In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job. One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution. Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?

There. Is. No. Bottom.

For his next act, Pete Hegseth is manually going to chisel off every single "employees must wash hands" sign from every armed forces cafeteria bathroom.

@huffpost.com editor in chief @wps.bsky.social on Trump and the White House Correspondents Dinner: "The idea of raising a glass to the power of journalism with him is at once ridiculous and embarrassing. Count us out." www.huffpost.com/entry/a-line...

Last weekend's big bombshell didn't fall on Iran, but at the U.S. Supreme Court. A stunning leak both exposed the corporate hypocrisy of John Roberts and revealed 9 justices in open warfare They are sending us a 'bat signal.' Democracy is in danger My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

And .. here come the Freedom of Information Act requests for Kash Patel records DC watchdog group Democracy Forward has formally requested Patel's calendars & any messages from security detail that include words "drinking", "hungover", "inebriated" democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

This was never about the worst of the worst. We have continually demanded answers about how many of our children were taken into federal detention. Trump’s DHS has continually refused to give us information. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Journalists might've once had the excuse that the didn’t realize how bad MAGA extremism would be. But they can't plead cluelessness now. What’s left are cowardice, complicity and courage. Pick one. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

This should be a much bigger story. The Trump administration is about to hand TotalEnergies, a French oil company, nearly $1 billion of your money to cancel its American offshore wind projects. And they are pulling the cash from an account they are not allowed to use this way.🧵

John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes Roberts accepted $10 Million in bribes disguised as recruiting fees from Law firms with cases pending before the Supreme Court. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

"Thus far, the Sandy Hook families have not seen a dime of what’s owed to them." Jones is why there's firing squads.

🧵Trump's war against Pope Leo is about something far larger than his foreign wars, it's actually a struggle for control of American Christianity. This thread will summarize the main points of my latest essay about how Trumpism is a replacement Christianity. Continue or click through:

Hmmm... But I was told this was just a problem in super lefty, socialist CA. /s “The affordability picture has changed in FL almost more than anywhere else in the (US)..." Pretty grim read--and this is the WSJ (gift linked).

Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past. Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic. emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

Trump’s amazing peace deal is going well. A peace deal the likes of which nobody has ever seen. Best peace deal ever. Nobody thought it was possible.

When I joined the Department of Justice it was a big deal to be offered a position as a federal prosecutor. Under the current administration, it’s an embarrassment. apnews.com/article/just...

Perfect.

Thank you, my dear Maureen for thinking of me. Here are more of my dear friends: @vonnie.bsky.social @omoraa.bsky.social @riptide360.bsky.social @sdonaworth.bsky.social @chrismoore7951.bsky.social @catservantx3.bsky.social

Grimm and Grimmer: @dgraham.bsky.social has way too much fun coming up with Trump's "novel" takeaways from classic fairy tales. 😂 www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

This is valuable @wired.com reporting on prominent DOGE operatives and their fates. Where are they now? Some still inside our government, sadly for us. www.wired.com/story/where-...

I am following Musk’s money so much I captured this…

"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"

Neguse: "Despite all of that, Speaker Johnson made the decision to gavel the House & send everyone home. Now we're back 2 weeks later & what has the majority decided is the most pressing issue to debate? Apparently it's a resolution commemorating a bill that the GOP passed last year. It's absurd."

This would be high comedy if we weren't living through slow-motion tragedy.

Congrats to Trump. He is ruining not just our economy but the entire global economy. Sharpest downgrade? UK. With friends like us ... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Trump, Musk & Co. killed the beloved IRS "direct file" aid for taxpayers, and then — "You will never guess who also proposed an IRS app to help for Americans file their taxes." Follow Musk's $. Absolutely maddening, for #TaxDay, from @donmoyn.bsky.social. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

Don and I are on the same page on this. I was furious when I wrote this in January 2025. An efficient government that makes life easier for regular people? the whole country should have been furious. www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

"Maybe the perceptions of the war are colored very strongly by the impact it’s having on prices. But I also think the war is just filling the headlines with awful news and stuff that makes him just look like a preposterously ridiculous moron." PRM is the new TFG. 🙏 @gregsargent.bsky.social

Kimberlee Williams, who lived in Oklahoma, was jailed for six months after being accused of crimes in Maryland, a state she told investigators she had never visited. Facial recognition identified her as the suspect before the charges were dismissed.

Ohio gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is telling voters he’ll roll property taxes back to “levels where they were before the end of the Covid pandemic.” But Innovation Ohio contends it would be a disaster for schools, libraries, and public safety and health ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/14/v...

@radiofreetom.bsky.social on the obligations of the House, Senate, and voters as Trump deteriorates in plain sight: "America cannot keep ignoring the dysfunction of the commander in chief, the sole steward of the codes to a massive nuclear arsenal." 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Soft on crime????

Our heretical vice president boss baby, infamous for his "they're eating dogs and cats" lie, wants to make sure that the pope is "anchored in the truth."

He's not weak on dealing with authoritarian mooks. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. 🇻🇦

It's the Department of War vs. the Pope. Read @jvl.bsky.social's Triad @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-depart...

I saw some outlet in the US say "Pope Leo Defies Trump Admin." in its headline (guess!) The Church has been around for centuries, far longer than any state or "administration." It's the other way around.

Trump was beatable, always has been, but the Democratic coalition has been unreliable and easily fractured - and tends to stay home. Hillary could have won if Democrats and Indies had just clenched their teeth and pulled that lever instead of Jill Stein and Gary what's his name

78 percent turnout (!!!) and here's Orban's reaction: "Too many people are voting!"

Americans quick to shriek that Magyar is a conservative might want to sit this one out and just let Hungarians celebrate tonight. Promise you Hungarians from the LGBTQ community who voted for Magyar know, and have understood opposition politics against autocracy better than you.

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When he launched this war, the President vowed regime change and “unconditional surrender.” What has he gotten? We went from Ayatollah Khamenei to Ayatollah Khameini Jr. - and are now negotiating over a 10-point plan written by the Iranians.

Here we fixed this for you, @wsj.com We see you trying to help JD pretend he doesn’t have to wear this war when he runs for president. Nope.

Invaluable @hcrichardson.bsky.social newsletter today to close out a week in which "it feels like something shifted" in America, with new (to me) nuggets from/about Raskin, Buttigieg, John Kerry, and the Putin-Orban axis. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-10-2...

"We still have people capable of extraordinary things. The institutions that produced them, however battered, are still producing them. The knowledge that built Orion...didn’t disappear when the political class lost the plot." @therickwilson.bsky.social www.lincolnsquare.media/p/we-can-sti...

For anyone who was upset about Joe Biden pardoning Hunter…