Nothing says “government efficiency” and “freedom” quite like spending time sending uncomfortable emails proselytizing to your entire workforce.
www.wired.com/story/government-workers...
Hegseth's repeal of universal flu vaccines is nonsense on so many levels, but his claim vaccine mandates were an "era of betrayal" irked me as a historian. Here's my response, in @thebulwark.com this morning;
www.thebulwark.com/p/george-was...
When Trump and his allies launched a partisan redistricting arms race, it really does seem as if they assumed Democrats would just capitulate and grumble about how frustratingly impressive the GOP’s hardball tactics are.
That’s ... not what happened.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
A little background on who the Southern Poverty Law Center is and what kind of work they’ve been doing for decades makes it clear that DOJ’s indictment (which is of the center, not of any individuals) is vindictive & malicious, an attack on civil rights work itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
key thing we learned from Virginia campaign
Republicans are freaked the fuck out about accountability
Not just Trump, all of them - including their billionaires, like Thiel
They fear what's coming when Dems win - and Dems need to be ruthless about it
For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.
Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
The government stopped using Alcatraz as a prison 63 years ago because of steep operating costs and logistical challenges. Trying to reopen it would be an enormous waste of taxpayer dollars that would be better spent improving existing federal prisons.
bit.ly/4sJqpSX
DC statehood yesterday
So you had set a deadline for the Iranians to concede everything, sent Witkoff and Kushner to negotiate a deal they couldn't previously negotiate, then threatened to send Vance but wisely kept him back. So on Tuesday you TACO'd, sacked your Labour Secretary for drinking on the job but kept Patel on?
"Adopting the logic used here, Blanche should be prosecuting Leon Black and Les Wexner because their funds supported sex trafficking."
The previous nuclear agreement with Iran took years of negotiations involving US nuclear scientists, 120 inspectors overseeing the destroying of equipment and transfer of uranium
This clown sends Vance Witkoff and Kuschner, the latter two are realtors and Israeli agents, and wants a deal in 2 weeks?
The energy we need to send fascism back into hiding.
Failure to answer this simple, direct question from Elizabeth Warren should disqualify Warsh from becoming Chairman of the Federal Reserve
If he can't display independence from Trump on what is an undisputed issue, nobody should believe he will disagree with Trump when dealing with financial policy
“We’re in a hell of a lot of trouble.
Us, America. But the world is in a lot of trouble because the most powerful man in the world is both evil and demented.”
“He has the most severe personality disorder, actually, that a person can have.”
youtube.com/shorts/yEv32...
Today is a good day for democracy 💥
Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, and Mike Johnson tried to rig midterms… and still took the L.
Virginia voters understood the assignment. They saw it for what it was and obliterated it.
Dems have fought GOP to a draw so far in Trump’s redistricting war. The central part of Trump’s plan to rig midterms falling apart after new maps approved by voters in VA & CA. They didn’t count on Dems fighting back www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
These are disqualifying statements from a future Fed Chair. It’s 100 percent bullshit.
Nothing subtle or complicated about what's happening. Did I mention the only refugees we're taking from the entire world are white people from South Africa?
I'm sure Alito is fuming about the Virginia vote and itching to strike down the rest of the Voting Rights Act as petty revenge.
But Democrats are likely retaking the House, maybe the Senate, no matter what SCOTUS does now.
Killing the VRA would just be a final insult that speeds court reform.
Virginia voters have delivered a significant win to Democrats, as the party aims to pick up four more U.S. House seats in the state. n.pr/3OEODjt
‘Appallingly short’ of basic human dignity: Democrats demand answers about Mesa ICE facility azmirror.com/2026/04/10/a...
Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.
This indictment really is absurd. Trump’s DOJ and FBI are accusing the SPLC of sponsoring far-right extremism instead of combating it. Even though the FBI worked with SPLC to combat extremism until last year.
The indictment is ridiculous.
Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."
Virginia,
We did it!!!
Fairfax County's vote on new Virginia map
The Trump administration launched a war against Fairfax County, Virginia, in January 2025. It responded tonight, voting for a new electoral map favoring Dems by 70 to 30 percentage points.
Extended exposure to wildfire smoke may increase the risk of several types of cancer, according to a new study.
With cigarette smoking declining and fire frequency on the rise, wildfire smoke may emerge as a key driver of cancers in the United States.
Many parents “have no choice but to send their children to a public school.” Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393, 424 (2007) (Alito, J., concurring). Until today, this reality never meant that parents also have no choice but to accept government-chosen religious scripture that will surround their children. Stated simply, “the right of parents ‘to direct the religious upbringing of their’ children would be an empty promise if it did not follow those children into the public school classroom.” Mahmoud, 505 U.S. at 547. If schools across Texas must display this scripture, then today our court ordains that empty promise.
There is no way that the country can allow the Fifth Circuit's en banc decision allowing forced classroom presentation of the Ten Commandments to exist alongside Mahmoud.
It's laughable. And offensive.
It's discussed elsewhere, but Higginson, dissenting, got the last word — and it's good:
Fairfax Co, with over 1M population, only has 30% of votes in.
