I assume that Swalwell is currently on the phone being told exactly how the end of his political life is going to go and will exit either tonight or tomorrow. Longer than that and it's going to get much uglier for him.

I’m frequently flabbergasted by how politicians will just plow forward, knowing what they’ve got in their past (or present), just hoping it somehow doesn’t come out. Swalwell now, but like, John Edwards had a secret second family while his wife was dying of cancer! People were gonna find out!

The White House is so committed to punishing the Indiana Republicans who voted against gerrymandering in December that they’re spending time to pressure an unknown state senate candidate to drop out to not divide the anti-incumbent vote.

*US clumsily opens bag* *contents spill everywhere* Iran:

“Made in jest?” Corporate media hasn’t learned a goddamn thing. 🤦‍♂️

Trump promising his staff mass pardons before he leaves office means he is planning for them to commit a lot of crimes and he wants to enable them all. This is not a government. This is a mob.

That's enough of him. www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...

Here's How To Counter Trump's $10 Billion Lawsuit Against the IRS https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-counter-trumps-10-billion

Trump isn't just suing the IRS. He's waging a war on it. His regime has... -Shut down the IRS's Direct File program, a huge gift to the tax prep industry -Gutted IRS staff, leaving fewer employees to assist taxpayers -Deprioritized federal tax prosecutions, letting tax cheats off the hook

"I'm just gonna say it, Fuck Trump" "I'd much rather everyone made music as opposed to going and beating the shit out of each other" — Hans Zimmer

We just sent humans around the Moon and back. Just imagine what we could achieve as a species if all our leaders believed in science.

As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

Science is good. We should fund it.

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

*Cries in USA

I have read the San Francisco Chronicle’s account and I am deeply distressed by its allegations. This woman was brave to come forward, and we should take her story seriously. I am withdrawing my endorsement immediately, and believe that he should withdraw from the race.

"Dawn choruses are getting shorter and the oceans echo with the din of transcontinental shipping and deep-sea mining. We are, Bunting notes in the poem’s coda, 'long earsick'; and yet, 'a strong song tows us,' still." On the 1966 Poem That Warns of the Destruction of Our Soundscapes:

It's notable to me that Swalwell's backers and supporters are INSTANTLY fleeing him, not fooling around with "this is troubling let's see." It makes me wonder whether he already had a bad rep -- whether this was instantly credible to people familiar with him.

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

This vulgar monument to egocentrism. It looks like Godzilla shat third-rate Vegas casino architecture.

HHS guidelines for vaccine approval now contains language about the primacy of avoiding "vaccine harm" over the efficacy of the vaccine in saving lives. Shorter: "Better a thousand people drown in their own pus and vomit than one get a rash from an adjuvant." www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

trump out here talking about Iran not having the cards when they are the ones holding a strait.

The reason it feels hard to get ahead right now is because it's hard to get ahead right now. Wages are barely keeping up with prices, and prices are just starting to heat up.

This flew under the radar: Trump's new acting AG Todd Blanche shut down major DOJ investigations into crypto companies, dealers, and exchanges as Pam Bondi's second-in-command — all while holding at least $159,000 in crypto assets himself. The fox is guarding the hen house.

In an active lawsuit against the FDA, the state of Missouri is arguing that access to the abortion drug mifepristone has reduced teen birth rates, thereby harming its political representation in Congress. It’s an argument being made in federal court not just on Fox

Some websites in Canda are selling unauthorized abortion pills from India by mail and in person, which can pose health risks. The services are targeting newcomers, uninsured people, and those with low health-care literacy. Legitimate pills are FREE in Canada with a prescription.

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

The University of Michigan has been measuring consumer sentiment since 1952. We just got the first Iran-afflicted measure for April, and it's at the lowest level ever recorded.

This Presidency is a criminal enterprise masquerading as an executive branch.

If you’re a working at the White House and Trump “guaranteed “ you a pardon for the work he is asking you to do… you are committing crimes .

The #Artemis II livestream continues to be the best thing on the internet. 😍 The return-to-Earth live coverage begins at 6:30pm Eastern (in about 90 minutes) with splashdown in the Pacific scheduled for 8:07pm Eastern. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means?

They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno

I swear, every single time I hear news about the Democratic candidates running for governor in California it's just like

🚨 Brad Lander announces that he opposes the giving away of Iron Dome munitions to Israel for free, and says that the U.S "need to follow the Leahy Law and condition all of our foreign policy aid on human rights and international law compliance,”.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

DO IT

Buried in Asheville city council's agenda for April 14 meeting is $1.1 million from the feds to massively ramp up APD surveillance of the public with a "real time intelligence center." At a time when even plenty of local governments are scaling back surveillance, #avlgov is escalating... 🧵 #avlnews

"What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth—about his own failings, about the reality of the world around them, and most importantly about themselves." Fascinating intervention here:

Artemis reentry will be 5:07 pacific time

Rahm Emanuel is so desperate to get the Democratic establishment to support his Presidential fantasies that he just got a totenkopf tattoo and posted a comment to Reddit about how sexual harassment is made up

Like I said www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... bsky.app/profile/wash...

Amazon wants all the control of an employer without any of the responsibility. It’s time to pass the Delivery Protection Act to say goodbye to Amazon’s union busting loopholes.

What will it take to turn California's Humboldt Bay into a first-of-its-kind offshore wind assembly hub? The work is already getting started at the historic logging port. Great story by @hayleysmith.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

Recent reporting from the Financial Times reveals it was President Trump, not the Iranian government, who was begging for a ceasefire as early as March 21, when he first threatened to bomb Iran’s power plants. trib.al/gvAaGzq

Read Ed Blum's lawsuit against the Congressional Black Caucus's scholarship program He's suing under one of the nation's very first civil rights laws and, wouldn't you know it, he never actually quotes the whole statute There's a reason for that! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.