The Job Corps program has helped countless disadvantaged youth gain skills, education, and jobs.
But Donald Trump wants to defund this poverty-reducing program.
Dozens of my colleagues and I are committed to fully funding Job Corps — building stronger communities and a more resilient economy.
"Send us money to help build a border wall" and then instead buying yourself 18 more rumpled polo shirts to wear simultaneously, that's donor fraud. "Send us money to help research and track extremists" and then spending that money on obtaining information about extremists groups is... not fraud.
More generally, "you took donor money for this ideological goal and did stuff we think is politically misaligned" isn't the law. Org might even be dumb and ineffective in its chosen strategy, but that's not a crime. Has to be a specific factual promise about what you will or won't do with the money.
Infiltrating hate groups with informants is something that goes way back to the civil rights era and before. It's never been something only the government can do, especially when the government is more likely to be showing up for the white power happy hour every third Thursday at Chili's.
Can definitely criticize the merits, or if the scale reached the point where you're effectively subsidizing them well in excess of the value of the information. But "I'll pay you if you tell me what your little Klan club is up to" isn't illegal and I doubt SPLC donors would be that shocked by it.
The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.
Spain, Slovenia, and Ireland pushed for EU leaders to consider suspending a trade agreement due to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, violence in the occupied West Bank and Lebanon, and recent passage of Israel’s openly anti-Palestinian death penalty legislation.
Chip Roy of Texas just wrote to his constituents about his cosponsorship of new-ish bill to provide new tools to denaturalize and deport foreign-born Marxists and Islamists:
Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists (MAMDANI) Act
"Few approve of how Donald Trump is handling the cost of living" – Overall: 33-67 – Immigration: 40-59 – Iran: 32-67 – Economy: 30-70 – Cost of living: 23(!)-76 "The nationwide poll was conducted April 16-20, 2026 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 2,596 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.4 percentage points."
There's no other way to say it: This AP-NORC poll is atrocious for Trump.
– Overall: 33-67
– Immigration: 40-59
– Iran: 32-67
– Economy: 30-70
– Cost of living: 23(!)-76
37% of Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy, 47% disapprove on cost of living.
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New AP/NORC poll: "President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has slumped over the past month as the Iran war drives prices higher...with even Republicans showing less faith in his leadership."
Overall approval: 33% (-5 from March)
Approval on the economy: 30% (-8% from March)
Who's lying about the Chihuahua drug lab raid deaths? Pretty clear at this point that the agreed account of what happened furnished by the CIA and the government of Chihuahua is simply a fabrication. So why, exactly?
Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.
(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)
A portion of the book cover for ‘Smog and Sunshine’ Headline reads “You Think L.A. Smog is Bad Now? Let’s Set the Record Straight”
Professor Ann Carlson’s new book, “Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air,” is for anyone who’s ever given a damn about the air we breathe in this city.
The full story: lataco.com/smog-and-sun...
By Julianne Le
Worth noting how many organizations like SPLC neutered themselves and the work that they do, trying to avoid this very moment. Especially since Trump won again. But MAGA was always going to come for them. And eventually, we'll all be targets. No matter how much we tried to remain nonpartisan, etc.
Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.
This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.
For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll.
People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.
Rep. Ruiz: If Dr. Schwartz is confirmed as CDC director, will you commit to implement whatever vaccine guidance she issues without interference?
RFK Jr: I'm not gonna make that kind of commitment
Rep. Ruiz: Because you probably won't. You'll probably fire her.
Reuters/Ipsos poll:
Just 36% of Americans approve of Trump's job performance
Only 26% said they consider Trump "even-tempered"
51% of Americans - including 14% of Republicans, 54% of independents and 85% of Democrats - said Trump's mental sharpness had gotten "worse" over the past year
Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
On the pod, @gtconway.bsky.social lays out accountability agenda if Dems win House:
*Impeach Trump and top officials
*Criminal referrals to DOJ
*25th Amendment commission
*Fix Impoundment Act
*Codify DOJ independence
There's much more here. It's a good discussion:
newrepublic.com/article/2091...
A lawyer for the El Gamal family, that has spent close to a year at an immigration detention center in Texas, demanded the family’s release after a federal magistrate judge found that “requiring them to endure further detention… risks compounding the constitutional violation.”
Breaking News: President Trump is said to be in talks to send Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
MERIWETHER LEWIS (1774-1809) Life: Explorer and former governor of the Louisiana Territory, Meriwether Lewis stands as one of American history's great adventurers. President Thomas Jefferson noted that Lewis was "remarkable even in infancy for enter- prise, boldness, and discretion. " Governor at 33, Lewis found the office a difficult one be. cause of the feuds between the territory's officials and political parties. Financial problems plagued Lewis, due in part to his "land speculation" investments in the new territory. Anxiety over his financial state was increased when the U.S. Government questioned the validity of his public expenditures for the ter-ritory. Death: On his way to Washington to defend his use of government funds, Lewis stopped overnight at a log cabin in Tennessee. There he shot himself twice. He died at the age of 35. Although the majority of historians agree that Lewis's death was a suicide, a few historians say that the evidence supporting such a claim is not only inconclusive, but suggests that Lewis was murdered. The People's Almanac, 1975
I had never heard... that Meriweather Lewis died by suicide, from two gunshots, on his way to Washington to answer for financial irregularities?
"Of all the host countries over the last two decades, the Frankfurt resident said he is most fearful about the prospect of traveling to the U.S."
CNN interviewed a bunch of World Cup superfans who have tickets to matches in the U.S. but are now rethinking their travel plans
Warsh just said he would not act in the scenario of a regional bank collapse.
Maybe someone should ask about a money center bank.
The propsective Fed Chair refuses to say whether cutting interest rates 250bps would stimulate the economy and boost inflation
To be clear the first female Ranger graduates were 11 years ago. This would strip the tabs off almost every team leader in the Ranger Regiment, to say nothing of anyone less. But Hegseth seems like the kind of guy who would love nothing more than an army of crusty SFCs
Fellows assigned to 75th Ranger Regiment. If Sec. Hegseth revokes "lowered standard" Ranger classes, that would include a lot of dudes currently assigned to 75th who will assure you their class was no less tough just because there were women in the classes with them.
His mom wrote him a letter telling him he was a horrible person.
