Opposing white supremacy is a crime in Trump’s America.

This feels a lot like southern states persecuting the NAACP during Jim Crow.

Odd thing here: he cites religious objections, but appears to be limiting this to the flu vaccine in particular.

Religious objections to vaccination were actually relatively rare pre-COVID, but have grown since the pandemic.

But I'm unaware of religious objections to *only* flu vaccines?

Read Read chapter Front Matter: Infectious diseases have been a problem for military personnel throughout history. The consequences in previous conflicts have...

Military operations and readiness are highly vulnerable to disease outbreaks. It is known, even recently (see link). John Barry's book on the 1918 flu pandemic is a great read on the dreadful cost of dismissing what is known in military settings.

Even worse, his pseudo-engagement antagonizes the other government and kills off the possibility of real diplomacy later. When the Hanoi summit fell apart, it convinced Kim that negotiating with the U.S. was pointless. There have been no talks since then.

What?!? I'm a little shaky on when the last US soldier died due to disease (maybe Vietnam??), but this is just really culture war MAHA + lethality in lieu of actual logistics and troop concerns. And probably with a scoop of eugenics. Just absolute ignorance about what equals readiness.

Illustrating once again the extent to which the Venezuela raid emboldened Trump to engage in further military adventurism.

And there's time travel episodes with Batman and Green Latern meeting Batman Beyond and old Bruce. It was really good.

Headline: Governor's Proposed Pied-à-Terre Tax Draws Critics From Real Estate Lawyers Above it are pictures of three white guys in suits

Perfect. No notes.

You're Gen X. You can bring back one thing from the 80s. What is it?

Opinion | Prescribing in a 'Black Box' of Prior Auth Decisions An excerpt from 'Coverage Denied'

Thanks to @medpagetoday.com for highlighting an excerpt of my book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality, which hits shelves this Thursday! www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

To expand on THIS:

A quality of constitutional adjudication is that there will always be reasonable disagreement about whether the Court got it right. That's just part of the whole pluralism thing. Democratic constitutionalism therefore requires that people be able to accept...

Stream It Or Skip It: 'To Philly With Love' on the Hallmark Channel, where a historian researching a Revolution-era romance falls for a local archivist …and of course there the romance features cheesesteaks, it would be a crime if it didn’t.

Settling into “To Philly With Love,” the Hallmark movie about a historian falling in love with an archivist in Philly. decider.com/2026/04/18/t...

As with declining trust in universities, you cannot explain the timing or this trend, or fix it, without first acknowledging the reality that the the primary driver of these is the Republican Party’s near-total collapse into far right authoritarianism in the last decade:

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The Strange Death of Orbánism Franz Pokorny

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org

I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.

blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

And relatedly make drug testing regimes that reflect that diffusion into society (and maybe not auto report to NICS).

I just want an updated iPod with integrated Bluetooth that has somethink like 400GB. And is the size of iPod classic.

And maybe a pony as well.

This piece is incredibly important. Read the whole thing.

I'll simply say again that for Shlaes to resurface in The Economist at this moment is an indicator of an ambient concern that Rooseveltian policies and politics are increasingly likely. The thing about the New Deal is, it was *immensely popular.* That's terrifying to certain people

This is actually the normal and legal functioning of a blockade. Blockading ships can order ships running the blockade to stop for inspection - a ship that refuses to stop can be fired upon to make it stop.

Ships with contraband or running the blockade can be seized.

Wait a second. Medieval lawyers got pet dragons?!? (See alt text).

Which is also interesting as it was an attack line against Bill Clinton's admin. Not to defend Clinton, but just the amount of lines that end up being projection.

Complaint – #1 in PATEL v. The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01329) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT against Sarah Fitzpatrick, The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number ADCDC-12369316) filed by KASHYAP P. PATEL. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Summons, # 3 S...

Here’s FBI Director Kash Patel’s complaint against the Atlantic regarding the magazine’s reporting about his drinking habits: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Someone has spread lies that I’m not cut out to be the director of the FBI!

Great. Bad PME ideas guy is doing the updated "are there no workhouses" line from Dickens with the same earnestness.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite's intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

This bullet point from Alex Karp/Palantir’s latest diatribe strikes me as the best representation of the whole project.

“The elite’s intolerance of religious beliefs…”

Let me stop you right there, Alex. You just made that up. That isn’t a thing in 2026 America.

As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.

End the project already, Dave.

You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.

Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.

USA: Jetzt zahlt Donald Trumps Regierung die einkassierten Zölle zurück Ein hartes Zollregime gehört zum Kern von Donald Trumps Politik. Doch nach einem Gerichtsurteil startet die US-Regierung nun mit der ihr auferlegten Erstattung in Milliardenhöhe. Fast 60.000 Firmen können mit einer Rückzahlung rechnen.

Ein hartes Zollregime gehört zum Kern von Donald Trumps Politik. Doch nach einem Gerichtsurteil startet die US-Regierung nun mit der ihr auferlegten Erstattung in Milliardenhöhe. Fast 60.000 Firmen können mit einer Rückzahlung rechnen.

Chief Justice John Roberts

My not-so-hot take on the @nytimes.com SCOTUS scoop: for those who’ve followed the shadow docket, the scoop itself contains few surprises. What it says about SCOTUS’s new NDA regime is more interesting than the substance of the reporting
www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/04/a-ne...

Trust me, if D'Souza says it's a fact, it is quite the opposite.