No money for Americans’ health care, food, or energy prices.

But billions after billions for Trump’s reckless war of choice.

yes. YES.

www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

This kind of antifeminism is a socialism of fools, wherein working class resentment at exploitative elites is diverted into anger at feminized phantasms, like “HR.”

Image of a female patient sitting next to a female doctor.

DYK? HPV risk in women extends beyond young adulthood, with a late-life increase.

A large US study finds high rates of infection among younger women, a dip in midlife, and an increase starting at age 70.

Read more: ow.ly/EW5a50YOFuL

Since his dad was re-elected, Forbes estimates Eric Trump's net worth is up 10x, to $400 million.

How are you doing?

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files.

Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas.

You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.

The second-most reckless driver in NYC - whose RAM 1500 truck has racked up 547 speeding or red-light tickets since 2022 - is a NYPD officer.

All that a police spokesman would say is that those speeding tickets were "not related to his job."

A+ local journalism:
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...

A Broken Press Gathers This Weekend To Normalize Fascism Over Cocktails The brunchlord American press gathers every year to pretend they hold power accountable. This year it teeters out of unethical farce and into complicity.

over at the newsletter I wrote about the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and the pitiful complicity of our broken brunchlord access press

it's wild how not one of these alleged titans of journalism has done a single deep dive into how maga is literally a protection racket for sex offenders

DeLAURO: Do you know how many manufacturing jobs the US lost per day during the first year of President Trump's second term?

LUTNICK: I don't know

DeLAURO: More than 100 per day. This isn't a trade policy that delivers for working people.

What Is Woke 2? Woke 2 is Woke 1 with an honest relation to power.

“It is no longer enough—or even that useful frankly—to discover the hidden forces of reaction in the world. There just aren't that many hidden forces to find, because reaction has stopped hiding. What is necessary is to fight it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...

The Epstein crisis is escalating.

Reports say Ghislaine Maxwell may be seeking a pardon as lawmakers demand answers from the DOJ over missing files and unanswered subpoenas.

This isn't going away.

"Traders placed a series of bets worth $430M on a drop in crude prices just 15 minutes before U.S. President Donald Trump ​said he would extend a ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday."

Reminder that the top official at the SEC responsible for investigating insider trading was recently forced out.

Hello?

Exclusive: Trump’s DOJ has cut thousands of law-enforcement jobs while vowing to get tough on crime The Trump administration has cut more than 4,000 employees from some of the nation’s top law-enforcement agencies, even as it vowed to crack down on crime, according to ​records obtained by Reuters.

Look who's defunding the police

www.reuters.com/world/trumps...

What actual advantages of higher ed are left? There's no space for political expression disfavored by the regime, and in fact the university makes workers a target for doxing or worse. Outside of the few lottery winners, there's no job security. And LLMs seem to be seriously damaging pedagogy.

No idea who this reporter is but if that's what you're seeing ... maybe write that, rather than waiting for TMZ? nymag.com/intelligence...

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

Around the same time he was attending this forum on academic freedom, Bhattacharya was cancelling the publication of a CDC study because he didn't like the results: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Here is a list of people Bhattacharya has been involved in censoring through retaliation in his role at NIH:

Jeanne Marrazzo: katzbanks.com/wp-content/u...

Kathy Neuzil: katzbanks.com/wp-content/u...

Me: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya gets candid about academic freedom at USC Open Dialogue Project event “I don’t see any way through but to be brave,” Bhattacharya said in conversation with USC Price Professor Neeraj Sood.

I just stumbled across this. Warning: it may require deep breathing to get through.

The fact that Bhattacharya continues to tout academic freedom after censoring people, science and projects at both NIH and CDC is wildly absurd.

His hypocrisy is astounding.

🧵1/?

today.usc.edu/nih-director...

Thread of the day. Buckle up, Jay Bhattacharya’s hypocrisy will make you 🤮

Sounds about right for this administration.

PabloReports: Who do you think Trump should fire next?

AOC: Is he out of women? Trump only seems to have the capability to fire female secretaries. If you’re a man in the Trump administration, it seems that they reward misconduct.

Superpower Suicide The geopolitics of our moment

“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda.
snyder.substack.com/p/superpower...

I suspect, however, that Republicans have not had this realization, and that they simply believe that disenfranchising Democrats is good but disenfranchising Republicans is bad. If that’s the case, then this race to the bottom will continue indefinitely. On Monday, Trump called the new maps a “shameful effort” to “silence the voices of Virginia conservatives.” He either didn’t remember or didn’t care that he had set off this whole process by demanding that liberals in Texas and other Republican-controlled states be similarly silenced. In fact, the president complained in a post today that the election had been “rigged” by virtue of the fact that all the votes—including mail-in ballots—had been counted.

If Republicans have had a belated realization that gerrymandering is bad, they should work with Dems to ban it entirely. I suspect though that they think it’s just bad when it happens to them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

George Washington ordered mandatory smallpox inoculations for soldiers in 1777.

Trump DOJ will avenge the KKK by taking out SPLC The racism is not subtle.

"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."

Why are White House journalists partying with Trump? | Margaret Sullivan The White House correspondents’ dinner has always been a questionable affair. It’s even more worrying under an anti-press administration

Anyone who goes and pretends that Trump isn't currently waging a war on the free press should be ashamed of themselves and should find a new field.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If a doctor went to an event giving honor and respect to a quack claiming to heal patients by saying a few magic words, you'd doubt the integrity of that doctor. How can he be trusted to act in good faith when he's willing to do that?

Same thing here.

America’s federal public health infrastructure has its roots in the effort to stop having your army riddled with malaria.

States are cutting their way to higher electricity bills Cutting efficiency programs saves money on this month's bill — and raises costs for the next decade.

There is no better way to lower your energy costs than investing in energy efficiency. And therefore no more foolish strategy to lower energy bills than to cut EE programs. And here we are. www.latitudemedia.com/news/states-...