So many of these strong First Amendment cases -- challenging the Trump admin's censorial campaign to chill dissent -- are winning. Here's another win for free speech against surveillance & ICE tracking: www.theverge.com/policy/91461...
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A deep dive on the history of our Roman-inspired republican symbolism and why Trump's desecrations of it are worse than merely being cringe-inducing.
Victoria Toensing @VicToensing Hubby being sworn in as Counsel to the Attorney General. 4:04 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 6,199 Views Jason Reding Quiñones, the US Attorney in Miami, swearing in a much shorter Joe DiGenova.
Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past.
Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic.
emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...
Israel never talked me into the war with Iran, the results of Oct. 7th, added to my lifelong opinion that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON, did. I watch and read the FAKE NEWS Pundits and Polls in total disbelief. 90% of what they say are lies and made up stories, and the polls are rigged, much as the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged. Just like the results in Venezuela, which the media doesn’t like talking about, the results in Iran will be amazing - And if Iran’s new leaders (Regime Change!) are smart, Iran can have a great and prosperous future! President DJT
Trump on his historically dismal approval numbers: "The polls are rigged, much as the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged"
Weird how they never do this in areas where Trump won!
DOJ Office of Civil Rights seem very focused on districts with a lot of Black voters.
As it ever was
Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.
At bottom, this story is further grotesque proof that the Republican establishment has been helping prop up a madman no matter the life and death or rule of law consequences. A complete betrayal of their oaths and the lives of countless others, including our service members on duty right now.
He’s poasting thru it while considering himself for the Medal of Honor. But who is keeping him out of the situation room? Issuing commands to the military? Are their dueling factions issuing competing orders? Because that honestly would make the most sense right now.
The president is deranged. But who is actually running our country? Unnamed WH aides and Pentagon leadership is not precise enough.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
"How can we connect with working-class voters?"
"Maybe we could just stand up against the industry that's making them poorer, sicker and less likely to find good employment?"
"Meh."
“Other presidents, both Democratic and Republican, have taken steps to avoid even the perception of a conflict of interest, while in Mr. Trump’s world it is almost the reverse. The family has been open that it intends to keep doing business deals around the world.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
These are going to come for the left too. They financially motivated — Macedonian teenager type stuff for the AI era. Scammers profiting off of easily enraged people. MAGA may be more susceptible to ragebait but worth understanding what’s going to happen in 2026 and 2028.
John Roberts is and always has been Sam Alito with better PR
he has declared himself and his fellow republican justices the unelected rulers of America and they have wielded their power in favor of making Donald Trump of all people untouchable
the court as it exists today must be broken
“What affordability crisis, amirite?”
“Good one, dad!”
Orbán rode to power on resentment over the economic stagnation that developed under center-left governments. But he leaves office with Hungarians facing falling wages and higher inflation than similar countries are experiencing. Orbán’s sectarianism and intolerance have sparked neither a religious revival nor a fertility bump; Hungary’s population is shrinking and has become more irreligious, even as Orbán has demonized LGBTQ people, “Muslim invaders,” and Jews. Orbánism, in short, did not make Hungarians more rich, Christian, or free—unless you happened to be one of Orbán’s buddies, in which case you may have gotten rich. As most Hungarians felt their economic circumstances worsen, Orbán provided them with relatively powerless targets to hate.
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...
Bibi doesn’t care about honoring a ceasefire. Human life is meaningless against his quest to remain in power.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Screenshotted excerpt from the linked article, reading as follows: Boasberg scheduled a hearing for 5 PM and asked the government’s lawyer point-blank whether there were imminent removals planned under the proclamation. The Justice Department lawyer claimed he didn’t know, so at 5:22 PM, Boasberg adjourned the hearing until 6 PM to allow him to investigate. A removal flight took off at 5:25, followed by another at 5:45. When the hearing resumed at 6 PM, the Justice Department lawyer told Boasberg he still had no flight details to share. Boasberg ordered the government not to carry out any removals under the proclamation for 14 days, and said that if planes had already taken off, the people needed to be returned to the United States. Several hours later, the government transferred the migrants into El Salvador’s custody. Secretary of State Marco Rubio then retweeted a post from the president of El Salvador: a news headline about Boasberg’s order, accompanied by the text, “Oopsie…Too late 😂😂.”
Judge Neomi Rao called the criminal contempt investigation into the Trump administration “improper,” “unnecessary,” and “a clear abuse of discretion"
Meanwhile, the Trump administration:
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
To be clear, as with Bernie, it is ridiculous to accuse me of antisemitism. It is a ridiculous way to silence critics of Netanyahu, of theocracies, or of genocide.
Netanyahu has supporters. But he shattered the diaspora. Countless tribe members now feel revulsion for Israel. Congratulations Bibi
Netanyahu is a mass murderer who has made the world worse for everyone, including the world’s Jews he egomaniacally claims to be fighting for.
Halt the funding, investigate his administration’s crimes against humanity, and hold the guilty accountable.
That’s not antisemitism. That’s justice.
Acyn on X Hegseth: You like to say publicly you control the strait of hormuz—you can't control anything. Threatening to shoot missiles and drones at ships—that is not control. That's piracy. That's terrorism.
We killed 14 people in the Caribbean in the last week. Just shot them out of the water with zero evidence of wrongdoing. Didn’t even identify who they were. That’s terrorism, and we know who is criminally responsible.
On April 15, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear
Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe.
Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.
"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."
Accountability itself continues to take a beating at the hands of our current roster of federal appellate judges.
At a town hall, a constituent told Lawler, “You say that when you disagree with Trump, you will tell him so, but that's not enough... The Republican Party and you are enabling him. You're all cowards, and you're spineless."
The man was then pulled out of the auditorium
www.lohud.com/story/news/p...
Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"
The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺
