"Trump’s $1.776 Billion “1776” Slush Fund Is a Payout to the People Who Tried to Overthrow Democracy. They want to take the year this country was founded and use it as branding for a payout to people who tried to break it." michaelfanone.substack.com/p/trumps-177... This has happened before:

I see your hot takes on TX senate and I remember when people said Trump winning the 2016 GOP primary was good for dems.

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It's not just that the FBI director is acting like a spoiled child; he keeps repeating the dumb lie that Van Hollen was "drinking margaritas with a felon" when he visited Kilmar Abrego Garcia. As a reminder, it was a stunt from the El Salvador regime, who put sugar-rimmed glasses on the table.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

It's not every day that a Republican admits inadvertently that "conservative" actually means "white." The rest of us can and should generally that pattern. Conservative means white. Christian means white. Authentic means white. Real means white. American means white. They won't say it. We should.

Needing to win by 4 points nationally to get a bare majority in the House of Representatives due to partisan gerrymandering is (1) unfair, (2) a sign of America’s democratic backsliding, and importantly (3) doable.

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

Trump says the hantavirus outbreak is ‘under control’ but the CDC’s emergency response tells a different story www.themarysue.com/trump-says-t...

This is no different than anti-vaxxer reasoning. We dont need these institutions (vaccines) because we dont observe the overt racism (disease) anymore

We are living through a Jim Crow-ification moment in Black representation, but it's happening much faster than it took to consolidate actual Jim Crow. For the democratic backsliding observers out there, race was always the beating heart of American authoritarianism—this was always how it'd go here.

"The Callais decision has been catastrophic in substance and timing. The Roberts Court not only dismantled the country’s most important civil rights law, but put its thumb on the scale of the 2026 elections, turbocharging Trump’s gerrymandering arms race" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

That's about 8-9 National Science Foundations without the ROI

Surprise! The GOP's budget package funding ICE + Trump's ballroom adds nearly $72 billion to the deficit, says CBO. And if you tack on interest, the price tags jumps to nearly $94 billion, says a nonpartisan watchdog group. www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-ba...

Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

For one thing, there would be better food. Leisure time would be more fun. Sex would probably get better for a lot of people. Businesses could sell more products and services. Governments could meet demand better. Lots of upsides.

Between medicaid cuts and restricting the immigrant doctors who actually serve rural areas, I've never seen a political movement so laser focused on killing their most loyal voters.

NOTABLE: Prosecutors' memo drops any reference to a USSS officer being hit by a bullet. It now says an officer observed Allen fire in the direction of the staircase toward the WHCD. That officer then fired at Allen five times but did not hit him. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

There is absolutely no way anyone in the administration will understand a joke about the French and Indian War. That’s half the joke.🔥🔥🔥

Does Trump think the House of Windsor is somehow a direct descendent of the Anglo-Saxons? Does he think this is King Charles' personal bloodline?

The Justice Department seems to be going out of its way to avoid saying that Cole Allen didn't fire any weapons at all inside the Washington Hilton — and that the officer hit was most likely hit by friendly fire. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-jus...

A few more Comey indictments will fix it

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

And Congress just sits there and does nothing as their appropriations go nowhere. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

I don't know whether it was staged or not. I DO know he & his regime are a disgrace to this country & will live in infamy long after they all face charges, are convicted & imprisoned. History is written by dispassionate scholars baed on facts, not MAGA cult-members completely divorced from reality.

Also: This *specific* event absolutely should *not* be hosted at the White House — even if it is to continue in its current form at all.

the Enterprise-D is basically a big Marriott in space, right down to everyone's quarters/hotel rooms having the same (round, blue) art

George Washington LITERALLY would not have won the Revolutionary War had he not vaccinated the troops against smallpox. Meanwhile, this idiot: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

This is the point. Make universities uninhabitable for the people that make universities wonderful. Texas Tech faculty are “close to the brink,” Schiller said. “It’s a nightmare … Tears are commonplace. I have a colleague who told me recently that going to campus felt like attending a wake.”

“Reverse emails,” Jared Kushner corruption edition He also holds no Senate-confirmed Cabinet or senior government position & employing family as White House advisers violates every norm ever, but this, too, has been erased from the headlines. After years of HUNTER BIDEN, it’s shameful.

The scientist in me wants to know how they conducted the 'stink-test'. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Kelty joined the Save the Forest Service movement! 💚

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

I found myself writing such an absurd mix of units today. "We will sample soil using a coring method involving a 2 inch aluminum fence post driven into the ground to a depth no deeper than 50cm. "

As a former US Capitol Police officer, I’m disgusted by this. As a current local detective, I’m disgusted by this. As a future criminal attorney, I’m disgusted by this. As an American, I’m terrified by this.

We can't keep looking away from his emotional and cognitive issues. The attack on the Pope was the beginning of a full night of melting down. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

He wants an American to stay out of US politics.

FRANKLIN, TN — Pastor Kevin Riggs: “I used to be in the inner circle of the evangelical church in Franklin… the only thing worse than authoritarianism/dictatorship is theocracy. We must push back against Christian Nationalism, rebuild and defend the wall separating church & state.”

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

I want Trump to make JD Vance an antipope so bad I can taste it. Come on, Pope Lickspittle I. Make Steubensville Great Again.

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

Lessons that all Americans should contemplate about the road ahead for Hungary and for us

NSF GRFP results are out! Awardees: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Honorable Mention: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... (Our team members didn't get emails but discovered the lists through Reddit. Confirmed by logging in to the website and checking.) #NSF #GRFP

I’ve seen enough. God is 1) real 2) nonbinary 3) primarily motivated by a deep hatred of JD Vance

JD Vance, please do keep campaigning for right wing European populists👌

Note: these pastors oversee the service Hegseth attends. “Under their model, voting rights would belong to the head of each household — not to individuals. Women in households led by a husband would not (vote) … women who are widowed, divorced or otherwise head of their own households would vote.”

Melania set to address Jimmy Hoffa disappearance at 2 pm today