I wonder if someday a “Trump passport” will be valuable as an oddity, like one of those coins minted with a mistake on them.

“If it’s possible, the Trump Justice Department’s new indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is even more absurd than the previous indictment. That one failed to state a crime. This one fabricates a crime.” www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump...

Todd Blanche is proving once again that he'll carry Trump's water in all matters -- including in this farce targeting Comey. It simply continues to diminish the Justice Department and the Attorney General's office and role.

I have to believe this stuff will accelerate after the midterms.

"What I demonstrated is that a single person with no relevant background can build a competitive autonomous trading system in less time than it takes to process a mortgage application." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Southern Poverty Law Center told a court that law enforcement agencies have long known it paid informants to report on hate groups, rejecting Trump administration assertions that the nonprofit steered money to the Ku Klux Klan and other extremists w/o the feds knowing. apnews.com/article/sout...

"Overall, affordability concerns dominate this year’s list, with combined mentions of inflation, energy, housing and healthcare costs — along with college expenses, transportation costs and childcare — far exceeding all other types of financial concerns." news.gallup.com/poll/708905/...

Milorad Dodik built ties with Trump’s family and friends as president for years of the Serb part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Now he plans to monetize the relationship by luring billions of dollars to a country he calls a “failed state” with no future. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

University leaders are facing calls to apologize for their alleged treatment of a tenured neuroscientist who died by suicide after being investigated as part of Trump’s China Initiative. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

this whole filing from the department of justice is written exactly like one of his social posts

“OpenAI recently missed its own targets for new users and revenue, stumbles that have raised concern among some company leaders about whether it will be able to support its massive spending on data centers.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

America has a political violence problem, and it’s getting worse. www.vox.com/today-explai...

OVERNIGHT: Trump Admin files latest court motion in support of White House ballroom It reads like a Trump Truth Social post, with random capitalization, accusations the plaintiffs are "very bad for our country", suffer "Trump Derangement Syndrome", etc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1/ Today, as SCOTUS hears arguments to decide if suits claiming Monsanto (parent co Bayer) failed to warn people about the cancer risks of Roundup/glyophosate, we're exposing a huge threat matrix: public and private forests are being bombarded with the herbicide www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The story here is that Congress rejected Trump’s proposal to slash funding for the National Science Foundation, but Trump is gutting the agency anyway. The by-now classic Russ Vought play of treating Congress as an irrelevancy. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

The AI datacenter buildout is huge compared to past projects like the interstate highway system, the Apollo program, and the US railroad boom. But its still modest compared to global clean energy investment or oil and gas investment:

Guns. The man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Dinner spent years acquiring his arsenal, purchasing a shotgun eight months before the attack and a semi-automatic pistol two years earlier. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from the White House Correspondents Dinner after an unspecified threat. There did not immediately appear to be any injuries. The Secret Service and other authorities swarmed the banquet hall. apnews.com/article/whit...

This is quite a comment from someone who served on the FOMC for nearly four years with Kevin Warsh. He says Warsh failed to project independence at his hearing.

Imagine working for Meta and being told the company is going to spy on you to train your robot replacement Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.

Breaking news: The Trump administration’s fundraising arrangement for the White House ballroom project shields donor identities and excludes the White House from conflict of interest requirements, according to records obtained by The Post.

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

Completely ruthless and craven. “After halting a U.S. resettlement program for Afghans who helped the American war effort, President Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 of them to the Democratic Republic of Congo.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

there is something a little grimly funny that the post about improperly using reporter bylines on AI stories is based on a screenshot of a tweet of a cropped screenshot of a news article that chops off the byline and does not link back

“Guns surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in 2020, and the number of gun deaths among this demographic has increased since then.” www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

It would be nice if, at a moment when academia is under brutal assault from outside forces that are opposed to the very core of its mission, academics weren't so obsessed with self-flagellation.

The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. The SPLC was founded in 1971 and used civil litigation to fight white supremacist groups. apnews.com/article/sout...

JUST IN: Judge Amit Mehta (Obama/DC) opens door to deposition of Trump in #Jan6 civil lawsuits. Discovery against Trump on merits of cases could begin in May. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

NEW Strength In Numbers/Verasight.io poll: Trump approval falls to 35% as rating for handling prices hits a record -46 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-21...

Good morning. I am waking up to these @gelliottmorris.com headlines on Virginia redistricting Election Day: Trump approval falls to record low 35%, Democrats lead by 7 on the generic ballot, and a majority says the Iran war is not worth the cost. open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

“History will see the emergency docket and MQD as twin drivers of the Roberts court’s conservative activism. That’s a surprising legacy for a chief justice who came to the court as an advocate of judicial restraint.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Measles has been spreading in the US, reaching infection levels not seen in decades and threatening the country’s elimination status. Some anti-vaxxers are now changing their minds. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Trump said the US Navy fired upon and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman, renewing doubts over the ceasefire that’s due to end Tuesday night. www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

“John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court…he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Amanda Ungaro was 16 when she was flown to the US on an Epstein plane. She later became close to the Trumps On Apr. 8, she went on X to threaten legal action vs Melania “and your pedophile husband” On Apr. 9, Melania made that odd public statement about Epstein www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Venice. www.ft.com/content/a0ff...

Trump has never been good at geography. Even when it comes to countries he’s bombing and blockading. Where is the Strait of Iran?

Why not a dozen? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

NEW: Federal judge accuses Trump administration of using fancy footwork to try to sidestep his prior White House ballroom ruling.

The Chrysler Building. Always a joy.

“Some Gulf Arab and European leaders believe that a US-Iran peace deal will take about six months to be agreed and that the warring sides should extend their ceasefire to cover that timeframe, according to officials from the regions familiar with the matter.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Iran can withstand a complete halt ​in oil exports of up to two months before being forced to curb production, ‌analysts said, after the U.S. began blocking shipping in and out of the country's ports on April 13. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar used landmark appearances on state-controlled media outlets today to reaffirm his intention to suspend their broadcasts as soon as he’s sworn in.

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.

In re Jan. 6: The DOJ asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who pushed far-right extremists to attack the Capitol and try overturning the 2020 election results so Trump could stay in office. apnews.com/article/prou...

A day after federal prosecutors visited the Fed: (Bloomberg)- Trump said he would fire Powell if the Fed chair does not step down “in time,” adding that he would not drop the Justice Department investigation into the central bank leader. “I’ll have to fire him, OK, if he’s not leaving,” Trump said