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...

WATCH: Footage shows an Iranian ballistic missile striking a U.S. base in the Middle East in recent days, landing just a few meters from servicemembers.

Great speech, dude.

Trump on Somali-Americans in Minnesota: "They're low IQ. I can generalize. They're low IQ people. They're bad people." (Note that moments later he claims Indianapolis is in Minnesota)

American tech oligarchs have done a brilliant job of making themselves universally hated. If they had just stayed businessmen, no one would care. But by using their fortunes to aggressively support fascists, they guaranteed the public would turn on them

Trump:

The US “achievement” in the Iran war is creating a new revenue stream for the Revolutionary Guard.

Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.

A few people have replied to my Artemis posts with links to Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon." Here's a story from Space.com about Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, currently en route to fly around the Moon, and his connection to that piece. www.space.com/space-explor...

The Colorado Times Recorder reports on ICE’s sprawling network of unofficial detention sites:

Counterpoint. We can and should. Every bomb . Every missile is a theft from our future.

No one has content-neutral beliefs on things like "purity politics," chapter one million

The whole Iran war is looking more and more like a gimmick to drop energy sanctions on Russia and pressure Europeans to do the same. A war to make Russia’s much larger war easier and possible to sustain.