A large part of it is public officials feel like if people might experience joy however short lived on their watch it should come with sky high user fees & imminent criminalization. that’s alongside the rentiers who think every event is underpriced no matter how expensive it is

Under the Trump-Miller white nationalist agenda, DHS has refused to abide by the protections that DACA provides to Dreamers. Despite the deceptive data provided to Congress, it is clear that DACA recipients are at great risk.

The mandate from Trump and Miller is clear: Our neighbors will continue to be terrorized, detention will continue to be unsafe, and fascists will continue to try to profit from our pain. We must abolish ICE and dismantle DHS.

One detail that got cut for space — the husband was her ride to court (they’re both free on bond) but the judge barred him from the building out of concern his presence would intimidate witnesses.

"Despite the defense’s blame-the-husband strategy, the day of the verdict, Lubna walked out of the court to meet her husband, who was waiting to drive her home." How...

"At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, [CJ John Roberts] acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis." OTOH, CJ enabled Trump's worst impulses. John Roberts: the most evil villain in recent history.

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

Oh. Who could have predicted? 🙄 'Worse than the pandemic': Red state restaurants now suffering from Trump's ICE crackdown

Traveling in the time of unnecessary war and airline strikes: Got an email from Air India that my FRA-DEL-BLR flights were cancelled. They rebooked me on a FRA-BOM-BLR itinerary - shorter flights but much longer (8-10 hour) layovers. There's a direct FRA-BLR flight leaving shortly.🤦🏾‍♂️

I normally don’t like hospital shows (even soured on ER when it got too sudsy) but The Pitt hits it right.

JFC

Meanwhile, the EU should really mind their own business. But no, the nanny state will have their way. I am sure nothing bad will happen to citizen and visitor data stored in these registries.

This administration, making life harder for Americans by building a "papers, please!" state.

Cosmopolitanism is hardly new. In late Ottoman Constantinople, large populations of Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Sephardic Jews, Arabs, and Balkan Christians lived together. But Stuart Hall nailed it in the 90s when he said "The capacity to live with difference is the coming question of the 21st cent."

"the rest of the world now thinks the U.S. is at most four years away from potentially reneging on any agreement"

Lee Jae-myung drawing parallels between Palestine and the colonial occupation of Korea by Japan has started shit abroad and afaict resonated with the party and the public www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Solar manufacturing capacity is approx double demand. Same with wind nacelles and batteries. The problem with Chinese manufacturing is not overcapacity! It's UNDERDEMAND. But how will it look as 2 x big fossil fuel supply shocks sink in?

The Trump administration including their handpicked immigration officials (who are not real judges) continues to attack people for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Electrification with renewables seems to be the global response to the actions of the most oil & gas-friendly US government. Very interesting compilation.

I’ve introduced Articles of Impeachment against Pete Hegseth for violating his oath, endangering U.S. servicemembers, and committing war crimes, including attacks on civilians and a girls’ school in Minab, Iran. Only Congress can declare war; his actions demand immediate removal.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) just filed six articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of repeatedly violating his oath to the Constitution. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

And here is DOJ atty Drew Ensign admitting on 3/21/26, six days after Judge Boasberg issued the order in question, that the order was perfectly understood—and conveyed to superiors. 4/4-end

Some notes: Judge Rao (Trump) implies in fn 6 that Judge Boasberg defied a 2-1 order she joined. But Rao omits that 6 of 11 DC Circuit judges later opined that Boasberg was free to resume fact-finding about alleged contempt by DOJ/DHS. At right, Judge Childs (Obama) corrects Rao's omission. 1/4

The Onion's Exclusive Interview With Pope Leo XIV - must read.

Vought and Arrington lean into the OBBBA safety net cuts, calling them historic. It is true that they were historic. They were the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, three times bigger than Reagan's cuts, which shouldn't be possible. Kicks 10 million people off their insurance.

Meat and potatoes, Spanish style.

It's funny to consider that Geneva is worried about air pollution.

If only this was true.

In the #TownAir project, we are currently investigating air pollution in Ennis, Co. Clare. Our low cost sensor network has identified pollution hotspots and provides the local authority with actionable information to drive improvements in air quality and public health. share.google/1NDhvHqJi1tR...

This is a good, strong statement.

“I am sitting in a region which is one of the poorest,” Singh said, “and we are seeing how climate change is eroding the development gains we have made over the past years and decades.” Lomborg and Bessent ignore what the folks they purportedly care about actually say.

This is Missy. She escaped from her backyard and ran straight to daycare, where she had a spa day and got to play with her boyfriend. Lessons were learned, but not the ones her parents probably hoped. 13/10 (TT: spotsplaceyqr)

Staying in Annemasse for a meeting in Geneva. Things I like: regular trains, cheap. Buying gluten-free foods from the nearby Carrefour. Cheap yet decent/good wine. Things I could do without: everpresent smoking outdoors.

People hear "judge" and they assume judicial independence. But the Trump administration has hacked away at immigration judges independence to the point that they can expect to be fired if they don't do the Trump administration's bidding. And the Supreme Court has blessed this loss of autonomy.

LMAO

Maybe we should not have threatened the Pope.

That story is even worse than I remembered: www.npr.org/sections/cor...

Most food consumed in the US is already produced here. We were a net ag exporter for 60 years & only since 2019 net importer, bc we like access to tropical products & off-season produce. Also, we waste ~40% of the food we produce, and use the majority of our corn & soy for animal feed and biofuels.

US Agrees To Release Frozen Iranian Assets In Qatar, Other Banks: Report

Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs If, and only if, it would NOT at all be a financial hardship, and you find what I do valuable ⤵️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

This 🧵 on the South Korean President's criticism of Israel's actions... Also shows that nukes or not, Iran still holds a vital card.

Some context: South Korean President Lee Jae-myung shared a video on his personal X account depicting an Israeli soldier killing a Palestinian child. While calling for verification of the footage, he criticized acts of murder during wartime.

Meanwhile, evangelical leaders allied with Trump are not “concerned about his profanity-laced Easter Sunday post that threatened war crimes against Iran”: baptistnews.com/article/grah...

JD's kiss of death.

Like they’re literally having a conference call today to talk through the mechanism for impeachment, Bluesky stop falling for Dem rage bait challenge level impossible

I am surprised the 60-foot statue at the top isn't Jesus or Trump. What's this winged Liberty supposed to be.

Here is a law professor whose opinions I am told I should respect (1) maligning other scholars by outright misrepresenting their work and (2) uncritically endorsing a blog post that confuses a dissent with a majority opinion when discussing the most important precedent on point. Nope.

Hamburger tries to distinguish Wong Kim Ark on the fact that it was stipulated that his parents were domiciled here and intended to remain. But that ALSO describes millions of undocumented immigrants, many who have pending visa petitions evincing an intent to permanently remain.