The mass deportation effort and this are all part of an effort to change the ethnic makeup of the United States. It has nothing to do with crime or national security.

“So we’re gonna win the war?” “War, whatever, I’m busy reinstalling the whites-only water fountains.”

I had the great pleasure of talking to my friend Eli Clare about his new book, Unfurl, and the long arc of his exquisite work shaping trans politics and disability justice over the last many decades.

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

it’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

This entire administration is uninformed people laughing at experts, rejecting their advice, and then discovering why the experts said what they said.

Firing senior officers for cause is one thing. Firing them repeatedly on this scale and with no explanation is unprecedented in our nation's history. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

We prioritized destroying their mostly useless ships and fighter jets but not their precedent-setting anti-ship missiles and drone aircraft. Masterful gambit, Mr. President.

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

remember when we were like “he’s gonna be a psycho Christian white nationalist!” and everybody was like “don’t be hysterical!” good times

Of course. Trip Gabriel, NYT

What makes Pennsylvania perfect… @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social of @datasociety.bsky.social on our latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 episode, “Data Centers Go Nuclear”. Check out their latest piece in @newint.bsky.social. newint.org/science-and-... (w @emilymbender.bsky.social)

Snelling also repeated CPD's claim that the department had no idea its officers were responding to an ICE facility, but dispatch audio I obtained last summer showed that wasn't the case. southsideweekly.com/june-4-calls...

Supt. Snelling just told the CCPSA that CPD established a perimeter to "control traffic" outside of a South Loop ICE facility in June. The TRUST Act prohibits police from "any collateral assistance such as ... establishing a security or traffic perimeter surrounding such operations"

Never forget that this was how The Washington Post greeted Pam Bondi's nomination. Support independent pro-democracy media. Support Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Jan. 6 rioter who received a taxpayer funded salary from the Trump administration and worked for DOJ’s “weaponization” working group is out. “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, you fucking criminal,” says a former Jan. 6 prosecutor.

1. Iran establishes a toll for Hormuz passage. 2. China begins issuing licenses for rare earths. “.. The lesson is that the way to deal with American economic coercion is to fight back.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/b...

I heard someone say that we should be registering voters at gas stations.

It was a different time youtu.be/8SdGdmnLnSo?...

thank you

Most people say you shouldn't kill and eat your neighbors. Jeffrey Dahmer disagrees. Is this just a question of perspective? Our ironically detached reporter with crippling daddy issues writes about it.

"The situation may be slipping out of its control. Key Trump officials, including Hegseth, were surprised by the barrage of retaliatory attacks Tehran launched across the region. "Hegseth 'was caught off guard. There’s no question.'" time.com/article/2026...

1. Pete was in the National Guard. He's never lived or worked on an active duty military installation outside of brief training periods. 2. There will be murders.

Swedish Easter witches, armed with pots of coffee, are flying to their yearly gathering at the island of Blåkulla. ☕️ 🎨 Jenny Nyström, 1911

I know it’s almost a cliche that writers complain about this, but I’m starting a new book and it really is like, how do I do this, how do you write a book, what’s the formula for making this happen??

In dissent, Justice Riggs suggests that voters must oust the North Carolina Supreme Court's Republicans in order to restore the state constitutional guarantee to education. Says "voters will reach a breaking point" and elect "a different species of court." www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

Riggs knows why NC Republicans—including her own colleagues—tried to steal her elected SCONC seat.

From D&D to rap to metal, the PMRC to social media outrage, @masnick.com notes, ‘Every generation gets its moral panic. Every time, someone insists “this time it’s different.” Every time… the panic (eventually) looks ridiculous…’ www.techdirt.com/2026/03/31/fre… cc @enbrown.bsky.social

Disappointing AA meeting.

SEPTA has been working to enhance its Regional Rail fleet – and thanks to emergency state funding, help is now coming in the form of 24 new coach cars.

It's this little gem and it's not up for debate

The US spent $28.7 billion during the first two weeks of the Iran War — $2.1 billion per day. This may be a higher estimate than you've seen elsewhere. Those estimates are too low. This one could be too. See my methodology and full analysis linked below.

Local officials held an event to talk about preventing child abuse. But when @jeff-a-chamer.bsky.social asked about a horrible child abuse case from just months ago, and the public records in the case that they're withholding, they didn't have much to say:

Sitting here staring at a whiskey trying to think how 2006 me would deal the concept that Kid Rock would be involved in the ouster of a chief of staff of the Army

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down, sources say.

I’m sorry, what the hell is this nonsense? This would get an F in a Conlaw 101 class.

Sex at arm’s length? Male octopuses use specialised arm to mate, scientists find

A few thoughts on this (thread forthcoming) 1. the court laments the length of time and resources spent on this case: of course, this could’ve been over 3.5 years ago if Newby hadn’t decided to ignore precedent and legal norms to rehear the case.

Read our reporting here: www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

John Calhoun said the U.S. was a "white man's government." John Bingham, one of the authors of the 14th Amendment, said that this was a "horrid blasphemy." The birthright citizenship case is ultimately about which America we are going to be. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

announcing our new attorney general, the dow jones industrial average

By a 4–3 vote, the North Carolina Supreme Court's Republicans toss out a long-running lawsuit seeking to enforce the state constitution's guarantee of a quality public education for all children. The one reasonable Republican dissents, as do the two Democrats. www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

Just remember, if you are loyal to Donald Trump and debase yourself and perjure yourself and make yourself complicit in many many horrible crimes against humanity for his sake, Donald Trump will be fiercely loyal to you until it is slightly inconvenient for him.

It’s wild because people will refer to the “Woke Times™️” like they were hunted through the street and whole time it was basically people asking them to reflect on their actions

With Todd Blanche taking over the Justice Department. There will and should be a sharp focus on his gross mishandling/coverup of the Epstein files and Ghislaine Maxwell. Also do a search for "Deputy Attorney General" to see parts of the broader pattern of misconduct.

Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, headed by a lawyer named in Jan. 6 committee testimony, claims Trump does not have to turn over presidential records:

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