Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

"This couldn’t be a simpler scandal to sum up for the American people, if anyone cared to do so: This is Donald Trump ordering the looting of the public treasury for his own benefit."

Opinion | Why the Stock Market Makes No Sense Right Now

“The problem isn’t just the war, or the energy crisis, or the debt levels, or the trapped Fed, or the fragility of the A.I. supply chain. It’s all of them simultaneously, potentially compounding one another, processed by a market that believes it will be saved.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/o...

The reason Trump pressured Republican led states to redraw their election maps without voter approval is because he knows his policies are unpopular. He knows Republicans will lose without map rigging. Virginia can vote YES for fair maps to stop him tomorrow. #VoteYesVirginia

📌By suing The Atlantic, blackout drunk, Kash Patel, has triggered 3 things:

1) Made good and damn sure millions more read the story.
2) Made good and damn sure discovery in this meritless case is even more damning and saucy.
3) Made good and damn sure he will be back in the private sector shortly.

#01208842361 in United States v. Ethan Nordean (D.C. Cir., 23-3159) – CourtListener.com AMICUS FOR APPELLANT BRIEF [2169455] filed by Representative Jamie Raskin [Service Date: 04/17/2026 ] Length of Brief: 2,092 Words. [23-3159, 23-3160, 23-3161, 23-3162] (Sher, Justin) [Entered: 04/20/...

Jamie Raskin has filed briefs supporting his motions for the court to appoint an amici to contest vacating the convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Here's the Proud Boys version ...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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

Bill Kristol & Ryan Goodman: How Trump Could Weaponize Surveillance | Bulwark on Sunday YouTube video by The Bulwark

Ryan Goodman explains the importance of the current fight on the Hill over legislation on the Trump administration’s spy powers.

youtube.com/live/NRGdoGv...

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."

"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...

www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Iran tactically devastated. They hold the upper hand with choke hold on the Gulf. They will never give up their nuclear program nor end their aim to destroy Israel. Trump politically desperate. Dangerous. Massive escalation or he throws in the towel.

On April 19, 1989 five innocent boys – four Black and one Latino – were charged with a crime they did not commit.

At the time they were called the Central Park five. They are now the Exonerated Five.

Actually, I’ve explained this MANY TIMES

This generation of Black ppl vote MORE than any generation since we got the right to vote

But after the 1st Black was elected, WHITE PPL began turning out in historic numbers to vote for Trump. As this graph CLEARLY shows…

The “crisis” is white people.

I mean, of course that’s what happening. It’s been clear the whole time

I mean, if Biden had MISSED four terrorist attacks, and they happened, that would be a valid comparison. But that's not what happened.

Another weekend of playing Deal or No Deal with our unhinged president.

One reason that we cannot have professional diplomats representing the interests of the United States is that it would disrupt a pattern of personal enrichment for the Presidents allies and families.

Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Jesse Duquette, The Daily Don

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

A photo of a print NYT headline saying the strait is open next to an IPhone NYT headline saying it’s closed

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

"“Unlike corporate insider trading, there’s a lot of ways for the government to make itself be correct. You can just make the war that would occur, and that’s concerning because then the real economy is being distorted." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Trump: "When you see soldiers walking around with no legs, that was Iran that did that"

From the FT report:

CNN: “It’s a blowout… not even close… Pope Leo absolutely crushing Trump when it comes to how popular they are.”

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Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Kash Patel advisor Erica Knight says a “lawsuit is being filed” over The Atlantic’s article alleging that the FBI director’s drinking has been “a recurring source of concern across the government.”

Patel retweeted the post.

Pope James David Vance the First The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.

Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology.

The queen of all vices: Pride.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Re Trump and Iran:

Is there a single, long German word for "a recklessly foolish enterprise from which you're so desperate to extricate yourself that you give in to the other side but still insist on pretending it's all been a great victory"?