NEW: The DOJ told a court in New Mexico it won’t use voter data to purge rolls.

But agreements it’s pushing on other states require them to “clean” voter lists by removing any voters it flags. https://bit.ly/4cWJXyx

Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. More than two dozen people she spoke with described his management failures and conduct that could harm national security.

Opinion | I Missed the Part About the Divine Right of Presidents

I Missed the Part About the Divine Right of Presidents www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

daily #referdle1239: 11/25

🟩3️⃣
3️⃣2️⃣
2️⃣1️⃣

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I didn't experience that, but the stream crashed a couple of times.

I won Daily Squardle #1534 with 4 guesses to spare!
Word found after 5 guesses:
🟥🟩🟩⬛🟥
🔲🔳🟩🔳⬛
🔲🔲🟩🟥🟥
⬛🔳🟩🔳🟨
🟨⬛🟩🟥⬛
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#waffle1547 4/5

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🔥 streak: 245
🧠 #waffleguru
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quintessential.fun #1530 (incorporate): 8 moves

Chessle 1525 (Expert) 4/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
jackli.gg/chessle

#PopCultured #1429
🟥🟫🟨🟨🟩🌟
🔼🔼🔼🔽🔨🌟
histordle.com/popcultured/

#Yeardle #1487 #gimmedirection
🟫🟥🟫🟧🟨🟧🟩🌟
🔽🔼🔼🔼🔽🔽🔨🌟
histordle.com/yeardle/

Antiwordle #1531
11 guesses

🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟥⬛🟥🟨
🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛
🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛
🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

#crosswordle7x7 - 1244
⭐

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️
🟩⬜️🟩⬜️🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬜️🟩🟩🟩⬜️🟩
🟩⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️🟩
⬜️⬜️🟩🟩🟩⬜️🟩
⬜️⬜️🟩⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟩🟩🟩

Streak: 26🔥
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Daily Rescue Octordle #1544
8️⃣🔟
9️⃣5️⃣
🕚6️⃣
🕐🕛
Score: 8

Daily Sequence #1507
Guesses: 37/39
0️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣
1️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣
1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣
1️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣
2️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣
2️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣7️⃣
duotrigordle.com

Daily #1524
1️⃣1️⃣⬛1️⃣2️⃣
2️⃣0️⃣⬛0️⃣7️⃣
0️⃣8️⃣⬛0️⃣9️⃣
0️⃣4️⃣⬛1️⃣9️⃣
0️⃣5️⃣⬛1️⃣3️⃣
1️⃣4️⃣⬛0️⃣6️⃣
1️⃣5️⃣⬛1️⃣6️⃣
1️⃣7️⃣⬛1️⃣0️⃣
sedecordle.com
#sedecordle

Connections
Puzzle #1041
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Maybe Republicans are right. Has the pope even read the Bible? | Opinion Is it just me or does it seem like Pope Leo XIV won't stop talking about religion? But is the head of the global Catholic Church really an expert?

Is it just me, or does it seem like Pope Leo XIV won’t stop talking about religion?

My Catholic-splaining column:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

To recap:

Trump sued CBS for $10B bc he didn't like the edits of a Harris interview. Paramount settled by paying $16M to the Trump library. Bari Weiss was put in charge of CBS to appease Trump and now...

YAY CELEBRATE FREEDOM at the Institute for Peace that Trump seized as he started war in Iran.

Rümeysa Öztürk. Text on the card reads: “Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey”

Breaking news: Tufts University graduate Rümeysa Öztürk, who was arrested by masked immigration agents last year, has returned to her home country of Turkey, citing the "state-imposed violence and hostility" she said she experienced in the United States. trib.al/7GKyEiz

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.

I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

Cops are great

One of our (many) problems in America is elites unwilling to acknowledge self-evident realities, and then apologizing if they ever acknowledge one by accident

Also very common in Durham NC back when I was in private practice

daily #referdle1235: X/25

🟥3️⃣
3️⃣💀
3️⃣1️⃣

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I won Weekly Squardle #207 with 3 guesses to spare!
Word found after 7 guesses:
🟩🟩🟩🟥🟥
🔲🟩🟥🟥🟩
🟧🟩🟥🔲⬛
🟥🟩🔲🔲🟩
🟧🟩⬛🟥🟩
fubargames.se/squardle/

I won Daily Squardle #1530 with 3 guesses to spare!
Word found after 6 guesses:
🟥🟨🔲🔲🟩
🔲🔳🔲🔳🟩
🟩🟩🔲🟨🟩
🟧🔳🟥🔳🟩
🟧🔲🟧🔲🟩
fubargames.se/squardle/

#waffle1543 2/5

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🔥 streak: 244
🧠 #waffleguru
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