BREAKING: Ethics complaint just filed against Pam Bondi — & it's damning She ran DOJ like a weapon — & now 100+ scholars, retired judges & retired FL Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince — joined by @democracydefendersfund.org @ldadorg.bsky.social & LFRL — are holding her accountable -TN

The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.” The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. trib.al/dD7xx4n

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So Many Politicians, From Both Parties,Are FILTHY Rich.......

House just slipped a cruel provision into the Farm Bill to erase state bans on gestation crates for pigs, veal crates for calves, and battery cages for hens — overriding protections in 15 states. Factory farms win. Animals lose. The Senate needs to kill this! mcsp.short.gy/6A2O

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Hawaii just passed a groundbreaking law directly challenging Citizens United and corporate money in politics 👀

Every American should be disgusted by this.

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

Facts…

SIGN OF THE DAY…

ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au is reducing its posting on X and directing followers to BlueSky. I wish the BBC would do this.

Hi, tax law professor here. Trump and sons are NOT exempt forever (or anytime) from tax audits. Writing these words on paper signed by Todd Blanche doesn't make it a thing. In fact, I'm absolutely certain they'll all be audited in the future.

NEW: We just launched a new podcast! It’s called “Paper Trail,” and for our first episode, we’re taking you behind the scenes of a Pulitzer finalist investigation. This is what the FDA won’t tell you about the generic drugs in your medicine cabinet. Listen now 👇

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to court today to fend off the Trump admin's THIRD attempt to deport him to Liberia. The last two attempts failed. Abergo's in the courthouse. I'm reporting live from federal court. Catch up here. www.allrisenews.com/p/rising-thi...

Sean Duffy’s reality series is getting slammed for all of the obvious reasons, but don’t look past the fact that his show is being sponsored by companies his department oversees and regulates. In other words, it’s not just a political mess, it’s also an ethical one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The President of the United States is a criminal. He SHOULD have been convicted for the crimes he led on January 6th, 2021. He WAS convicted of 34 felonies for corruption and harassment. Yet somehow, instead of facing the consequences he deserves, he’s running the government like a mob operation.

NAACP presses court for preliminary injunction against Trump's "mail-in voting" exec order: "Words matter and threats have consequences. Plaintiffs are already suffering the resulting disruption to their voter-registration, voter-assistance & vote-by-mail programs nationwide"

MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one.

HUGE NEWS: The Hawaii legislature, on overwhelming and bipartisan votes, just now became the first state to clear a bill that rids the state’s politics of all dark and corporate money — effectively undoing Citizens United. Next stop: Gov. Josh Green‘s desk for his signature.

The journalist who is being sued by Kash Patel and reportedly being investigated by the FBI is out with a new story. Is there a Pulitzer for being a fearless badass? If so, she should win it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Republicans are going to make taxpayers pay for Trump’s ballroom. All Trump’s claims over 16 months that “donors” were going to pay for it was always a lie and just another con. You will pay for it.

The normalcy bias we're all experiencing for global sea-surface temperatures becomes apparent if we look at the graph of SSTs 1982-2026 and remove the last three years 2023, 2024, 2025 from the picture:

To get a bit more signal and a bit less noise, here are the global sea-surface temperatures, averaged by decade since the decade 1980-1989. What do you think the 2030s will look like? The 2040s?

The Computer-Weaponized War on Women’s Human-Rights with The Rise of Reproductive Surveillance - An Exhaustive Compendium tinyurl.com/3w6hrujv

Where are all the Musicians who in fact do travel town to town? Speak Up! Speak Out!!

This.

Cats breaking the news

The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.

My first RN job was in Labor and Delivery, Postpartum and Newborn care. Mifepristone has SO many other uses, but they don’t care about that. In my job we used it to help induce labor when needed, or help it along. This is a slippery slope. I hate it here. We TOLD you this was going to happen.

May Day in Los Angeles! It was incredible meeting so many of you and hearing your stories. The energy was unreal—feeling fired up for this campaign. Let’s keep it moving.

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.

Most of Trump’s presidential profits are from crypto speculation. His “genius” real estate deals are a rounding error. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.

WE NEED TO KEEP CALLING THIS OUT BECAUSE IT MATTERS: California is the 4th largest economy on Earth, and the most populous state in the country. This isn’t a place for amateurs. Becerra has the experience for a state this big, this complex, and this consequential. 🧵

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

Can we bring real answers, and not golden ballrooms and more forever wars, back to Washington?

This is insanity on full display.

The world is warming. Every country is warming. www.ShowYourStripes.info #ShowYourStripes

VERY interesting information/analysis by @electproject.bsky.social on turnout in Tuesday's VA redistricting referendum bluevirginia.us/2026/04/base... h/t @frohe.bsky.social

The CDC is blocking a report that shows COVID vaccines reduced emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half this past winter.   Why? Officials say it's because the vaccine’s benefits conflict with RFK Jr.'s views. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The Epstein crisis is escalating. Reports say Ghislaine Maxwell may be seeking a pardon as lawmakers demand answers from the DOJ over missing files and unanswered subpoenas. This isn't going away.

Hard to imagine why you fire a Navy secretary during a naval war unless he was refusing to be a yes man. He needs to be subpoenaed immediately. Scary stuff.

Morning friends. There are still those amongst us that need to wake up.

Virginia Redistricting Referendum What a 1–2 knockout from #NOVA and Hampton Roads 💥 Game over. Let’s go 10–1. 🚀 #Virginia #VoteYes #FightBack Thank you, Governor @abigailspanberger.com

Tucked into Trump's absurd $1.5 trillion Pentagon request is $54.6 billion drone budget. A 24,000% increase over last year. Who has just happened to have gotten into the drone business recently? Don, Jr. and Eric Trump. I'm sure that's just a coincidence. thehill.com/opinion/nati...

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c

New IVP poll for California Governor; Becerra jumps ahead. Link to details about this poll ivn.us/posts/breaki...