The stunning story of how two social media content creators brought sexual harassment and assault allegations against Eric Swalwell to the press within a matter of weeks, with @melmason.bsky.social: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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...
Harvard University is offering a free online course on the U.S. Constitution, taught by my friend and mentor Thomas Patterson. Understanding our Constitution has rarely been more important. Here's how you can enroll. www.edx.org/learn/govern...
Sums it up nicely
The Strait of Hormuz victory lap didn’t even survive a single news cycle.
California Dem Rep. Linda T. Sánchez: Do you agree with the majority of doctors that the measles vaccine could have saved that child's life in Texas?
RFK Jr.: It's possible, certainly.
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‼️POPE'S BROTHER RECEIVES BOMB THREAT‼️
The New Lenox Police officers responded Wednesday to reports of a bomb threat at the home of Pope Leo's brothe.
After a thorough search of the residence & surrounding property determined the threat was unsubstantiated.
www.nbcsandiego.com/news/nationa...
It was only a matter of time before they assumed that they were God…
‼️TRUMP UNDER PRESSURE‼️
Trump said the war with Iran is ending soon, picked a fight with the Pope, threatened to fire the Fed Reserve chair, & posted an image of Jesus giving him a hug.
This is Trump is under pressure trying to start a more flattering news cycle.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
The National Counterterrorism Center is largely a waste of resources. Better to kill off the DNI altogether rather than have it as a place to house partisan trash like Gorka, Kent and Gabbard.
Hitting a school? Not cool. Hitting infrastructure? Also not cool.
Proportionality: The force used in war must be proportional to the military advantage gained, avoiding excessive harm to civilians and infrastructure.
Noncombatant Immunity: Noncombatants should be protected from direct attacks, maintaining their rights even amidst conflict.
Among other things (I’ll let Catholics handle that part), Vance has absolutely no grasp of Just War Theory.
I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason?
just a wild country
In the weeks before the Vatican's Pentagon meeting, Pope Leo spoke multiple times about danger of preemptive war overtaking dialogue and law.
In the meeting, U.S. officials “attempted to justify [their] military activity.. as a legitimate path to peace."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The evangelical magazine Christianity Today has a good article today really going after Trump--and it does it with a fairly resolute defense of the Pope, which is not historically the way these things have worked.
www.christianitytoday.com/2026/04/trum...
💥Hungary’s opposition leader Péter Magyar vows investigations into Russian interference and foreign minister Péter Szijjártó after our consortium revealed recordings and transcripts showing his collusion with Sergey Lavrov to leak EU documents and undermine EU sanctions: vsquare.org/kremlin-hotl...
They’re not leaving for altruistic reasons. They’re leaving because their performance on X is worse than it was a few years ago.
Yes, from a US national interest standpoint both parties need to stop letting Israeli govs pressure US into blank-check military commitments.
Dems esp need to listen to Palestinian and Arab American voters for moral and voter strategic alliance reasons. @electdemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.org
If you want to follow what’s happening in Hungary in the countdown to the election next weekend, I really recommend Tamás Joo’s Substack, eg. here’s the latest: substack.com/@tamasjoo/no...
Very cool. Go NASA!
What a whoring parasite Mark Penn is.
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
Good god.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...
