This has been an open secret for years among everyone at Harvard Law but we're not supposed to acknowledge it officially. It's completely perverting the entire profession and ensuring ideological capture.

To adapt the FDA language... "This encounter has not been evaluated by anyone. This PR stunt is not intended to depict, simulate, mimic, or reproduce any actual delivery.”

Treasury is holding thousands of Epstein‑related financial records — including overseas payments from Epstein routed through Russian banks Treasury refuses to release them to Congress

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson slams Supreme Court’s emergency docket actions

A Bittersweet 20th Birthday for Romneycare #Trump

A major U.S. Postal Service union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail, stepping into a politically charged debate as skepticism about mail-in ballots has been raised by President Donald Trump and others. https://to.pbs.org/4cJkKaQ

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

Interesting that Sharon Simmons, the Door Dasher from Arkansas at the White House, is also Sharon Simmons from Nevada that testified at a GOP Ways and Means field hearing about trumps ‘big beautiful bill’ in Nevada last year.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.

Big news: Gov. Spanberger signs bill making Virginia 18th state + DC to join National Popular Vote Interstate Compact States in compact now total 222 electoral votes, 48 shy of 270 needed for popular vote plan to go into effect www.npr.org/2026/04/14/n...

Unexplained futures trading spikes hit 15 minutes before Trump's Iran announcement. S&P surged 2.5%, oil dropped 6%. His SEC won't investigate. www.theunpopulist.net/p/administra...

I blame his voters. I blame every Republican in office. I blame every coward in media, business, academia, and politics who bent the knee. They taught him there are no consequences. They taught him he deserves obedience. They taught him he should be worshipped.

Anticipating that Kennedy will announce a relaxation of restriction on some types of “peptides.” Many promise miracle cures with no evidence or safety data. Classic snake oil. Some peptides are well known, like Insulin. They are mainstream and safe. Don’t take his word for it. Ask your provider!

“I made the visit deliberately in order to be in a position to give firsthand evidence if ever…there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’” ~Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower on his 4/12/1945 tour of the Nazis’ Ohrdruf concentration camp. Image: Eisenhower Pres. Library.

I thought impeaching Trump and convicting him in the Senate was a pipe dream. Not anymore. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-impeach-the-bastard-for-real

A grandmother forced to work to pay for her husband’s cancer treatment delivers food to a President covering his office in gold. Trump’s America. Burn it all down. (📸 Getty Images)

EVERYONE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THIS: Conflict of interest doesn’t even begin to cover it. Chad Bianco really seized over 650,000 ballots based on conspiracy theories that don’t even hold up to basic scrutiny. No credible fraud. No real discrepancy. 🧵

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

Pingba Farm in China, the world's largest cherry blossom base, spans 2,200+ football fields and 700,000 trees. It started 20 years ago from Japanese saplings. Its peak bloom is in March-April. It is often labeled a "pink ocean". The site was once a prison labor camp.

Hillary Clinton: "I think our allies believe we've lost our minds because they wake up in the morning like we do and see the rants from the president making no sense half the time"

This Truth Social post will in the not-too-distant future serve as an illustration of Narcissistic Personality Disorder in college textbooks for courses in Abnormal Psychology in all languages the world over.

"Okay, you're getting too upset, again. Let's go back, have some applesauce and forget about you being Jesus.."

Trump finally releases his healthcare plan.

Again, no other president in history has been treated by the national political press with such deference and shrugs. It should be wall-to-wall front page, breaking news that the U.S. president is either deliberately attacking the Catholic Church while positioning himself as Jesus, or he is unwell.

To run knowing all this—even the most self-deluded version of it—could come out is the kind of adrenaline-junkie, risk-taking behavior we need a lot less of in politics. We also need a lot less SA, to state the obvious.

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

They’re the power couple of record-breaking low approval ratings. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

I know we’re all shocked that man conceded without sending sex criminals to assault police and shit in the halls of a capitol building.

78% of farming communities voted for Trump. 2/3rds of active duty and veterans voted for Trump. They must have thought that the suffering was going to be somebody else? #FAFO

Silencing of women--not just treating Piker as the sole popular influencer (somehow @hcrichardson.bsky.social always gets ignored)--but even leaving out El-Sayed opponent Mallory McMorrow's comments abt Piker seems to take some acrobatics. "Talk to everyone," Ezra says, while talking only to men.

I think the U.S. will be the LAST country in the world to introduce universal healthcare. Because, our country prioritizes GREED. It is the "secret sauce" that fuels the economy. SMDH

Time for the birth of terror. Me

Our legal system has repeatedly validated his strategy of breaking the law first and then claiming he is a victim of the problem he created while breaking the law. And time and time again, they allow him to be a victim of his own crimes.

None of these would be valid. No amount of exaggeration about the pardon power can overcome the express mandate to the President in Art II, Sec 3: "He shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." He can't pardon people for breaking the law on his behalf. Contrary arguments are invalid.

Are journalists taking too soft an approach to Trump's hard rhetoric? CBC Radio’s Brent Bambury asked me that question and I answered in the emphatic affirmative. Give it a listen. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-14-day-6/clip/16207998-are-journalists-taking-soft-approach-trumps-hard-rhetoric

The government committed suicide and nobody with legitimate power appears interested in doing anything to revive it. We need to be planning what the next republics will look like, as it grows ever more unlikely this one will ever be salvageable.

LIKING 👇 JOHN FUGELSANG.....

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

(🚨) BREAKING: Vance Lied to World; In Fact, Trump White House Saw, Gave Input On and Edited Pakistani Ceasefire Document Pre-Publication—and It Clearly Included a Ceasefire in Lebanon This confirms Netanyahu told Trump to fuck himself and Trump assented. The mystery over what he has on Trump grows.

Judicial neutrality wasn’t a pose for many conservatives—but Samuel Alito has become ever more vocal about his personal leanings, Peter S. Canellos argues:

President Trump's administration this week acknowledged it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe into New York's Medicaid program, a glaring mistake that undercuts a federal campaign to tackle waste, mostly in Democratic-led states. https://to.pbs.org/4tC4TjX

You know what Melania Trump didn't release/address yesterday? Her immigration records In July 2016 -- 10 years ago -- Trump promised to hold a presser & release Melania's immigration records after the RNC. Then in Aug 2016 he told CNN he would release in a couple of weeks IT HAS NEVER HAPPENED

I'd be willing to be that someday we find out this is either a member of the Trump family, or Trump is getting a kickback from it.

I wrote a short post-mortem on the Bluesky outage we had on Monday. First time using pckt, it was a really nice experience tbh! pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...

In case it isn't already obvious, pushing teenagers to have babies is about ✅pedophilia ✅misogyny, control and raping women ✅white supremacy, the "Great Replacement" theory and the "dangers" of the "low white birth rate"

Washington County School Board member Keith Ervin (Republican) made ABC world news tonight for saying “God you’re hot” to a student👇🏽😕 He is still on the school board. They only censured him. His Democratic opponent is Mary Grace Wooten: www.facebook.com/share/17JBzJ...

The story of our age is billionaire narcissist men who are widely known to be frauds or creeps within their industries but are allowed to destroy the world in plain sight because American media & business view rich confidently-speaking white men through an infinitely-forgiving lens of merit.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Energy prices that spiked due to war in Iran push inflation to the biggest increase in four years.