Eight *kids* and I had to ask my wife about it when it scrolled by on local news. We're a nation with massive brain-poisoning.

DG The Daily Galaxy A 10-Year-Old Girl Wrote to NASA Asking Them to 'Restore Pluto to a Planet,' and NASA's chief Replied with Four Words No One Expected

"No. They know why."

Great thread on Iranian ops recruiting criminals (and perhaps inspired individuals) to engage in covert(ish) acts ranging from arson to assassination.

Excellent context for understanding HAYI operations.

(I still think it's more of a surrogate or coordination front rather than a full proxy)

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

Oh Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About

We've been covering the Trump administration's escalating campaign against NewsGuard for a while now. It started with the House Oversight Committee's absurd investigation of the company for the crime of expressing…

The term “Department of War” should only be used with scare quotes and considerable derision.

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Oh.

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Please read this urgent paper. I am then going to repost a bunch of comments I made last night (sorry).

THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.

I Was Falsely Accused of "Censorship" in The Free Press. Then Their Editors Censored The Truth. The Free Press was given evidence disproving a story they'd heavily promoted. Here's what happened next.

Two weeks ago The Free Press let a whiner publish 2000 words ab how I got his book review cEnsoReD. It was pure nonsense from the moment it went out—but I spent the next 14 days trying to get them to post an Editor’s Note and admit reality.

They won’t.

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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:

Today, the last tanker of crude oil that transited the Strait of Hormuz before Trump launched his war on Iran reached its destination in Europe.

As I have posted several times before, the oil price spikes we have been seeing have been largely speculative. The real impact is only just now starting.

Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted:

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

171 murders... and counting.

theintercept.com/2026/04/14/t...

This report on the “Biden Administration’s Weaponization of the FACE Act” repeatedly cites conduct that occurred…during the first Trump administration.

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

Yessssss www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

2/5. What he means by the word "morality" is propaganda from some religious institution that justifies the world the way it is, including his own personal power and corruption.

1/5. I want to try to amplify this point — Vance does not believe that morality is an autonomous sphere of life at all; only fools think that, in his world.

Last week this man was Chamberlain to his own Hitler. This week he is Judas to his own Jesus.

One can pile up the blasphemies and the ironies or one could just say that this man is unwell.

I kept waiting for the audience laughter at the end only to realize this wasn’t an SNL fake C-SPAN voiceover

The Pope didn’t “push back.”

He’s refusing to engage.

He said he’s going to keep doing his job.

DJT’s words don’t matter.

This isn’t a debate.
Don’t let DJT create one.

Harmeet Dhillon Is Not Wasting Any Time She arrived at the Department of Justice with radical changes in mind. One year later, she has completely reshaped the Civil Rights Division.

I profiled Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who pushed out roughly 70 percent of the Civil Rights Division's lawyers, turned DOJ's civil rights enforcement on its head, and is now reportedly in the running for attorney general

Makes me think of Lady Liberty's head sinking into her body as she turned into a Nazgûl. Those three points look very much like her crown.

Charlotte Clymer: In the past week, Donald Trump has threatened nuclear war against Iran, called for the genocide of 93 million Iranians, publicly attacked the Pope, and compared himself to Jesus Christ. Recall July of 2024 when every pundit and reporter in American media were urging President Biden to step down due to concerns over his cognitive health. Where are those voices now? Where are the demands for Trump to be removed? Where is the flood of op-eds and cable news panels and social media posts calling for the 25th Amendment to be triggered? Why are you all so silent on this?

They’re never going to stop trolling.

All honor to the Hungarian people for showing the way.

"He fires Vance and makes Stephen Miller VP" is a sentence that I wish I didn't have to take seriously.

After reading the third mainstream news outlet calling JD's one (long) day attempting to be a diplomat while Marco was getting wasted at a UFC match "marathon," reupping this take.