"Wednesday’s bombshell voting rights decision from the Supreme Court is a testament to Chief Justice John Roberts’s patience and penchant for the long game." No, it's a testament to his corruption by politics, dark money and ideology over the law and Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...

"Before leaving [Open AI], Musk sought control of a new for-profit arm, seeking a majority of board seats and 51% of shares... Musk’s cross-examination revealed his loose relationship with the truth and selective short-term memory." open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

The EEPA (Evisceration of Environmental Protection Agency) is headed by toady Lee Zeldin who was "eager to evade substantive questions about an [E]EPA tenure spent giving generous giveaways to polluters, dismantling independent research, and hemorrhaging staff." newrepublic.com/article/2096...

"The president’s elder sons are making money hand over fist off of their father’s office." No, you're not imagining that peculiar smell. It's the stench of brazen corruption no air freshener can mask or disguise. newrepublic.com/post/209840/...

"The national conservative faction, like the Know-Nothing party of the 19th century and the America First movement of the 1940s, considers itself a heroic vanguard dedicated to rescuing American civilization from the Third World immigrant hordes..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A few days ago in his interview on 60 Minutes with Norah O'Donnell, Trump volunteered that he's not a rapist and that he'd been exonerated. Well, no, he was not exonerated. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

A grotesque triumphal arch to himself, the ballroom-bunker (after demolition of the East Wing), his name on currency or a coin, huge banners of him on federal buildings, is not enough for this sludge of a lowlife; now he wants his name in US passports.  www.huffpost.com/entry/aoc-tr...

Press freedom keeps falling. (No, we're not surprised.) Norway ranks #1 and the US is #64 this year, down seven places from last year. The researchers blame Trump's "repeated attacks on the press and journalists" becoming "a systematic policy" during his second term. rsf.org/en/classemen...

Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........

"Trump’s use of Truth Social as president promotes his business interests... Trump posted 8,452 times on Truth Social since his inauguration on Jan 20, 2025. That’s an average of more than 18 posts a day. On Dec 1, 2025, Trump posted 166 times on Truth Social." open.substack.com/pub/populari...

"If milksop and insincere appeals to civility and common purpose won’t arrest the country’s drift into ever deeper currents of politically minded mayhem, we can at least start to close down our nation’s cottage industry in bogus civility." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"Brendan Carr knows full well that he lacks any legitimate legal basis for taking action against these broadcasters. He's trying to harass and bludgeon them," Andrew J. Schwartzman, a longtime public interest media lawyer, told NPR. www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

Trump has systematically excluded Tulsi Gabbard from everything to do with his Iran War. So what has Tulsi been up to? Apparently she is running influence operations for her friends in the Kremlin...

Trump's claim on FOX that the latest would-be assassin was motivated by his hate of Christians appears to be manifestly false. "Allen is in fact a seemingly devout Christian, one whose faith almost certainly partly motivated the assassination attempt." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

'Restrictions on solar development are proliferating nationwide, “often rooted in misinformation or unfounded fears,” including ones that involve “potential environmental and human safety risks,” according to an article... in the Brigham Young University Law Review.' www.salon.com/2026/04/27/u...

I've lost track of how many times someone predicted the end of Trump's "reign of error" was at hand. I'll believe that when the Democrats take both houses in the midterms. Don't be fooled; this is just more of the same. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

'This is not American democracy. The central premise of the Constitution is that liberty requires divided authority. The accumulation of power in one branch of government is, as James Madison warned, “the very definition of tyranny.”' www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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These pictures convey that reflecting pool algae will be replaced by bigotry

"This is the story of the U.S. economy under Trump." youtube.com/shorts/plSeH...

"Only the best[ial] people." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

"Firing Tulsi Gabbard would almost certainly be a net positive for U.S. national security. She's unqualified for the job in every way including because she holds political views that should have been red flags for a position with access to sensitive intelligence." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

So much for the Presidential Records Act of 1978. Given the way this White House and its minions throughout the federal government attempt to rewrite history and purge anything it doesn't like from the historical record, no surprise. newrepublic.com/post/209510/...

