Testing finds toxic metals where Tesla discharges wastewater The drainage district that commissioned the testing has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company, which says it is in compliance with all requirements for its state wastewater discharge permit.

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...

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No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

its absolutely incredible watching people not realize the stakes watching DOJ being weaponized against SPLC and not realizing that its basically an existential fight for the republic now

As part of the restoration of the rule of law, every lawyer in the Trump admin who touched this file needs to go to jail.

Sanctions and disbarment are what you do for private abuses of the legal system. Abusing the government power of criminal indictment is another matter, and they keep doing it.

it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback.

in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.

NEW REPUBLIC: “Where Did Millions in Funding Go?”

$63 MILLION companies paid in *settlements* to Trump appears to have vanished (into his pocket) and @SenWarren wants answers.

newrepublic.com/article/2092...

Exactly.

I don’t favor the partisan redistricting of blue states for “vengeance,” or to hand an advantage the Democratic Party. I favor it as necessary to preserve democracy — by marginalizing a party that has come to oppose the democratic project.

Indeed. Complaints about redistricting are invalid. Republicans did it everywhere and invalidated a Constitutional Amendment so they could do it on explicitly racial lines.

There are two choices: use the same levers of power as Republicans do, or let them win. There is no "principled" opposition.

I don’t think I can adequately express just how much 20-year-old me wanted to be as awesome as Dale Cooper.

I took your comment as an accurate, nonjudgmental observation.

And Cooper is from the get-go about as idealized a hero as I’ve ever come across, so it must also be complimentary

The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.

My statement regarding unfounded attacks and threats against my family and staff.

Our Afghan allies provided critical support to U.S. forces for over 20 years, but the Trump-Vance Administration has turned its back on them and their families, shutting down key resettlement programs. The idea that we’re now in talks to send as many as 1,100 Afghans, whom we have already evacuated, to the DRC—a country with severe political instability, violence, and a massive refugee and humanitarian crisis—is insane. [1/2]

We told these Afghans that we would help ensure their safety after they helped us. We have an obligation to follow through on our promise because it’s the right thing to do, and because going back on our word will only make it harder for us to build the kinds of partnerships we may need to advance our national security in the future. [2/2]

My statement on reports that the Trump-Vance Administration may send Afghans, including those who served with the U.S. military and more than 400 children, to the Congo:

"Send us money to help build a border wall" and then instead buying yourself 18 more rumpled polo shirts to wear simultaneously, that's donor fraud. "Send us money to help research and track extremists" and then spending that money on obtaining information about extremists groups is... not fraud.

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges related to past use of paid informants The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges related to its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.

The "gender critical" movement will not leave this trans woman alone, even though she has had to relocate to Australia over their bullying.

Marking an LGBT+ person out as a "sexual predator" is how bigots have traditionally endangered LGBT+ people.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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I quit the NYT after their 2016 pro-Trump coverage. I also encourage any non-conservative to do the same. Support TPM! Support independent media!

New Jersey: Effectuated ACA enrollment down 11.5% y/y; at least 57,000 have already lost coverage From the New Jersey Dept. of Banking & Insurance: Cost Increases from Washington’s Inaction Drives nearly 70,000 New Jerseyans to Drop Health Coverage since January Expiration of Federal Subsidies Inc...

🚨 NEW JERSEY: Effectuated #ACA enrollment down 11.5% y/y; at least 57,000 have already lost healthcare coverage so far this year:

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He really gets to live out his dreams, and again, most anyone with enough power to do anything about it studiously avoids pointing out that he’s doing so.

New York Times Shocked, Shocked That Democrats Fighting Back After Trump Ordered Gerrymanders OK sure, Trump started it, but shouldn't Dems do the honorable thing and lose?

If the current New York Times headline writers were zapped back in time to December 8 1941: "FDR Once Advocated Neutrality, Now He's Calling For Declaration Of War"

New York Times Shocked, Shocked That Democrats Fighting Back After Trump Ordered Gerrymanders
www.wonkette.com/p/new-york-t...

The world needs to purify itself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka

wait that’s not Lake Minnetonka

This was specific to the Paramount/CBS event, but now should textto the entire WHCA shindig.

If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

We need a labeler here that lets everyone know.

ACTUALLY WENT TO THE 2026 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER

I do prefer, if they absolutely must be violent, that they choose to eat their own

The Strange Death of Orbánism Franz Pokorny

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

The press is intent on whitewashing Republican agency out of everything.