He’s running

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

“Let's call this what it is: censorship, both imposed and self-driven. It is dangerous for the show and dangerous for democracy.”

This is such a phenomenal piece in Liberal Currents today. When we treat states as exceptional (and my first concern is always American Exceptionalism) our critiques of what’s dysfunctional in them suffers. When we treat them as ordinary and banal, we can speak freely.

Excellent piece: “Defenders of Israel often accuse its critics of having “double-standards,” of holding Israel to a level that no other country is required to meet, but what we see so often in practice is the opposite”

California remembers Bruce Herschensohn

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

New piece in @newyorker.com Yes, it’s true, in a kooky right wing rag last November Jay Bhattacharya—who now leads the US pandemic response—said the US should stop all pandemic preparedness & response efforts Instead, individuals must just get healthy—so at least the strong will survive 😢 1/2

When you have one completely fixed belief that no amount of contradictory evidence can shake

The Supreme Court has “agreed to hear from Catholic preschools that say it's unconstitutional to exclude them from a state-funded program because they won't admit kids from LGBTQ+ families.” 4/20/26 … 1/ www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

[whispering] the liberal currents essay about cuck porn explains the atlantic essay about miller lite www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

After arguing against sanctions on Itamar Ben Gvir on the EU level just a few weeks ago, the French government has just banned him from ever entering France. Poland banned him yesterday.

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BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Decided to see what’s up on the other place, saw this, logged off

Incredibly damning stuff chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

This is great and why “viewpoint diversity” folks have it wrong. An ideologically driven hiring regime would not give you professors like this

"Close to 80% of Gaza’s buildings have been damaged or destroyed, reducing the strip to a pile of rubble. At 365 square kilometres, the shattered concrete can cover an area roughly twice the size of Washington, D.C. In far worse shape, of course, are the residents of Gaza."

People are ridiculing this but the job of Fox News host is a proven launching pad for running the US military

“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”

Much wisdom in this interview. Not least: “Proclamations of concern for Jews have become the primary vehicle for mobilising a racist panic about Muslims”

I think we might live in the “Spock has a goatee” universe.

NEW: After a string of losses in its anti-trans project, DOJ turns to grand jury subpoenas in Texas. At least seven judges have blocked invasive administrative subpoenas targeting gender-affirming care for minors, so DOJ appears to be trying a new tactic. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Somehow “suck on this” returned

“The Constitution…is intended to be the charter of a self-governing and free people, not a secret code that can only be interpreted by those who have been read into the proper mystery cult. The Constitution belongs to us, more than it does the faculty of Yale Law School.”

i will simply incant "do NOT corrupt me. make NO mistakes" before wielding the One Ring

Thinking about this part... "Before the second recess, all four of Louisiana’s Black congressmen, past and present, since the Reconstruction era spoke to the committee..."

Fwiw the Economist model still has Dems with an 88% chance of taking the House (that's assuming a 7-4 Virginia split instead of 10-1). But it was as high as 95% before www.economist.com/interactive/...

Bringing knives to gunfights since at least the Gingrich congress

David Sacks vs. Hayek's Bastards, chapter 3

Alito’s logic in this case—that characteristics that correlate with racial identity, like partisanship, aren’t constitutionally protected and can be used to disenfranchise legally is *the exact thinking* that gave us poll taxes and literacy tests.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

Healthy people don’t get hantavirus is I think the argument here

NEW in Ragebait: A Palestinian guide who was interviewed for a 'CBS Sunday Morning' story complained to the network that he was "deceptively edited" to falsely portray his comments. Sources told me that Bari Weiss "meddled" with the piece, making last-minute edits. zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

Side by side: the speech, the UMich president’s response.

Pope’s advisor on AI: “What Thiel does is not theology, but politics that uses religious language. It worries me that many take his talk seriously.” What an interesting papacy. Feels like the most relevant of my lifetime

The ADL spent considerable time and resources lobbying for the Voting Rights Act in 1965, because they understood that Jews are safest in a liberal pluralistic democracy. The ADL has said nothing at all about the Voting Rights Act this week. Glad to see one American Jewish organization still is.

Just so: “The anticaste provisions of the Reconstruction amendments, intended by their authors to reverse the ‘horrid blasphemy’ that America was a white man’s country, are being inverted to defend that dominance”

Another story here with a first person sent to DRC to identify themselves: Colombian torture survivor Adriana Quiroz Zapata. Appears she may have been targeted for Congo removal in retaliation for filing a complaint against an ICE agent. www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-deport...

Remember, you are not required to sanctimony-post

As a Jewish person, this is an assault on the very values of liberal pluralism that have made the US a comparatively good place for Jews to live.

incroyable

All adults and some children on ICE flights—some 50 flights a day now—are shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a chain around their waists. I have spoken to migrants and their attorneys who report being shackled for 50, 75, and 82 hours while being deported. Flight data backs this up.

Alex Jones yesterday, April 22nd of 2026, is once again saying the Sandy Hook massacre was a false flag done by "professional shooters." It is imperative we take over that studio as soon as possible.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

I mean. They’d be innocent even if they WERE related, because that’s not how guilt works.