tweet by JK Rowling Nothing's changed. I was being honest about how I feel about an individual trans woman I know, who was a gay man pre-transition, and who I met for the first time post-transition. Objectively speaking, she has physical characteristics that make it fairly obvious she wasn't born female, but she's a gentle, funny person I've never referred to as anything other than 'she' and 'her'. I find it perfectly easy to reconcile my fond feelings towards her, and my experience of her as someone with very female-coded energy, with a belief that she hasn't literally changed sex (and incidentally, she doesn't believe she's literally changed sex, either).

JK Rowling admitting that she won't be transphobic to you as a trans woman if you are "gentle" and "funny" and you have "female-coded energy."

What on earth is "female-coded energy"? Doesn't this strongly suggest that Rowling is a conservative woman who expects women to be a certain way?

This is a very bored person who doesn't have any real worries in life and is using her wealth to terrorize innocent people because she's determined her neuroses are societal issues that need to be fixed.

Senate Republicans Have a Plan to Suspend Congressional Oversight of ICE for Trump’s Whole Term This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....

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Our Shared Ethical Compass - Ethics and Journalism Keynote address of the Peter F. Collier Awards for Ethics in Journalism, April 15, 2026 delivered by Marty Baron, acclaimed former executive editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.

“The new owner of CBS and the editor-in-chief of the news division set an explicit objective of appealing to the center right and the center left. That is a political goal. It is not a journalistic one.”

— Marty Baron, former top editor at the Washpost

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Posted this morning by the President of the United States.

I remember smog alerts in the late 80s and early 90s, when the skyline of downtown L.A. was often hidden by a thick, brown layer of smog. Then came tougher regulations and our air quality improved

Connecticut Just Told Masked ICE Agents to Show Their Faces SB00397 bars masks on every officer in the state, forces feds to show badges, and opens state courts to sue them. A first in the country.

No law enforcement officer operating in Connecticut—federal, state, or local—can wear a mask on duty. ICE and CBP agents have to show their faces and badges. And when an officer assaults someone recording them, commits false imprisonment, false arrest, or malicious prosecution, they lose immunity.

I think we should ban all gerrymandering.

The GOP would never vote for it, though. Marginalizing the non-white vote is the only way they stay relevant.

Tim Walz on DHS officers who shot Minnesotans: "We're gonna bring them back and hold them accountable for what they did"

Every university needs a @msroth.bsky.social as president. Wesleyan's head grades Yale's shameful retreat: "That’s not a mission; it’s a defense strategy. And the retreat from public purpose will not enhance trust; it will further erode it."
Gift link:
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This reveals something fundamental.

RFK doesn’t grasp he’s the medical establishment now.

It’s not his job to judge who caused this epidemic (though we all know who).

It’s his job to stop it.

He’s failing.

Ossoff: "The financial entanglement, the way UAE money, Emirati money has compromised this WH is astonishing. It may be one of the most significant scandals in US history. Who are Trump's 2 chief negotiators? Kushner & Witkoff. The people doing diplomacy are at the same time on personal business."

Kash Patel turns reality on its head: "You have to ask yourself about the explosion of crime under the Biden administration, and thankfully President Trump was put in place to tamp it down."

(The crime wave that ended under Biden started during Trump's first term.)

As FBI Directors normally do in totally legitimate criminal cases, they go discuss the prosecution on Hannity

That’s pretty much the cult line. All he’s got left are people who will drink the kool-aid if the order was posted on Truth Social.

Ossoff: "I have zero interest in running for president in 2028. I love serving the state of Georgia. Let's keep our eyes on the ball, folks. We need to win decisively in Georgia and every battleground state and every competitive US House district this fall."

Hundreds of Mothballs Spread on Florida Beach, Wildlife Officials Say

Man, what isn’t wrong with people?

“A state wildlife officer told The Tampa Bay Times that he thought the mothballs had been spread on the beach to keep black skimmers, a protected bird species, from nesting there.”

Black skimmers are splendid birds

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RFK Jr: This is not a problem that was created by the Trump administration or the big beautiful bill

KAINE: Not in Virginia. All three of the hospitals cited the reconciliation bill for the closures

HASSAN: I agree all should have access to healthy foods, but Trump has made it harder to afford groceries. Do high prices make it easier or harder for families to eat healthy?

RFK Jr: I would say that beef has dropped by 1% last quarter

HASSAN: No. Beef prices are up 20% since Trump took office

RFK Jr: President Trump has invested more in trying to transition off glyphosate than any other president

HASSAN: When & how did he do that? He signed an order to increase production of it for weapons and herbicide, and he granted immunity to the huge corporation who produces it. You once sued them

RFK Jr: I sued that corporation and got $11 billion!

HASSAN: Right. And now you're just folding right in front of them.

BLUNT ROCHESTER: Do you take any responsibility for the situation we are in with this measles epidemic?

RFK Jr: It became before I came into office

BLUNT ROCHESTER: I'm going to take that as a no

CHRIS WRIGHT: Wind and solar just disappear at peak demand time

BRITT: So what have you done to make sure we're driving down energy prices?

WRIGHT: We finally ended the 34 years of wind and solar subsidies

Fox News and Leavitt are now pushing a narrative that Trump is turning on Sheinbaum and Mexico

Q: Why didn't the president campaign more actively against the Virginia referendum?

LEAVITT: He has a lot on his plate. He did host a telephone call the night before the election.

Irans women’s soccer V Georgia women’s tennis.
Darn those theocratic regimes where women are pushed into the background….!!!!

Alabama enters the chat!

Shawna Thomas Jumps to MS NOW After Running ‘CBS Mornings’ Shawna Thomas Jumps to MS NOW After Running 'CBS Mornings'

Another defection from Bari Weiss' CBS News. variety.com/2026/tv/news/shaw...

Republicans are bringing up past Democratic statements decrying gerrymandering, as though we weren’t aware of this.

Of course we are. We tried making the argument in good faith. Y’all didn’t listen.

We’re supposed to not fight back now?

Nah, doesn’t work like that.

“You voted to continue those arms sales to Israel — are you on the wrong side of public opinion in your party?”

@schumer.senate.gov sidesteps CNN’s valid Q about his vote. (The answer is yes)