"In the face of this humiliation on the world stage, Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, are throwing scapegoats from within the US war machine under the bus." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

'Norm Eisen, founder of Democracy Defenders Action, said Thursday’s dinner honoring the Trump administration “resembles a celebration of the first amendment the same way a book burning is a celebration of the written word."' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This criminal regime will use anything it can put its sticky fingers on to undermine a free and fair election - and do so in the name of "election integrity." Trump has issued an EO that "would have the [USPS] illegally perform election administration duties." newrepublic.com/post/209472/...

Did you know that Donald J. Trump is not just Cadet Bonespurs, but he is also a big, beautiful naval architect and marine engineer. But never mind because, "The [battle] ship [he wants] would take years to design.... and will never sail." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...

"The time for treating the justices like they are above the political fray has passed. They are in the muck with the rest of us. They have put themselves in that muck with their own decisions. It’s time for everybody else to start acting like it." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"A real atrocity had been wrapped in synthetic packaging, then passed around until the wrapping became the story. And there it was: Human suffering below. Viral image sludge above. Trump in the middle, helping himself to the spotlight." open.substack.com/pub/michaeld...

Former AG Pam Bondi continues to evade consequences of her refusal to respond to Congressional subpoena less because of "a jurisdictional dispute with the DOJ" than the deliberate impotence of the House Lack of Oversight Committee. Threats to hold her in contempt only trigger the laugh track.

“[W]hat ProPublica has documented – the federal officials who stopped Trump from overturning his 2020 election loss have been systematically removed and replaced by the same people who tried to help him do it." Lauren Groh-Wargo, Fair Fight Action CEO open.substack.com/pub/rightsan...

"In advance of this year’s midterm elections, President [game show host] has systematically demolished federal guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 election... At least 75 career staff are gone [replaced by Trump lackeys and election deniers]." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Inciting mob violence to derail the peaceful transfer of power is inconceivably one of a president's "official duties." No, it is a blatant political act, so kiss your "immunity" bu-bye, Don. www.politico.com/news/2022/02...

"[Kevin M. Warsh] declined to directly answer a question from Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, on whether Mr. Trump had lost the 2020 election, a question she suggested was a factual test of his independence." And Warren in absolutely right. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Republicans in the states are redistricting early at the behest of Donald Trump. The response by Dems in Virginia, California, and elsewhere to counter-balance is being triggered only by a blatant plot to steal the midterms. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.

"Bezos and two of the world’s other richest men—Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk—have clearly left the world of consequences behind. They float in a sensory-deprivation tank the size of the planet, in which their actions are only ever judged by themselves." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"A willing, even enthusiastic Trump joined Netanyahu in what he thought was a cool video game in which the other side would surrender quickly." And now, each one blames the other. newrepublic.com/article/2092...

We are living in a timeline so dumb it's exhausting.

"Most revealingly, he speaks with ordinary residents who represented a big swath of French society: They didn’t actively collaborate, but by declining to resist and going along with the government, they enabled the occupation." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Writing the United States off as a friend might once have been a sign of doom for Ukraine. It isn’t anymore." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Fascism and loserdom go hand in hand because fascism is predicated on the notion that the fascist has been unjustly cheated and robbed, and that only through force can they restore and revitalize themselves." newrepublic.com/article/2090...

The "shadow docket" built on "rulings with no explanation or reasoning...have become routine. The emergency docket is now a central legacy of the court led by Chief Justice Roberts." It casts a long shadow of doubt on the court, many of its rash decisions & legacy. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

"Woe to those [tyrants] who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” Pope Leo www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/a...

"ICE continues to run amok, and there has been little, if any, accountability for it. State authorities are beginning to try...." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...

Vance 'admonished Pope Leo to be more “careful” if he was “going to opine on matters of theology,”' but turns out the Vicar of Christ had all his doves in a row. Here's a refresher course for Vance, et al on Catholic "just war theory." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

"While the mechanisms of accountability are important, the spirit that drives them is just as vital. A jail cell may not await Trump. But after another four years of defiling the republic, there will be no post-presidential peace for him or his top associates." newrepublic.com/article/2073...

As the retired career diplomat Chas Freeman put it in January, “The United States now unabashedly presents itself as an untrustworthy expansionist power that substitutes unilateral diktats, intimidation, and the use of force for diplomacy.” newrepublic.com/article/2087...