Trump admin agrees to pay $1.25M to 2016 Trump adviser over surveillance DOJ OK'd the settlement with Carter Page, but he could still press claims against ex-officials.

A new wholly corrupt settlement handing your money to Trump cronies.

It’s notable for several reasons:

/1

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“Elon is always directionally correct,” said Peter Diamandis, a SpaceX investor and the founder of the XPrize Foundation, a nonprofit that supports technological development. “His time frames may be off, but he’ll eventually get there.”

no he isn't, that's not true

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—

AOC: Wah wah wah.

We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.

What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Post from headquarters news.bsky.social with video from Tucker Carlson and the text “Tucker Carlson: I'll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. We're implicated in this. I misled people.”

if you post this clip, you should also post clips from the same episode of him saying the 2020 election was stolen, the civil rights movement was “disgusting,” and trump can’t be racist bc he has sex with black women.

tucker didn’t have a change of heart over trump; he had a change in strategy

unpopular opinion guy

i think it is actually totally fine if urban areas with their higher density populations and higher levels of education have a proportionally greater say in national politics than less-dense and less-educated rural areas

If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Look everyone, Gov Reeves is just honoring an old tradition that stretches the whole way back to…1994, 129 years after the Civil War had ended and, just coincidentally, a year when the Gingrich-led GOP cemented its hold on the white voters of states like Mississippi.

Treebeard, Merry and Pip in The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.

the lord of the arts: thread

Rep. David Scott, a Democrat of Georgia, has died: www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Scott, who is 80, faced a lot of pushback for choosing to run for reelection this year, amid reports he'd skipped voting in many recent cycles (inc. 2024 presidential race) & faced multiple primary challengers in May

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

New suit by @commoncause.org seeks to halt DOJ’s nationwide effort to gather confidential state voter rolls, alleging that DOJ's violating separation of powers, Privacy Act & other laws & creating cybersecurity risks.
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did someone build this for real

Persuade your Republican colleagues to impeach and remove the Trump junta, then. All of them.

Cool cool. He’s still a Nazi though

unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can

FCC chair Brendan Carr, who has threatened to revoke the licenses of broadcast outlets whose Iran war coverage displeases him, plans to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as a guest this Saturday.
The suck-up media will never learn: When you invite fascists to dinner, they devour you.

Maybe The Atlantic will hire him now

"Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us."

lol suck it.

The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.

Get excited.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

Alex Jones saw a vision of this eventuality while eating a chicken fried steak

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

I’m sure the pandemic and Black Lives Matter broke his brain but both his parents are fascists, his grandfather was a fascist and I don’t believe there was a time when he wasn’t, even if he kept it on the DL.

16 years ago, Newt Gingrich convinced the Tea Party era GOP that they should double down in their fight against the (entirely imaginary) efforts to impose Sharia Law on the US.

Here’s a list of the allegations that Patel claims are false and defamatory:

MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president.

I'm reminded of something Matt Sitman said long ago on the Know Your Enemy podcast...on the US right, nothing ever is just what it is. The layers of absurd fabulism are not a bug, but a feature of US conservative political culture, and it's long been that way. www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

More than anything else this reveals just how impulsive the major questions doctrine revamp is. It all ultimately stemmed from Roberts's personal antipathy to a regulation, and everything since has been a dishonest attempt to dress it up so that he doesn't look like he's just shooting from the hip.