Russia has already suffered 5+ Vietnams worth of casualties, with next to nothing to show for it.

Federal data shows the tech giant filed for over 3,000 foreign worker visas as it cuts thousands of American jobs.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: A Democratic Party capable of playing hardball would be driving wedges between Catholics and Protestants. Five decades ago Protestants disliked Catholics‘ weird distasteful anti-abortion fetish. Paul Weyrich and others brought the two camps together…

Minnetonka’s annual Klondike Dog Derby is coming to an end after three consecutive years of cancellations due to lack of snow and ice.

"The KKK Memorial Park is staffed by slave labor" is the most Georgia headline of all time

The wildest thing about the tapper book is that it alleged a big cover up, everyone got all excited and then when it didn't deliver, they just pretended like it did and when you raised the fact that there was no meat in the book they would just fall back on calling you a Biden dead ender.

“We’re only 21 points underwater” is gonna be a sick brag for Dems.

And why do we think it's just Russia. Of all the countries in the world, just Russia. Huh. "The Trump administration has not confirmed whether it will allow countries other than Russia to send oil to Cuba..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/w...

Folks, I give you the New York Times

I'm not sure about you, but I think the collapse of US hegemony, a global price spike and recession, and a new ground war in the Middle East are far worse than drag queens reading books at the library.

this is the most common way the Times launders right wing views into its news coverage. this is a news desk problem, not an opinion page problem.

Well, I've seen this show before...

Thank goodness Hegseth has spent the last month churning out grotesque memes and videos making jokes about bombing Iran. Bc no one would ever do the same…

Recommended for a nuanced examination of the history of genetic testing and fascism

Remember the lady in the penis costume who was tackled by cops at the October No Kings protests? Not only have they not dropped the charges, they've added new ones. Her trial is set for later this month. theintercept.com/2026/04/03/p...

NEW: "Trump likes to move on women. He also apparently likes to fire them." No one should shed tears for Pam Bondi or Kristi Noem. But it is striking that Trump has fired these two women, when so many firing-worthy men were right there. www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

If a rich guy has an opinion, he gets an op-ed in a major newspaper explaining why we must keep him rich. If someone with actual value to society - a nurse or a delivery driver - has an opinion, we never get to hear it.

NYT reports Hegseth is firing generals because they won’t take Black/female officers off the promotions list.🤔 In the middle of a war. 🎪

ORACLE'S LARRY ELLISON: “Citizens will be on their best behavior” with AI surveillance systems "We're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on." Welcome to the dystopian AI surveillance state. @NicHulscher

Behold! The median voter.

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

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

This is part of the same social pathology that has, e.g., NYT pundits and politics reporters always defaulting to MAGA being composed of people with legit "concerns" who "feel disdained by coastal elites." Like, exactly the same. Backward white people are America's most protected protected class.

Abject bad faith will continue until abject bad faith has personal and professional consequences

Of course. Trip Gabriel, NYT

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published October 2025)

Good read.

Timely new meme format

So, THREE top Army leaders fired immediately: Chief of Staff, four star TRADOC (now TATCOM?), and two star head of the Chaplain corps

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. (Published June 2025)

As one does...

Promises made promises kept

What war crime, I wonder did Gen. George refuse to carry out?

A large gap in the logic of centrism is that they say things like this pointing left - "No bad people welcome in our tent!" - then turn around and argue that they want GOP moderates in the tent...people whose explicit belief system is "I'm OK with fascism if taxes or wokeness are the alternative."

Liberal Currents has quietly become one of the few outlets taking male supremacy seriously, either as a foundation of Trumpist fascism or as a system of oppression in its own right.

My fave

here it is. one single picture that perfectly captures why we have a housing crisis. it’s not blackrock. it’s not the developers. it’s the boomers who will yell at any politician who wants to build more housing

most helpful summary www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

The NFL has (another) woman problem. The league’s third female official was fired after 3 years but alleges the man who evaluated her performance was also harassing and humiliating her. VERY INTERESTED TO HEAR THE RESPONSE FROM THE NFL REFEREES ASSOCIATION. www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-active-n...

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

The USA can and should be stripped of the World Cup and the Olympics it is not a safe country.

Since the New Deal, the right edge of the conservative movement has been committed to the goal of eliminating all facets of the federal government that do good in the world, leaving behind only a war machine and a surveillance operation capable of containing the “internal leftist enemy.”

The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...