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Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Oh no I accidentally embroiled myself in someone else’s grudge match

And now I am invested

LET’S DONATE SOME MORE MONEY TO UMN FOR IMMIGRANTS, YOU GUYS

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GOPHERS BY DEFINITION ARE BETTER WITH TREE-CHOPPING TECHNOLOGY THAN BADGERS

The Dream of the 90s is alive in Portland YouTube video by Vafareunculo

"The Dream of the 90s is Alive in Portland" is 15 years old; it is as far from us as the Macarena summer is from its release

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZt-...

Neither here nor there, but there appear to be more cornerstones than corners in our system of justice.

This is definitely one of those cases where the officer should fail to show for the court hearing.

“Fine.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net Joined Apr '23 shouldn't be allowed to choose their own clerks, shouldn't be allowed to accept fees for speaking or prize money or awards. shouldn't be able to get book deals, etc. etc. if what you want is to be famous, well, no one is forcing you to be a supreme court justice. 8:47 PM • Apr 18, 2026 20 reposts 169 likes 1 save 2 20 169 ...

New idea:

Law monastery in Alaska; justices have to take a vow of poverty and they’re not allowed to leave the monastery once they’re on SCOTUS

And even then it’s an appeal to authority but where the authority derives from a black box algorithm. I can see it being useful as a way of identifying source material supporting contemporary usage.

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Just off the top of my head, telegraph, postal services/post roads, newspapers…

Good for him but I am tired of learning about all the ways a 41-year-old candidate for U.S. Senate supposedly has a lot more growing and learning to do. Maybe do that before the Senate? And maybe try out a lower office before then?

Or maybe we just watch him blossom into another Sinema/Fetterman.

“He is known to walk the gardens of Mar-a-Lago, quoting the Diamond Sutra or discouraging on Ibn Sina in fluent Farsi. He combines the sagacity and commitment to public service of K’ung-fu-tze with the humility and piety of Aurelius.”

Those swivel seats. I know exactly how they sound.

States should tell FIFA the 2018 document was actually a lottery for a chance to to enter into a future host city agreement and unfortunately they've given all the free transportation clauses away to VIPs but — good news! — FIFA can pay transportation costs set by a new dynamic pricing model

I've lived in Maine's Second District. It's an economically depressed area, and a physically beautiful one with wonderful people and potential. The number one thing you hear there, walking around, talking to folks, is: how long are we going to let the Iranian regime continue to arm the Houthis?

I don’t understand how SCOTUS could possibly have original jurisdiction over this. I’m open to correction.

The Yale report on trust in higher education has some good recommendations for reforms in many areas that I hope Yale and other schools implement.

But its diagnosis is oddly silent about what I suspect is the most important force driving the decline in trust in higher education: political attack.

The dominant response across all industries including politics seems to be declining to defend themselves aggressively, positively, and publicly. “What if we dignify the attacks by granting the premise?”

It’s working out great for everyone who’s tried it so who am I to criticize, I guess.

U.S. Soccer losing its sporting director creates urgent needs right before the World Cup. What if we can’t survive group stage without a PowerPoint deck on the U.S. Way? The night before a historic knockout game, who will email consultants and create the LinkedIn content that will inspire victory

See, e.g., bsky.app/profile/bran....

I do not mind this.

Steve understood the assignment. Fantastic testimony, very much worth your time.

Angry goose meme

This looks absolutely fantastic! The history of the Voting Rights Act - and all the many ways in which the Roberts Court has been assaulting it.

@kevintmorris.bsky.social is doing brilliant, essential work - and this book will be mandatory reading the minute it is out.

Pre-order this now.

I have a bunch of theories on why every religion movie is either "Sitting In An Unlit Catholic Church For 45 Seconds At A Time" or "We Found A Swamp Mutant Mormon." Largely I think Hollywood has been too timid to adapt the acclaimed Hell Is A World Without You, but that will change in woke 2

It’s not like the Benghazi hearings deposed Clinton or invented time travel. Formal action demands attention, which at this point is the most valuable commodity in American politics.

Bessent: what if a dolphin were the president of a country club in an ‘80s movie?