As a Democrat, I now feel cleaner; vaguely ineffectual and in constant argument with every other Democrat, sure, but definitely cleaner.

Copyedit alert. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cachet

martina navratilova spending her entire post retirement existence carrying water for ppl who would happily jail her as a degenerate is a classic example of why you never need to know what an athlete thinks about anything except that exact sport

Argumentum ad populum is a known fallacy since ancient Greece, no?

I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup.

Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires.

It's a disgrace.

This is the right choice:

"WOKE Being consciously aware of how power, racism, and inequality have shaped historical events - and refusing to accept sanitized or incomplete versions of the past.

it’s that simple
#KeepItWoke

Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, the eyelids scene.

Experiments? In crime prevention? Hmm, an image is recalled from long-term memory:

I mean, there was a whole spinoff series, The Jeffersons, that originated with the black family that Archie was trying to keep out of the neighborhood, so yeah. 😀

Season 1, episode 8, Lionel Moves Into the Neighborhood https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0509884

Kavanaugh also threatened Dems during his confirmation hearing. More reasons this court is completely illegitimate.

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.

She missed these trials by a few months.

One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.

I feel such a hole inside.

In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!

However low your opinion of the Roberts Court, it should be lower.

Mr Patel has already threatened to sue. Speaking as someone who has been through the Atlantic fact-checking process on issues far, far less important… best of luck to you, sir.

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Ooh, ooh, and maybe someone can name it The Shadow Docket! Oh, wait:

www.amazon.com/Shadow-Docke...

It is convenient that the Supreme Court’s conservatives confirm our collective sense that they are unprincipled hacks by writing memos basically saying as much.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

There’s so much to say about the remarkable reporting from Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak—and I’ll say a lot of it in Monday’s newsletter.

But the most striking thing about all of it is the role & behavior of Chief Justice Roberts. “Calling balls and strikes” this ain’t:

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

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

Sounds like they’re gonna be microwaving and lasering a lot of birds and other flying critters.

More proof that this “court” is completely illegitimate. I.e. not really a court at all any more. Just some sort of corrupt tribunal.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Karate Kid Mr. Miyagi Lesson "Squished Like Grape" YouTube video by Hansenvision

Miyagi’s version is more colorful: https://youtu.be/FHg2eJHlyo4?si=WNldwPvr4KZode2A

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸

If they keep complaining, the city should propose eminent-domaining them and turning them into homeless shelters.

Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record. “If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

As Mother Jones originally reported, Taylor Cadle was 12 years old in 2016 when she told a sheriff’s deputy that she had been sexually abused by her adoptive father, Henry Cadle.

Instead of arresting the abuser, Deputy Melissa Turnage charged Taylor with filing a false police report.

This is why "but what do we do with the sexual predators?" doesn't work as a response to abolition.

THIS IS WHAT WE DO WITH THEM NOW: WE MAKE SURVIVORS WRITE THEM APOLOGY LETTERS.

They’re under oath? Military folks take oaths pretty seriously.

Your Epstein-Class question is answered by the meaning of “Epstein Class”.

Take a moment and watch this until the end.