South Loop Sunset. This evening on the Chicago River.

Trump starting a Gerrymandering war he couldn’t finish feels a whole lot Trump starting trade wars he couldn’t finish and this Iran war he can’t finish. He’s not playing chess people.

smdh

This is horrific. I feel physically ill. (Reposted with ALT text)

again, an audience of one

Joe Kernen wraps up the interview with Trump after 40 minutes: "We could talk NATO, but I know you've, uh, obviously got a lot to do"

NEW | Swedish intelligence assessments are consistent with ISW's assessments about the significant challenges the Russian economy is facing and the Kremlin's efforts to conceal these issues to present Russia as able to sustain its war effort indefinitely. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...

Man what the hell

On an earnings call, the CEO of Palantir talked openly about killing “enemies,” then added, “I’m sure you’re enjoying this as much as I am!” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Recall the Supreme Court held there was a constitutional right to stand on a public sidewalk and scream homophobic rants at a soldier's funeral as long as you're a bunch of right-wing religious freaks, but apparently it's a crime to stand on a public sidewalk and smirk while Black.

A refund system for businesses that paid tariffs which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump imposed without the constitutional authority to do so is scheduled to launch Monday. Importers and their brokers will be able to begin claiming refunds from 8am on www.cbp.gov/document/gui...

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants. He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

Anti-semitic dogwhistles aside, just because you sing a jesus song at the talent show doesn’t mean you’re a good singer. bsky.app/profile/atru...

High oil prices hurt 330 million Americans. But they help Vladimir Putin. This is an easy choice.

I know I would.

"In what can only be described as leftist wish fulfillment, there appear to be no prisons in the Vatican, and the only law enforcement agency is the Swiss Guard, who look more like court jesters than a police force."

reminder: that this company exists only on the generosity of our tax dollars

It’s so important to know your bollard history. #WorldBollardAssociaton

these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.

Wasn’t this Ivanka’s pet issue in the first term??

It's not just that Palantir believes "Western Civilisation" to be inherently superior, though they do. It's that they're arrogant enough to believe they can order "the West" a la carte, selectively choosing the racist authoritarian bits they like and declaring them the civilisational secret sauce.

If Trump isn't rapidly losing his mind why does he keep speaking to MS Now?

This Day in Labor History: April 19, 1911. Furniture makers in Grand Rapids, Michigan went on strike to protest the terrible wages and working conditions that defined their lives. But this was divided by religion and goes far to explain how uch of Protestantism serves capital!

Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash's Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

This Lego video for drunk FBI Director Kash Patel is fantastic. 🔥

going to the Nuremburg rally with a pocket square to show that i don't approve of hitler. still heiling though

Genuinely I think it would be a sound strategy to go absolutely all in on calling these people satanic idolators

make a Fish Statement

They mocked the field of gender studies as meaningless, but I think they really just knew it was onto them. They're the softest bunch of insecure little manchildren play-acting what they have been told is manly and macho. (gift link)

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. 😳

just a wee little nap before I get busy with the seed starting (perennial flowers mostly).

New episode of That's My Strait is out

The Strait of Hormuz is open, but first you must answer my riddles three:

I mean

This shit is what I mean when I say "AI" is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascism. Nostalgia is a thought terminator.

Also: Pope Leo is a natural-born US citizen over 35 years of age, has lived in America more than 14 years, and insofar as we can tell, has never engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the US.

Guys, I could read this lovely dialogue between you all day, but I’ve got to rush

ddddog park

Hands down. If someone was pro-bombing children they also harbor a whole lot of shitty views. Case in point. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

fascinating FT long read on how the fertilisers essential to modern intensive agriculture are essentially by-products from the natural gas industry www.ft.com/content/3634...

Schrodinger’s strait

and they only passed this law because video stores were going to out the porn-rental habits of Supreme Court justices!

hey i’m thinking of getting into crime does anyone know if the FBI director is blacked out currently

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...