A new, telling sign emerges about GOP’s midterm fears #Texas www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

What if Michael Wolff was advising Jeffrey Epstein on how to remove his sexual criminal history from the internet? That would be wild... #EpsteinFiles

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).

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people. The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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...

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...

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

It's July 21, 1945...the war has ended in Europe but in the US there are already concerns about fascism re-emerging here. "Adopting the pattern of political organization successfully followed in Germany, Italy and Russia, American Nationalists have created a youth movement." The name highlighted...

Iran is broadcasting this VHF message: "Attention all ships, ​regarding the failure ⁠of the U.S. government to fulfil its commitment in the negotiation, Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz completely ​closed again.

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/

At this point court-packing isn't enough. We need to jail and disbar some SCOTUS justices.

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

NEW: Three rulings in the past week show the scope and breadth of efforts to fight anti-trans attacks. A Montana Supreme Court decision protecting birth certificates, a ruling on Trump's anti-trans prison policies, and final judgment vacating RFK Jr.'s anti-trans "declaration." Law Dork:

Some progressives & Democrats need to stop justifying refusing to vote or 3rd party voting by saying Biden "didn't do anything." He did a whole damn lot. Facts matter. And so does a young liberal SCOTUS justice who will protect civil rights for decades. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fa...

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

The FTC is dropping its appeal in the Media Matters case. They've withdrawn the civil investigative demand that is at the heart of the dispute (and presumably also want to avoid a D.C. Circuit decision). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

DO NOT SPREAD THIS FALSEHOOD. 2026, 2027, and 2028 will require all of us to up our media literacy game. Anonymous non-journalists touting major breaking news stories not reported or even hinted at anywhere else should be immediately blocked, not shared.

This company is out of control and its CEO appears in nearly every public appearance to be disturbed in some way. There are companies our government should have nothing to do with anymore—e.g., those associated with Elon Musk—and Palantir is on that list.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Seems bad

NEWS: Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO. Apple svp of hardware engineering John Ternus will take on the CEO role starting in Sept. @peard33.bsky.social and I break down Cook's career, his wins, his losses, his legacy as CEO, and what this big change means for Apple www.wired.com/story/tim-co...

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Border-area mass surveillance and its resulting harassment is something you'll hear about if you talk to any person that lives near the border or who has to cross it regularly.

Yet another Pinocchiogles lie 🤥 — Ogles survives on super pac support. Sadly for him his mask-off racism has dried up much of the cash. Raggedy Andy’s down bad in the money department. 😕 💰

Washington can only pay attention to a scandal or two at a time, which means in the Trump age there are all sorts of should-be-big-deal scandals that don’t get the oxygen or media focus that they should. I'll bet you've missed at least three of these: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-trump...

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

For our new issue, I wrote about Chomsky's friendship with Epstein and the political risks of his thinking on propaganda www.thedriftmag.com/the-judgment...

my angry post about this case this morning is now an angry article Roy Anthony Scott was in a mental health crisis and called 911 asking for help Cops came and killed him, & now the Court is casting doubt on whether the cops can be held accountable for his death ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...

Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson has revealed that Donald Trump wanted to use nuclear codes during a White House meeting on Saturday night. General Dan Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stood up and said NO This is the level of instability in the White House.

It's official: The House has sworn in Democratic Rep. Analilia Mejia.

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

This feels personal

Ukrainian drones have hit Novocherkassk, Rostov oblast. #explodey

NEW: Rep.-elect Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) will be sworn in as U.S. House member within the hour. Further narrowing GOP majority

Lori Chavez-DeRemer out as secretary of the US Department of Labor arkansasadvocate.com/2026/04/20/r...

Show me the money: Businesses line up for $166B in refunds from Trump’s illegal tariffs arkansasadvocate.com/2026/04/20/r...

Patel’s lawsuit has initially been assigned to Judge Emmet Sullivan, a senior status Clinton appointee.

BREAKING: John Ternus is succeeding Tim Cook as CEO of Apple, #$AAPL, with Cook assuming the role of executive chairman on September 1, per CNBC

Under-investigation Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer has quit.

A judge has temporarily blocked an Arkansas law set to take effect Tuesday that would have restricted minors’ social media access. Tech industry trade group NetChoice in January filed a lawsuit challenging Act 900 of 2025, which sought to amend a 2023 law found to be unconstitutional. #arpx

Via @arkansasadvocate.com: Four Republicans are seeking their party’s nomination to fill the late Rep. Stan Berry’s seat in a special election this summer. #arpx #arleg arkansasadvocate.com/briefs/4-rep...

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People who don’t understand much think the Epstein story is just about the sexual abuse of women & girls. No, it is a story about global influence, black mail, and unfettered capitalism. If you want to understand how our economies work you have your understand the Epstein files. That’s my point.

ICE has been purchasing people’s addresses, car registrations, and ethnicity details from data broker Thomson Reuters. Internal whistleblowers say company databases were used to track license plates and more in Minnesota this January. www.404media.co/how-thomson-...

Likewise, Trump’s executive order requiring the USPS to refuse to deliver some ballots based on merged DHS and Social Security data immediately drew lawsuits from the Democratic Party, the NAACP, and several states. www.npr.org/2026/03/31/n...

Salmon exposed to cocaine and its byproduct swam farther than unexposed fish, raising alarms about drug pollution in aquatic ecosystems.

can he teleport tho www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

NEW: How exactly has Alex Jones avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes? I wrote about it here, and spoke to Chris Mattei, an attorney for some of the families, and Lenny Pozner, the father of the youngest child who died at Sandy Hook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In that case, if Trump continues with his war, he will be violating the War Power Resolution—in addition to usurping Congress's authority under the U.S. Constitution.

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