Nothing to worry about, just the Heritage Foundation publishing an article on how the Republican Congress can refuse to seat Democrats www.heritage.org/election-int...

F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend

The FBI launched an investigation into a New York Times reporter for covering Kash Patel's country-singer girlfriend's use of FBI resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend

Kash Patel had the FBI investigate a NYT reporter who wrote about his girlfriend's personal FBI SWAT team. That was too much even for the DOJ. How do you recover from this? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Horrific and not cute or funny at all. Animal cruelty and abuse is disgusting as is your spreading this type of hate and cruelty.

That’s animal cruelty and abuse. Stop 🛑

Nothing subtle or complicated about what's happening. Did I mention the only refugees we're taking from the entire world are white people from South Africa?

CREW statement on Cherfilus-McCormick resignation - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick did the right thing by stepping down, but she shouldn't have waited until the moment before potential expulsion to do so.

NEW: Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has finally resigned, after months of dragging the scandal on while cashing paychecks from American taxpayers. You don’t get credit for doing the right thing only when forced to, after repeatedly doing the wrong thing.

When the Oval Office becomes a stock tip line, it’s corruption in plain sight. We must continue to sound the alarm. Head to the Substack page for everything you need to know: www.adamkinzinger.com/p/this-isnt-...

Is it BYO?

When Trump talked about ushering in a "new golden age," he was talking about a new golden age for his family's pocketbook.

I hope the takeover of InfoWars by @theonion.com and @timheidecker.bsky.social that resulted from the bankruptcy brought on by Alex Jones’ evil attacks on the victims of Sandy Hook brings you as much joy as it does me.

How The Onion Won the Infowars Sale — and Shut Up Alex Jones for Good YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

Watch the whole episode here:

You could be “overly sincere” (not at all btw!) like this everyday for 100 years and it still wouldn’t be too much. This story and your actions are just next level American hero and I can’t get enough of it. This is true glory, bravery and smarts in action. WELL DONE!!! AMAZING ABSOLUTELY AMAZING 🤩

@tompepinsky.com was right back in 2017 about the banality & ordinariness of authoritarian politics. We have normalized concentration camps, government murder on the high seas & our streets, & unprecedented daily corruption. It is maddening & stupid & also most have pretended nothing has changed.

Robert Reich 29K likes, 2.2K comments. "Could This Actually End Citizens United?"

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.

No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed.

Here's how it works. https://youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?si=QZRQImV8KYD5Y90r

I sure hope so 🙏🏼🇺🇸🙏🏼

Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done.

Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.

He’s enmeshed the American government into himself. He can’t/wont differentiate.

The off again on again attack/peace/blockades on Iran are a nice distraction for Americans while Trump opens up the sale of his buddy Putins Russian oil again.

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.

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This is a very very good tweet by Pope Leo.

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.

I've set out the framework I'm using here in an earlier thread, on VDA, the Arc of Democracy, and the moral-epistemic stacks idea, what follows applies that framework to the Palantir document directly. skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Trump allowing sales of his buddy Putins oil while loosening up restrictions on psychedelic drugs for Americans while also literally painting himself as God, knocking down the White House and insisting on triumphant archways throughout DC.

To see it all collide together is just a 100 alarm fire

“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.”

Some couches next to a big window looking at over Las Vegas

The Internet says the Poodle Room in Vegas costs 200 grand but they’ll give you free membership if you gamble a lot.

The application has remained stable since approximately 9 PM PDT, April 16 despite ongoing Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. We have not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private user data. We will provide a further update by end of day.

Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Pope James David Vance the First The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.

Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology.

The queen of all vices: Pride.

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EXCLUSIVE: Attorneys for Rep Jamie Raskin are asking appeals court to halt Trump Admin effort to vacate convictions of Jan 6 seditious conspiracy defendants

Raskin is trying to serve as firewall as Justice Dept & defense join forces to vacate the cases