this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

This is a wild affront to free speech

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

THIS IS FINE

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Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

Revoking kids' visas because their parents criticized Elon Musk.

This is treating Trump v. United States as law. It is not law. It is anti-law. It belongs in that category of Supreme Court decisions which were not merely wrong, they were illegitimate and non-binding from the day they were issued. It is owed no more respect than Lincoln gave Dred Scott.

Here’s the thing about the Mr. Beast suit: there’s this cultural expectation that ”new media” and “tech” and “startup” and “younger” companies will be more freewheeling and that you have to expert more douchey guy behavior, but the law doesn’t really reflect that. /1

think we need to track how many members of trump's cabinet accept the basic tents of nineteenth century science, because we've got two who reject germ theory arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Favorite scene in All The President’s Men: Woodward & Bernstein attend White House Correspondents Dinner, hobnob with Nixon Administration officials, have such a swell time that they back off Watergate investigation so they don’t lose their access.

Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.

I will beat this drum until I die: Most of copyright law was based on assumptions about inefficiency, because things were mostly done by humans. Unfortunately, in trying to "update" the law to cope with greater efficiencies, we ignore--and often hobble--those core, human-driven uses.

ah cool, more tax money going to prop up Tesla's falling sales www.teslarati.com/tesla-just-u...

Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment. Read and share: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

As it turns out, you don’t end up with a disarmament treaty by opening with “we’re going to unilaterally disarm.”

“How dare you do what we’ve been doing,” cried the Republican Party. “You know, the thing we did when you went ‘please don’t do this, we’ll be forced to respond in kind, you won’t like it, and it would be better for the country if you didn’t start this.’ Yeah. That. No fair!”

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The year is 1969. Man lands on the moon. Back on Earth, the Concorde flies its first test for a commercial supersonic airline. The year is 2026. Man circles the moon and will, a few years later, land. Back on Earth, there is a concept of a plan for commercial supersonic flights.

there's a japanese antidiarrheal whose packaging proudly claims to have won the russo-japanese war because it was so effective in addressing dysentery

AI is coming for the jobs of copyright academe 🤣 pedrohserrano.github.io/it-depends-r...

General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t. You dumb chucklefuck.

One of the dispiriting things about being a political writer in this era is that things are simultaneously horrifying and, in an intellectual sense, kind of boring. There’s nothing particularly challenging to grapple with; just a lot of hackwork where you point out the same lies for the 87th time.

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

asking questions in hearings is always better than speeches

I prefer Fed Chairs who don't continue to hold investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein.

Come on, y'all. Just enlist. Please, just enlist. We'll take away vaccines. We'll let you say slurs. You can even announce that Zelda II is the best one if you want. Just please, please enlist.

Why assume the Fed Chair nominee is a coward—as in wants to do the right thing but is just too scared of the consequences—when he perpetuates lies about the 2020 election? Isn’t the more straightforward explanation that he’s into it, and will therefore aid the anti-Constitution project when asked?

Whiskey Pete has always modeled his military vision after the Crusades. Nothing killed more crusaders than disease.

Me, watching this one from the policy bleachers

You know, I almost hope that someone makes a joke about Carr and he initiates a retaliatory censorship regulatory action on the spot against CBS. That would be nothing less than those contemptible lickspittle quislings deserve. It turns out that the "free press" is its own biggest enemy.

Turns out, it was an IP story: "The state court-appointed receiver of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars media business has reached an agreement to license its trademark and domain name to The Onion, as the satirical news outlet seeks another chance at running Jones' website."

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We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

In evaluating legal arguments and advocacy of academics like Randy Barnett and Kurt Lash, consider that their statements about the Eastman disbarment reveals that they think lying to courts and the public is neither legally nor morally blameworthy. They think lying is fine; judge them accordingly.

After the election plot had failed and it was clear Congress was going to certify Biden the winner on the evening of Jan. 6, John Eastman made one last plea to VP Pence's lawyer: please do "one more relatively minor violation" of the Electoral Count Act and delay certifying.

𝔄𝔫 𝔬𝔩𝔡 𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔡𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔱𝔢𝔠𝔥𝔫𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔤𝔶 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔤𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔬 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔞𝔫 𝔲𝔫𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔢𝔡𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔭𝔲𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔠 𝔤𝔬𝔬𝔡.

If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.

without lionizing Leo XIV too much, i think people are brought up short by encountering someone in a position of authority who seems to have commitments to stable concepts of right and wrong that supersede class loyalty to other powerful people (which is largely the same as what Dan is saying)

Can’t shake the Devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding. — TMBG 3:6

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The years long right-wing attack on universities is very similar to the attack on the mainstream news media. Funny how trust erodes when that's the precise goal of a persistent political strategy...

Farmers can't afford to wait months for a John Deere tech to show up and overcharge them to repair their tractor. It's time to make right to repair the law of the land — for farmers, our military, car owners, and all Americans.

Next time they purport to speak for artists, remember the major labels hired SCOTUS super-litigator Paul Clement (again - he also fought their losing battle in Cox v. Sony) to attack artists’ rights to reclaim their copyrights globally. www.billboard.com/pro/major-l...

Oh sorry, so religion and politics should be separate? Is that what you're saying? bsky.app/profile/atru...