The most accurate indicator that something bad is about to happen.

This is not the first time. As @angierasmussen.bsky.social can attest, Vinay Prasad also censored a study with similar results.

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

Piece?

George Washington’s Woke Vaccines What the Founders would have thought about Pete Hegseth lifting the requirement that service members get the flu vaccine.

Hegseth's repeal of universal flu vaccines is nonsense on so many levels, but his claim vaccine mandates were an "era of betrayal" irked me as a historian. Here's my response, in @thebulwark.com this morning;

www.thebulwark.com/p/george-was...

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...

They usually have a coupon for them with the information.

Tick tock Virginia voters and if there is a line please be patient and wait to vote 🗳️

While the SPLC is the direct target of this action, no doubt it is meant to intimidate everyone in the progressive advocacy community.

And while everyone is counting and algorithm-ing, how many women were abused and betrayed by this "group" then abused and betrayed again 65 million times that month?

Yeah. 2019 is very much current era.

I am begging every Senate Democrat to vote against confirmation of this clown. Take a stand. Don't try to triangulate. This is an easy call.

Utilizing a very disproportionate amount of resources.

NatCon’s 2024 Brussels conference in was co-sponsored by MCC & Danube (both Hungary based), the European Conservative (registered in Hungary), & Nazione Futura (founded by an MCC alum). NatCon is the Thiel-linked recurring conference that elevated both JD Vance & Christian Nationalism in the US. 1/

Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."

Chris Wright insists that collapsing snow pack in Colorado is the result of "the path of the jet stream last year," not climate change

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...

Shuffle.

Mexico to probe security role of US officials killed in Chihuahua car crash — Reuters Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday she was not ​aware U.S. embassy officials were working with the ‌northern state of Chihuahua to combat drug cartels and said her government would rev...

Mexico's president says it's news to her that American and Chihuahuan officials had teamed up to fight the cartels on Mexican soil.

Damn straight!

What does it say that Black women can dot our is and cross our ts and still be killed in the same homes as our children, by our partners, in homes with picket fences, and the world will ask:

"But how did you not know? Why didn't you choose better?" What a remarkable display of apathy.

Mike Miles Cancels Moonlighting Contract with His Former Charter School Network Houston ISD says its state-appointed superintendent has ended a paid agreement with Third Future Schools, after the Observer obtained the contract and requested comment. A 2025 state law restricts…

#ICYMI, from @josephinelee.bsky.social: The Texas Observer discovered Houston's state-appointed superintendent was moonlighting as a paid consultant for Third Future School, the charter school network he founded.

He canceled the potentially illegal contract when we asked about it.

Trump’s Quest for a Mar-a-Lago Papacy A schism that leads to a Mar-a-Lago papacy would be the perfect allegory for Trumpian spiritual rot.

When we think of the Antichrist, we tend to imagine red-tinted devils with pointed tails and horns. But what’s substantially more frightening is the fact that the greatest evils are often committed by ordinary, unthinking people who conform to systems. trib.al/mNQNtd3

Building an army. Sigh.

"He’s not trying to woo the working class to the Democratic Party; he’s trying to mobilize the working class to take over the Democratic Party and use it to fundamentally change the relationship between government and citizens."

Thanks for sharing this.

Palantir surveils everybody but its own misleading accounts - Michael West While Palantir is busy poking its nose in everyone’s business, it doesn’t want us looking into its own, not lodging financial statements.

Ditto Australia.

"Palantir has steadily expanded its footprint within the Australian security apparatus. ...contracts with the Australian Signals Directorate, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, & the Australian Transaction Reports & Analysis Centre."
michaelwest.com.au/palantir-sur...

In Trump’s Orbit, Women Aren’t the Only Ones Concerned About Their Looks

They mocked the field of gender studies as meaningless, but I think they really just knew it was onto them.

They're the softest bunch of insecure little manchildren play-acting what they have been told is manly and macho.

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Oh. My. God. The MAHA/MAGA cult has long pushed extremely dangerous myths & conspiracy theories about mental health (e.g. RFK Jr lies when he says SSRIs cause mass shootings). After vaccines and abortion, this cult is coming next for mental health treatments (www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/r...)

It’s beginning to dawn on “medical conservatives” exactly what the people they embraced and empowered are all about.

We tried to warn them.

What the actual fuck….