The majority of the American people want universal health care.
Under Medicare for All, you get a government-issued insurance card at birth that you can use your entire life. This way, we can actually cut down on costs and focus on preventive care.
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.
I noted yesterday that we would do well to describe what role the actions Trump is performing, rather than assuming he is functioning as President.
Mostly, Trump is an old man retreating into his lifelong hobbies: construction, cons, and corruption. With lots of golf.
John says it better and with more kindness than I would have for Zimmerman’s self-indulgence.
When you teach at an ivy, utterly lack self awareness, and are too sheltered and vain to notice, much less understand, that 99.9% of college students don’t have the experiences you make up in your head to justify publication of your petulant pieces complaining, you write junk like Zimmerman does.
1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.
Victoria Toensing @VicToensing Hubby being sworn in as Counsel to the Attorney General. 4:04 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 6,199 Views Jason Reding Quiñones, the US Attorney in Miami, swearing in a much shorter Joe DiGenova.
Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past.
Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic.
emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...
"In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes."
Me on Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop in today's "One First":
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
The Library of Virginia in Richmond seeks a data engineer ($100k-$125k) to transform data practices at a 200-year-old cultural heritage org with an eye towards the future.
Looking for someone to imagine & collaboratively implement tomorrow's data infrastructure.
Apply by May 1! Tell your friends!
It's notable that Sen. Ossoff is pressing this attack in a tight re-election fight in a purple state. The rest of the party needs to pay attention.
this package at motherjones is really worth reading
Everything else aside, this level of discourse from a world public figure is without equal nowadays.
This photograph offers a traditional view from within Genko-an Temple, located in the Takagamine area of Kyoto. Looking through a uniquely shaped window, the viewer is presented with a carefully composed section of the temple’s garden, where lush green shrubs, a slender-trunked tree, and a stone lantern are arranged with intentional balance. The dark, curved frame of the window serves to isolate and elevate the natural scenery, transforming the garden into a living painting that changes with the light and seasons.
A traditional view from Genko-an Temple in the Takagamine area of Kyoto, Japan.
Whooo, No. Masonic rituals are my area of expertise. And when I say that ain’t it hoss, I mean it. No question, not kidding, and anyone spouting nonsense about “Judeo-Masonic blood ritual” has absolutely no idea what Masonic rituals entail or have entailed for centuries.
You’ve got today. And you’ve got tomorrow. Register to vote in the May 19 primary before it’s too late.
(Think you’re registered? Check your registration!)
LOL Trump inadvertently telling people he’s much more willing to risk the death of his son-in-law, his daughter’s husband, than Vance. He really must think Vance is a totally incompetent jinx.
🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”
NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
BARS Research and Innovation Event: Applying for Funding
Reminder: THIS MONDAY 20 April 2026, 10am-1pm UK time via Zoom
Join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
There's still time to sign up for this 5-week online course starting in May.
We're diving into the Bronte juvenilia, reading work by all 4 of the siblings!
Come dive in with me and see what the Brontes were up in their strange and expansive paracosmic worlds
www.bronte.org.uk/events/bront...
Garlic cloves and bread from a fresco originally from Herculaneum and now at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), Italy. Photo by Sophie Hay
Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...
Start at the top of this👇🏼thread discussing Palantir. It’s a really, really useful read.
Draft-dodging Donald loves sending other people's children to war.
view of dog
He gets it
Ohio, you need to get it together because you are not looking good here
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
There are a lot of very pretty skeins in her stash!
