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"

Joe is the WORST today. Come on, man.

Microsoft is the anchor of the carbon removal market. It bought 45 million tons of carbon removal last year; the next largest buyer has purchased 1.8 million tons *ever.* So what happens now that Microsoft’s paused buying? Spent the week talking to folks about it: heatmap.news/carbon-remov...

SCOOP: Spirit Airlines seeks U.S. government aid as oil spike threatens turnaround (with @jonostrower.com & @juliejohnsson.bsky.social via @theaircurrent.com): theaircurrent.com/airlines/spi...

Trump slowly evolving into dril

Some press on today's big announcement: www.law.com/legaltechnew...

Federal judges reported receiving 407 gifts worth $935,000 in 2023-24 (i.e., the 2 most recent yrs for which 85%+ of disclosures are posted). *Any* gift acceptance exposes judges to unnecessary conflicts & justified criticism, but this is extreme fixthecourt.com/2026/04/fede....

Republicans just handed the Boundary Waters to a foreign corporation. For the GOP, it’s foreign billionaires first, America last.

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE. www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

Story time. Back in 2009, when I started CourtListener, I had the goal of collecting all the case law. I was young, naive, and I worked really hard at it. I gathered data from places like Public.Resource.org, and scraped what I could from other sources. 1/4

I use this all the time!

Think about this: The leader of the Senate Democrats just voted against 85% of his caucus all to keep sending bulldozers to Israel, so it can continue to demolish Palestinian and Lebanese people's homes.

this is why you're not supposed to cross those databases, idiots

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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:

That’ll teach ‘em!

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.

Can confirm

I'm going to make an effort to learn the country codes for domain names, and say them to myself. No more "xyz dot A-I." Instead: "xyz dot Anguila". No more "dot C-O." Instead, .co becomes "dot Colombia." I'm certain this will surely be a meaningful improvement to my daily life.

Ted fucking Cruz? It’s over, man.

DOJ moves to erase convictions of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers leaders who led Jan. 6 attack

As President Trump threatens to wipe out Iran and attacks the pope, even some former allies and advisers are questioning whether he has grown increasingly unbalanced, describing him as “lunatic” and “clearly insane.” nyti.ms/4cuATjd

Why is the sky blue? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! youtube.com/shorts/oLoxd...

Since I’m trying out being more clearly opinionated here: I think every Signal user who wants actually private messaging should do this right away

I just never understand how people can trust these random browsers. You’re telling me that you are going to trust some random browser to see all of your Internet traffic? Really?

NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate. This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Statute of limitations now.

An Expedited Strategy Briefing on Mythos, Glasswing, and building a security program for what comes next, by 250 CISOs, and the wider community. It is still a draft, with some design incomplete, but we felt it was imperative to release. Link: labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/mythos-ciso/

On the one hand, Israel is mostly Jews, who are a persecuted minority. On the other hand, WTF are we doing allowing them to displace around a million people in Lebanon and straight up destroy villages? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Our Secretary of State was attending a UFC fight while our VP and some real estate guys tanked the most important diplomatic event of our lifetime.

So the Trump administration’s two goals in peace talks with Iran are: 1. A commitment by Iran not to develop a nuke (This was part of the Obama deal that Trump canceled) 2. Opening the Strait of Hormuz. (Was open before war.)

I think we are far beyond the point where a serious person can plausibly claim that the immigration courts are offering a fair adjudication consistent with foundational principles of the American legal tradition. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

My family went to Vietnam for spring break and it was great. Lots of interesting and fun experiences, great vegetarian food, incredible scenery, low prices, and super friendly people. 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

The city is expected to approve a deal with a San Francisco company to fly drones over the city to spot trash piles.

RECAP that.

I think @brianbeutler.bsky.social almost certainly right that the bogus OLC opinion claiming the Presidential Records' Act is unconstitutional only really makes sense as a prelude to destroying inconvenient records <cough>Epstein<cough>. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

I get that it’s humid, but I just feel like this is no way to fly.

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Waterfall showers are just terrible.

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

I have family that fled Lebanon when it was at war with Israel in the 80’s. Now, as American citizens, they pay taxes. Those taxes go to Israel to buy bombs that are dropped on their relatives in Lebanon.

Russia will see revenue from its biggest ‌single oil tax double to $9 billion in April due to the oil and gas crisis triggered by the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran, Reuters calculations showed, the first concrete evidence of a windfall for Russia. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. [thedrive.com]

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

NYT reporting that under this ceasefire each ship will pay $2M to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. It was $0 before Trump launched this illegal war. 100-130 ships pass the Strait daily. Trump just gave Iran an extra $100M-$130M per day. Masterful gambit, sir. Impeach and remove this fascist—NOW.

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

If it was elons company or a chinese lab that made it to this level of capability first, we could very quickly end up in a sort of doomsday scenario with the internet and all digital infrastructure being effectively destroyed. We may still see such a scenario.

“The researcher found out about this success by receiving an unexpected email from the model while eating a sandwich in a park.”