Trump appointees repeatedly show themselves as malignant, incompetent and corrupt.

That is by design.

They further the aims of a mafia state.

They all have to go.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".

Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.

Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups

Journalists planning to honor Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner have a choice:
A. Party with the dictator, wear fancy clothes and network to boost their careers.
B. Stand up for democracy by staying home.
They’re going to choose A. It looks terrible now. It will look worse to history.

Laughing at the idea that the "first order of business if Dems win House/Senate" should be to re-introduce the right-wing immigration bill Biden/Harris tried to run on in 2024 to take the immigration issue off the table by making a ton of concessions to the anti-immigration right.

Addiction isn’t a moral judgment — it’s a security clearance nightmare.

If you can’t master your own demons, you have no business running the FBI or the Pentagon.

Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth are liabilities, not leaders. Suspend them and investigate. Immediately.

Curious how soon these higher-efficiency panels will be widely available, and at what price.

First, the Court takes a step back from its assessment of the particular categorical exclusions invoked and emphasizes the animating text of NEPA. The claim that the conversion of a commercial warehouse equipped with four toilets and two water fountains and designed for cargo storage into a detention center capable of housing over 500 people is the type of action that would not “normally . . . significantly affect the quality of the human environment” is, bluntly, absurd. See 42 U.S.C. § 4336e(1); see also ECF 15-1, at 16; ECF 15-13, at 4; ECF 34, at 10; ECF 15-4, at 66. As such, even before the Court examines the text of those exclusions, Defendants’

Friends, is it good when a judge tells you your argument is, "bluntly, absurd"?

Is it good when the judge says your proposal "raises a red flag"?

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's sparkingly clear the president is now feeble-minded, in a way most ordinary people likely grasp.

It's a dark stain on this country that people in power – civil society, elected officials, news publishers, broadcasters, the military, and the clergy – aren't calling for him to step down.

Kash Patel Blusters About Suing Over Devastating Story ‘Conspicuous Inebriation’ On Friday evening, The Atlantic published a devastating account of...

A ton of prime Morning Memo fodder today, starting with The Atlantic's devastating account of Kash Patel’s first year as FBI director. Most of the piece focuses on Patel’s alleged drinking on the job. The anecdotes were numerous … and astounding:

talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Tandem PV begins perovskite-silicon solar panel demonstration manufacturing Perovskite-silicon solar technology company Tandem PV has begun demonstration manufacturing in Fremont, California. In a 65,000-ft2 facility, Tandem PV is

Tandem PV begins perovskite-silicon solar panel demonstration manufacturing #energysky -- via Solar Power World:

just read the headline "Apple TV reaping the benefits of stale content on bigger streamers," which is a hilarious way of saying, "Apple TV is succeeding by making quality shows"

FWIW, the answer to this question is “no”

I think the idea of sunglasses that are also a HUD and headphones is cool and it annoys me that antisocial freaks ruined it for everyone

Extremely grim but also more or less this

Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Will Bunch An Ivy League university's report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American Dream of college.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech

How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

A step away from asking the Russians to investigate their own influence operations in the US. The guiding principle of Trump policy is that Russian ops are good because they support him personally. The guiding principle of Russian policy is that Trump is good because he wrecks the US & helps Russia.

Thanks to a random happenstance coinage on Mastodon I can no longer think of Trump as anything other than "Idiot Amin", Idi Amin's disastrous American counterpart. The parallels are eerie (except Trump started with more and threw it away faster).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

A federal judge forcefully struck down HHS Secretary RFK Jr.’s attempt to impose far-reaching restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors, ruling the policy unlawful and blocking its enforcement in the states that challenged it.

The oral versions of these drugs might be useful for "maintenance". Cost is a major factor for most people though.

*sigh*

1. That's not a direct quote. If you're going to put something in quotation marks and then go, "Wow. He just came right out and said it," it should be a direct quote.

2. This speech is from 2018. Don't present it as new/recent.

3. The actual content of the speech is bad enough.

Despite setbacks, (some) progress is being made in reigning in climate change. Trump can't kill renewables worldwide. 🔌💡

Garlic cloves and bread from a fresco originally from Herculaneum and now at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), Italy. Photo by Sophie Hay

Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...

Jon Ossoff calls out ‘Mar-a-Lago mafia’ amid presidential bid rumors Georgia senator says Americans will pay for Trump’s Iran war, and family’s corruption, with child and health care cuts

@ossoff.bsky.social has the script every Dem should read: Trump is the enemy, no matter what your kitchen table. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s time to end DEI and bring back the meritocracy.

by Buckley Carlson

VT just cut my department this year and gave athletics $200 million more

Go Hokies

i am starting to worry that john roberts might be a far-right partisan republican.

Texas Restaurants Are Forcing a Reckoning Over Immigrant Labor

Businesses that depend on undocumented labor find themselves in a bind.