The right gambled, tried to rig the election, lost, and now it’s excuses and tears.

Thanks for everything, Virginia. 🙏🏽

"Few approve of how Donald Trump is handling the cost of living" – Overall: 33-67 – Immigration: 40-59 – Iran: 32-67 – Economy: 30-70 – Cost of living: 23(!)-76 "The nationwide poll was conducted April 16-20, 2026 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 2,596 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.4 percentage points."

There's no other way to say it: This AP-NORC poll is atrocious for Trump.

– Overall: 33-67
– Immigration: 40-59
– Iran: 32-67
– Economy: 30-70
– Cost of living: 23(!)-76

37% of Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy, 47% disapprove on cost of living.

apnorc.org/projects/few...

It’d be a tedious 25,000 word substack post.

Jared Golden’s turn now!

Newly released records detail police response to lawmaker attacks Authorities first identified Vance Boelter as a suspect within three hours of the start of the politically motivated rampage.

Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.

Airline cabins with civilized coach seating configurations (and hot,
complimenary meals on flights over four hours.)

If white people in Mississippi voted Republican at the same rate as white people in Louisiana (about 73% vs. 81%), it would be a tied tossup state. At the same level as Georgia or South Carolina, it would be a safe blue state.

Looking forward to discovery on this one.

Sorry, Mr Mayor, but in 1926 the Democrats were still the party of racial apartheid, the KKK, and Wilsonian Anglo-Saxon ethnonationalism.

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."

"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...

www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Ex-model, arrested by Aventura police and deported, causes White House stir A Brazilian brought to the U.S. on an Epstein plane at age 16 lashes out at the Trumps, saying she was betrayed by her friend Melania.

Amanda Ungaro was 16 when she was flown to the US on an Epstein plane. She later became close to the Trumps

On Apr. 8, she went on X to threaten legal action vs Melania “and your pedophile husband”

On Apr. 9, Melania made that odd public statement about Epstein

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Your presence is an endorsement, even if you wear a saucy little pocket square to voice your objection, like Niles Crane penning a strongly worded op-ed about the rise of screw top wine for Vinters Monthky

Things I genuinely don't get:

—Why veteran GOP figures, L Graham to M Johnson to Marco to others, are *so* afraid of Trump that they'll swallow everything they might have stood for, to humor him. C'mon! Mike Pence was way braver than this

—Why any journalist would go to WHCA dinner featuring Trump

Same here.

Hungary's Magyar sees increase in parliamentary majority after final count Magyar's victory has triggered a rally in Hungarian assets on hopes for a reset in EU ties.

Hungary’s political earthquake deepened after is was officially confirmed that Péter Magyar’s Tisza party won a commanding 141-seat supermajority, handing him the mandate to reverse much of Viktor Orbán’s imprint on the country and reset relations.

This. For the love of God. This.

I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

Ya’ think?

Spent an excellent evening listening to, and talking with, @colinwoodard.bsky.social last evening. An enlightening lecture and some brilliant follow-up questions and discussion.

This was a great event. If you live near Salem, Mass. and didn't get to attend, Wicked Good Books now has a bunch of signed copies of Nations Apart on their shelves. You know what to do! #BuyLocal

Tonight’s venue (left) and host institution (right.)

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...

Smallest 🎻

Janet Mills holds low-key town hall at Bowdoin College as questions surround Senate bid The event, not publicized in advance by her campaign, came as the two-term governor tries to gain ground against rival Democrat Graham Platner. The two candidates are vying for the chance to take on R...

“The event was not promoted by her campaign beforehand. Maine Public, which discovered the town hall incidentally, appeared to be the only media outlet that covered it.” www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...

Now that’s some impressive real time news hook identification right there.

If you bring up Just War Theory, Trumpists, you'd best read up on what it says.

I think they need to add some decimal places to their menu of fines.

Opinion | Opponents of JD Vance’s Story of America Need to Speak Up

It's pretty much explicitly the old Anglo-Saxon ethnostate model of national identity articulated by the southern planters from the 1830s onward. Vance hasn't really been hiding it, as I argued here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

He was detained by ICE. When he got out, he couldn’t find his car The Maine Secretary of State paused an automatic title transfer process for a month to give immigrants time to contest car seizures.

In early February, following a surge in #ICE enforcement in southern #Maine, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows decided to temporarily adjust Maine’s process for transferring ownership of abandoned vehicles to ensure #immigrants understood their rights and give them a chance to object.