For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.

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Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

Buttigieg: I’ll give the Turning Point folks a lot of strategic credit for going to a lot of different places. Going to these college campuses is kind of the equivalent, in their minds, of the way I feel when I go on Fox News.

The difference is, when I go on Fox News, I’m telling the truth

Wasserman Schultz: MAGA just doesn’t know what to do with so much winning. I mean, they have skyrocketing gas prices, grocery prices, housing prices, utility prices, and health care prices, and they refuse to do anything about it.

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges related to past use of paid informants The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges related to its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.

Southern Poverty Law Center says it is under Justice Department investigation The nonprofit on Tuesday said it is “the latest organization targeted by this administration.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its tracking of hate groups, said that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit regarding their use of informants.

Opinion | Oncologists vs. the FDA and RFK Jr. Doctors who treat melanoma are shocked by a drug’s rejection.

In other Trump administration news, RFK Jr. blocked a life-saving drug for metastatic melanoma.

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9. When asked how they selected such a horrific panel and why no other trans healthcare panels were present, a PAS rep said that there was “A Suicide Prevention Skills Workshop."

8. Lastly, Gorin will be presenting. Gorin was a co-author of the Department of Health and Human Services “Gender Dysphoria Report,” which Mother Jones reported was largely shaped by conservative, anti-trans activist Leor Sapir.

7. Then, there is Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, a Finnish researcher who is well-known to those tracking threats to trans rights in the states and abroad. Former patients have accused her clinic of abusive behaviors, including allegations that she prodded minors with sexual interrogations.

6. The other speaker to self-disclose his SEGM ties in conference documents is Dr. Steven Montante. Montante represents a fringe faction of doctors and anti-trans activists who want to ban some, if not all, kinds of medical gender-transition care until age 25.

5. SEGM’s most direct link to the panel is Dr. Anna Hutchinson. Not only does she advocate for conversion therapy; she also suggested gender-affirming models of care are, themselves, a form of conversion therapy, a pipeline pushing “LGB” youth to become transgender.

4. The organization has been denounced for promoting conversion therapy practices and manufacturing the scientific facade for the Trump Administration’s state-sanctioned war on transgender children. Now, panel attendees can use this workshop to earn required CME credits.

3. However, some clinicians have raised concerns about the conference’s sole panel dedicated to trans health care. The workshop will be stacked exclusively with academics who have been tied to a SPLC-designated hate group—the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine, or SEGM.

2. Thousands of medical professionals will flock to Boston from April 24-27 for the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meeting. It will be one of the largest gatherings of its kind in the country.

Trump's HHS Report Co-Author Is Headlining a Trans Youth Care Panel At Preeminent Pediatric Academic Conference The PAS Meeting’s premier event dedicated to gender-related care will be led by academics tied to SEGM and Genspect, groups known for anti-scientific, anti-trans practices.

1. Major alert: Trump's anti-trans co-author Moti Gorin will be presenting with Kaltiala and Montante. These are conversion therapy advocates with intense anti-trans ties to hate groups around the world.

Now they'll be teaching pediatricians THIS FRIDAY.

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Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

We helped *rebuild* Germany and Japan after World War II.

Palantir is, clearly, run by information-deprived and simple-minded ideologues.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Trump isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom. The system failed when it chose profit over accountability and forced itself on others. He reflects the insatiable beast that was already there preying on us all. Change will require building a new nation before the current one rightfully collapses.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

Pope Leo isn’t backing down in the face of Trump's threats.

Praise the Lord.

An NYT headline reading: Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets

My headline from April 15 reading: Water is wet, and DHS's 'deportation fleet' boondoggle expands under Markwayne

The hed and dek of my story from February reading: ICE FLIGHTS Noem's luxury 'deportation' jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. Gillian Brockell 26 Feb 2026 - 9 min read

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week.

And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY.

You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

Incredible day of 30+ species on my bird walk this morning, this time with a local birding club.

The picture of the day is this gorgeous tree swallow who was nesting nearby, we had to go around it, and so I got a beautiful shot :)

Tell your senator: Do NOT confirm Markwayne Mullin The Senate is about to vote on whether to confirm Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma -- an election denier -- as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. DHS oversees both immigration enfo...

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Absolute garbage. He is evil.

That's what I watched the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion on in 1986. Today was much better