Get rid of every single motherfucking one of them.

We’re having our annual retreat at @boltsmag.org, & had a cruel and terrible night. After winning trivia night each of the last 2 years during our retreat, our winning streak was viciously interrupted; despite a promising start (we should have ended the count), the 5th round was our undoing.

This is good!

This is now my first day legislation. We must bring velociraptors back into the forefront of public attention. Once I elected, I will immediately sponsor a Jurassic Park Project for the state of California so we can address this incredibly troubling situation.

see, you think this is going to be one thing, which it is, but it’s also about two or three other things (some of them about settling petty grievances), all of them pretty incredible

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

I know people bristle at the idea of leftists who police language but a big reason it happens is because, especially as it relates to politicians, the language we choose serves as an entirely accurate predictor of the types of policy decisions we would make & who we would & wouldn’t place value on

So for the next post in my General Studying blog series, how Lee & Longstreet exemplify divergent post-Civil War histories, & why it's Benjamin Butler who most fully deserves our collective commemoration, especially for his post-war leadership! blackwhiteandread.com/april-14-202...

Back in 2019, I began one of my more personal Considering History columns with my childhood love for Robert E. Lee, as a Civil War buff growing up in early 80s Virginia (& w/an influential teacher who called it "The War Between the States"), & to how my vision of both him & Longstreet has evolved.

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...

With respect to the Bulwark crew, this misses the bigger question in many ways: Why we have created political systems where genuine workhorses (Becerra) don't have the resources or party support to compete in a media/name recognition heavy environment. What needs to change to make that happen?

big ruling from the Montana supreme court. as bolts reported last year, this court in Montana has been a backstop against all sorts of conservative policies: boltsmag.org/montana-supr...

‘Coyote vs. Acme’ takes a jab at Warner Bros. for initially shelving their film for taxes in new trailer announcement video. “Happy Tax Day. Check your write-offs.” In theaters August 28th.

BREAKING: Senate Republicans blocked my War Powers Resolution that would have ended Trump's unnecessary, unjustified war against Iran. These cowards have had four chances to stop this chaos in the Middle East. And they put Trump's ego before America. Every damn time.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

News from @inquirer.com colleagues Tom Fitzgerald and @aliyareports.bsky.social: While Boston's MBTA charges $80 for train tickets at the World Cup and New Jersey Transit might go over $100, here in Philadelphia, SEPTA will keep the standard subway fare of $2.90. www.inquirer.com/transportati...

i'll never stop being mad that i have to buy "stamps" to send a fucking email to someone in prison -- a service the rest of the world uses for free -- AND that there's a 20% "service fee" of $2 on $10 for hte purchase. motherfuckers the whole thing is a "service fee"!!!

A jury has ruled that Live Nation-Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly. A judge will determine whether or not to break the company up, in addition to other damages. This is a big deal. Remember that the Trump admin tried to settle the lawsuit with a slap on the wrist — but state AGs said no way.

The individuals referenced here are adjudicated terrorists. They were found guilty of conspiring to use force against their own government to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. A conservative, Trump-appointed judge applied terrorism enhancements to their sentences.

Tillis could make or break a future AG nomination with his vote on the judiciary committee. I just asked him if there are any nominees he would oppose outright. Tillis replied "any nominee that said anything the least bit excusing the behavior on January the 6th is dead on arrival." 1/2

Left 4 Dead's graffiti is so memorable because it was made by people—a whole lot of people aftermath.site/left-4-dead-gr...

Another great story from student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

But hey, remember when nobody wanted to fight for universal healthcare? Because it was pie in the sky? How’s that working out? Any follow up on that?

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar went on Orbán's state TV today for the first time in 18 months: "This factory of lies will end once the Tisza govt is formed... What has been going on here since 2010, which even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have been envious of, cannot continue."

THIS kind of "intimate" relationship between Paramount and Trump is the reason why I am testifying this afternoon before a Senate panel against the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros., which owns CNN www.thedailybeast.com/new-cbs-boss...

@theleonamaple.bsky.social Apparently your trip to see AEW has put you into the DC Comics Universe. #wrestlingsky www.dc.com/comics/dc-x-...

This is excellent by Boyle. What CBO and others have pointed out is that millions of eligible claimants will lose vital health care coverage because of administrative burdens. By design! That is the purpose of the bill. It does not target fraud. It just weaponizes burdens against the public.

"I wondered what they expected out of life as 1980s and 1990s kids. What it meant to be raised on a song that told us to not expect much from America, but whose narrator dreamed of more, because she could not help it — no matter how much it hurt." Ow, my heart.

For me, a big “aha” moment in law school was when I realized that every year, the handful of normal, median-ish guys (they were all guys) who would land huge clerkships seemingly out of nowhere were all officers in the student FedSoc chapter

Overcrowding, bad (no) medical care, not enough food, filth — these are average and expected in this country’s jails and prisons everywhere. ICE detention conditions aren’t below the norm — that’s the norm. That’s what 2 million ppl and their families experience every day.

Another South Korean fad I'd love to import is throwing streamers and corrupt presidents into prison

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

Also, pay for things you care about. It shows that you support them. Like newspapers and music. Go back to the late 90’s and you’ll remember that you paid for newspapers, magazines, software, music, and more. People who make things need to get paid for their work.

Four other Iron Hill locations are also set to be revived in the coming weeks.

I don't know how we get out of this trap where the more evidence we have for something, the harder the propaganda pushes back against it. But getting rid of the billionaires couldn't hurt.

This has massively spiked since I was there in Trump's first term. It used to be a novelty to get death threats like this. That has changed.

With threats to members of Congress rising fast, we asked a couple dozen members to share their voicemails. The results were chilling. You can read more about it and listen to some of the voicemails in our interactive project.

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."

TAX DAY PRO TIP if you're filing by mail: Do not rely on a mailbox or a letter carrier today for filing your return on time. Go inside a post office and ask for a free manual postmark at the counter. Otherwise, your tax return may not get an April 15 postmark date and the IRS may apply penalties

What these admins will never tell you is that the *courses* in these majors are often full. Students don't *major* in these fields, but they really want to take the classes. They use number of majors as a metric on purpose so they can achieve their cuts.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it

These two side by side lol

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

“Look man, all I can do is describe these things. I am not responsible for the world being like this.”

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

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.

Like, Carhartt is cool and all but maybe we all should have talked more about John Fetterman's George Zimmerman moment? www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...