Never forget they're creating this havoc deliberately—out of spite.

Caption contest RFK Jr - AOC (Photo from The Blaze)

Yeah, not good… Kash Patel's FBI launched an unnecessary raid on the home of a former Capitol Police officer, based on Jan. 6 conspiracy theories from right-wing media outlet The Blaze. www.thebulwark.com/p/lawsuit-bl...

- *UAL SEES FY ADJ EPS $7 TO $11, SAW $12 TO $14, EST. $9.08 lol ok it's def a little funny that all the airline guys sucked up to trump and now united is gonna eat like 200 million bucks per month in additional fuel costs because he decided to destroy the global oil trade

Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...

Every major news organization should be producing and promoting something along the lines of "Erratic and volatile president threatens to restart his war of aggression against Iran and order massive assault on civilian infrastructure, a possible war crime. Who will tell him no?"

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein? KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

We need a labeler here that lets everyone know. ACTUALLY WENT TO THE 2026 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER

you get: the astounding power of the supreme court of the united states of america we get: some vague modicum of ethical behavior apparently this bargain was a bridge too far, so I propose a new one, which involves impeachment and jail

I for one would enjoy it if journalists stopped pretending this dinner is anything besides a chance to source up their contacts list and flatter government officials. One of the ickiest rituals in Washington, imo, and that's not a Trump-era thing.

For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi

could making a serial rapist the figurehead of the modern right have pushed women left? no, it's the hysterical broads who went crazy

A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children should stop this country in its tracks. Instead, the Shreveport tragedy disappeared from the headlines in a day. We cannot allow this level of violence to fade into background noise. Ending America’s gun‑violence epidemic is a moral oblligation.

Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

Wrote about a court blocking *actual* jawboning by the Trump admin... and how the people who spent the last 5 years screaming about how supposed Biden admin jawboning (for which they presented no evidence since it didn't happen) was the worst thing ever, are completely silent about this case.

When this is all over, the corporate execs who have paid bribes to Trump must all be prosecuted.

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote. They found one. One. And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

Rockland County, NY, gave a $77 million data center tax break to JP Morgan Chase to create exactly one job. On a dollars-per-job basis it appears to be the costliest subsidy in U.S. history, possibly even a world record nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...

Proposed FY 2027 HHS budget eliminates teen pregnancy prevention. (figures are in thousands, so add "000" to this) www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

I think both a cause and effect of the slide towards authoritarianism is information systems slipping from an attempt to inform towards an attempt to enflame; a consequence of slowly losing a world where events are rational, rationality is persuasive, and that persuasion worth engaging in

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.

I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup. Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires. It's a disgrace.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

You only hear shards of this discussion from people like @DaveTroy. We need to be discussing these warped billionaire-children more often because while their visions are pretentious, self-serving nonsense on every level, they can still be persuasive to those who think it will benefit them, and do …

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

We pay taxes. They steal our money and they use the government we pay for to make their rich friends richer. My latest on how Donald Trump is using the federal government as his private ATM Machine. open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

If you’re an ambitious politician living through this morning in history and you decide it’s important to make up flimsy shit to punch left, you’ve disqualified yourself as: worm

If only the press could cover Trump like they covered Biden’s bitey dog.

One thing that I'm thinking about as a ponder how Todd Blanche put someone whose wife was investigated for foreign influence peddling on this case is that before Blanche was Trump's lawyer be was Boris Epshteyn's lawyer and before he was Epshteyn's lawyer he was Paul Manafort's lawyer. 😳

They told the Pope he doesn’t understand the Bible and then they quoted Pulp Fiction.

Thanks to Trump, I get to pay a small fortune in taxes while 88 companies paid a grand total of $0 in federal income taxes. Here are a few: Tesla Palantir Walt Disney MasterBrand United Airlines Southwest Airlines Live Nation Entertainment #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks itep.org/88-profitabl...

Sean Hannity leaves the Catholic Church to worship Donald Trump

It's telling that the entire premise of the shadow docket is that lower courts are incompetent. Not wrong, not the normal judges-can-disagree stuff. SCOTUS is certain the Appellate and District courts are all so truly incompetent that they cannot properly decide injunctions, forcing SCOTUS to act.🙄

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

The Iran War is over if you’re at the White House, still going on if you leave. Kind of a Severance thing.

Elon Musk basically accused Trump of being a pedophile and then got dinner with him again a few months later. Joe Rogan acted shocked and dismayed about ICE and Iran and now he’s standing behind Trump in the Oval Office. These guys only care about holding onto power through any means necessary

"We tried to fight a war we thought would be very easy and instead gave one of the countries in the world most hostile to America the greatest hostage they could possibly imagine" is such a perfect MAGA-style foreign policy disaster, in that its idiocy is only rivaled by its absurdity

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

The New York Times has a complicated relationship with telling the truth about the powerful, especially 45/47.

New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped

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destruction of the voting rights act by a partisan court that thinks the blacks have it too good is on par with the ignominy of the courts that gutted the 14th amendment and killed the 1875 civil rights act

The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine.