This is also good stuff from @gtconway.bsky.social: He says only one of the major parties is functioning as an actor in a democracy, and that this is unsustainable.
"We can’t survive another 33 months of what we’ve seen for the last 15," he tells me.
newrepublic.com/article/2091...
It's electric!
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
There are now public polls taken in the last few weeks showing Dems ahead in Senate races in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, and Ohio - more than enough to flip the Senate - and competitive in Florida and Texas too.
Take the social media accounts away from this crazy old man FFS!!!!!
It's a good day for Russia and flu viruses.
"Those who used their own minds had a brain that was 'on fire', showing widespread activity across many parts of the brain, she says. The search engine-only group still showed strong activity in the visual parts of the brain, but the ChatGPT group showed notably less" www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Congrats to Tim Cook, whose obituary will feature extended quotations from the president's uh praise
2025 Politico headline: Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to 5 more seats’
John Gramlich skeet quoting Trump in NYT today: Trump: “I don’t know if you know what gerrymandering is, but it’s not good.”
A sowing/reaping for the ages
What a debacle.
I’m glad the Secretary of Labor resigned, but how does Trump still have a job?
Good news happening behind all the bad news.
“Reverse emails,” Jared Kushner corruption edition
He also holds no Senate-confirmed Cabinet or senior government position & employing family as White House advisers violates every norm ever, but this, too, has been erased from the headlines. After years of HUNTER BIDEN, it’s shameful.
I know how Congress could get its approval ratings up!
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
I won’t be impressed until it runs on bagels and Gu like me.
So the ny times wrote about trumps descent into lunacy earlier this week, and now this from the WSJ. Question, I guess is whether this continues or whether these are just one offs
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+
Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism
Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"
The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Really gotta emphasize this: the targets & requirements in the Clean Power Plan were *so* modest, *so* conservative, *so* unambitious that *the power sector met them anyway, in the course of normal market operation*. The regs would have had basically no effect at all relative to the status quo.
These people have the chutzpah to demand our respect while being the most corrupt & authoritarian group of public servants this country has ever seen. It’s long past time to remind them of who they are & who they serve.
Holy SHIT that opening story
WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Ah well, nevertheless.
It was Chief Justice Roberts that ended the Court’s legitimacy: The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court 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...
