We need a lot more information here, but: this fucking sucks. Even the best case scenario, where it was two kids idly fantasizing about mass violence against Jews, fucking sucks

Dear stock market and gullible stenographer media:

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

i saw a tiktok about how doomscrolling in childhood is a sign of having no hoes and i can't stop thinking about it

Renea Gamble, the woman who wore a penis costume at a ‘No Kings’ protest in Fairhope, was acquitted on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 of criminal misdemeanor charges that included disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

/2 Something I tell young lawyers is that the absolutely essential part of oral advocacy is that you have to find something you believe in, something you give a shit about. Maybe it’s that you‘re right about the argument! Maybe it’s that your client has been treated unfairly! Maybe….

The focus of critiques about pharmaceutical monopolies is generally on PRICE. But this case is a compelling example for problems of SUPPLY: it's not a great world when one company controls global supply of a drug and can just refuse to sell it to people who need it. 7/

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

This sounds like straight-up theft (or fraud), at least morally. The US has an order in place to reject applicants from certain countries, but State is INSTRUCTING its officials not to tell applicants that when those applicants are paying big non-refundable fees.

5. It should be unacceptable for any author of a law review article to fail to acknowledge that they didn’t write the first draft of their piece.

wtf

But they were all deceived for a 5th loco was made

I have experienced this multiple times. Huge swaths of my gen-x upstate NY high school class now have heads full of MAGA pudding and if they're not full MAGA, they still somehow believe progressive efforts to nationalize healthcare are among the biggest threat facing the nation

BAAAAAABE THE PRESIDENT IS L'ÉTAT C'EST MOI POSTING ON HIS SOCIAL MEDIA SITE AGAIN

My hot take is that "One Battle After Another" was the better film, but the movie I'm going to actually rewatch multiple times is "Sinners." Make of that what you will!

It takes a lot of skill to Chotiner yourself when you are being interviewed by a very much not Chotiner.

Hey #activitypub friends. Are there any new ActivityPub / Mastodon features I should add to #activitybot? It's a small bot-only ActivityPub server in a single PHP file. https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/ It can be followed, post images, allow quote posts, etc. Is there anything else you […]

A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

Holy shit. These people shouldn’t be near sharp cutlery, let alone seats of power. Mullin: “This is war.” Raju: “You concede this is war?” Mullin: “We haven’t declared war.” Reporter: “You just said it’s a war.” Mullin: *stammer

Re-upping from yesterday: If you're in DC-land today, it's the final day of a phenomenal exhibit at National Gallery, treasures of Aboriginal art. You won't regret it.

USAGM emails VOA staff (who mostly haven’t been allowed to work for nearly a year) offering them deferred resignations, warning of mass terminations (currently on hold due to court action) “as soon as we are able.”

If I may potentially make this worse - I think the risk here isn’t that AI is going to nuke us, it’s that there’s a kind of guy who is going to see this and think that we should be more willing to use nukes because the computer thinks it’s a good idea

I firmly believe, we gave morning people far too much power.

Due process violations don't get worse than this. Appalling stuff from Virginia State, every administrator involved should lose their job

kind of like watching your car go up in flames on the side of the highway. undeniably mesmerizing, but also it's your car

The Supreme Court:

Bruh. Labi Siffre has a new album?!! pitchfork.com/news/labi-si...

The funny thing is that James Talarico comes off in the Colbert interview as an unremarkable Democratic state legislator, no real stand-out positions or drama. His interview almost certainly would have flown entirely under the radar and been forgotten in a day if CBS hadn't Streisand-effected it.

the guide 👇

RFK Jr.'s dismantling of vaccines and preventative care actually makes sense if you view it as a jobs program for health care providers.

This now-canceled airspace shutdown, from the beginning, reeked of a decision made by people who did not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions. The idea that this might be due to confused officials misunderstanding other confused officials isn't surprising at all.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Weird!

Post from an El Paso city councilor on one of the aviation subreddits

ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.

im so sorry.. that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee

New Quinnipiac poll: 63% of voters disapprove of ICE 60% want ICE out of Minneapolis 58% want Kristi Noem removed from office

BREAKING: Ed Martin was found, per CNN below, by DOJ to have violated GJ secrecy and also apparently lied about it. If the reporting is accurate, both are federal crimes. Will Martin be charged, given how quick a trigger this DOJ has re Letitia James & James Comey? edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/p...

i can't believe that after a decade of this bullshit the framing of all this trump authoritarian blather is still "omg what if he does this" and not "this is prohibited by 250 years of american history and also the constitution"

I can’t get over how increasingly desperate and worried district judges are — they are doing all the right things — and how they’re being betrayed by appellate judges and a Supreme Court, both too cowardly to stand behind their decisions.

I've been happy this week to see that some people have caught up to the fact that in MN and across the country, the resistance to fascism has actually BUILT ON what came before. The networks created in 2020 and earlier have been reactivated, expanded etc...

sure they’re tear-gassing toddlers but what do the polls say

People need to understand that this protest was approved by city. The fact that the public still got gassed & flash bangs shows that city does NOT have the public’s back.

I witnessed ICE using tear gas on children. They shattered a window of low-income housing where a disabled vet lives. He got gassed in his own home.

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system