Atrocities, horror, and crimes against humanity. The term double tap policy doesn’t do justice to how absolutely evil it is to wait until rescuers arrive to then kill them too. There has to be accountability.

And Republicans are fine with it.

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

The Somali stuff is also part of this project. They are openly trying to Make Racism Great Again.

'Senior Army officers reacted with anger...to the news of General George’s dismissal' The reason for the dismissal? Gen. Randy George disagreed with Hegseth blocking the promotions of 2 women and 2 black Army officers. Arguably the more consequential firing today. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

I hate the term “double tapping.” Such a banal phrase for such heinous evil

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

someone go ask oathbreaker tillis if it was worth it

I regret that I had but one Netflix account to cancel.

Who knew men attracted to a "lifestyle" where women have no economic independence and are confined to the home where they are cut off from support networks and sold the myth that their only value is as baby-making machines and sexual objects might exhibit "hostile sexism"! Who could have predicted!

I saw a story yesterday about some college restructuring their various humanities departments into a one "Critical Thinking for the Market" program and totally fell for it for like 5 minutes.

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. www.wired.com/story/border...

6. Few states have closed this gap. California and Connecticut explicitly protect trans students’ access to school programs and activities. Maryland’s HB 649 would join them by using Title IX-style language barring exclusion from or discrimination in any program or activity.

5. The bill is notable first for its broad language: by protecting trans students in “any program or activity,” it goes beyond Maryland’s 2022 Inclusive Schools Act, which bans discrimination based on gender identity but does not explicitly guarantee access to all school programs.

1. An incredible bill is moving fast in Maryland protecting transgender students. It would apply to ANY "program or activity," and would even include private schools. This would include sports, bathrooms, and more. It even has a private right of action. Subscribe to support our journalism.

His legal career consists of one year as an attorney for the Port Authority and a couple of years in private general practice, in between his time in the military and when he was first elected to the state legislature. Bondi was unqualified but a state AG is at least on paper more than Zeldin has.

Zeldin, like Mullin at DHS, will be treated as a relative return to normalcy and dialing back the crazy, rather than the reality: he's still insanely unqualified and would have been unthinkable as an AG nominee in any normal administration.

“Because there is no means of verifying in advance whether DHS vehicles—such as unmarked cars driven by ICE agents—are operating in a given location, the practical consequence is that drone pilots nationwide cannot know whether a flight will expose them to liability,” Levine’s lawyers argued.

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.

Saving children from the mass murderer Elon Musk.

"A small army of ​volunteers stepped in, part of the continent-wide Afrocab community support network...brought more than 1,000 people in Benue, including 95 children under five, back into care between June & December 2025 - everyone, they estimate, who had stopped treatment in February & March."

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

On Tuesday!

I mean... this should not be a surprise. Managed forests have biomass removed all the time. They are often lower in diversity, too. And are frequently disturbed (managed), which can change growth patterns.

Just so everyone knows, the Solicitor General straight up lied about the 1921 law review article he kept talking about. quick thread:

Absolutely fantastic work by SCOTUS to deal with the universal injunctions issue first, allow the EO to go partially into effect, and then rule 7-2 against it on the merits. I sure do love being governed by these wise and principled jurists.

Off topic but I haven’t heard this pathetic DARVO-wielding sexual assaulter’s sinus-blocked voice since his weepy confirmation hearing. It’s horrifying that he’s allowed to hold a position of such staggering power.

I think it's important for people to understand just how shocking anything but a 9-0 would be to the legal institutions, and those of us calling SCOTUS a third house of congress effectively will be entirely vindicated in pushing for further electoral influence on SCOTUS irt expanding the court.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

DON’T lose sight of (3), (4). There will be dozen op-eds when Trump loses abt “SCOTUS finds its independence” or such nonsense. Think Roberts was often good at producing just enough outcomes like this to maintain a favorable narrative while consistently doing real harm to democracy. Don’t bite.

Pack it up, guys, this is going to be 7-2.

He'd be real mad if he could understand what was going on.

Ian Wurman today:

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

NEW from me: After major pressure from the Teamsters union both at the shop floor and in NLRB-mediated negotiations, Amazon has agreed to stop retaliating against workers for exercising their right to strike. "This is a huge win for us," shop floor organizer Josh Black said.

Israel has killed 1,200 people in Lebanon and is preparing to occupy and ethnically cleanse part of the country. No nation has the right to undertake these widespread human-rights violations under the pretext of its own defense.

This is American-funded ethnic cleansing. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

i can't believe a republican president did what every republican president of the last 50 years has done (exploded the national debt)

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

Bouie is very good on the birthright case, where a handful of academics have permanently disgraced themselves by swooping in to give substance to Trump's order, against 150 years of legal and political consensus and the plain meaning of the amendment (gift link)

Remember it was always illegal for DOGE to compile this info in a single database. And our party registration is already publicly available.

Preston's account of his ChatGPT-plagiarism makes AI out to be a monkey's paw/evil genie, fulfilling your wish but in a way that does you far more harm than good

Flagging this as a correction. The rest of the thread is about the larger discourse around CT but I don’t want to mislead.

The question is whether this will be applied to all therapy, including gender affirming therapy, which several states are angling to try and ban. I am not hopeful.

No therapist has ever been banned from treating an eating disorder or trauma as her counsel argued. They are precluded from telling clients those things caused them to be LGBTQ because it’s false. We aren’t allowed to lie to clients, that’s the rule. We should stick to it.

More context: exploration is a word all therapists use literally every day. It was chosen by the right because it’s deliberately vague. But the positionality of the therapist is what makes the difference, as is whether or not the therapist holds that being gay or trans is an “illness”.

Today on TDOV, SCOTUS struck down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy. The entire premise of the case is a sham. Thread attached.

“Despite what the radical left says, this has been the most successful operation ever carried out on my face,” said outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem