Opinion | A Minnesota Mining Liberation Act The GOP overturns a Biden rule that banned resource development.

Look what the Wall Street Journal editors want to see on the edge of the Boundary Waters. www.wsj.com/opinion/minn...

Gilded is not the same as golden.

Major Leagues need European-style relegation.

You just want affirmative action to fire the incompetent white guys.

The Onion will have sweeter breath than the old Infowars.

Now buy Fox News!

I am thinking more about the *actual* explosions occurring in the Middle East.

The 2016 Supreme Court memos and the mess that John Roberts has made of his court The New York Times scoop about the Clean Power Plan case SCOTUS memos highlights the conservative justices' brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now.

Chris Geidner nails it. The Supreme Court conservatives use the shadow docket to protect powerful corporations but not to protect powerless individuals.
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Map showing the western United States mean temperature for January to March 2026 relative to a 1991-2020 departure.

Almost the entire Western United States is averaging more than 5°F warmer than the most recent 1991-2020 climate baseline so far in 2026, which is truly remarkable. Off the color scale here!

Graphic from wrcc.dri.edu/my/

Opinion | Golden arches Michael Ramirez cartoon on Donald Trump, triumphal arch, national debt.

More fitting.
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Can’t count the ones you start.

Doesn’t pass the sniff test.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court majority built a whole “major questions” doctrine on phony cost claims about the Clean Power Plan — puffery that turned out completely false. After they blocked it, the power industry met its 2030 target *11 years early* and at *no cost.”
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Trump came to Arizona to rally young voters. An older crowd greeted him. Despite some empty seats, Trump projected confidence in his party’s ability to win the midterm elections. Some in the crowd focused on GOP divisions.

He can’t fill the halls anymore.

“One longtime Trump supporter was not planning to come to the Friday event until she saw there was hardly a line to get in.”
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Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame “I think we’re going to see Theodore Roosevelt inducted,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said at an event on Thursday.

I am so glad President Trump has his eye on our most important problems.
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Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin and ibogaine The president is directing federal agencies to boost research into the drugs and support clinical trials, moves championed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

This could explain the Iran War.
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US Coast Guard spots overturned vessel near Saipan during search for missing ship The Mariana is a 145-foot dry cargo vessel registered in the U.S. It suffered engine failure Wednesday as a massive typhoon bore down on Saipan and nearby islands.

Victims of a climate change-driven storm. www.npr.org/2026/04/18/n...

The 27-Year-Old Diplomat Waging Trump’s Cultural War With Europe

After JD Self-adVANCEment bombed in Budapest, you’d think the Trump team would rethink embrace of far-right extremists.
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There was plenty of headroom to meet it everywhere, with or without interstate averaging.

Despite the howls that EPA's 2030 carbon pollution target would have cost nearly half a billion dollars, after the stay the industry went ahead and met that target in 2019 -- 11 years early! The Court majority was had. The Chief Justice built the "major question" doctrine on a zero-cost rule.

Make it stop‼️

I am totally on board the Dave Roberts Court.

DOJ, and the EPA rule, argued (correctly) that the industry’s cost claims were wildly high. But the absolute proof came when the industry met the target in 2019, 11 years early, under no compulsion at all, and at no cost above the otherwise operating market trends.

Indeed, the Supreme Court majority built a whole “major questions” doctrine on phony cost claims — puffery that turned out completely false. After they blocked the Clean Power Plan, the power industry met its 2030 target *11 years early* and at *no cost.”

Trump Loosens Restrictions on Psychedelic Drugs

If he’s in an alternate reality, why shouldn’t everyone be.

Trump Loosens Restrictions on Psychedelic Drugs www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Trump Loosens Restrictions on Psychedelic Drugs

Headline for the ages!

Trump Loosens Restrictions on Psychedelic Drugs www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Just his.

Do not count your gas-powered chickens before they hatch.

Maybe inside Mar-a-Lago, but not outside.