Kevin Warsh’s father-in-law Ronald Lauder (billionaire) has been friends with Donald Trump since college
fortune.com/2026/01/30/w...

She then asks him to disclose HOW he will divest (e.g., will he just get a $100M check from his wealthy buddy who released a statement supporting his confirmation) and Warsh wouldn’t explain how he will divest these undisclosed assets

Warren does at one point single out Epstein, but the full question is nuts: Warsh didn’t disclose $100 million hidden behind entities he owns, so are any of those assets owned by the Trump family or the Chinese government, have any of them facilitated money laundering, any set up by Jeffrey Epstein?

This rips

Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash's Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation - emptywheel The biggest reason Joe DiGenova is a wildly inappropriate person to lead an attempt to criminalize the Russian investigation is his past efforts to get paid by Russian-backed Ukrainians to do the same...

Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash's Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation

emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

Aaaaaand the strait is closed again

Great news the strait of hormuz is either “opening and/or rapidly opening” according to the most recent plea for mercy from our president

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

Kash Patel is drunk a lot and jumps to conclusions without evidence and is terrified he’s about to get fired — wild, wild story here from The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

It’s potentially an indefinite commitment because, unless some international alliance steps in, once the U.S. draws back its forces Iran will be able to block the strait and regain that leverage

The nonsensical Iran War—which has killed thousands of civilians including hundreds of children—might go down as the single most insane thing he has ever done

Sounds like Trump has committed the U.S. military to securing the Strait of Hormuz for an indefinite amount of time, where we weren’t deployed before the war, and despite his complaints that the U.S. doesn’t need the strait and it only serves other countries and they should take care of the problem

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast

And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...

DOJ hosts anti-abortion advocates after it fired staff for work with abortion-rights orgs The CEO of Americans United for Life said he was "just applauding the administration and DOJ" after it released a report critical of prosecutors during the Biden administration.

SCOOP: Hours after the Trump DOJ fired prosecutors because they alleged they were too cozy with abortion rights groups, DOJ hosted anti-abortion advocates at Main Justice.

90% feels about right

Sorry sir 90% of Americans make little to no distinction between you and total nonsense so you’re out

What would be great is if we had some sort of Turing-type test as a populist failsafe for the 25th Amendment. Like you show 100,000 people in every state an obviously insane, illogical statement & if a certain percentage of them genuinely react as if it’s the President of the United States, he’s out

I dunno let’s see how … Bill handles the heat on this one. You up for that Bill?

Happy to oblige, Mister Sir.

“BILL PULTE HAS BEEN A REAL GREAT GUY BUT I AM HEREBY FIRING HIM FOR BLASPHEMY AND TELLING ME I’M A DOCTOR WHEN I’M OBVIOUSLY JESUS CHRIST”

Entirely possible they’re just making this all up and will fire Pulte

“We give up tell us how to do the Epstein files”

Spotted: Former Attorney General Bill Barr, back at his old stomping grounds at Main Justice. What brings him in? “A meeting.”

Here’s a link to the segment
www.ms.now/all-in/watch...

Was Swalwell traveling on official or political business to Puerto Rico — coincidentally on his best friend’s wedding weekend?

Just posted something about this then immediately realized I said something dumb and deleted. But yes Swalwell absolutely has to explain why he would not have incurred this expense “irrespective” of his duties as a congressman or a candidate for federal office, in campaign finance legal parlance

Two-lane both directions, no divider, people stopping in the *right* lane opposite the police car

Claude make a Venn diagram of people who stop when a police car is passing on the other side of the road heading the opposite way and people who clap when airplanes land

This was a good hang but I don’t look like a turtle irl no idea why I sat this way

Tonight I’ll be talkin Cory Mills on
@allinwithchris.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social — sometime around 8:30 ET. Tune in if you can

Last month in The Onion:

LCD Houndsystem

This is some real chattel shit

“Some of the young women were instructed by Ms. Chavez-DeRemer and the former deputy chief of staff to ‘pay attention’ to the men, according to people familiar with the investigation.”