Moby Dick. All my sympathies are with the whales. Wish one had eaten (not that they would) Melville BEFORE he wrote this book.

We can look forward to this. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, Kashyup. Change your name to to Shutup.

Italian UNIFIL soldiers rebuilt the statue of Jesus Christ that was smashed by Israeli soldiers in the town of Debel in southern Lebanon. Yesterday, the Israeli army sent a statue to the village to replace the one that was smashed, but it was rejected by the residents.

People citing the story about how the IDF sent the Lebanese village of Debel a new statute of Jesus should probably acknowledge that the residents rejected it and had a more appropirate one rebuilt by UNIFIL.

Here is the Fifth Circuit's en banc decision holding that mandating the Ten Commandments in every single public school classroom does not violate the Establishment Clause: buff.ly/okGCt3H

Around that time I was named in a law review article called the “treason of professors.” Only in French which Maybe the author thought sounded less stupid. I was in good company. And now here we are.

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

Digital malpractice. Someone is going to coin a good one but nothing comes to mind other than swear words.

When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene. By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks. One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance. The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.

Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics.

Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Israel Jails Soldiers Involved in Jesus Statue Hammering — After Granting Soldiers in Rape Case Impunity The decision comes after Israel dropped charges against soldiers caught on film allegedly raping a Palestinian detainee.

The Israeli military is removing and detaining the soldier who was shown sledgehammering the face of a Jesus Christ statue in southern Lebanon this week — just weeks after dropping charges against five soldiers who were allegedly caught on camera raping a Palestinian detainee.

Honor is not a birthright that comes with being a man. If that’s all it takes, these emotional children should be deprived of any power they have. They will have demonstrated their incapacity to think rationally.

prince is singing on stage and says let 's get nuts ! ALT: prince is singing on stage and says let 's get nuts !

10th anniversary of Prince dying today. Wish it were different.

Opinion | The Trump Administration Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way

The Trumpists are hurtling us back to the 1940s and 50s at breakneck speed. No more civil rights, racist immigration policies, retrograde healthcare, and tradwives. Refuse to go back.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...

The Dems will keep losing because of the people like this (Ted’s quote not Ted) who never learn. They spend all their time blaming people for their own faults. And those opposed to a genocide are easy to target. They are both irrelevant and very powerful.

Oh dear, someone tell Tlaib and Omar that they’ve been expelled from the party.

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.

This is not consistent with First Amendment law. At all!! Strong 1A protections apply when lawyers engage in public discourse. (Even when they don't, see Chiles v Salazar!)

Hilarious. These poor men need a mirror. Anyone who talks like this is less intelligent than amoeba and should probably not talk. My numbers show that their combined IQ is -120. Let me go get my powerpoint slide.

There are a lot of people with extremely poor home training on social media. it’s like they see a keyboard and all their manners fall out of their brains. And then like some aggravating rash, they keep trying to engage the people they’ve ticked off🤦🏾‍♀️.

Delighted that Steve could join to talk about the memos the NYT obtained - that show the behind-the-scenes goings on that went into SCOTUS staying the Clean Power Plan on the shadow docket 10 years ago.

Tune in!!

What he had was a gun.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

'Bell removed Romeo and Juliet from his syllabus because “in Act III, Romeo and Juliet have sex, and that falls under this very broadly defined sexuality [topics ban].” He also didn’t teach about Joan of Arc this semester.'

What an actual lack of freedom of speech looks like in universities. 3/3

They don’t want anyone to teach “western civilization“ whatever that is. They want us to teach their ideology. Soon, we won‘t be able to teach the 14th Amendment, etc.

Turns out that Plato and Shakespeare and Rousseau are subversive 🤷‍♂️

Israel is racing to expand West Bank settlements before new political realities end its era of impunity Israel is approving the construction of new West Bank settlements at an unprecedented rate because it knows its window of impunity is closing — especially if Iran emerges intact from the war and the...

Israel is approving the construction of new West Bank settlements at an unprecedented rate because it knows its window of impunity is closing — especially if Iran emerges intact from the war and the Republicans lose the U.S. midterms.

mondoweiss.net/2026/04/isra...

#Palestine #Israel

Trump's fixation on White House ballroom is increasing, Post analysis finds The president has publicly highlighted his ballroom project on roughly a third of the days this year.

President Trump has invoked the White House ballroom on about a third of the days this year, according to a Post analysis of his public remarks and social media posts, a pace that rivals his mentions of some major policy priorities. https://wapo.st/3Quq5dp

Chart showing media bias

You failed in your analysis during the campaign. Now we reap what you have sown.

Josh Shapiro should run for president, touting his prior volunteer work for the IDF and rock-solid support for Israel.
So should Rahm.
Kamala should also run, on her record of silent loyalty to Biden, and all he did to deserve it.
All of them, run! The primary results will be clarifying

Hey, Beshear, Lis Smith, & associated Majority Dem-types:

If you want to kill group-speak, how about we start with “officer-involved shooting,” “ice agent involved-shooting,” “weaponized vehicle” & other mealy-mouthed obfuscations of state-sanctioned murder?