"Tucker Carlson did a podcast with his brother Buckley yesterday where they apologized for supporting Trump..." #Wait Tucker Carlson has a brother named Buckley? Buckley and Tucker, the Carlson bros... Seriously?
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.
(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)
'When presidential aides tell reporters they’ve had to keep a president out of the room because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful, what they’re really saying is they’re dealing w/ someone who’s so irrational they don’t trust his judgment' robertreich.substack.com/p/why-no-one...
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."
Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.
Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.
The system is rigged.
Instead of getting highly effective contraception methods to the country’s poorest women so that they may decide if and when to have children, Title X under Mr. Trump seems aimed at getting more women pregnant, whether they want to be or not. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...
New in PN: Trump Is dooming his party to a midterm blowout
"The difference between '18 and '26 is that not only has Trump become even more repellent, his actions have made everything worse. In fact, it’s hard to imagine what more he could do to enrage voters & ensure his party’s defeat in November"
"The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped ... they're a net drain on the society" -- even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking
What would happen if teachers punched a clock, and were paid overtime for more than 40 hours' worth of teacher work--planning, assessing, creating materials, adapting new instructional techniques, tutoring? teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/04/16/l...
Governor Tim Walz — "We are sick of this. A weak, reckless, Idiotic president just threw us into a war nobody asked for. No threat existed. No objectives were set. No exit plan exists. This is pure fascism." #cdnpoli
Arrrgh!
Michigan Dems back Garlin Gilchrist and Eli Savit, oust U-M’s Jordan Acker. bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...
The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal.
As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest. popular.info/p/the-media-...
If President Trump runs for a third term and loses, suddenly the party is up for grabs. But if DJTJ were to run, even if he lost he would be the presumed front-runner for the 2032 election—buying the family another half decade in which to print money. #facepalm www.thebulwark.com/p/the-second...
'If we want to build the kind of repolarized supermajority that Magyar was able to bring together in opposition to Orban, we need to break the corporatists’ stranglehold on the Democratic Party' aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
I know, right? Perhaps more accurate to say Hobbs rejected it.
Arizona Just Says No to Trump's Crazy Voucher Scheme
Katie Hobbs scores a win for public schools. theeducationreport.substack.com/p/arizona-ju...
'Even in the best-case scenario — full reopening of the Strait, ceasefire holds, tankers resume — the permanent price floor for crude has been reset upward by at least twenty dollars a barrel.
This is not a spike. This is a structural change.' www.meidasplus.com/p/incendiary...
He might as well answer in Russian.
Reading matters
Why does fiction matter?
Because stories can sharpen the way we understand other people.
A meta-analysis found that reading fiction has a small but positive effect on social cognition. Including our ability to interpret emotions, motives, and inner lives.
⏰📚💙📚🎧 #books #reading #fiction
I miss the good old days of politics, when one poorly-judged tax dodge would be the end of your political career
Khanna: "You have the pope lecturing America about possible war crimes. You have the president threatening to destroy all power plants. What have we achieved? We've created devastation."
Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.
Oh.
Trump reminds me of serial killers who love to see themselves portrayed in the media and how they are outsmarting the police.
This article seems like mostly bad faith ragebait from people who should know the difference between the oppressive corporatization and Fisher Price-ification of educational technology for schools and the legitimate value of digital tools.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...
