History and truth mean nothing to this Cabinet (aka Junk Drawer).

We do!!

"Nice book you got here, McQuade . . . be a shame if anything happened to it."
- Robert De Niro, on "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government"

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

21 April 1894 | A Polish man, Wojciech Gawrys, was born in Osiek. A farming inspector.

In #Auschwitz from 24 May 1941.
No. 16114
He perished in the camp on 8 August 1941.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

Graphic with the title 'EU extends sanctions in view of the situation in Moldova', showing euro banknotes, a judge’s gavel and two identity cards.

The EU has renewed sanctions against those responsible for destabilising, undermining or threatening activities in #Moldova and its democratic institutions.

🇪🇺🇲🇩 The EU remains unwavering in its support for Moldova, including its resilience.

More info ➡️ link.europa.eu/jGB74P

Trump Showers Health Care Crooks With Love His extensive pardons to health care executives convicted of various crimes show that his ‘war on fraud’ in blue states has nothing to do with fraud.

A new report shows that Trump appears to support medical fraud, as long as corporate executives and other elites are the ones committing it. buff.ly/cn3eT0r

My quote of the day

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

Opinion | When Your Child Dies of Measles

To RFK Jr. and all the anti-vaxxers: this is your handiwork. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Very good: “This confederacy of goons think that their wealth and whiteness and maleness conveys automatic competence, so they never bothered to learn anything about anything, and they fired everyone who knew anything about anything, and dismantled all the programs that helped make anything work ….”

Page One.

@wsj.com #Florida

Kash’s Complaint As he said he would on Sunday morning, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation case against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick this morning over a story that characterizes him as an incomp...

FBI Director Kash Patel’s defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic explained: joycevance.substack.com/p/kashs-comp...

Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.

Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.

And then there's this...

Artist: Dennis Goris

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

Translation:

This deal is about to be exactly like the JCPOA, minus Obama’s signature

there's always a bigger fish

After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.

Shoutout to The Atlantic reporters for publishing these massive scoops instead of waiting years to put them in a book.

Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025 Output from solar farms rose by a third while electricity from fossil fuels fell, research from thinktank reveals

Renewable energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025

Output from solar rose by a third while electricity from fossil fuels fell.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Why America is falling out of love with Israel Public opinion and elite sentiment has turned decisively against Netanyahu

"There should be no mystery why younger Americans are as pro-Palestinian today as their forebears were once pro-Israeli. Rabin staked his life on peace. What will posterity say of Netanyahu?" My column on why America is falling out of love with Israel. www.ft.com/content/353e...

The "it's fine" part is the lure. The misogyny is the hook.

I wouldn't bother. You will end up dumber and annoyed that your time has been wasted on pseudo-intellectual misogyny.

They don't notice because pandering to them is the default. It's when we say, for example, "perhaps you should be an active partner in raising your children" that they notice they're not being fully pandered to. And then they get mad and write whiny screeds.

Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit" in 1947. The song became one of her biggest hits. Photo credit: Library of Congress.

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1939: Billie Holiday first records “Strange Fruit” for the independent label Commodore Records. The song, which protests the lynching of Black Americans, became her biggest-selling record and a definitive anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. /1

Graphic supporting Sherrod Brown for U.S. Senate, Ohio.

From the first time I heard Sherrod Brown speak, I knew he was a man of the people. Let's get him back in the U.S. Senate, where he will fight for worker dignity, access to quality healthcare, and a stronger economy that works for everyday Ohioans.

Elect Sherrod Brown
U.S. Senate, Ohio

When you learned about the Iran hostage crisis, did they teach you this part?

In November 1979, during the crisis, Black hostages and women were released first.

Ruhollah Khomeini said they were oppressed in the United States and not part of the power structure, so they weren’t seen as spies.

The Tech Journalist Banned from Twitter for Criticizing Fascism, Palantir, & the Broligarchy

Palantir published a 22-part manifesto outlining its authoritarian agenda. The masks are off. It's time to purge America of these broligarchs.

With @gilduran.com

thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-tech-j...

Three rulings in the past week show the scope and breadth of efforts to fight anti-trans attacks A Montana Supreme Court decision protecting birth certificates, a ruling on Trump's anti-trans prison policies, and final judgment vacating RFK Jr.'s anti-trans "declaration."

NEW: Three rulings in the past week show the scope and breadth of efforts to fight anti-trans attacks.

A Montana Supreme Court decision protecting birth certificates, a ruling on Trump's anti-trans prison policies, and final judgment vacating RFK Jr.'s anti-trans "declaration."

Law Dork:

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

TENNESSEAN: “Tennessee is poised to become the first state in 🇺🇸 to require all counties to participate in an optional federal partnership on immigration enforcement…”

GOP = Government Overreach Party, exhibit infinity. The Stephen Miller slate.

www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...