2025 Politico headline: Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to 5 more seats’

John Gramlich skeet quoting Trump in NYT today: Trump: “I don’t know if you know what gerrymandering is, but it’s not good.”

A sowing/reaping for the ages

She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8

How police took $53,000 from a Christian band, an orphanage and a church A Texas man who is a refugee from Burma was carrying the cash in his car when he was stopped by Oklahoma police. They took the money, under a "civil forfeiture" law.

We go way back -- one of my favorite Washington Post stories was a wild one about an IJ asset forfeiture client. I was literally working on this one 10 years ago this week. www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp...

Some fun personal news: thrilled to be working with
@ij.org in an investigative role, documenting abuses of government power! IJ does incredible work on things like asset forfeiture, qualified immunity, bulk data collection, free speech, and lots of other things

Encouraging development in one of the Trump administration’s attacks on free speech. Proud that my Cato colleagues filed an amicus brief.

Ben Collins before and after taking over InfoWars

Penis costume protester prevails in court Alabama officers said the woman's costume created a public safety threat and arrested her at an October

Penis costume protester prevails in court

Alabama officers said the woman's costume created a public safety threat and arrested her at an October "No Kings" rally.
www.courthousenews.com/penis-costum...

"We are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two centuries of American law are now freely accessible online."

"Includes records and briefs spanning cases from 1830 through 2019."

🙃

Installing a Prego camera doorbell, a Prego infrared surveillance system in the bathroom, Prego microphones in my kids’ bedrooms. That spaghetti sauce can have all the personal data it wants. We’ve been through so much together.

Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children In another sign that the depravity economy has no bottom, Forbes published a story about a Louisiana man that killed 8 children over the weekend containing a box that asked readers to predict whether ...

horrified by that mass shooting story? Forbes would love you to predict what comes next

My mom grew up in Haverstraw and Stony Point 💪💪💪

Becoming increasingly radicalized against qualified immunity every time one of these decisions comes down

This Data Center is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

Rockland County, NY, gave a $77 million data center tax break to JP Morgan Chase to create exactly one job. On a dollars-per-job basis it appears to be the costliest subsidy in U.S. history, possibly even a world record

nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...

It’s his grill now

Standing on the Sidewalk While Black

As far as I can tell this isn't in the context of any other police activity. It really just looks like "this guy was insufficiently deferential so I arrested him"

‘That wasn’t me’: How facial recognition led to a woman being jailed for 6 months Kimberlee Williams, who lived in Oklahoma, was jailed after being accused of crimes in Maryland, a state she told investigators she had never visited.

Another one of these: Oklahoma woman jailed for 6 months in Maryland after a false match by facial recognition software. She had never set foot in Maryland her entire life. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Was absolutely not prepared for the @astrokatie.com cameo in this

Joplin police sniper who killed a 2-year-old girl just became a Missouri state trooper After a two-year court battle, Sniper 1 can finally be identified as Keaton Siebenaler. KCUR and The Midwest Newsroom have confirmed he departed the Joplin Police Department in August and graduated from the MSHP academy last week.

For almost four years, the city of Joplin fiercely guarded the identity of a SWAT sniper who shot Clesslynn Crawford in the head during a hostage standoff. For two of those years, the officer and Joplin have fought KCUR and The Midwest Newsroom in court to hide the officer’s name.

Yes, the fact that I'm attending the White House Correspondents Dinner might SEEM like a supine gesture of complete deference to the insane dullard who demands total obedience from the press, BUT that's until you see the secret message I have on my pocket square

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

Jessica Chastain Says Apple TV Will Finally Release ‘The Savant’ After Postponement Following Charlie Kirk Assassination: ‘We’re Going to See It’ (EXCLUSIVE) Jessica Chastain says Apple TV will finally release ‘The Savant’ after streamer postponed it following Charlie Kirk's assassination in September.

The wild cultural overreaction in the wake of Kirk’s death looks increasingly bizarre the further we get away from it.

variety.com/2026/tv/colu...

This is incredible.

Also. Fuck RFK Jr.

"American forces have assembled online" when a person starts talking like this they need to get all their devices taken away

Saw two pairs of snapping turtles either mating or fighting today. Hard to tell with snappers. Very exciting regardless.

Friend-shaped?

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

The Democratic-media complex seems determined to get everything wrong about Iran, though few efforts compare with this week’s work to tag the Trump administration with a global energy crisis, writes Kimberley Strassel Opinion | Trump’s Energy Triumph He prepared the U.S. and its allies for the current troubles in the Persian Gulf.

For some reason WSJ is running Facebook ads on a month-old Kim Strassel opinion on "Trump's energy triumph" in Iran