JD Vance: "Political violence is coming largely from one side of the aisle. The president has now faced three serious attempts on his life ... " (Melissa and Mark Hortman aren't available for comment)

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

Let’s remember the many, much needed Programs Trump cancelled, including most federal cancer research funding… That the felon is now demanding taxpayers pay $400 million for a W.H. ballroom— while our economy is in free fall, illustrates a level of sickening depravity.

"A guy who can’t admit that he lost a presidential election to Joe Biden is not going to be able to admit that he lost a war to the mullahs of Iran." -- @pkrugman.bsky.social to @gregsargent.bsky.social Full episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

standing ovation after King Charles sings the praises of NATO and says "that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine"

AOC tells PabloReports that the reinstatement of the agent who shot Renee Good is a reminder of why Democrats should not give ICE and CBP a dime. AOC: Every single person that that man encounters is in just as grave danger as she was in.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

It may or may not surprise you to know that “it would not surprise me if x is true” is not the standard federal prosecutors are supposed to use in deciding whether to charge X.

This is truly where we are

Here's a goddamn win and thank you to many people for bringing it to my attention: 988 works. We have more people still with us because of it. I'm glad they're here and I'm glad you're here. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

It’s sad to watch the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool being turned blue it’s not a swimming pool. The pool was designed to reflect the Lincoln Memorial and surrounding monuments, creating a space for quiet reflection and remembrance. Trump just wants to ruin everything.

$24 million in Pentagon contracts is going to a company whose Chief Strategy Advisor is the President's son. Eric Trump isn't a defense contractor. He's not a military expert. He's the President's son. Every step this family takes in or around the government ends up with money flowing toward them.

Watch out, Atlanta 🤦🏼‍♀️

Pitch perf.

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What architectural modifications to the White House would open the Strait of Hormuz and/or release the remaining Epstein files?

I've been led to understand from decades of US gun violence that there's a variable window of "too soon to politicize this" during which discussions of gun control are verboten. It doesn't seem to apply to advocacy of the illegal demolition of a White House wing to build a party room out of bribes.

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

The gunman by all accounts did not get close to Trump; he wasn’t “exposed” to him. The security plan balanced keeping the hotel open to the public with securing the discrete event that the president attended and, in this instance, it achieved both objectives. What’s the flaw?

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It should go without saying that, just because some bad people want to criminally do harm to other bad people, that does not mean that any of the bad people are not, in fact, bad people.

A room full of the most powerful people in politics and media presumed they were being attacked by an active shooter. They dove under tables and texted loved ones. They feared for their lives. And somehow, not a damn thing will be done by them to push for gun reform tomorrow morning. America.

I don't know whether it was staged or not. I DO know he & his regime are a disgrace to this country & will live in infamy long after they all face charges, are convicted & imprisoned. History is written by dispassionate scholars baed on facts, not MAGA cult-members completely divorced from reality.

He just gave away the whole game

Right: [reviles academia for generations, celebrates deportations for writing op-eds and protesting, dismantles departments it doesn’t like, enacts de jure speech codes] Left: [is sometimes annoying and unserious] Some Academics:

There are unlimited genuine problems with higher education that all should be fixed, many of which Zimmerman mentions in article. But the main reason MAGA hate higher education is because of the good things it succeeds at doing, like promoting critical thinking and making citizens of all races smart

Whether it’s preventing hospitalization, lost school/work/duty days, or limiting transmission to others, the flu vaccine is something I will continue recommending as both an individual and force health protection measure. Even an imperfect flu vaccine offers demonstrable benefit.

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to block its bid to build a national voter database using private voter data from every state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is not an either-or situation. Trump is both unable to fulfill his duties and has committed high crimes & misdemeanors. He needs an independent cognitive assessment now. We can't wait until he gets mad at another country & decides to commit war crimes in the middle of the night.

Kash Patel must resign or be fired. More than two dozen current and former FBI officials are alleging that he has a serious drinking problem. Patel’s own security detail reportedly had to request breaching equipment because they could not wake him.

“We need people who actually care about the truth sitting in these seats.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Elon Musk cooked his brain online. Marc Andreessen and others seemingly struggled with being in virtual spaces where their ideas and status were challenged, and rewired their political beliefs as a form of cope." Good deep dive into tech broligarchy madness:

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care. The judge also blocked "any similar policy." Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news. But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials. Keep funding science!

Once Ossoff wins reelection in Georgia, watch for a presidential run in 2028. He would be a formidable candidate. Link: buff.ly/r22JNow...

Three women out. Not a single dude

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

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We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.

And they remain mystified as to why it's so hard for them to find real lawyers who will work for him... Eastman: disbarred Giuliani: disbarred Chesebro: disbarred Clark: facing possible disbarment Ellis: law license suspended www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

People are urging participants in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to wear pro-1st Amendment pocket squares or take a bathroom break when “guest of honor” Trump speaks. I have a better idea: Cancel the damn dinner.

My interview in the @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/community/pu...

Easy solution: Ban these gluttonous resource hogs.

Porsha Ngumezi died at a Texas hospital after bleeding heavily during a miscarriage. The medical board’s discipline of her doctor felt like “a slap in the face,” her husband said. “What kind of justice is this for Porsha?”

U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year. For example👇 1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year). 2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants. 🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...