Read this, too, Ezra Klein. @espiers.bsky.social writes: "It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins 'Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.'” Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The attack on Charlie Kirk is horrifying. Political violence has no place in this country and should never become the norm. I’m sending my sympathies to his family and friends at this time.

I hope Charlie Kirk recovers quickly then, like James Brady, uses his megaphone to help advocate for common sense limits on firearms.

Trump suggests he’s going to take tonight’s win in the courts and potentially deploy the National Guard to other cities. “…but this is much bigger than Gavin, because all over the United States, if our Cities, and our people, need protection, we are the ones to give it to them…”

Los Angeles

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

OK so the federal government has effectively declared war on California. Noem states, “We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate (Los Angeles) from (its) leadership.” The federal government decides who will govern a city, and will use the military to enforce. Sounds like fascism to me.

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

Hard-hitting analysis from NYT. As you can see from the diagram, legal impediments are a weak gray box that can be defeated by a strong orange arrow and bold typeface Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

The stakes are growing higher for our constitutional republic.

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

Among the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against the Crown was “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences.”

FCC Chair Brendan Carr sports a gold Trump-head lapel pin. Members of Trump’s cabinet, along with Congresspeople and Senators, are being instructed to wear a tribute to their inglorious, convicted-felon leader.

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

It's actually pretty wild that just one guy can collapse the global economy. Seems like a bad system!

Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."

I made this as a goof a few weeks ago, and thought I may as well release it into the world. Fare thee well, Lowly Yaldabaoth!

DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024. Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.

Nothing to see here—just a sitting U.S. president pumping his shitcoin, after countless Americans have already lost billions investing in it. The most corrupt president in history, by far

I asked ChatGPT to create an updated version of the Declaration of Independence. Holy sh*t: perma.cc/B7T3-Q8C3 What about public readings of this genius text everywhere?

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Just in case anyone was wondering about the Fifth Amendment’s due process protections and if they apply to noncitizens. constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay....

The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and (…) the URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “deimedal.”

I asked Schumer about this last night and his answer was basically that they’re wrong.

Primary every Democrat who votes for cloture. We voted for you to stop Trump, not make his job easier while pretending you're the resistance.

Today EPA chief Lee Zeldin announced that the agency is rolling back 31 regulations. He's taking aim at mercury, soot, and toxic pollution restrictions, and federal protection of wetlands. The EPA will also rewrite rules limiting pollution from fossil-fuel plants and cars, and more.

Trump’s FBI (Kash Patel) is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming they’re “defrauding” the government.

These get confused with one another. Journalism is a social practice: reporting the news. The Media is the attention business. The product is audiences. The Press is an institution that endures over time as people come in and out. The news industry is a seller of information with recency value.

When standing up to fascists, it’s important to always maintain a sense of decorum - Democratic Party proverb

The corruption is so blatant and frequent as to anesthetize us against seeing it as problematic and demanding that it stop. Do not be dulled into thinking it’s okay. Great speech by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...