Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

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Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

‘This cannot be sustainable’: The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, the CBO says "We need policymakers to come together, agree to reduce deficits ... and put our national debt on a downward sustainable path as a share of the economy."

‘This cannot be sustainable’: The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, the CBO says.
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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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Trump lawyer from effort to overturn 2020 election to oversee probe of ex-CIA director, DOJ official says Joseph DiGenova, a conservative attorney, is being tapped by the U.S. Justice Department to lead an ongoing criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan.

“For my friends everything; for my enemies the law.”

DOJ has become an instrument of authoritarianism. No more laments for what it was; or talk of “abuses”; or wishful thinking about how they can’t get away with it. They can, if not confronted across the board.

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anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

Mike Levin: It should be a much bigger story that JD Vance flew to Hungary, stood on a campaign stage, and told voters to return a head of government widely documented for human rights abuses and democratic backsliding. Then, after his candidate lost, Vance said what had happened during the Hungarian campaign was “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference that I’ve ever seen or ever even read about.” Was he describing himself?

BREAKING on MS NOW:

Tulsi Gabbard just referred the whistleblower whose complaint led to the first impeachment of Trump — and the Inspector General who deemed the complaint "credible" — for possible criminal prosecution by the Trump Justice Department.

Nothing benefits students more than being in Fed Soc.

The People Speak in Hungary and at Home Protecting election officials means protecting democracy.

Democracy found a way to persevere in Hungary despite Victor Orbán’s takeover of elections, the media, and democratic institutions. It can here too.
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“The family of the woman, named only as Marie-Thérèse, said they feared for her health as French consular officials attempted to secure her release.”

“It’s like a bad scene from an American film,” one of her sons said. "Every morning, I wake saying it can’t be true, that I’ve had a nightmare.”

Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."

RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

We All Hate AI, but if You’re Poor, It Can Really Ruin Your Life Debt collection. Parole decisions. Oversight of public services. It’s all being outsourced to AI, with terrible consequences for poor people.

A human bureaucrat can destroy only so many lives in a day; AI can ruin the lives of tens of thousands at once:
https://bit.ly/4c1xglU

I love this taxonomy — all about various manifestations of complicity (which Aaron more colorfully calls “stoogery”) and the motivations behind them

One of Minnesota's most unhinged right-wing posters is the state’s newest immigration judge • Minnesota Reformer A right-wing attorney and influential X user who has amplified racist conspiracies and fringe legal theories, will make decisions on which immigrants will be deported in his new job as an immigration judge.

JFC they made the Pizzagate lawyer an immigration judge. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/09/r...

One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war

"There's no we we could do that in the US." 20 years ago there was no way they could do it in France, but here we are.

Netflix's promotion of fictional team does not constitute trademark use Pepperdine University v. Netflix, Inc., No. 2:25-cv-01429-CV (ADSx) (C.D. Cal. Mar. 31, 2026) After denying the motion for preliminary inj...

Netflix's promotion of fictional team does not constitute trademark use

I think he’s been itching for some pretext to use nuclear weapons since his first term. Not to achieve any real goal, but as a pure display of power and dominance, because he’s an amoral monster.

Trump's next budget once again calls for massive cuts to science Congress rejected huge cuts to science in 2026, but Trump is trying again.

The document is laced with blatantly political language and resurfaces grievances that have been the subject of right-wing ire for years.

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country.

Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

It's also worth pointing out that genocide is a crime and therefore an illegal order, and every soldier has a duty to disobey it.

The President of the U.S. The man with the nuclear codes. And people are just going to pretend this is ok.

In a functioning society, he would be removed from office within hours by his own party.

Trump administration cuts turned rural towns into sitting ducks for disasters The Trump administration has delayed billions of dollars for projects to protect Americans from floods, wildfires and hurricanes. Local leaders are increasingly anxious.

The Trump administration has delayed billions of dollars for projects to protect Americans from floods, wildfires and hurricanes. Local leaders are increasingly anxious.

In Marshall Amplification, noted supra, Judge Blakey called the exact same kind of pinching scheme that Deckers and Greer Burns used here a “willful abuse of the judicial process” and an “egregious form of forum shopping,” which “consumes scare judicial resources.” (Dkt No. 22) (attached as Ex B). Judge Blakey dismissed Marshall’s action in its entirety with prejudice for Marshall and Greer Burns’ attorney’s extreme litigation misconduct. Id. What is perhaps more remarkable than the underlying judge-shopping scheme – which Greer Burns attorneys repeated here – is that Judge Blakey’s ruling seems to have had no deterrence effect whatsoever. Two of five re-filings in this case occurred in this case after judge Blakey called out this egregious misconduct

"Judge Blakey’s ruling [in Marshall Amplification] seems to have had no deterrence effect whatsoever."

This is absolutely true, from what I've seen.

The corruption is so grotesquely obvious

17. Starting in 2009, Industrial Revolution began promoting and selling a new and original line of windproof and waterproof matches having a distinctive, elongated orange colored head terminating in a brown tip. The distinctive orange and brown color scheme for matches has no function related to the performance of the matches. Rather, Industrial Revolution uses this distinctive color scheme (the “Trade Dress”) as a distinctive identifier of the source of the matches. 18. Since 2009, Industrial Revolution has sold matches incorporating the Trade Dress under its UCO and STORMPROOF MATCHES trademarks. Samples of these matches in their original packaging displaying the UCO and STORMPROOF MATCHES trademarks are shown here

New trade dress case over matches with an "orange and brown color scheme."

Industrial Revolution, Inc. v. Circle Sales & Import Ltd. et al, Docket No. 2:26-cv-00885 (W.D. Wash. Mar 16, 2026).

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

Every subsidy to AI is funding the destruction of jobs. Recession coming in hard.