻‍♂️

"Over 20% of US women are on antidepressants" TRUMP: Do they work? "No, they don't"

New York Attorney General Letitia James in court ruling BLOCKING Nexstar—Tegna merger: “Consolidating hundreds of local TV stations under one corporate owner would mean higher prices and lower quality programming for consumers”

Pope Leo XIV said that it was “not in my interest at all” to debate U.S. President Donald Trump about the Iran war, but that he would continue preaching the Gospel message of peace.

They got to get everyone on something to help them cope with all this insanity.

NEW YORK (AP) — Air Canada will suspend service to New York’s JFK International airport over the summer as the war in Iran creates jet fuel shortages that have sent prices soaring. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/air-...

Trump: "When you see soldiers walking around with no legs, that was Iran that did that"

Trump: The Strait is fully open! Reality: We are now witnessing the first-ever complete shutdown of the Strait

There’s so much to say about the remarkable reporting from Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak—and I’ll say a lot of it in Monday’s newsletter. But the most striking thing about all of it is the role & behavior of Chief Justice Roberts. “Calling balls and strikes” this ain’t: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

“They’ll never close the Strait again” lasted a solid 10 hours. Masterful negotiation (read: market manipulation) from Trump

Iran Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh: The U.S. is trying to sabotage the path of the diplomatic effort through this diplomatic circus that they are adopting…Trump talks too much. He says contradictory things within the same statement

It’s so funny that they pubbed this the day before “john roberts invented the trump era shadow docket to make sure fossil fuel companies could keep killing you and make money doing it” bsky.app/profile/cris...

If only!

Someone really ought to write a book about the significance of #SCOTUS doing so many major things through unsigned and unexplained rulings, and how so much of it really is a recent phenomenon.

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

The president of the United States is bragging about being able to write his own signature.

The worst possible tactic you can use when negotiating a deal with a regime like Iran is to dunk on them in public during negotiations. Any knowledgeable seasoned diplomat knows this. But we have Mr. Art of the Deal who needs to feed his cult and the markets a steady diet of BS.

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

Time for more "Joe Rogan is abandoning Trump" takes.

You always have to pay attention to what is actually happening, not what Trump says is happening. Because Trump lies about everything. Too often media serves as Trump’s daily stenographer, passing along his propaganda verbatim.

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...

i’m such a stupid fucking mark for trying to “work” and “follow the law”

"Relations between Canada and the US have deteriorated since Trump launched a trade war shortly after retaking power in January 2025. The Canadian consumer boycott launched in response is costing the US more than $1bn every month in lost goods trade alone." /1

April 17, 2026

In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.

Q: Did Anthropic have a meeting at the White House? TRUMP: Who? Q: Anthropic. TRUMP: I have no idea. *walks away*

Huh.

Back when I was a prosecutor we used to call this — telling everyone you were probably going to lose — ”laying a mattress.”

Iran’s Parliament Speaker MB Ghalibaf accuses Trump of lying, saying he made “seven claims in one hour, all false.” He adds Iran—not the U.S.—will control the Strait of Hormuz, with ships requiring “Iranian authorization” to pass.

Rep Justin Jones made a statement entrance, walking into the Tennessee legislature with an"Abolish ICE" flag. No subtlety. No backing down.🔥🔥

BREAKING: I just got President Trump on the phone. He said his farts smell like roses today, everybody at the Trump hotel is coming up to him w/ tears in their eyes crying "Sir!", & Iran just agreed to become the 51st state w/ Don Jr as governor. Then the call ended. (Satire but you follow me ... )

The defense secretary is derisively comparing the media to a maligned group of rabbinic Jews, the FBI director is denying reports of drunkenness on the job, the vice president is in a two-front theological war with the pope and Erika Kirk, Donald Trump is still president, and gas is $4. Happy Friday

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

Right out in the open, Donald Trump is suing his own IRS to try to steal $10 BILLION taxpayer dollars. I just introduced a bill that would make this theft ILLEGAL.

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...