Yes, or to go just over 100 years, the role of the US army in spreading the 1918 influenza. How much detail do you think Hegseth actually knows about our history?

Trump is Angry that His Genius is Not Appreciated; Goes After NYTimes, WaPo, WSJ in an epic but familiar rant I realize I may lose some subscribers because of my habit of actually going to Trump’s Truth Social account and reading what’s there.

"The most revealing line may be the easiest to miss: not the bragging, but the neediness underneath it. The post reads less like a commander briefing a nation than like a man demanding emotional tribute at a moment when he feels challenged."

One more.

I think it's important to let a person speak for themselves.

Or at least to let their words speak for them.

Steve Sack

Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence on Americans

Exclusive: ICE Glasses
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Tim Campbell

The Man Who Cannot Stop Talking About Killing On Alex Karp and the "technological republic"

"When I listen to Karp talk, I hear a man who has built himself a future he finds beautiful. In the future he has built, the West prevails by killing its enemies with software. Palantir‘s tools pick the targets. The targets die. The survivors learn to be afraid."

Matt Wuerker

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"His" representatives . . .

Tells you so much about how he thinks and what he's doing.

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Michael Ramirez

Gun violence, domestic violence, and the systems that fail us The Dose (April 21)

Gun violence, domestic violence, and the systems that fail us
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Dennis Goris

Daniel Medina

The Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan Amid Trump’s war in Iran and an exodus of intelligence staffers, Sebastian Gorka has asserted that a blueprint for fighting terror threats is “imminent” — but has not released it. Iranian threats have...

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Chris Britt

Steve Brodner

Cop, Substitute Teacher, Group Home Staff, and Prison Guard: What Those Jobs Taught Me About the Word "No" A look at the most important behavioral shift we saw.

"We spend billions on the back end of this. Prisons, courts, victim restitution. The front end costs a fraction and works better. Teach a child that it's ok not just for them to say no, but also for others to say no."

Rick McKee

Five Trump Scandals You’ve Probably Missed Swirling scandals—from the Pentagon to DHS to the IRS to the Labor Department—that represent basic betrayals of public office, trust, and confidence-in-leadership that should be the table stakes of go...

"Today, I wanted to give a quick round-up of five of those currently-unfolding scandals that under any normal interpretation of democracy and American politics would be administration-shaking and yet there’s a good chance you haven’t even heard of at least three of them."

Rob Rogers

Is This What Trump Meant by “My Way” — Power, Control, Darkness, and Evil? How power, money, and ideology converged to reshape American democracy into something darker and more dangerous…

"Like other conservative/fascist movements across history, from Mussolini to Stalin to Hitler to Putin to Orbán — all grounded in first defining an “other” who must be feared and stopped — today’s GOP has morphed into something that Eisenhower and even Nixon wouldn’t recognize."

Clay Bennett

I’m Sorry We Keep Turning Your Diagnosis Into An Excuse For Violence: A Public Apology to People Living With Mental Illness To everyone out there living with mental health challenges, I want to begin here, without qualification or deflection.

“Mental illness” becomes an exception instead of a pattern - a malfunction instead of a choice. The harder questions disappear. Questions about power, control, entitlement, misogyny, socialization, and the beliefs that make somebody think they have the right to end another person’s life."

Pedro Molina

Islamabad Update: Iran Still Balking; Trump Says Vance et al are en route; Talks Are Uncertain As of Monday afternoon in Islamabad, Iran is publicly signaling reluctance, distrust, and anger — while Donald Trump is still projecting that the talks are real, that his team is already on the way, a...

"Iran is balking but has stopped short of a final “no.” Trump is still acting like the talks are real, still saying his team is en route, and being careful to not say something that will kill the talks. He appears, at least for the moment, to be trying inducement before escalation."

Matt Davies

Jack Ohman

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

"Only six of the 202 articles covering Kushner’s diplomatic role mentioned his financial conflict of interest with the Saudi government. That means more than 97% of the coverage ignored Kushner’s conflict. Five appeared in the New York Times. The other was republished by the Washington Post."

Kevin Kallaugher