Many are missing the importance of the Tucker Carlson “apology”. Until now he and others have steadfastly refrained from directly criticizing Trump. He’s still pushing the “undue influence” (Israel) narrative, but the taboo against going after Trump himself is rapidly eroding.

FFS. In the UK we don't use coal any longer.

If Trump is so great at making deals, why is he sending JD and Jared and Steve to negotiate instead of doing it himself?

Warsh may be a reasonable guy and capable economist just playing a role here. But if integrity and independence are qualities we value in a Fed Chief, he does not have them.

Every nominee who dodges this question tells us that they have no meaningful commitment to American democracy.

If I was President Trump, I would want to wrap up that criminal investigation of Jerome Powell because it might be harder to get this guy through a Democratic Congress. It was very off-putting testimony; he actually seemed very arrogant and out of touch.

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Trump’s DOJ sued over campaign to amass data on millions of voters | Arkansas Advocate Voting rights groups launched a legal challenge Tuesday against the Trump administration’s effort to sweep up sensitive data on millions of Americans with the aim of identifying noncitizen voters, arg...

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The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Secrets Have Been Spilled The leaked memos from a 2016 EPA case expose the spurious reasoning behind one of the justices’ most consequential decisions of the past decade.

Wrote about the shadow docket news:

Financial crisis hit at end of Bush. We elected Obama but people forgot to blame Bush.

Covid hit at end of Trump 1. We elected Biden but people forgot to blame Trump.

Great Depression hit at beginning of Hoover. He stuck around refusing to help for years, then Republicans lost for decades.

Ah, yes, the freedom to catch the flu that our forefathers fought to secure for all Americans.

Cadillac residents can turn on water, flush toilets – but asked to limit usage A partial fix at the sanitary sewer lift station means some water usage is OK.

A partial fix at the sanitary sewer lift station means some water usage is OK.

Love that our DOJ has seen fit to take on the role of Chris Crocker for white supremacists: “leave Nazis _alone_!”

This is already happening via school vouchers, which since most private schools in the US are Christian schools, are a form of involuntary tithing to religious institutions free to discriminate.

Instead they're setting it up so that companies get paid twice. We paid them once via higher prices. And now we're gonna pay them again via our taxes for these refunds. Another sweet sweet wealth transfer up to the tippy top

We know this bill won’t become law, but the fact that there are MAGA members willing to say the quiet part of fascism this loudly should concern every single American who believes in our Constitution.

anti-press “judging” is anti-democratic and anti-constitutional. hard pass.

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A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

Another person died in ICE custody, bringing the total to 17 so far in 2026—four months into the year.

The federal government doesn't publicly share on the number of people ICE injures and kills, but we do. Here's our count.
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Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

Tech billionaires want Christians to believe in AI For Peter Thiel and JD Vance allies, the tech right is framing AI as a moral—even divine—mission.

“What becomes incredibly useful for these people to do is to present their products as the answer to the meaning of life.”

(hoping it's Protect Trans Kids Univ.....) 🤞

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

No one can become a billionaire without becoming weird & anti-social. We should just accept that & pass policies that prevent anyone from accumulating that much money.

Project Jupiter water-use claim rankles opponents and supporters Data-center developers plan to use nearly a million gallons of water per day, the N.M. Office of the State Engineer says.

A massive data center effort in NM, Project Jupiter, has provoked consternation across state law & policy domains. It's also a thirsty beast, with the Office of State Engineer estimating the project will use 1 million gallons/day—50 times more than the project’s developers have disclosed publicly.

Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles Autotrader says average EV cost is £785 cheaper, in an important milestone in the move away from fossil fuels

Forget "total cost of ownership." In the UK, the average EV is now cheaper than the average ICE vehicle, up front. Sticker cost.

And of course the savings just keep accumulating after that.

The Reagan counterrevolution only deepened America's problems. It turned the country against government and against taxation. Remember, after eight Republican years in the 1950s, with George Humphrey as Secretary of the Treasury, the highest marginal tax rate was 91 percent. Contrast that with the situation last year when the rich acted as if raising it from 28 to 32 percent were the end of Western Civilization. So overwhelming is that opposition, that politicians who privately see no other alternative to raising taxes, remain silent, because to favor tax hikes publicly would be political suicide.

the past is another country

Supreme Court passes on case over outing trans students The decision lets stand a lower court ruling giving schools discretion over disclosing students’ gender identity to parents.

NEWS: For now, policing pronouns is seemingly too far even for this Supreme Court, so it rejected a case that would have forced schools to out trans students to parents.

A bit surprising given the court’s recent inclination to take any chance to harm trans kids.
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A meteorologist standing in front of a map of the US that shows drought conditions from coast to coast and a lower third noting that these drought conditions lead to elevated wildfire danger this spring. (Accuweather/USA Today)

Record drought is gripping nearly two-thirds of the continental US, including 97% of the Southeast, as climate-driven warmth and exceptional dryness primes many areas for a bad wildfire season, water issues, and agricultural losses.

‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there

“For over a month, my office has gone back and forth with ICE officials about Andrea’s condition,” said @repangiecraig.bsky.social. “We’ve been ignored, put off, and lied to about the treatment she has received while in detention.”