the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

The idea that there’s some special merit to compromising your principles & platform w/ the minority opposition - especially when that opposition is an antidemocratic far right authoritarian party - is rightly considered nuts across most of the democratic world, as it was for most of 🇺🇸 history, too.

Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

Shameful, but this is also on Dems to make it an issue or not. I don’t think I’ve ever heard either Jeffries or Schumer so much as say Jared’s name. All a quick search turns up is Cory Booker voting to confirm Kushner’s dad.

Rep. Jared Huffman: “If we’re honest about what’s going on, we have a madman in the White House who is running roughshod, who is running the most corrupt criminal grift in American history out of the White House.”
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

“C.J. Roberts has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

‘He Just Lied to America’: Russ Vought Denies Violating Impoundment Laws, Prompting Sharp Response Despite his central role in the Trump administration, Office of Management and...

Just a filthy civic degenerate

‘He Just Lied to America’: Russ Vought Denies Violating Impoundment Laws, Prompting Sharp Response talkingpointsmemo.com/news/he-just...

One major problem with granting the bad, false premise that every single major reason for "declining trust" in universities is internal to universities is that this totally ignores the common decline of trust in <all societal institutions> in over the last several decades:
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More perfect union: BREAKING: The Senate just passed the legislation allowing the devastation of the Boundary Waters. The motion passed 50-49, and now goes to Donald Trump’s desk.

Republicans just handed the Boundary Waters to a foreign corporation.

For the GOP, it’s foreign billionaires first, America last.

Hey @npr.org - how can you call JD Vance a "practicing Catholic" with a straight face when he is openly at war with the pope? A "self described Catholic" might be a more accurate and objective description.

I feel like people focus a little too much on Bruce Springsteen having a slightly cringey stage persona singing boomer music and not enough on that boomer music being pretty fuckin good and him genuinely caring about stuff

Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups

The White House Correspondents' Dinner later this month – with Trump as guest of honor – is shaping up as an embarrassing surrender to a criminal president who is trying to destroy the free press.
Cancel the damn dinner.

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on CNBC Trump blasts Pope Leo for criticism of U.S. foreign policy 54 minutes ago CNN Trump says Pope Leo is 'terrible for foreign policy' 33 minutes ago Breaking News AP AP News Trump lambasts Pope Leo XIV, extending feud over Iran war with first.. 1 hour ago ^ Axios Trump unleashes tirade against "weak," "terrible" Pope Leo 31 minutes ago New York Post Trump blasts Pope Leo after pontiff's veiled jabs over Iran war,... 44 minutes ago.

Rather than treat Trump’s comments about Pope Leo as deranged, embarrassing and offensive to (many) Catholics, early headlines (and stories) paint it as Trump just bashing back against a political opponent. Truly broken media environment.

Trump TS post featuring an illustration of himself as a Christian faith healer

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

Magyar now polling third in the Iowa caucus.

BRENNAN: Did they mine the strait? Because Trump also said they might not have TURNER: You'll have to ask the president BRENNAN: That's the point. Congress hasn't been briefed TURNER: It's his tweet B: You're a member of oversight and armed services TURNER: You'll have to ask the president

WELKER: Would you support military action in Cuba if that were the way to lead to regime change? BYRON DONALDS: I'm not going to step in front of the president and any decisions he or Secretary Rubio are going to make on this front

Democrats should seriously consider a national ad campaign with clips of Republicans refusing to do their jobs, demanding they repay their congressional salaries.

This makes me unbelievably angry.

We were so close to prevention and cures for so many things.

Case in point: Individualized cancer treatments that reduced deaths & recurrence by half! mRNA cancer vaccines were doing well in trials to teach immune systems to recognize & attack cancer cells.

As primaries are approaching we need a candidate who will fight and end this Supreme Court as we know it and give us back a real functioning court. Without this we will be going nowhere.

He’s just describing the Dems but they’re too girly so bsky.app/profile/anth...

ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI

On the picket line in New York, union leaders said they expect “more concentrated conflicts” over AI in the news industry.

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🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇

1/10

All this shit is a heat check by mainstream press to see if they can still pull off a “there’s equally bad guys on both sides, and here’s the guy we decided is just as bad as Nick Fuentes.”

It’s:
1 - A way of avoiding the real problems: Trump, Vance and Netanyahu
2 - Probably not gonna work anymore

Millions of midwits -- most of them with post-secondary degrees -- still take this publication, and "issues" like this, seriously.

This isn't hackiness or shallowness in the way we've seen those things in newspapers all our lives. This amounts to a social pathology. It's delusional.

NEW: Per memo to U.S. House Democrats, Rep. Jamie Raskin and House Judiciary Committee Democrats will host a virtual briefing on Trump administration accountability and the 25th Amendment on FRIDAY afternoon

Grifting

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You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Researchers turn recovered car battery acid and plastic waste into clean hydrogen Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste – such as drinks bottles, nylon textiles and

Scientists from @reisnerlab.bsky.social @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle plastic waste using acid recovered from old car batteries ♻️

This is then converted into clean hydrogen fuel and valuable industrial chemicals.

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