When a Democrat is president, the press only cares about the swing voters who oppose him. When a Republican is president, the press only cares about the conservative voters who support him.

Raskin said that if this fund hands money to the Jan. 6 rioters, Trump will be “using federal taxpayer dollars to compensate people who participated in insurrection.” Trump & his lawyers “are figuring out a way to refund the Jan. 6 militia, presumably to get them ready for the next round of battle.”

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

More university boards overruling the judgement of expert faculty 🤮 www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Black people saw the largest decline in financial stability for nearly every category compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Federal Reserve survey.

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gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

Under the Texas GOP, universities have proclaimed that professors can’t teach “controversial ideas.” That seems worse than students complaining about a commencement speaker. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

I know the bad guys are winning right now. It is nonetheless striking that they have to brazenly lie about their goal, pretending it is anti-discrimination rather than restoring white supremacy. They implicitly concede the popularity and undeniable moral force of the Civil Rights Movement.

When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!

The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Rufo is also coming to UW Madison, hosted the Thompson Center by the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy. CROWE with just an eagle-eyed focus on the Wisconsin economy.

This is not lets-propose-this-and-see-what-Congress-says. Their plan is more like USAID: eliminate before Congress can weigh in.

Motivated to share our PCAST report on the value of the social and behavioral sciences. Sigh… www.erichorvitz.com/pcastreports...

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

It says a lot about where we are that one can read the entire @nytimes.com story on the firing of the Attorney General of the United States without a *single* reference to that officer's duty to uphold the Constitution—which might just sometimes make it just a little hard to do the boss's bidding:

The targeted defunding of science on diversity, equity, & inclusion means that we'll all know less about the world outside our window. @alanyhyu.bsky.social reports on what that looks like at the science nonprofit, Project Implicit (@projectimplicit.bsky.social) whyy.org/articles/soc...

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

Today in billionaires buying the media outlets that cover them: www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/o...

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...

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.

After spending the last year dismantling every program, office, and tool the US had to identify and counter foreign propaganda and disinfo, suddenly the administration has discovered the need to…identify and counter foreign propaganda and disinfo… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/b...

My personal favorite part of the interview is when Caldwell glosses his opposition to the Civil Rights Act by claiming he’s worried about “freedom of assembly.” He doesn’t mention that he means the segregationist freedom to ensure Black folks are barred from public life. So cowardly.

A good interview with Jennifer Schuessler of the Times. It would be even better if it discussed how much Trump's "vision of American history" and his 1776 Commission were reactions to the 1619 Project and the events of summer 2020.

Preach, @governorwalz.mn.gov!

Updated link: www.rsn.org/001/what-a-s...

“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”

Wow …

Scientists are fighting for the future of biomedical research in America right now. So please don’t tell me how sitting down with the architects of the destruction of a decades-old legacy of research in the United States is a good idea.

Remember when his Sieg Heil was just a gesture of heartfelt joy?

Paapa Essiedu has revealed he’s faced racist death threats after being cast as Professor Severus Snape in HBO‘s upcoming Harry Potty television series.

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

A university’s “content neutral” signage policies are irrelevant to the fact that the historical and current actions of universities privilege some identities and experiences over others. None of those actions are content neutral.

Not really a surprise, but the V-Dem annual report for 2026 makes it official: US no longer a liberal democracy and heading for dictatorship: www.theguardian.com/... 1/2

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no. people.com/new-dime-coi...

An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.

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A contrived “people” without a geography to justify it wants a homeland <—- that’s as dangerous as it gets.

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

First the jokes about illegally killing people on boats allegedly carrying drugs, now a comedy routine about torpedoing an unarmed ship in an undeclared war

We are a secular democracy. If you don't like the freedom of religion, you are welcome to move somewhere else. In America, you can be Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or anything else. It's written into our Constitution. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Get lost with this garbage.

Reminder that right now Tarrio is supposed to be serving a 22 year prison sentence for his role in the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol but Trump pardoned him.