As the war in Iran enters its eighth week, President Donald Trump is increasingly contradicting his previous positions.
A review by @ms.now finds that Trump has shifted his position on the war five times in less than two months.
My latest supercut:
Gregg Phillips, the high-ranking FEMA official who said he teleported to a Waffle House has a history of making supernatural claims we found in his podcasts: a dead girlfriend who lifted his car off the road to avoid a crash, Satan encountering him on a hike, etc.
www.cnn.com/2026/04/14/p...
For longer than I’ve been alive, my dad’s Barbershop quartet has come over every Thursday night and serenaded our kitchen table, which is why I just found myself harmonizing with the shower fan 🚿
Shireen Al-Kurdi, a 36-year-old displaced mother of five, crochets affordable dolls for Gazan children.
“Every child in every tent in Gaza has the right to have a doll and the right to play,” she said.
So this happened when we called the White House switchboard yesterday.
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.
The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.
Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
NEW: Last October, Border Patrol agents gassed Chicagoans after agents caused a major car crash on the southeast side.
I analyzed body cam videos that show agents Benito Nunez, Oscar Guillen, and Carlos Chavira ignored orders to end the pursuit—moments before they blew a tire and crashed.
Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...
From the image in Ben's tweet
your emergency moment of calm: baby opossum eating a grape
My latest: New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h...
America's media consolidation nightmare.
CBS, CNN, HBO, MTV, Warner Bros, Paramount, TikTok, SpongeBob ... How much media can any one billionaire family control? And what happens when so much culture gets captured and politically reshaped?
SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way.
Half are luxury jets.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56-year-old partially blind Rohingya refugee who spoke little English, was found dead Tuesday in Buffalo, about five miles from where Border Patrol agents had dropped him off after they picked him up from county jail. https://wapo.st/4cOY5u3
Suntory Holdings is consolidating its operations in two scotch whisky distilleries in Scotland, the company said, as overall exports of the liquor to the U.S. fell following tariffs introduced in April 2025.
President Trump's speech was the longest State of the Union in history: One hour, 48 minutes.
He broke his own record, which was previously one hour and 39 minutes. https://wapo.st/3ZQywBr
A police investigation into a report that the Labor Secretary’s husband sexually assaulted a female staffer has been closed after police found no evidence.
But he is still banned from the department's headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Palestinian artist Marah Khaled al-Za’anin turned her tent in Gaza City into an art gallery, displaying her drawings and paintings across the walls and ceiling.
A group of New York officials gathered on Thursday to replace the Pride flag that was removed from the Stonewall National Monument after a directive from the Trump administration. nyti.ms/467dyBJ
Last week's piece by @kwanetaharris.bsky.social was so impactful that we got a reprint request from @msmagazine.com
-- our first reprint!! Read Kwaneta on how the state becomes you abuser in prison at the link:
njs.libraries.rutgers.edu NJS: An Interdisciplinary Journal Summer 2025 The New Jersey Miscount: The 1860 Census and the Accidental Humanization of Enslaved Individuals By Luke Voyles DOI: 10.14713/njs.v1112.362 Abstract: The 1860 census is the only example in U.S. history when the U.S. government systematically recorded the names and ages of enslaved individuals of a state. Because government officials underestimated the number of enslaved people in New Jersey, there was no slave schedule in the state. Therefore, the names of enslaved individuals appeared within the households of their enslavers in the regular 1860 census. The official census statistics only listed 18 individuals as enslaved in 1860, but a close examination of every 1860 census page for New Jersey uncovers 64 names tied to slavery. This essay explores the context behind the census, and how the census accidentally humanized people whom it often marginalized.
Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865.
Y’all. He identified every one of them.
njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota urging the state to hand over voters’ private data to “bring back law and order.” The idea of the federal government obtaining states’ private voter information has been long seen as an overreach. Here's what to know.
An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting.
Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Applicants for positions at the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes are being asked how they would support the president’s policy priorities, raising concerns about the prospects for the historic outlet’s editorial independence.
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
On the lack of congressional notification before the operation:
Rubio: “This is not the kind of mission you can pre-notify”
Trump: “Congress has a tendency to leak.”
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
