Nothing to worry about, just the Heritage Foundation publishing an article on how the Republican Congress can refuse to seat Democrats www.heritage.org/election-int...

BENNET: Do you agree that 89% of children who died from flu were unvaccinated? RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number BENNET: That is the exact number, Secretary Kennedy RFK Jr: *death growls* BENNET: You took down the HHS communications promoting the flu vaccine. Do you regret that?

Unbelievable. A GOP judge in VA just blocked certification of the congressional map referendum, calling the whole process unconstitutional. Apparently, the voters’ will is optional now. 🙄 Counting on a swift appeal to fix this mess. ⚖️

Most Americans already agree the president should be removed. The problem isn't opinion, it's delivery. #TheMajorityProject puts your voice on your representative's desk. Not in a comment section. Not in a petition database. On their desk. → signsofjustice.com/removehim

In 2019, Hegseth proudly told his Fox News co-hosts that he had not washed his hands in 10 years because "germs are not a real thing. I can't see them, therefore they are not real." If he can’t see the flu virus, why bother getting vaccinated?🙄

remember that atlantic article that pretended to be a first person account of a mother's loss of a child from measles? this is the real thing and it's brutal.

Per text, Albertsons is offering to share (aka sell) not just your grocery store purchases, but also your Rx history: “SAFEWAY RX: would you like to receive grocery discounts and other health and pharmacy offers directly to your phone? Read the HIPAA Marketing Authorization [linked]. Hell no!!!

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Trump 'tried to use nuclear codes but was stopped by military chief'

Trump on Tim Cook: “I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to ‘kiss my ass.’”

Crackers.

1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.

Are insider traders making millions from the Iran war? The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades on financial markets ahead of public announcements by President Trump, including during the Iran war.

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history. Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes. But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year. Trickle down hoax.

(Gift Article) In 2018, the Supreme Court put limits on the information the government could get from your cellphone provider. Now a very different Supreme Court will weigh in on unresolved questions that could have significant implications for all of our privacy. #Pinks #Privacy

Not enough people are talking about this. Hungary’s incoming PM has said that Viktor Orbán used Hungarian government funds to help finance CPAC, the flagship networking event for GOP candidates, members of Congress, and conservative media in this country.

This is exactly right. It’s not a dilemma though. It’s a line in the sand that will at once once collapse what remains of the rule of law and regulatory infrastructure designed to protect the public.

DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states. DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand. My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases. DOJ is now 0-5. My firm is 5-0. Lesson: When we fight we win.

Published today. Public comments due by May 20. They "estimated how the proposed regulation would impact specific fields of study... some programs, such as Humanities/Liberal Arts programs ... and Religious Studies programs... will fail at a higher rate relative to the baseline..."

These results demonstrate in stark terms how vital shots are and what’s at stake if policy changes interfere with Americans’ ability to vaccinate their kids. Read our full investigation:

This is part of a broader push the Trump admin began in term one (that Biden didn't roll back in any way). First each visa applicant had to disclose your social media handles. Now under Trump 2, the U.S. government demands that you make your social media accounts public so they can scan 'em.

Here’s the director of the NIH explicitly espousing populism over expertise as the means of determining priorities for federally science funding by leaning into the stupidest possible examples: ivermectin as cancer therapy .

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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

“As of today?” Sean Hannity left the Catholic Church in 2019. So phony and performative

Won’t any of the adults nearby take his phone (and his job) away?

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

🚨BREAKING: FBI director Kash Patel said that his agency will soon make arrests – maybe this week – in connection to the 2020 presidential election, which he claims was rigged. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I wrote a whole book about AI but I agree with this completely — and also the implication that there are countless other areas of research more important than AI.

Except they still depict him as a functional actor here. If this were anyone else it'd be a 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 story about how the President can't or won't focus on the war he started, which narrative might force the GOP to do something about it.

A 100-year-old woman died of hypothermia after being found outside her assisted living facility. A jury was asked whether the landlord — a publicly traded real estate company — deserved blame.

🧵 White House issued a Christian nationalist proclamation: "Together, we will honor Holy Scripture, renew our faith, usher in a historic resurgence of religion on American shores, and rededicate the United States as one Nation under God." Why is this dangerous? www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

This is another one of those ‘Oh, look at the robot dog doing backflips, isn’t it cute and a marvel of technology’ stories, meanwhile we all know these things are being built to hand them guns so they can be used as troops and cops.

Trump “even mused he should award himself the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor.” And that’s not even the craziest part of this excellent WSJ story about the paranoia and chaos that overshadow the White House right now. Free link: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

Gift link. "He is veering between belligerent and conciliatory approaches... 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—and telling advisers he wants to shift to other topics."

Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

People been trying to warn the public about this man for a decade and a half but her the fuck we still are

A private corporation is building a sloth zoo in Orlando & marketing it as a conservation experience supporting wild sloths. Except they are filling their zoo by kidnapping wild sloths from rainforests in Guyana. They have taken 69 sloths & more than 31 are already dead. It’s still moving forward

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

Why does learning drop when tech enters the classroom? Because computers train kids to skim. Dr. Horvath warns that we are currently redefining education to fit our tools rather than designing tools to fit how our children actually learn.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

Trump has mentioned the ballroom in public remarks on about 1/3 of the days in 2026. That's fewer than tariffs and Iran but about as often as health insurance and “affordability.” The project is broadly unpopular and advisors have urged him to focus on kitchen table issues. But he won't stop.

This is very compelling! Pete Buttigieg just gets it. The sheer humanity in this clip is why I like this man so much, everyone should watch it!!

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Imagine if we invested in childcare and health care like we do in war and weapons.