It is genuinely incomprehensible to me how people who have devoted their lives & careers to education can decide it no longer matters whether high school graduates are capable of reading an entire book.

I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

I said it before and I'll say it again: Giving a pack of Epstein associates a comprehensive list of all children in the country with home address and school listed, sortable by various traits that indicate vulnerability to exploitation, is the literal diametric opposite of keeping kids safe.

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

Inquiring minds want to know

By a 6–3 vote, and with no opinion, the Supreme Court throws out a lower court decision denying qualified immunity who killed an unarmed, mentally ill man by using "bodyweight force" to restrain him. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Are the tech bros okay? No. No, they are definitely not. www.wsj.com/tech/silicon...

The Opus Dei majority is all in for a murder or two by regime forces, and giving the murderers total immunity, but they see no need to explain why. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Don’t be fooled. Hannity is merely confirming the obvious: his politics mattered more than his faith.

🚨 SEVEN URGENT ACTIONS TODAY NEW: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... NEW: Demand Acting AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files: tinyurl.com/2uc9vca9 Impeach Trump! tinyurl.com/52sw9s2d Impeach Pete Hegseth! tinyurl.com/28dc23a6

The short version: Talks are happening “tomorrow evening” in Islamabad, and if they fall apart Trump’s threatening war crimes again. He toned down the wording this time, not the intent.

We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.

Donald Trump says that he’s Jesus. Some liberal critics disagree.

The 25th Amendment already gives Congress the tool to remove Trump. Raskin’s bill would finally create the independent commission to make it happen. This is one more real shot to protect the country. Tell Congress to pass it.

i was just saying to a friend a few days ago that trump's public opinion collapse opens up the field of possibilities in ways that are truly unpredictable. it is one thing for a president to be this popular at the *end* of their turn, but not even two years in?

Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote. Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California. techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...

Big Downfall energy in today’s WSJ “At the same time, the president sometimes loses focus, spending time on the details of his plans for the White House ballroom or on midterm fundraisers”

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

I have not been paying enough attention to Ossoff for 2028 (he's Georgia's 1st Jewish senator, he was raised as a Reform Jew, just like me!)....this is good 👇

tRump's Iran war spikes oil prices, then suspiciously timed $1B+ trades (minutes before ceasefires & announcements) rake in massive profits for insiders. Who knew the script? War for the wealthy—chaos & cash for cronies while families pay at the pump. mcsp.short.gy/yHoC

Trump's Pentagon now run by Cerberus execs tied to the firm that trained Khashoggi’s Saudi killers. Blood money flows: insiders get DoD power & contracts while Trump cozies up to MBS. No accountability for murder—just more arms deals & crony grift. mcsp.short.gy/DOOh

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Grenell instructed me to “get rid of” the center’s permanent art collection. New art to adorn the building’s walls after its renovation, I was taken aback. If the donors of the works didn’t pay for their removal, he said, we could auction or give them away. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.

Eyal Weizman: "The most systematic destruction was caused by D9 bulldozers made by the US company Caterpillar. These giant armored machines stabbed their blades into the ground, churning up fields, felling orchards, flattening homes, tearing through roads and ploughing through cemeteries."

Apartheid man: you can take Peter Andreas Thiel out of apartheid era South Africa, but you can't take apartheid era South Africa out of Peter Andreas Thiel. He's that kind of dude.

We carry a responsibility to prove that government is worthy of the people it serves. A week ago, we marked our first 100 days. We will work every day to honor the promises we made to New Yorkers — and to fulfill the mission of the movement that brought us here.

Palantir repeating a central myth behind speculative whiteness: white, western culture produces the high-tech future; other cultures regress into the past.

One could liken this to Kissinger's "madman" theory of statecraft, except with an actual madman.

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

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/

Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater. Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

A step away from asking the Russians to investigate their own influence operations in the US. The guiding principle of Trump policy is that Russian ops are good because they support him personally. The guiding principle of Russian policy is that Trump is good because he wrecks the US & helps Russia.

Yes, when you are finally out of office, you incompetent and ridiculously stupid buffoon.

Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms (🧵 1/3) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

"Fascism cannot be appeased; this is a core assertion of resistance liberalism." Good overview here of the new anti-Trump counter-mobilization and the deeper forces driving it:

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.

Netanyahu has removed 40 thousand homes in Lebanon in less than a month . This war criminal needs to be brought to final Justice.

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.

"Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice … mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

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.

The Art of Pretending there’s a Deal

I say this a lot but today’s pod is worth your time. It’s with Josh Owens who worked for Alex Jones/Infowars for 4 years in the 2010s. It’s a conversation about how the conspiracy machine works from inside, about radicalization and, crucially, about the hard, unscalable work of deradicalization

Among a mountain of bad-faith factual claims and frivolous constitutional arguments, Eastman's ultimate plan was for VP Pence (or Sen. Grassley) to *knowingly violate the Electoral Count Act* and let SCOTUS block any subsequent lawsuits on political question grounds. Just shit from start to finish.