Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women
Priceless post from the official White House social media
One big political divide is between people who believe germs cause disease and people who believe Those People cause disease. It was pretty evident right away during the pandemic
Bless their little loser hearts, Virginia constitutional amendments first have to pass the full legislature twice before they ever go before voters
Ed Martin said DC had a police chief who looks like a DEI hire? There's no way to explain a statement like that without anti-Black racism or misogyny.
3. The indictment doesn’t mention that SPLC provided intelligence from its informant program to law enforcement/FBI to dismantle extremist groups.
But that fact, which will surely come out in discovery, undermines the entire premise the DOJ/FBI case.
Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.
(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)
"Send us money to help build a border wall" and then instead buying yourself 18 more rumpled polo shirts to wear simultaneously, that's donor fraud. "Send us money to help research and track extremists" and then spending that money on obtaining information about extremists groups is... not fraud.
Oh, I guess from one of the posts, which sort of contradicts the previous one, they're only counting first choices on election night, so that does delay things more than necessary. But I think NYC did the same.
If they're posting the initial version of all rounds on election night, it's no more delayed than before. For close elections it's always taken a few days to know the winner.
So far the evidence is that the disapprovers are more motivated to vote than the approvers. And Trump cultists are less likely to vote when he's not on the ballot.
I think the assumption is that most of the people claiming to believe Trump won the 2020 election are still in touch with reality enough that they don't actually believe it and must be lying. But the evaluation is different for each individual spouter of conspiracies.
Secretary of War Pete Hegs... # © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.
Make this make sense.
In both foreign policy and economic policy, the core belief of Trumpism is that there is some button one can press to instantly and easily solve any problem, and every political leader this country has ever had was simply too cowardly to press it. That’s it.
A watchful D.C. resident sent me a photo of something we haven’t seen in years; water flowing down the cascading fountain at Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park. NPS started work on the long-dry fountain late last year, as part of a broader project to refurbish the park.
"You get a snapshot with none of the maintenance. It’s basically just a fork where nobody knows how the code works, nobody is watching for CVEs, and nobody knows what to do when it breaks. That's not liberation, it's just technical debt."
We already have a cast of characters at the helm that we regret, and it's not because we've been insufficiently forgiving.
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
Difference between then and now isn't that companies like blockbuster cared more about privacy, but that Congress made it specifically illegal in the Video Privacy Protection Act 1988 (in response to someone giving Robert Bork's rental history to a newspaper to try and sink his scotus candidacy)
That fits with the citywide mailer she sent with council funds right before announcing her run for delegate.
xcancel.com/tomsherwood/...
Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.
The editorial team at the Mississippi Free Press discovered we published a column written by a fake author using artificial intelligence.
Here’s what happened and what we're doing to prevent this from happening in the future.
www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...
Amy Coney Barrett was nominated on September 26, 2020, and confirmed on October 27.
Remarkable.
Don't forget the shadows.
Candidates still have until Monday to appeal, but probably they won't, and such appeals almost never succeed. Candidates also could theoretically withdraw. But we very likely know who will be on the primary and special election ballots now.
Markus Batchelor has been denied ballot access for the Democratic primary for shadow senator after a petition challenge by Cory Ellis. Incumbent Paul Strauss will be unopposed on the ballot. #DCElections
After a petition challenge, Dyana Forester was granted ballot access to run in the Democratic primary for council at-large, with 2,001 valid signatures when she needed 2,000. #DCElections
Jack Evans withdrew his candidacy after petition challenges, and Calvin Gurley was denied ballot access after a petition challenge, so Phil Mendelson is unopposed in the Democratic primary for his reelection as council chair. #DCElections
Like the 2022 @theonion.com amicus brief on parody and the First Amendment, further evidence that funny people can make serious points to the Supreme Court.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
The DCBOE unanimously agrees to deny ballot access (again) to Kathy Henderson to appear on the Democratic primary mayoral ballot - she was found to have only submitted 1,381 valid signatures, 619 signatures short of the 2,000 required. BALLOT ACCESS DENIED (again) /3