New in PN: Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end
"Johnson has such a small majority he can’t afford to alienate anybody, & he has nonetheless managed to alienate everybody. The coming months will be brutal for him & are likely to end w/his speakership destroyed in a humiliating, titanic blue wave"
I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public
The ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative ($38 billion to convert commercial warehouses into a network of massive detention centers) is not being built primarily by GEO Group and CoreCivic. ICE is turning to a crop of relatively untested contractors. A look at who. 🧵
Trump and Hegseth are too dumb to know that we lost this war, because they think success means making things go boom, rather than achieving strategic objectives.
Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.
They found one. One.
And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.
First, let's note that the Trump library saga combines the worse of his imperial presidency all in one: his use of lawsuits to extort private entities for tribute; his garishly awful decorative and architectural taste; and his Nero-scale megalomania.
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None of these efforts speak to the need to create the conditions in which people can have the children they want and raise them in a safe, supportive environment.
It’s about controlling women. 4/4
So true. Not even a scintilla of effort to make this a legit investigation. This is the LawFare they falsely accused Biden of.
Without fanfare, we now have a National Police Force. Their webpage looks like Duke Nukem's wet dream.
hstf.gov
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The real heroes of the Epstein story
The four women who were the first to go public
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Nan Prince, director of collections for the Mississippi Department of Archives & History, said the instructions were simple.
“Don’t brush over anything, don’t whitewash anything," she said. "Just tell the absolute truth.”
Happy 80th birthday, Tim Curry.
Just staggering levels of comic book villain corruption in the open.
For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.
DOJ seeks to vacate insurrectionists’ convictions, while going after a former CIA Director: If Trump can make convictions disappear for allies while prosecuting critics, the damage isn’t just theoretical. Once that line is crossed, it doesn’t easily uncross itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Yay!! Enjoy!!
I’m not a lawyer, and I’m exhausted, so I can’t say exactly which part of the constitution forbids it, but if the constitution does not forbid the president from suing the government in his personal capacity and then ordering the government to settle in his official one, it forbids nothing.
"abortion bans have influenced how doctors and hospitals respond to pregnancy complications. Facing risks of prison time and professional ruin, doctors have delayed key interventions until they can document that a fetus’ heart is no longer beating or that a case meets a narrow legal exception"
Negotiating with himself to loot the US Treasury
Yep. I was explaining Barry Goldwater in class yesterday and telling my students to go read his work.
@jamellebouie.net continues to be the most compelling neo-Neustadtian interpreter of the Trump presidency. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
👀⚖️🍳 #doge strikes again
💯 and every time.
Krastev called Orban the right-wing Castro, which I think is exactly right: the leader of a small relatively insignificant country, that nevertheless became the ideological lodestar for a global movement after being propped up by russia
what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...
he’s not as visible as most of the folks in the administration but after stephen miller vought is probably the most evil of the lot
he is ideologically committed to destroying the entire concept of the public good
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3 white men in their 20s attempted to lynch 3 Black men for....fishing last Friday. The only reason it's an attempted murder charge is one of the Black men was armed and a better shot. It's not about the year someone was born, it's about the racism
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Oh sorry, so religion and politics should be separate? Is that what you're saying? bsky.app/profile/atru...