Every day, I feel so, so glad that I ignored my family’s advice to join the FBI, because I would be embarrassed to be part of this evil clown show.

LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America


SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours

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BREAKING: Storied civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on 11 counts, including fraud conspiracy, bank fraud & money laundering. DOJ alleges SPLC fueled hate groups while raising money off threat. Ind: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

“As of today?”

Sean Hannity left the Catholic Church in 2019.

So phony and performative

For those attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, a small question:

When you're sitting there at your table, do you think it'll cross your mind that the guest of honor is actively covering up his role in a massive child sex trafficking operation?

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.

a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure

Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Sarah Isgur QTing the NYT shadow docket story: In 2014 and 2015, the Court used the “shadow docket” to stop Texas’ anti-abortion restrictions from going into effect while the case was pending. The left was thrilled with the shadow docket at that point—years before this case even existed…

Isgur is such a fucking hack. the case she’s referring to is one where the 5th Circuit entered a stay and it was appealed to SCOTUS. the case in the Times story involved the Court intervening to stay an EPA rule while a lower court was still adjudicating the issue.

We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.

Constitutional Law, Moral Judgment, and the Supreme Court as Super-Legislature BRIAN LEITER* I propose to defend and explore three claims in this Essay. First, there is very little actual "law" in federal constitutional law in the United States, especially with respect to cases that end up at the Supreme Court. There, the Court operates as a kind of super-legislature, albeit one with limited jurisdiction.

No particular reason

chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcont...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Remarkable SCOTUS reporting in the NYTimes, which pretty much confirms what observers have always assumed, but still astonishes. (Gift link)

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

The grift will never end. They keep testing how far they can go and find out they can go farther.

If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

We're celebrating the First Amendment with a man who's trying to destroy it

This isn’t just an ignorant, offhand remark. It stems from a deliberate effort by right wing groups to conflate criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism in order to stifle support for Palestinians. They are fine labeling anyone Jewish who is on the fence about Israel “antisemitic.”

Can he quote Revelation 21:8?

THE PROPHECY HAS BEEN FULFILLED

Walking out is literally a speech act

🔥 🇬🇧 @mrjamesob.bsky.social : “He’s looking at this picture and telling YOU that anyone claiming he’s being depicted as Jesus is a liar… it’s the behavior of an abusive partner.”

Tennessee’s Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers College students who participate in walkouts could be suspended or expelled under a new measure passed by the Tennessee General Assembly on Monday. The

This state is such a joke. Tennessee is enacting “The Charlie Kirk Act,” yet another effort to promote right-wing rhetoric on college campuses and shield it from criticism. wpln.org/post/tenness...

HOWLING

Imagine no inflation
It’s easy if you lie
No oil blockaded
Economy sky-high

There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame

When Swalwell says, “I made mistakes in my marriage in recent years”, he is admitting that he repeatedly had sex with subordinates in his campaigns/office.

He is asking us to believe that they were consensual, as if that would be full exoneration.

A boss like that should be fired, not promoted.

so fucking do it then