if you feel unwelcome making arguments for homophobia and racism at Yale, it’s because your arguments suck and you can’t handle that fact, because it would hurt your own self image too much to try actually making them and be humiliated in the attempt.

Am I slowly going mad or are all right wing leaders looking increasingly uncanny and deranged? Like Mar a Lago face for men.

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...

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

Cory Mills, who served in the Army from 1999 to 2003, spent a few months of that time in Iraq. Adam Ehrhardt, a medic who once served directly under Mills, told Mother Jones: “I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.”

Palantir's ImmigrationOS endangers democracy and the rule of law, according to a new law review paper from Fordham Law School’s Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler. In this week’s podcast, they break down the risks of AI-powered surveillance in immigration enforcement.

"catholic priest draws crowd of hundreds of thousands for rave in memory of the late holy father" is one of the most near future aesthetics events possible

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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...

a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure

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

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement. www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

one of the most insane aspects of all of this is that "a wide ranging government crackddown after a handful of newspaper cranks said insane things based on misunderstood cherrypicked papers" is considered illegitimate in every field of endeavor except this one

When you are totally not worried about your job because everything is totally cool with your boss…

one of the things that's going to need serious attention in woke 2 is corporate governance of publicly traded companies, and the duties of a board to the company and the company's shareholders and employees

A series of women’s suffrage murals that took root in Chicago is expanding across the United States. Three murals that pay tribute to the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, have gone up in the Loop.

Isgur is such a fucking hack. the case she’s referring to is one where the 5th Circuit entered a stay and it was appealed to SCOTUS. the case in the Times story involved the Court intervening to stay an EPA rule while a lower court was still adjudicating the issue.

Rich Grinnell ordered Kennedy Center staff to get rid of the art on display. Loathsome. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkuAr7AS/

Former law clerk at the Supreme Court here: Can confirm.

Censorship regime at Texas Tech is too extreme for (checks notes) the American Enterprise Institute. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Things down here are, to my knowledge, the most extreme example of higher education censorship currently in force. They’ve banned almost all content on sexual orientation and gender in teaching, and, in a startling low, grad student research. It’s unconscionable, offensive, and wrong.

Think of how much of this country's political and cultural destruction has been caused by a bunch of mediocre white dudes making up someone to get mad at

Joseph Schwartz’s case is the latest in a string of health care fraud pardons by Trump. The president also granted clemency to nursing home magnate Philip Esformes, convicted of a $1.3B scheme, and Judith Negron, convicted in a $200M fraud case.

Rest in Power to a major figure in the AIDS treatment activism in the 1980s, a time when many were indifferent or looking away.

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

“What most distinguishes the present Supreme Court is not merely its conservatism, or even its willingness to roll back settled rights. It is the degree to which the conservative majority appears severed from shared facts altogether.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

This is incredible. Also. Fuck RFK Jr.

Ossoff moggs JD

Owning the libs is a lifestyle

Thomas isn’t going anywhere voluntarily. www.nytimes.com/1993/11/27/u...

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.

At least some of those now insisting that there's no news in the leaked memos about how #SCOTUS decided the Clean Power Plan cases have previously responded to criticisms of unexplained shadow docket rulings by insisting that the Court engages in robust and rigorous dialogue behind the scenes. Hmm.

Pete Hegseth Nailed It. No Really. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pete-...

A lawyer on Twitter got so livid with me when I asked what the point of going to law school was if the 5th Circuit purposefully misinterprets the law to fit their ideology and I stand by that

Learn whatever you want about "law," it doesn't matter because GOP Justices blew up the entire process of deciding cases based on chats with rich friends and stuff they watched on TV. That was the entire basis on which SCOTUS switched to the shadow docket.

In his first appearance, Superman beat a domestic abuser so hard his sleeves disintegrated

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...

Seeing these compiled into one very long thread is good evidence that sex crimes are definitely a part of the party platform now. Gross Old Perverts.

Oh you can’t afford gas or groceries? No worries—let them eat culture war!

Let's all use this occasion to take a look at the many ways Tennessee Republicans have shown how much they value and respect the Traditional Nuclear Family™

Detaining children is itself abuse. I don’t want to imagine what these kids have been subjected to.

Federal officials have moved migrant children and adolescents out of a shelter in Westchester County, New York, after receiving reports that detainees there had been mistreated.

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rice. The US is increasingly sending deportees to countries where they have no connections. Shannon Airport is frequently used as a refuelling stop by aircraft involved in these operations, as reported by @gillianbrockell.com

The refrains of “Twitter isn’t real life” captured the tendency to see social media as a mirror of the real world rather than a tiny sliver of curated opinions but this entire admin seems to believe the opposite—posting is real and reality will bend to it. They say it, it becomes real.

WSJ furnishes us with a reminder of the massive sums the Saudis have "invested" in Trump-Kushner family businesses—starting with $2.2 bn in Kushner's fund—with no real expectation of return on their investment. The purpose of these arrangements has never been commercial. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Trump’s State Department closed its Global Engagement Center, which flagged foreign propaganda and provided advance U.S. messaging across the world. And now, we are scrambling to catch up. www.ms.now/news/banned-...