Top Trump Terror Official Exposed on ‘Sugar Daddy’ Site A complaint filed with the DHS inspector general’s office accuses the 29-year-old of seeking out older men to fund her luxury lifestyle.

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Virginia voters OK a Democratic effort to redraw the state's congressional map Virginia voters have delivered a significant win to Democrats, as the party aims to pick up four more U.S. House seats in the state.

Virginia voters have delivered a significant win to Democrats, as the party aims to pick up four more U.S. House seats in the state. n.pr/3OEODjt

Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

A New Supreme Court Leak Shows John Roberts at His Worst The newly leaked memos from the justices show how the court came to claim this new “emergency” power for itself.

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Epstein Craved Harvard Connections. Many There Were Eager to Help.

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it's not that inequality is new, it's not that wealthy people are new, it's that this *specific* model of wealth accumulation and this *specific* modern, centralized state are both extremely new, and occurring roughly simultaneously

As Gods Among Men "In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!"—Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyA sweeping...

a thing i've been thinking about (as part of reading this very good book) is how some of what looks to us like a delayed response or inaction to the kind of stratospheric wealth accumulation our tech executives have managed is that this is basically an entirely new problem in human history

Great, shocking reporting on the origins of the Supreme Court maneuver that has enabled Trump to impose his agenda without full-blown legal review. Roberts resented the Obama admin’s EPA and wanted quick protection for oil companies.

At least some of those now insisting that there's no news in the leaked memos about how #SCOTUS decided the Clean Power Plan cases have previously responded to criticisms of unexplained shadow docket rulings by insisting that the Court engages in robust and rigorous dialogue behind the scenes.

Hmm.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson slams Supreme Court’s emergency docket actions Jackson faulted her fellow justices for often forcing the public and lower-court judges to rely on “scratch-paper musings."

"Scratch-paper musings” is SUCH a good burn of the shadow docket, nobody is doing it like KBJ www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

The TL;DR is that recently-leaked internal memos from 2016 reveal that John Roberts and the court's conservatives invented the shadow docket because of nakedly ideological opposition to Obama's Clean Power Plan.

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...

Learn whatever you want about "law," it doesn't matter because GOP Justices blew up the entire process of deciding cases based on chats with rich friends and stuff they watched on TV. That was the entire basis on which SCOTUS switched to the shadow docket.

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

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Seems fitting that we have the shadow docket because Roberts got mad at an EPA blog post.

It’s so funny that they pubbed this the day before “john roberts invented the trump era shadow docket to make sure fossil fuel companies could keep killing you and make money doing it” bsky.app/profile/cris...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Of course the roots of the “shadow docket” are in service to the fossil fuel billionaires who captured the Court. 🧵

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com

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The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Signaling and the Racial Politics of Immigration Enforcement | Stanford Law School This post is part of Challenging Precedent, a blog of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice examining race, law, and regulation in the Trump era. Whe

The Supreme Court is fundamentally corrupt & after the NYT reporting there's a big opening for Democrats to make a huge stink about the shadow docket and that it was born to stop the first Black POTUS's climate agenda. We must talk about how the shadow docket has become a racially weaponized tool.

Sarah Isgur QTing the NYT shadow docket story: In 2014 and 2015, the Court used the “shadow docket” to stop Texas’ anti-abortion restrictions from going into effect while the case was pending. The left was thrilled with the shadow docket at that point—years before this case even existed…

Isgur is such a fucking hack. the case she’s referring to is one where the 5th Circuit entered a stay and it was appealed to SCOTUS. the case in the Times story involved the Court intervening to stay an EPA rule while a lower court was still adjudicating the issue.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

1/The NYT is releasing internal SCOTUS documents re: 2016 creation of the modern “Shadow Docket” noting Justice Roberts & “other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered [Trump] through their shadow docket rulings. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

No offense to Mamdani or the internet or my friends or me on days when I'm not struggling, but maybe Democrats got burned out on trying to run on policy solutions and sometimes even succeeding and America turning around and electing the crassest, grossest, shittiest arsonists and cheering the flame.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

In 1995, a Heinous Crime Led to Another Dark Episode in America. Everyone Has Forgotten What Happened. They Shouldn’t. The story of a man who didn’t do it.

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At ‘Sloth World’ in Florida, Wild Sloths Have Died by the Dozens - Inside Climate News The animals, highly susceptible to illness when removed from their habitat, have been kept in a warehouse. More than 31 have died.

Stop imports of wild animals. Stop Sloth World. insideclimatenews.org/news/1604202... #sloths #animalcruelty #slothworld

A headline reads: "Times Exclusive: The Inside Story of 5 Days That Remade the Supreme Court. Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine 'shadow docket' rulings on presidential power."

Confidential memos by Supreme Court justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how they decided to bypass time-tested procedures and create the modern “shadow docket,” a rushed and secretive new way of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Trump Wanted an Easy Win. He Created a New Superpower Instead The president can no longer hide how much he is willing to give up to make his war go away.

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Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.