Hope John Roberts, who assured us that absolute immunity would prevent presidents from going after their predecessors, sees this

Opinion | Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.

It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

What the founding generation understood as an establishment of religion is a legal question to be decided by a court, not a “fact” question to be decided by experts, no matter how credentialed. To be sure, courts must make a determined effort to grasp the relevant history bearing on that legal question. Hilsenrath, 136 F.4th at 491 (“This kind of historical inquiry requires serious work.” (citation omitted)); McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 803 (2010) (Thomas, J., concurring) (noting “[h]istorical analysis can be difficult”). See generally Heller, 554 U.S. at 592–95, 600–03, 605–19. They do so by consulting articles, books, and historical sources and bringing their own independent judgment to bear on them—not by appointing an “expert,” whose “findings” are insulated by clear-error review on appeal.57 _________________

And then, in one last bizarre twist, the Court says that judges aren't allowed to ask experts in history about questions of history, because experts impact "independent judgment."

Brb going to scream.

Weakened war-fighting capabilities:

The Shadow Docket Memos Are Damning. So Naturally, The Right Is Talking About The Leak. - Above the Law New York Times reporting reveals the birth of the modern emergency docket was sloppier, more ideologically driven, and less legally rigorous than anyone admitted. The right's response is to demand we ...

No, because as my colleague pointed out today, they are going to flood the zone with leak takes to crowd out any engagement with the substance

If you are like me, and you forgot to take your evening meds, please go take them.
Just watched a YouTube short that reminded me and I figured id remind you all as well.

It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It. The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.

An excellent piece about the total collapse of Florida oranges. If you've read John McPhee's Oranges you kind of have to read this to see how it turned out (extremely badly).

slate.com/business/202...

In my feed: bsky.app/profile/eize...

All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.

Pat Paulsen, something vaguely like a Stephen Colbert of the 1960s, had a good line: "We've upped our standards. Up yours."

Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.

www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

Let's me make incremental progress toward getting something else working!

Windows on ARM has a few things missing, including wheels for Python's cryptography and pyarrow .

White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout Even the president may have doubts about his war.

Most people would call this a "mental breakdown" or "mental health crisis"... but its just a day ending in "y" here....

www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-...

Did you know there's one computer command that can cause you, the user, to reconsider many life choices?

It occurs when you find yourself typing this in:
vcpkg install openssl:arm64-windows-static

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

Short and painful thread.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

World Cup Transit Prices Are Set: $150 by Train and $80 for Shuttles

Dunno, man...seems abusive to me.

"NJ Transit confirmed on Friday that a round-trip rail ticket for FIFA World Cup ticket holders traveling from New York to New Jersey for matches will cost $150, more than 10 times the regular fare."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/n...

I watched Eastman, in real time, testify to the Georgia General Assembly that it was their *duty* to overturn my vote in 2020. He lied about evidence. He misled his client about the law. Law profs who back wannabe coup leaders and authoritarians should retire because what’s the point of law at all?

damn, dark as shit

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Or look at it as an unhinged moment.

cc @kissane.myatproto.social

Oh, every one is always nostalgic for the geocites era web but when somebody actually makes a platform that crashes every 10 minutes, suddenly everybody wants future technology, I see how it is.

Give them a break y’all. They hit post on this 12 hours ago 🙃

I laughed. Thank you.

Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.

NEW: WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.

read @telliotter.bsky.social:

It's not the size of the tick in the fight, but the size of the fight in the tick.