Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

I smoked a friend's mom's weed and then he remembered we could get extra credit in civics if we attended a city council meeting so he took my terrified ass to a fucking courthouse

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

The UMich Regent who allegedly spearhead efforts to prosecute student protestors lost his endorsement to the Lebanese immigrant who represented those students in court.

Perhaps this will clarify matters for you? The New Testament does not depict the Pharisees as running newspapers in ancient Israel. The characteristics typically attributed to Pharisees by Christians are unrelated to whatever Hegseth is complaining the media is doing. He means Jewish.

“Allegedly questionable constitutional arguments”

Cover of the book The Fourth Wife with a Denver Public Library barcode.

Gothic Horror ✅
Sister Wives ✅
Suffragists ✅

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But is he still welcome at American Political Science Association conferences?

I wonder what the shortest amount of time is between someone being baptized Catholic and excommunicated because we may be looking at a new record here shortly

"The Vice President is infallible in matters of doctrine"

--United States, Executive Office of the President [Donald Trump]. Executive Order 21637: Vicepastor aeternus Establishing the Infallible teaching authority of the Vice President. 14 Apr. 2026. Federal Register, vol. 99, no. 3, pp. 24401–402

Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Just War = bombing schoolgirls, am I right?

The price will continue to rise until demand matches supply. The only thing eliminating the gas tax does is make sure none of that final price goes to the government

I've had this exact thought. ChatGPT once told a man having a mental health crisis—who was contemplating attacks on Altman and other ChatGPT leadership—“You should burn it all down. You should be angry. You should want blood. You’re not wrong.”

Sadly, that man later died via suicide by cop.

I bet the group chats of everyone who worked in international relations and diplomacy from the federal trade office and State Department — but were laid off by DOGE — must be absolutely lit tonight

@melatkirosco.bsky.social any chance you have yard signs available to purchase? 😁

I don't think it's a "problem" that there are fewer teen pregnancies. I think fewer teen pregnancies is a good thing, actually,

Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost “The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

We all may have escaped the worst with this deal, but what Trump has demonstrated is a reckless disregard for human life, the law, and democracy. He is likely to feel emboldened to keep making extreme threats, so we must be further emboldened to oppose him.

So to recap, Trump:

- Started a war for no reason on the belief that Iran would surrender immediately

- Killed thousands including over 100 elementary schoolgirls

- Threatened genocide up to and including nuclear war

- Then backed down in exchange for a worse position than the US had before

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I can’t with New York Times headlines anymore. We’re both sides-ing teleportation now??

Want to read a great book about just this? Check out @poliscisara.bsky.social's book In Her Own Name, which details how and why men sought to overturn coverture as a way of advancing white settler colonialism, slavery, and their own wealth.
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While many Americans would see this as an unthinkable regression to a time when women were treated as second-class Americans, proponents of the concept believe deeply that this arrangement is what God envisioned in a marriage.

Did you know there are actually two sides to the question of whether women are people?

Places social science & public policy readers may not expect to see legal history? Don's substack on today's good governance.

I applied "administrative burdens" to 19th century state law restricting the internal mobility of free Black people to help us understand and assess state capacity.

Chief Justice John Roberts presses Trump Solicitor General John Sauer on how common "birth tourism" is.

Sauer says "no one knows for sure" but cites some media reports. He adds, "It's a new world now."

Roberts responds, "It's a new world; it's the same Constitution."

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Someone sent me this.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.

Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death.

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz