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April 26, 2026

If @zacheverson.com writes it, we need to read it:

April 25, 2026

Saturday was the one-year anniversary of Virginia Guiffre’s death. The Epstein survivors aren’t done fighting, but it takes public support to fuel their work. Don’t let the effort to distract work on you. Read & share: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

April 24, 2026

The DC Circuit just ruled that Trump’s declaration of an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border on his 1st day in office in 2025 was illegal, clearing the way to reopen the United States to migrants seeking asylum, although appeal is likely. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

April 23, 2026

My external chutzpah arrived today but it’s always within me! @jbf1755.bsky.social

Not to be overly alarmist, but everyone should be worried about DOJ’s indictment of SPLC. Here’s why: joycevance.substack.com/p/whats-wron...

April 22, 2026

Trump gave Iran the opportunity to close the Strait of Hormuz. He put them in a position of power. All of the consequences, including the economic ones, are uniquely his fault.

Yes indeed. That’s how elections work. People vote for what they want. Democracy is no authoritarian’s friend.

April 21, 2026

A little background on who the Southern Poverty Law Center is and what kind of work they’ve been doing for decades makes it clear that DOJ’s indictment (which is of the center, not of any individuals) is vindictive & malicious, an attack on civil rights work itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I discussed this very thing last night. California and Virginia had the voters decide. NOT Texas.

Last night, I said that today, there would be a LOT of screaming about gerrymandering, given the election in Virginia. I also explained a crucial difference in how it was done—in both VA and CA: they asked the voters to decide. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mm5e...

Hi folks: Tonight on "A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep," I talked about the redistricting vote in Virginia -- what it means -- gerrymandering in the past -- and what to expect going forward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm5e...

it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback. in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.

Happy Earth Day! A @lizadonnelly.bsky.social drawing!

April 20, 2026

FBI Director Kash Patel’s defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic explained: joycevance.substack.com/p/kashs-comp...

April 19, 2026

This morning, just after 8 a.m., Trump had a long ramble on Truth Social that concluded, “if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” That’s our start to the week ahead. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Yesterday I discussed why and how the Battle of Lexington (April 19, 1775) was a community event. Much like the attacks on We the People now. m.youtube.com/watch?v=36HA...

On the “strategic incompetence” of the DJT regime.

DOJ seeks to vacate insurrectionists’ convictions, while going after a former CIA Director: If Trump can make convictions disappear for allies while prosecuting critics, the damage isn’t just theoretical. Once that line is crossed, it doesn’t easily uncross itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

April 18, 2026

1/The Justice Department has moved to drop the last remaining January 6 insurrection criminal matters: the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys seditious conspiracy cases. Trump commuted their sentences when he returned to office, which got them out of prison, but it didn’t erase their convictions.

Tomorrow on a specially scheduled episode of "History Matters:" Revolutionary Pushback: Past & Present Because sometimes, the Revolution has a LOT to say. To the here and now. Sunday 10AM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=36HA...

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

1/The NYT is releasing internal SCOTUS documents re: 2016 creation of the modern “Shadow Docket” noting Justice Roberts & “other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered [Trump] through their shadow docket rulings. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

What is ICE doing with all of that taxpayer money? Although they’re off the front pages, there are substantial problems — but you have to be willing to look across the country & also at policy and personnel changes. I put some of those pieces together here. joycevance.substack.com/p/ice-and-th...

Ok I built it as a skill open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...

April 16, 2026

In Maine, ICE brazenly called their operation “catch of the day.” The banal inhumanity of it all is overwhelming. The deaths, the injuries, the conditions in detention, the brazen disregard for people’s rights, including American citizens. And it’s still happening. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This is all happening because Republicans refused to hold Trump accountable for Jan 6. And now the “Sec of War” is comparing Trump to Jesus. Well done, GOP.

April 15, 2026

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.

April 14, 2026

DOJ released a report claiming the Biden administration “weaponized” it when it prosecuted violations of a law that prohibits violence, threats, intimidation or obstruction used to prevent people from entering reproductive health clinics. That report, debunked here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

They own this. Whatever disasters continue to unfold belong not to the president and his Cabinet alone, but to the entire Republican Party.

Get in, losers. We're applying Christensen's generative rhetoric to de-LLM-ifying prose, and along the way discussing why LLMs talk the way they do. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/a-300-word...

Perhaps he should read the Constitution. The First Amendment of our Bill of Rights, for example.

Every time they say they’re the party of law & order, that they’re pro-law enforcement, that DOJ is taking violent criminals off the streets & Democrats are pro-criminal, remember this. It’s all a sham; a mob-style loyalty exercise.

KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.

Trump wanted to kill off PBS & NPR by defunding them. It hasn't worked as intended—viewers came to their aid & now a fed'l judge has held Trump's executive order unconstitutional. We also look at why Trump might dislike public media & a Muppet named Donald Grump. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

April 13, 2026

The museum “preemptively” removed and changed content out of fear of drawing attention from the DJT regime. On what? Racism and the fragility of democracy.

Swalwell has announced his resignation from Congress. It’s impossible not to ask why Texas Republican Tony Gonzales hasn’t done the same. And why the GOP doesn’t insist the Epstein files, which repeatedly mention the head of their party, be fully released.