80 year old congressman David Scott has died after serving in the House for 23 years.

He is the fourth Democratic congressperson age 70+ to die in office since 2025.

Guess What People, We've Always
Been A Pretty Cruel Society.......🫣

Montgomery County passes 'ICE Out' legislation to block immigration detention facilities Montgomery County Council unanimously passed it's "ICE Out" legislation barringprivately owned immigration detention centers from operating in the county.The m

Maryland's Montgomery County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to take a proactive anti-ICE stance, barring privately owned detention facilities. "We will not wait for an immigration detention facility to be proposed — we are ensuring it is never built in the first place," Councilmember Glass said.

Law requiring ICE agents to show identification struck down by 9th Circuit Appellate judges ruled in favor of the Trump administration in its challenge to a California law that required federal immigration agents to display identification while on duty.

Law requiring ICE agents to show identification struck down by 9th Circuit

From June to September, I am embarking on a cross-Canada trip with my dog Berton.
The project will showcase the history, landscape and people of Canada through videos and a book.
You can support the project fundraiser here 📷
gofund.me/456542cf7

I don’t have the words for people who hope abortion is possible for such hateful purposes while abortion is currently banned for entirely compassionate and practical purposes. It doesn’t sit well with me.

F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend

“The scrutiny of Ms. Williamson is an example of the Trump administration examining whether to criminalize routine news gathering practices that are widely considered protected by the First Amendment.”

The Delusion of ‘AI Justice’ As AI seeps deeper into our judicial system, boosters insist it will bring both fairness and efficiency. But can we really trust Judge Grok?

Here's my print feature piece in @thenation.com about the rise of AI-justice. Judges are already relying on AI, more than you probably think, and with some countries *replacing* human judges with bots, we will soon have to ask: Would you rather Justice Alito or Justice Mech-Hitler?

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Serious request: I hope SOME EV maker will service the 2018 market.

By which I mean: I love that my car, from 2018, has zero built-in internet connectivity. I got what I bought. No updates, no subscriptions for seat warmers, no pairing with Geico.

I want--no, demand--that for my next car.

Explosions have struck occupied Melitopol, with reports of a partial blackout likely caused by hits on an electrical substation. #Ukraine

I'm still hoping that the one good thing to come out of Trump's destruction will be a massive global turn away from fossil fuels and toward clean renewable energy.

But the oligarchs can't profit if everyone gets free energy from solar, so they're going to fight it as long as they can.

AI is breaking high school. Students are starting to sound the alarm. - Concord Monitor The rise of AI in high schools is transforming the learning experience, leading to concerns about motivation, cognitive decline, and academic decline.

I spent a quarter century or so working with schools and with young writers. This is an extraordinarily well-done report on how good students are reacting to artificial intelligence in the classroom.

www.concordmonitor.com/2026/04/18/h...

Order on Motion for Summary Judgment – #194 in Loomer v. Maher (M.D. Fla., 5:24-cv-00625) – CourtListener.com Order on Motion for Summary Judgment

New - a federal judge has dismissed Laura Loomer’s defamation lawsuit against Bill Maher and HBO

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Epstein files contain evidence about the sexual abuse of women, and especially minors. That was terrible. But there's something even worse in those files: evidence of billions of dollars of corruption. Many wealthy people who were not involved in sex abuse were involved in financial crimes.

And not a single reporter will dare call him out on this. If they ever asked him to explain what about his deal was better (or even as good) as the JCPOA, his response would be to attack them because he has no clue. But he'll demand great praise for negotiating the best deal ever.

Former Israeli negotiator Gershon Baskin explicitly admits Israel committed massive war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

He condemns the deliberate destruction of 38 Lebanese villages, exposing the sheer cruelty of the Zionist military machine.

Atlantic currents aren’t some distant risk.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is already weakening, and if it tips, the consequences are real: a colder Europe, disrupted food systems, frozen ports, energy shortages.

This isn’t a 2100 problem.

It’s happening now. 😔

JUST IN: The Trump administraiton tells SCOTUS that it has reached a settlement with CARTER PAGE over misuse of FISA surveillance in his case. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

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People like Pete Hegseth believe that China manufactures the flu as a weapon.

He then tells China, potentially our biggest military enemy, that he is ensuring that US troops *will* be made vulnerable to the flu.

When you're too stupid to reconcile your conspiracy theories.

Like clockwork

ICE Prison Hunger Strike Extends to Day 3: "Treating Us Like Animals" "We will continue to hold out," prisoner Jose Ramon says about conditions in Michigan ICE prison. Female prisoners held up SOS signs as supporters rallied outside

www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/ice-prison...

⚡️ Fearing Ukrainian troops landing in Crimea, Russia intensifies coastal mining.

"The beaches will now become minefields," Vladyslav Voloshyn, spokesperson for Ukraine's Southern Defense Forces, told the Kyiv Independent.

Rabbi who boasts of bulldozing Palestinian homes will light torch for Israel’s national day Human rights campaigners say honour for Avraham Zarbiv endorses ethnic cleansing and war crimes

Ethnic cleansing used to be Israel's surreptitious policy. Today, it is Israel's in-our-face pride and joy. Time to ban Israel from every international organisation, like we banned Apartheid South Africa. Enough is enough! 🤬🤬🤬
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

There's a better way to power the world.

Nobody ever fought a war over solar panels and wind turbines...

DAMN.....

Tell me again that the FBI should be able to search FISA databases for information about US persons without first obtaining a warrant based on probable cause. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...