Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

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SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
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Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com

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John steuert Curry mural, Tragic Prelude, showing John Brown with a rifle and a bible between Union and Confederate forces

I mean

This is hands-down the most hardcore art in any US capitol

ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

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.

Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president. www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"

Brooklyn Public Library art exhibit asks visitors to imagine world without prisons “The Warehouse” is a collaboration between artist Vic Liu and abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba builds an environment for possible answers

The terrific @prismreports.org wrote about The Warehouse!

If you're in NYC, check out this free exhibit through June 27.

Exactly one year ago today:

a south park poster that says " it 's not for me to judge you " on it Alt: a south park poster that says " it 's not for me to judge you " on it

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Policy Implications**: The massive economic costs of digital burnout ($190B in healthcare, $350B+ in productivity) present a cl…

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#Digital #Burnout #Economic

Excellent -NOTUS was a bad name for a good pub

Hey, what’s the latest on Alex Pretti’s murder? What’s the status of that investigation? Are the ICE and CBP agents still in the field? We cannot let them get away with sweeping his execution—and all the others—under the rug.

‘The Ballroom is deeply important to our National Security’….

The Trouble With the "DoorDash Grandma" - and All Republican Reg'lar Folk Avatars When they pluck out an ordinary person and make them famous, not only does their story seldom add up, that story is meant to fool voters about the Republican agenda.

Yes, the story of the DoorDash Grandma and her fictional $11,000 tax break doesn’t add up. But that’s only part of the deception at work.

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Flow chart showing the U.S. spends $445 billion on mass incarceration each year.

Happy Tax Day. Just a reminder, as you potentially owe Uncle Sam: Mass incarceration costs the U.S. $445 billion every single year.

This is a horrific story but really in the Year of Our Lord 2026, we still don’t know the difference between a visit and a unique user? ‘The website, which had around 62 million visits in February alone’ this does not mean 62 million dudes did this

“It’s best served with a nice Chianti,” the secretary added, “and some fava beans”

To be fair to Atwood, she has always said that every detail in Handmaid had a historical analogue…

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.

Taxing billionaires is not radical.

What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

This is a good piece but undone a bit by the hedline--When 54% of Americans oppose the war and only 39% support, that's not much of a 'divide.' This is not an issue where there is a real dispute--less than 4 in 10 Americans support this!

This is so good

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

You can be the side effect…

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