Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson calls for the high court to stop abusing its emergency docket. Without ever mentioning Trump, she says the current system allows privileged litigants to abu...

substack.com/@keithboykin...

Corporate Clapback (@corporateclapback) Remember Dan Price...that CEO who took a pay cut so he could pay all his employees a minimum annual wage of $70,000? Here’s what happened next: “Six years later after the decision that others said wo...

substack.com/@corporatecl...

A deal to end the Iran war seemed close. Then Trump started posting on social media | CNN Politics As the weekend approached, the US and Iran appeared to be closing in on a deal to end the seven-week war.

This CNN story is correct, but it's only half the story. The full story is that the war with Iran should never have started AND that Trump is keeping it going.
edition.cnn.com/2026/04/20/p...

The Moral Issues of the 2026 Midterms What if we measured every candidate for public office by how their policies impact the poor?

open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...

Week 8: Iran War Lies Continue from Sundowning Gaslighter-in-Chief: Today's #BradCast

Also: Approval rating plummets; More Dem overperformance in NJ; VA voters voting; CA primary election chaos; Callers ring in...

FULL STORY, LISTEN: bradblog.com?p=15698

Jon Ossoff “Because they’re CROOKS and everybody knows it!” #maddow

This was such an early and corrupt unconstitutional executive order. Jared is the Nepo Negotiator and Chief Grifter. Follow his money.
#Maddow
@ossoff.bsky.social rocks

Maddow: "Do we think our servicemen and women are in good hands? Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for?"

Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

🇧🇷 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Today:

"I will be against the invasion of Cuba, just as I was against the invasion of Venezuela, as I was against the invasion of Ukraine, as I was against the invasion of Gaza, as I am against the invasion of Iran."

This whole scam needs justice.

UF basketball coach accused of sexual harassment and stalking - The Independent Florida Alligator The University of Florida received a formal Title IX complaint on Golden Sept. 27 alleging that he engaged in various conduct that potentially violated the UF Gender Equity Policy. 

Todd Golden? www.alligator.org/article/2024...

Russian drone attack on Sumy injures at least 6, damages medical facility At least six people were injured in a Russian drone attack on the city of Sumy overnight on April 21, local authorities reported.

⚡️Russian drone attack on Sumy injures at least 6, damages medical facility.

Numerous explosions were heard across the city, and damage was reported to residential buildings, cars, and a medical facility.

California Accuses Amazon of Price Fixing in Legal Filing

Amazon saw lower prices at competitors and urged the brands to pressure those competitors to raise their prices, which they did. In writing. @robbonta.bsky.social has the receipts of this cartel behavior.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/t...

Raw America (@rawstory) NEW FOOTAGE: A video is going viral of President Obama and Mayor Mamdani singing wheels on the bus with kids in a NYC school. This is inspiring. This is what hopeful leadership looks like. Share widel...

substack.com/@rawstory/no...

The Democratic Party doesn’t have a leader. Ken Martin is no leader. Biden is not our front. And Schumer and Hakeem have lost all credibility.

To the extent we have anyone, it’s Barack, and it’s well past time that the party starts to embrace Mamdani. He is the most effective and popular Dem

Today, President Obama and Mayor Mamdani read for kids at a pre-K learning center in South Bronx

Shut it down.

Wow! So much yet to learn about and from nature.

Budget Cuts Threaten Oregon Program for Helping People Get Jobs After Prison The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and support for people after release.

When formerly incarcerated people are able to obtain work, it tends to be a low-paying position, keeping them well below the poverty line. “The No. 1 contributor to recidivism is poverty,” says a spokesperson for the Prison Policy Initiative.

Khanna Asks Elon Musk If He's OK With Billionaire Tax After Latest Claims About AI and Mass Layoffs Rep. Ro Khanna challenges Elon Musk on AI unemployment, advocating for universal high income funded by tech billionaires. Bernie Sanders joins the fight against AI threats to working people.

Khanna Asks Elon Musk If He's OK With Billionaire Tax After Latest Claims About AI and Mass Layoffs

Earth Day at 56: why the 2026 theme carries more weight than usual | The Optimist Daily Earth Day turns 56 with a theme that does double duty: "Our Power, Our Planet" is about energy, and also about something harder to measure.

The 56th Earth Day is next week, and this year's theme of “Our Power, Our Planet" holds a lot of weight. www.optimistdaily.com/2026/04/eart...

US Supreme Court Hands Big Oil Major Win in Battle Over Destruction of Louisiana Coast Allies of fossil fuel companies are celebrating the development as a step toward "stopping the endless wave" of lawsuits against the climate-wrecking industry.

The US Supreme Court sided with fossil fuel giant Chevron in a decision that could have implications for other cases.

Mike Johnson Has a FISA Fiasco on His Hands The House Speaker’s surprise five-year extension and bogus warrant provision backfired, but it was enough to get a gaggle of Democrats to break ranks.

Negotiations between the Republican leadership and members of the House Freedom Caucus over the nation’s warrantless spying program dragged on into the eleventh hour late Thursday. But the compromises crafted in those closed-door discussions completely collapsed on the House floor. buff.ly/LMFAUje

How the American oligarchy went hyperscale The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.

The explosive growth of AI data centers has transformed opaque structures of inequality and power into literal ones.

Oligarchy is now more than an idea, it is a place—and the people who live there are fighting back.

Two congressmen resigned after accusations of misconduct against women. Another remains. Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) appears set on staying in Congress as he battles a litany of scandals.

At the start of this week, there were three men in Congress whose reputations had imploded after being accused of misconduct against women: Reps. Cory Mills, Tony Gonzales, and Eric Swalwell.

Gonzales and Swalwell resigned, but Mills is hanging on despite facing a staggering number of scandals.

Republicans exploit an obscure law to open this pristine Minnesota wilderness to mining Their use of the Congressional Review Act could drastically reshape public lands protections, experts say.

“It allows Congress to basically do a thumbs up or a thumbs down, where otherwise a filibuster would apply."

Republicans exploit an obscure law to open this pristine Minnesota wilderness to mining.

Clarence Thomas’ radical remarks might not be what they seemed Something is upsetting the justice. Could it be his conservative colleagues?

Something is upsetting the justice. Could it be his conservative colleagues?