Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

And there it is....

Update in Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own I.R.S., in which he seeks taxpayer-funded damages for the prior release of his tax records

Trump legal filing says he's in "discussions" with his own I.R.S. to "avoid protracted litigation"

Joe is the WORST today. Come on, man.

Carbon Removal After Microsoft Though the tech giant did not say its purchasing pause is permanent, the change will have lasting ripple effects.

Microsoft is the anchor of the carbon removal market. It bought 45 million tons of carbon removal last year; the next largest buyer has purchased 1.8 million tons *ever.*

So what happens now that Microsoft’s paused buying?

Spent the week talking to folks about it: heatmap.news/carbon-remov...

Spirit Airlines seeks U.S. government aid as oil spike threatens turnaround Low-cost carriers expected to meet with Transportation Secretary Duffy early next week

SCOOP: Spirit Airlines seeks U.S. government aid as oil spike threatens turnaround (with @jonostrower.com & @juliejohnsson.bsky.social via @theaircurrent.com): theaircurrent.com/airlines/spi...

Donald Trump post "The U.S.A. is the “HOTTEST” Country in the World right now. Just a short time ago, under Sleepy Joe Biden, IT WAS DEAD, LAUGHED AT ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! But not anymore - Nobody’s laughing!!! President DJT"

Trump slowly evolving into dril

Free Law Project Announces Initiative to Add Digitized Scans of Case Law Volumes to CourtListener | Law.com The project will see the nonprofit digitize millions of pages of opinions dating from 2018 to the present and going forward.

Some press on today's big announcement: www.law.com/legaltechnew...

Federal judges reported receiving 407 gifts worth $935,000 in 2023-24 (i.e., the 2 most recent yrs for which 85%+ of disclosures are posted).

*Any* gift acceptance exposes judges to unnecessary conflicts & justified criticism, but this is extreme fixthecourt.com/2026/04/fede....

More perfect union: BREAKING: The Senate just passed the legislation allowing the devastation of the Boundary Waters. The motion passed 50-49, and now goes to Donald Trump’s desk.

Republicans just handed the Boundary Waters to a foreign corporation.

For the GOP, it’s foreign billionaires first, America last.

Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

I was pondering that. I doubt any of the same people still work there. Maybe.

Long game, baby!

Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE.

www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

Well, anyway, here we are. The girlfriend is long gone, my new partner and I have two kids, and the project nears completion at long last.

Safe to say this is kind of a big deal. I really do enjoy the long game. 4/4

I remember telling my girlfriend at the time that it would be done in a few years, and I was motivated by a foundation that rejected us because they thought the goal was impossible (challenge accepted!). 3/4

Around that time I wrote a data ingestion script that would prompt me when things were unclear. I spent hours on planes, trains, and watching movies tending to that little script. It took months, but I added hundreds of thousands of items to the DB. 2/4

Story time. Back in 2009, when I started CourtListener, I had the goal of collecting all the case law. I was young, naive, and I worked really hard at it. I gathered data from places like Public.Resource.org, and scraped what I could from other sources. 1/4

I use this all the time!

Think about this: The leader of the Senate Democrats just voted against 85% of his caucus all to keep sending bulldozers to Israel, so it can continue to demolish Palestinian and Lebanese people's homes.

this is why you're not supposed to cross those databases, idiots

A screenshot showing mcp.courtlistener.com. It's just a random webserver page now, but not for long.

The CourtListener MCP is coming very soon. Get ready to have the full power of CourtListener in your AI tool of choice.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

Yeah, I thought oakland lost ages ago.

Mine uses S3 on AWS. It’s hefty, but does work is basically free and I haven’t had to touch it in a decade.

That’ll teach ‘em!

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology.

This is a serious escalation.

Can confirm

I'm going to make an effort to learn the country codes for domain names, and say them to myself. No more "xyz dot A-I." Instead: "xyz dot Anguila". No more "dot C-O." Instead, .co becomes "dot Colombia."

I'm certain this will surely be a meaningful improvement to my daily life.

Now that I’m looking I don’t even see how to do advanced filtering on mobile.

I’ve always wanted to be able to search the posts in my feed for some post I saw a couple weeks/months/years ago. I assume this is wildly difficult.

UX-wise I can never remember if the filter is by:@foo.com or by:foo.com or something else.