“On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

less of a butlerian jihad and more of a butlerian discussion about land use and zoning for datacenters

And there it is.... Update in Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own I.R.S., in which he seeks taxpayer-funded damages for the prior release of his tax records Trump legal filing says he's in "discussions" with his own I.R.S. to "avoid protracted litigation"

There's an alternate universe where he's staging Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals at the Kennedy Center for the wine moms and DC gays and everyone's happy.

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

And this news too... At the Pentagon, "half of the 12 monthly worship services have featured a sermon by a Southern Baptist." Some other sermons were by SBC-adjacent folks & other white evangelicals. Thx to @briankaylor.bsky.social for such fascinating & disturbing info. #ThisistheSBC

US: Do more and buy American! Also US:

So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about. I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

The Subaru Trailseeker blends AWD capability with EV efficiency, and now there’s a lease offer that makes trying it out far more attainable.

Some MAGA acolytes can't imagine people of different creeds, backgrounds, and cultures living peacefully side-by-side. The project to create a cosmopolitan society must be a dark conspiracy. IMO, the central issue of our time is this regressive idea of ethnic absolutism.

If you have a police officer going around telling people to remove costumes he thinks are offensive, you have speech police. And the department and city officials are defending it! www.al.com/news/2025/10...

Update: Alabama No Kings protestor arrested for “dick-tator” costume found not guilty on all charges. mynbc15.com/news/local/f...

honestly it’s hilarious that he’s trying to fight the pope and the pope is like “I don’t think about you at all”

My week thus far. 🤔

the fall of the Soviet Union, which Piker argued was “one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century,” OMG seriously?! That was one of the high water marks for human freedom in my lifetime!! That's really all I need to know about this Hasan Piker jabroni. What a loser.

Uh, no yaledailynews.com/articles/has...

See I watched the wall fell, saw the Soviet Union fall, and I gotta say, no one except tankies and Putin thought it was a catastrophe. When Bush took all bombers off alert and stood down America's nuclear alert status it was one of the best days of my life. My sleep no longer had nuclear nightmares.

Top tier 90s rock. It's a vibe.

Is the US Navy doing anything else globally?! 👀 www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

The framing on this headline seems reversed — Pope Leo doesn’t have a “fued with Trump” he’s just out there serving as pontiff. If anything Trump is the one coming after the Pope with highly innapropriate political attacks. apple.news/AMD8cii5oRwe...

3 white men in their 20s attempted to lynch 3 Black men for....fishing last Friday. The only reason it's an attempted murder charge is one of the Black men was armed and a better shot. It's not about the year someone was born, it's about the racism www.wcia.com/news/edgar-c...

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Wake up babe, new constitutional crisis just dropped 😐 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...

IMPORTANT: Under federal law, it's very hard, at times near-impossible, to sue federal law enforcement officers for civil rights violations. But legal theorists have said for decades that there is a possible way to sue under state law instead. This is a VERY big test case.

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

Like a dog with a bone; dude let it go!

He’s still ranting about the Pope

1/ Russian tank crews are being sent to their deaths en masse in infantry assaults, according to a Russian soldier's plea for help. With tank use now severely limited due to drone strikes, their crews appear to be surplus to requirements. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/maks...

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946. In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her. "You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

Seems fine. “NOTUS found that at least twice in 2025, the agency redirected money to ICE that was originally intended for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office: one lump of money for training and another for a national biosurveillance center.” www.notus.org/immigration/...

JD should have a chat with his local Knights of Columbus Council about how he's been treating the Holy Father in public 🧐

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

ME: time to sleep BRAIN: have you ever noticed that Huey Dewey and Louie all rhyme but nearly every syllable is spelled differently

JD Vance/Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia

No ideas. No way to get better at talking when you have no ideas, and you’re in a non-status quo party facing a non-status quo election with a status quo party line. That’s bad but here’s a good part. The left has a DEEP well of NatSec expertise, people who understand the nuts and bolts of defense.

I would have been an amazing Vietnam Vet-turned-pilot/coke smuggler-turned midlevel national security appointee and I’m mad that’s not just a career track we can be open and honest about.

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

Nearly 400 members of our military are wounded and there hasn’t been a single public hearing on the war in Iran. Unacceptable.

Irony is dead.

What

It really is astonishing how the conservative movement has gone from "fuck your feelings" to "it's illegal to be mean to us" in like a year and a half

War will forgive many sins, but not the confusion of aims and desired outcomes. The war on Iran follows an American tradition of striking with precision in the absence of strategy. But as with all these days, it's got that extra...je ne sais quoi warontherocks.com/tactical-suc...

But sir, the Strait of Hormuz is already under a blockade!

Today is officially the 30th anniversary of Steamed Hams. On April 14, 1996, "22 Short Films About Springfield" aired for the first time!

Peter Magyar’s election is an earthquake for MAGA. He says Orban’s regime paid for CPAC events in Hungary, that is a “crime,” and he’s ending the practice. CPAC conferences in the U.S. & Hungary are key ideological events for the far-right. Now they’ll have to pay for it on their own in Hungary.

American higher Ed is a golden goose that’s delivered medical, tech, and science innovations, bolstered soft power internationally, and is one of the largest employers in every state. This admin is doing everything it can to kill it.

The Strait of Hormuz Blockade, but we add OUR blockade.