"[Republicans] have overlooked [Trump's] mental disorders in the past— dismissed them. They've overlooked his depravity. They've overlooked the fact that he is an adjudicated sexual abuser. That he's a convicted criminal ... Because it served their purposes. It no longer serves their purposes."

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth • O @SecWar X.com The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately. 08:21 • 4/21/26 • 251K Views 945 {] 1.7K 8.1K 316

h/t to @kriswernowsky.com for noticing that Hegseth made this announcement in front of a painting of GW crossing the Delaware with soldiers who, only a few months later, he would order to get inoculated.

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

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Super easy call to action from a trusted institution built from the ground up to advocate for Forest Service workers.

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Let's sum up Trump's tariffs.

1) They were illegal and also corrupt and arbitrary.
2) They did real damage to economy, esp farmers, small business.
3) Lutnick cheerled them while his spawn prepared to $$.
4) Corps (& some small businesses) finally getting refunds.
5) Consumers will get squat.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Happy Tuesday Dorchester

I think it’s bad that the president casually refers to a leader of the opposition as a “traitor.”

Republicans have long resented the SPLC because they have the pesky habit of noticing when GOP politicians appear at white supremacist events featuring white nationalists like Jared Taylor. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will leave administration amid misconduct allegations The former Oregon congresswoman is the third member of Trump’s Cabinet -- all women -- to step down during his second term.

Breaking news: Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Trump’s labor secretary, is leaving her post amid professional misconduct allegations.

The former congresswoman is the third member of Trump’s Cabinet — all women — to step down during his second term.

I was treated to a spectacular bit of gaslighting by Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer, David Markus, over this post. I have a zero-tolerance policy for both gaslighters and mansplainers—habits that frequently overlap—so I’m sharing some thoughts. Please spread the word. Thanks. youtube.com/shorts/uMb82...

"The working group finds dark intentions afoot because it refuses to ask whether the attorneys at issue might have had legitimate reasons to take the steps they did."

The Most Important Speech of Political and Constitutional Philosophy That Never Should Have Been Given The speech that Justice Clarence Thomas gave last week at the University of Texas could prove to be the single most important speech of political and constitutional philosophy that never should have b...

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The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” was never meant to be used to issue fast, often unexplained rulings without full briefing or argument.

This is a fixable problem, one I’ve already drafted legislation to bring transparency and accountability to the Court. Now it’s time to bring it to the floor.

Sarah Longwell: We are committing superpower suicide in real time. Trump is making China Great Again. Poll: People in *every single one* of the top US-allied countries now believe it’s better to depend on China than on the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.

The only people benefiting from Trump’s “One Big Beautiful” Bill are billionaires.

Kash Patel was never fit to serve as FBI Director. He needs to resign. Now.

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

Trump's DOJ just asked for probation for someone who committed three identity thefts.

Things I genuinely don't get:

—Why veteran GOP figures, L Graham to M Johnson to Marco to others, are *so* afraid of Trump that they'll swallow everything they might have stood for, to humor him. C'mon! Mike Pence was way braver than this

—Why any journalist would go to WHCA dinner featuring Trump

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The basic messaging of The Spotlight ca. 1980s is virtually indistinguishable from that of Newsmax or Infowars today. The details have changed, but the conspiratorial message is the same. In the 1980s The Spotlight's owner created audio content that could be heard on ~400 AM radio stations.

A small cohort of ("prominent"?) law professors are trying to portray John Eastman as some kind of innocent victim of viewpoint discrimination, and his disbarment as some kind of assault on the First Amendment.

That's complete and utter bollocks. As usual, @gabrielmalor.bsky.social brings receipts:

*NRA, obviously

Update on where things stand on FISA: this deal is a win. We got the House to back down from an 18 month extension, buying us time to negotiate on real reforms. I'll be fighting like hell for reforms that put your privacy first, and will have more to share soon.

Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Another example demonstrating that the federal science and research ecosystem is being seriously damaged regardless of what’s ultimately appropriated

The fight for the Boundary Waters isn’t over, it just looks a little different now. We will not give up. That would play right into their hands.

How Jared Kushner Became A Billionaire Trump’s son-in-law turned his government rolodex into a fortune.

NEW: How Jared Kushner Became A Billionaire

"Jared Kushner is traveling the world—as an unelected, not-officially-appointed official—actively shaping US government policy. At the same time, he is soliciting funds for his own private equity business."

Yes, the Republicans -- every single one -- are environmental pillagers, happy to destroy rare ecosystems for a fast dollar.

Walter Huss Knew That if Fascism Ever Came to America, it would happen via the hostile takeover of a major political party On American Fascism's parasitic relationship to "The Party of Lincoln"

Here's the longer piece from which that screenshot comes. It took a white Christian nationalist named Walter Huss 18 years of diligent work to eventually get elected chair of the OR GOP in 1978. He was deposed within a year, but the movement he built kept going. rightlandia.ghost.io/walter-huss-...

US House Republicans have cleared the way for Chilean mining giant Antofagasta to engage in copper-sulfide mining - which produces sulfuric acid - above the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, which 165,00 Americans visit each year.