Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)

The president once said he wanted to kill warrantless electronic spying. So much for that.

I have owned this book since it came out and have been embarrassed that I never quite got around to reading it. I finally did and it was just incredible The mix of murder and architecture cannot be beat!!! #thedevilinthewhitecity by #eriklarson

Good for him but I am tired of learning about all the ways a 41-year-old candidate for U.S. Senate supposedly has a lot more growing and learning to do. Maybe do that before the Senate? And maybe try out a lower office before then? Or maybe we just watch him blossom into another Sinema/Fetterman.

Wyden urges Democrats to back FISA privacy amendments

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Yup, this comment makes me think of Maria Hammack's amazing research into Silvia Webber and her husband who ran a ferry east of Austin on the Colorado and helped runaway slaves escape to Mexico. When bigotry against them became too fierce, they moved to the Rio Grande and did the same thing.

more people should be paying attention to the fact that the city of houston passed a policy trying to limit cooperation with ICE and now Greg Abbott is threatening to cut the city's state funding if city council doesn't undo it. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/14/h...

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to reunite with long-lost love

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

DHS is paying local police to do immigration enforcement for them; local officials are paid to investigate/arrest people for suspected immigration violations. There are "huge financial incentives" to do this 9 Minnesota sheriff's offices & PDs are participating themarshallproject.org/2026/04/11/t...

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Colfax Massacre. Here is a reflection on how it has been misremembered. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

If you want to know more, @transnews.network is pretty much the only news org taking the Catholic Church's total trans healthcare ban and its devastating impacts seriously. In-depth coverage here: transnews.network/p/it-s-a-nig... And here: transnews.network/p/u-s-cathol...

The nice thing about Amazon threatening to brick my 2012 Kindle is that I’m free now. They’re taking away my Kindle. I don’t have to get a new one. I can get another e-book reader for all my library loans. It’s very liberating.

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

Blazing Saddles was shot on the same set (apart from the shop names, of course) as Westworld.

This reporting is extremely thorough and the allegations are horrific. Swalwell’s attorney is trying to undermine this woman’s credibility by saying she kept working for him afterward. It’s tired victim-blaming rhetoric. She was 21 when it started. I believe her and I hope she is okay.

In the 20th century the United States made a depressing number of Faustian alliances with right-wing dictators it viewed as a bulwark against an equally authoritarian Soviet empire. We’re recapitulating that ugly history with Orban, apparently as a bulwark against… liberal democracy.

But it does highlight how much pre-Trump American political differences, however fierce, took place in the context of a shared commitment to some basic liberal-democratic values. Inshallah some of that sticks for a while if and when the horrors subside.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz made an unannounced visit to the Everglades concentration camp where she describes the inhumane conditions she witnessed.

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

The federal government is literally striking words from official record based on them being too “woke” and pundits are arguing if the wokeness is what went too far

I have an ex who for several summers running joined an archeological dig excavating sites around Petra. Soooo jealous of that life experience.

This man is still serving in Congress with the support of Mike Johnson.

Awful. So awful. So needlessly, horribly cruel.

perfect, just what i was looking for

ICE tackled a rape victim outside a courthouse after testifying. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Revisiting this thread after I had to reassure a housemate that Ohio had not banned presenting as trans in public. Promoters of panic slop are at best making people despair and at worst ruining lives.

I try to avoid AI for the obvious reasons, but it did blow my mind that I can pull handwritten primary source texts written in 16th century Spanish and have them deciphered in less than 5 minutes. That is huge for a junior high teacher trying to develop rigorous activities for her students.

Trump badly wants Northern Kentucky Republicans to eject Rep. Thomas Massie in next month’s primary and nominate Ed Gallrein. But you wouldn’t know that from Massie’s ads declaring, “Woke Eddie Gallrein abandoned President Trump’s Republican Party, a complete dereliction of his MAGA duty.”

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

i just think Watering Flowers While Black should not be an arrestable offense nor do i think this should be controversial ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

“This is not about turning anyone away.” OK but people are very literally being turned away.

New - LGBTQ+ fans and women (especially women of color) have been the WNBA's biggest fans. So, in a city as diverse as Houston, I spoke to a few people ready to embrace the return of the Houston Comets: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

You know, Tom Cotton probably should’ve watched what happened next in “The Dark Knight” before tweeting this.

Prosecutors often historically struck jurors by race hoping to exclude jurors who distrust police. That's unlawful now, but it raises the question: why should excluding the police-skeptical be considered a legitimate objective in the first place? [Matthew Cavedon, Cato on Pitchford v. Cain]

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

If this regime is planning on kicking their trans eradication efforts into high gear, elevating Todd Blanche and Andrew Bailey into the highest echelons of power would be a giant neon warning sign that's about to happen.

One indication of congressional atrophy is that people turn to SCOTUS for the thing we should but don't get from Congress: an actual public debate on an important policy issue. Which of course isn't supposed to be a legislative debate, but we've stopped having any actual legislative debates.

Between the conversion therapy ruling and the efforts to ban kids from the internet to “protect them” from “transgender influence,” we’re right back in a culture of violently enforced closeting. And the data around self-identifying as trans and queer already reflects this

Never thought I’d see the President of the United States threatening to commit blatant war crimes on social media, but here we are.

Doing the math, as of 3/29/26, Trump has spent 24.83% of his second term visiting the golf course. So one quarter of his days.

im sorry to the nutmeggers i know but i'm so stoked for this

All-around sickening behavior by these two officers. They're as much responsible for what happened to this kid as ICE is. And misusing the word of God to justify their cruelty to boot.

I see we're doing "such-and-such protest accomplished nothing" discourse. Every time I see someone saying "Well, that protest accomplished nothing, we are still here and little has changed" my answer is always to glance at the timeline for women's suffrage and say, "nothing has changed YET."

Was Sam Houston's signature a little much? Sure. But yours could be a little more.

adult catholic converts continue to be embarrassing

👏🏼The Choctaw Nation has purchased a warehouse in Oklahoma that ICE was trying to buy and use as a detention center. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/choctaw-na...