Short...no, wait, verbatim JD Vance: “I think it’s very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology.” www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/area...

Thank you @ahrbuffalo.bsky.social for the great conversation tonight. I always love spending an evening talking with educators about our work. And it was an honor to be Andrew Beiter's last interview as Executive Director!

Remember when words communicated concepts which could be combined to express ideas? Those were the days. I miss language.

This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else: “What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”

Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found. After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis. (Published Dec. 2025)

Health boss RFK Jr.'s 1-year anniversary week was packed with new disasters and reminders of old ones. But even those who should care most are MIA. GOP senators Bill Cassidy (a doctor) and Mitch McConnell (a polio survivor) top my list. My latest at @thebulwark.com open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Jesse Jackson-One of the greatest civil rights figures of our time… His memory is a blessing to all of us

A+ on all usage from my kids. This may not spark a genuine lifelong interest in Renaissance pottery among Gen Z and/or Alphas. But it definitely WILL generate visits to take selfies with the now-memed plate, at least. And that’s something!

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

The President telling a prime time network news host effectively "I got you this job" is not something you see every day.

Perhaps this is why the school is doing this @cnn.com ? bsky.app/profile/eric...

I suspect that a lot of the wealthy owners and operators of national media outlets with kids in private schools fundamentally don't grasp that regular US citizens with kids in the public schools are FURIOUS because ICE is terrorizing THEIR NEIGHBORS and THEIR KIDS' BEST FRIENDS.

this administration is seeing how far they can push the people before the people push back. and then they will declare marshall law

The FBI documented this, and while I think they’ve taken down the report on their site, the Internet doesn’t forget. For your consideration, 2006’s FBI report “White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement.”

CNN put together a montage of Trump being vocally against regime change before he fell in love with it

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

On Christmas Day.

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

Texas widow receives immigration approval letter months after husband's death in ICE shooting The approval letter would've allowed Miguel Garcia to move forward with obtaining a visa or green card

NEW: Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us that Trump is a schmuck. (He was also a friend, and I'll miss our very long lunches.)

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As per usual, CAP is spot-on. Congress must pass legislation to ensure that crypto markets are subject to the same types of safeguards that govern other capital markets. @SenatorAndyKim @CoryBooker please push to close the Genius Act loophole! www.americanprogress.org/article/cong...

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

It is driving me crazy that I’m not seeing widespread coverage of these statements by the President. This is a big deal! If a news organization isn’t putting this in front of their readers/viewers, they are failing at their job to inform the public.

In Lahaina, HI, @uhpafaculty.bsky.social members brought thousands of books to children and families after the 2023 wildfires, an act of deep care and solidarity that stayed with me. www.aft.org/news/lahaina... #PublicSchoolProud #ReadingOpensTheWorld

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

“.. A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds of the meeting Tuesday showed that during nine separate instances, Trump’s eyes were closed for extended periods or he appeared to struggle to keep them open, amounting cumulatively to nearly six minutes.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Wait did he really post 150 times last night? I… If a family member did that, you’d be having conversations with them, seeing what help they need. This is not fucking NORMAL. What the actual fuck are we doing here?

Can someone show the White House Press Corpse a montage of the reporters who covered previous administrations, the ones who weren't complete cowards?

Straight-up sociopath. Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

REALLY FUCKING DISAPPOINTING cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...

in which a sitting justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court seems to imply he’s worried about whether there’ll be a presidential race in 2028 boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

I think I deserve some credit for saying Jaxson Dart was going to be the best quarterback in NFL history as soon I heard there was a QB named “Jaxson Dart.” I hadn’t even seen him throw a pass, sometimes you just know

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

If they didn't have bad faith, they'd have no faith at all.

Highly recommend this book to everyone!

Not a denial

If you’re not a litigator, you may not know how pure & high-grade your bullshit has to be to get a judge to throw out your complaint before the defendant even asks. The lawyers who agreed to file this should be shunned by the profession.

There is no legitimate reason for this request; USDA already has the data. It's inexplicable beyond (1) a fig leaf to simply make people go hungry because cruelty is fun and/or (2) a deliberate effort to imperil personal data security and thereby increase fraud / identity theft.

word?

I notice that the ABC, Nexstar, and Sinclair statements don’t specify what Kimmel said or what was offensive about it, which I would very much like them to try to verbalize.

In his Oval Office address on political violence, Trump lists the attempt on his life, the Scalise shooting, and attacks on ICE agents. He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house.

In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."

He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.

Great day for this story to drop