Trump and the State of Texas started this bullshit.

If you don't want to eat worms, then don't open the fucking can!

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.

“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.

(Published Nov. 2025)

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

THE WEEK OF APRIL 20, 2026 - Science agency heads face appropriators - CDC director nominee announced - Dems accuse NASA of unauthorized cuts

Budget hearings will continue this week for the Trump administration's proposal to cut NOAA funding by 28%.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will testify before the Senate and House appropriations committees Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.

More:
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They def found the shortest possible man for this photo op

Victoria Toensing @VicToensing Hubby being sworn in as Counsel to the Attorney General. 4:04 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 6,199 Views Jason Reding Quiñones, the US Attorney in Miami, swearing in a much shorter Joe DiGenova.

Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past.

Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic.

emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

This is what I was asking about btw www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING NEWS🚨

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania strikes down a law restricting Medicaid from funding abortion, and in doing so recognizes a "reproductive autonomy" as a fundamental right in the state constitution. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

2. Because of longstanding and ongoing processing delays at USCIS, noncitizen workers have long faced a risk that their EADs will expire before the agency processes their applications for renewal. To mitigate that risk, the agency has, since 2016, provided automatic work permit extensions to workers in certain EAD categories who had timely filed renewal applications in the same category as their current EAD. 3. On October 30, 2025, however, defendant USCIS, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR) that sharply increases the risk that hundreds of thousands of people will lose work authorization solely due to USCIS's own persistent backlog. The IFR abruptly eliminated automatic work permit extensions for all EADs as of the IFR's date of publication. EAD holders who filed or will file to renew on or after October 30, 2025, will lose work authorization on the expiration dates printed on their current EADs, regardless of how long their renewal application has been pending at USCIS.

4. Plaintiff Jane Doe1 brings this case to challenge the IFR eliminating automatic work permit extensions. Ms. Doe, a citizen of Mexico who has lived in the United States for nearly ten years, is a survivor of domestic violence who was granted immigration relief in the United States under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Ms. Doe is the sole caregiver and financial provider for her eight-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen. Ms. Doe has relied on the automatic work permit extension in the past to maintain her employment while USCIS processed her renewal 1 Plaintiff is concurrently filing a motion to proceed under a pseudonym. Case 1:26-cv-01336 Document 1 Filed 04/20/26 Page 2 of 23 3 application. She applied in November 2025 to renew her current EAD, which expires at the end of June 2026. USCIS has not yet processed her renewal. Because of the IFR, she is at substantial risk that her work authorization will lapse, leaving her unable to work, to pay her bills, and to provide for her daughter.

5. The IFR is unlawful. USCIS violated the procedural requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by making this change immediately effective, without providing notice or an opportunity for public comment. Although USCIS invoked the APA's good-cause and foreign-affairs exceptions to notice-and-comment rulemaking, its rationales are unfounded. USCIS cited national security concerns and the need to vet applicants for immigration benefits, but a lapse in an EAD does not affect an individual's immigration status or their ability to remain in the United States. And critically, applicants for EAD renewals have already been vetted for work authorization. 6. The rule is also arbitrary and capricious. It contravenes USCIS's statutory obligation to safeguard the nation's economic security; disregards the factual record underlying a December 2024 rulemaking on the same subject; rests on unsupported speculation contradicted by USCIS's own actions; and ignores the foreseeable and substantial harms to workers, families, employers, and the broader economy.

BREAKING: A woman in the U.S. legally from Mexico for nearly a decade sues over the Trump administration's immediate change in Oct 2025 to work authorization renewals (employment authorization documents, or EADs), ending extensions even when renewal processing is delayed based on USCIS backlog.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it.

He’s just burning your tax money.

"I don't drink and will sue anyone who says I do!" ~Kash Patel

Furloughs canceled at Boulder NOAA Global Monitoring Lab after $4 million funding release The reversal follows a weekslong funding lapse that had put 42 researchers at risk of going without pay, threatening work on vital atmospheric and climate science.

“Furlough notices for about half the staff at Boulder’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Global Monitoring Lab … were rescinded April 16. Work is resuming after more than $4 million in funding was released.”

boulderreportinglab.org/2026/04/16/f...

Yet HHS is shutting down all mRNA funding and research.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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BOOMER

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

This is what defunding science in the federal government looks like. A good percentage of the people I went to grad school with participated in this. REU programs are the breeding grounds for the passion required to form the next generation of great scientists. What a horrific loss.

Tanguy Destable, THE Ohio State University

Got some more data yesterday on model verification - there is a definitive decreasing trend in global model scores that raises concerns about NWS upper air struggles. But this is a complex scientific problem that needs dedicated experiments to understand what the actual impacts might be.

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If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.

Order isn't posted online yet, but NOAA probationary employees illegally terminated last year have been granted class status!

(Earlier version of this post with the link to a different case was deleted.)

this used to be a conspiracy theory and now he's just ... truthing it out

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

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Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...