The front page of the Star Tribune on April 22, 2016, following the passing of Prince.

SB5395: Making improvements to transparency and accountability in the prior authorization determination process. Making improvements to transparency and accountability in the prior authorization determination process.

Washington just banned health insurers from using AI as the sole reason to deny, delay, or modify care. Under the new law, only a licensed physician can reject a prior authorization request on medical grounds—algorithms can approve, but they can’t deny without human review.

LD2129: An Act to Prohibit Liens on Principal Residences and Wage Garnishments for… (Passed) An Act to Prohibit Liens on Principal Residences and Wage Garnishments for Medical Debt

Maine just banned medical debt collectors from putting liens on people’s homes or garnishing their wages. Gov. Janet Mills signed LD 2129 into law this month—after nearly half of Maine households reported taking on medical debt in the last two years.

There was a goose on the field at Wrigley, they played on

He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars The far-right influencer Nick Fuentes has pocketed roughly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025. Some superfans see him as part of their families.

He has said that Hitler is “awesome,” that most Black people should be imprisoned, that “organized Jewry” has corrupted society and that women should be locked in “breeding gulags.”
He has raised $900,000 in the past 16 months.
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A Well-Aimed Potato: The Klan, Notre Dame, and Today | dansinker.com

This weekend I wrote about the time students at Notre Dame beat the shit out of the Klan. It's a feel good story for the ages. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

In Qatar, Trapped Between the U.S. and Iran, War Forced a Reckoning

Today I learned: “Qatar produces more than a third of the world’s helium, a gas needed to operate M.R.I. machines and manufacture computer chips.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/w...

“The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home,” by Wil Haygood

Democrats seek to bar presidents from collecting settlement money from the government Lawmakers drafted the bill after President Donald Trump sued the IRS and the Treasury Department for $10 billion over a leak of his tax records to news outlets.

With a 34-time convicted crook in office, I guess we need a Presidential Plunder bill. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Trump Extends Sanctions Exemption on Some Russian Oil as High Gas Prices Persist

Unsurprisingly, Kremlin Ally Extends US Sanctions Exemption on Some Russian Oil as High Gas Prices Persist www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...

guessing he’s around 97-98 on percentage solved, unless he’s truly infalliable and i’m going to hell.

Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

it’s just fake christian, in service of fake jesus.

Trump's lawyers are in talks with the IRS to resolve president's $10B lawsuit The Trump administration says it’s in talks with the IRS to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax information.

Bank president opens vault with an open bag.

We all have money in that bank.

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kidnapped, held in miserable conditions, freed but not allowed to work by the trump administration ... yeah, self-deported.

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

America is losing a talented researcher today.
Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility."
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and her new will is coming in 3-2-1.

Poor Fico. Last Kremlin puppet standing in the EU. Maybe he’ll get Orban’d too.

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

Drop a dime on momma www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

because winning the iran war is with 3 golden arches.

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE.
Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

‘Woe to Those Who Manipulate Religion,’ Pope Says Amid Standoff With Trump

‘Woe to Those Who Manipulate Religion,’ Pope Says Amid Standoff With Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/w...

Would be amusing if he wasn’t ruining America’s fighting power.

As an opponent of a loving Jesus, his the best defense is to go on the offensive and try to label others as Pharisees.

He ought to have a big enough job ruining - i mean running - America’s military without wading into his fringe and alienating brand of theology.

And he’ll gladly accept money from a man with a Hitler statue in his yard.

end of previous "Boys" had the Usha Vance character thinking she'd (or her kid) would be saved by hanging with the Aryans, but that didn't work.

Why Is Everyone Wicked Obsessed With This Boston Globe Reporter?

One wicked good reporter gets her moment in the sun.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/s... @emilysweeney22.bsky.social

my wife almost slipped on a cucumber, says banana peels have a bad rap.

running as ohio’s fetterman for senate?

waiting on the fake jesus, jesus, epstein holy trinity.