This is so Wes Anderson, I can almost hear the affectless Jason Schwartzmann voiceover saying "My mother used to design undercover disguises for the Stasi"

I attended the trial of Renea Gamble, the Alabama woman arrested for wearing a penis costume to a No Kings protest. Like the viral video of her arrest, it was both funny and enraging. New from me @theintercept.com:

i have really come to the view that partisanship is to be embraced wholesale. partisanship and principle but not purity.

The sugar baby angle is getting headlines; the scarier story is that the inexperienced MAGA 20-something hired straight from her grad program to a senior DHS role is probably one of the MORE qualified people staffing the upper-ranks of the agency right now.

Why was the Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges? Charges alleged the center paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups without disclosing payments to donors

The Southern Poverty Law Center fights extremists. The Trump Administration are extremists — so I guess it’s not surprising that they’re coming after SPLC. (1/2)

We need a future that excludes right wingers as much as realistically possible because all they do is hold science and culture back.

Tesla sold 418,227 vehicles in Q1. I'm so disappointed in humanity.

RFK Jr’s performance during his Hearing-o-Rama was a complete disgrace and an unequivocal demonstration of his utter lack of understanding of or respect for any scientific principle.

His contempt for the people of this country was palpable.

We are all just collateral damage of careless people.

Trump told you he’d run America like a business.

He is.

It’s called asset stripping. You sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, and walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag.

Congratulations. You didn’t elect a president. You hired a liquidator.

"The coolest thing about solar energy is that you don't need to invade another country to get it.
Solar power is democratic, abundant, and borderless. No pipelines. No tankers. No resource wars. Just the sun shining on everyone.

#SolarRevolution #EnergyIndependence

Periodic reminder that our public health policy is being managed by the crunchy granola version of the Khmer Rouge.

RFK Jr. Refuses To Say If He Takes ‘Any Responsibility’ for Measles Crisis The HHS secretary instead blamed immigrants, Mennonites and other countries for the measles outbreak in the U.S., not his own vaccine disinformation.

In two days of testimony to Congress, RFK Jr. has blamed Mennonites, immigrants and other countries for the resurgence of measles in the U.S.

Does he accept "any responsibility" for this crisis, after years of pushing disinfo on vaccines?

Today he all but said no. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-me...

Q: Ken Paxton said requiring the Ten Commandments in public classrooms is a ‘major victory for our moral values.’ Your response?

Talarico: I’m not sure if Ken Paxton is in a place to lecture us on moral values. The only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics.

The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech painting

I don’t think you should be allowed to have an important job if you believe in demons

If you're wondering why the Senate is in session at midnight tonight, it's because Republicans are trying to jam through at least $70 billion for ICE with no accountability.

$70 billion for ICE. $0 to help families. $0 to help lower costs.

What a disgrace. I'm voting NO.

Sometimes this administration takes a break from trying to change the outcome of the Civil War and just tries to undo the Civil Rights Movement

Hung Cao—who compared abortion to the Holocaust on the campaign trail and claimed combat injuries with no documentation—just became Acting Secretary of the Navy. This is what the collapse of institutional standards looks like in real time.

Ossoff: "When you throw people off their health insurance and drive up their premiums and gut the Medicaid program in order to cut taxes for the wealthiest people in the country, that's also corruption. That's the corruption that's endemic in our political system and predates Trump."

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Phelan’s firing comes after a rocky tenure under Hegseth and Feinberg, including tension over Phelan’s close relationship with President Trump, according to three people familiar with the internal discussions. Phelan regularly chats with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club, just down the street from his own Florida home, and told lawmakers last year that he texts with the president about shipbuilding in the middle of the night. The top Pentagon leaders were particularly annoyed last fall when Phelan pitched the idea for a modern battleship directly to Trump, bypassing Hegseth, the people said. 

According to the WSJ, Hegseth abruptly fired the Navy Secretary in the middle of a crucial wartime naval blockade because he was jelly of his closeness with Trump. These are the dumbest, most embarrassing, childish nitwits alive - and they are in charge of the world's most monumental military might.

Why can’t we rely on Canada, did our government do something that alienated them

Two Iranian Women in ICE Detention Are Not, In Fact, Related to Qasem Soleimani, Documents Show After Laura Loomer pointed to two women she claimed were connected to the late Iranian military commander, they were arrested and remain in immigration detention. One is now gravely ill.

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani.

Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

For hours, Democrats pressed Kennedy on the damage he's caused with his anti-vaccine rhetoric.

And for hours, Kennedy said it's not his fault that measles, which was eliminated in the US in 2000, is surging back as he uses his job to cast doubts on vaccines.

“It has nothing to do with me."

I will say, this war has really exposed a failure among both political and senior military leadership to identify where military power comes from.

'We destroyed their air force and navy' - who cares!?

That's not where Iran derives its military power from and hasn't been for a while!

The whole administration acts in a performative way for one man and one man only.

Kash, Miller, prev. Bondi and Noem, they all are running it through their head to process what they think their boss wants to hear. There is always a hesitation, slight fumble, then outward aggression.

Every time.

$60 billion for war. 46 million people are hungry.

They’re cutting SNAP anyway.

We can afford to end hunger. They’re choosing not to.

Shameful.

#SheShed

I think all of it—the media company, the crypto, the real estate—it’s just moving dirty money around. It’s one big intertwined mess of crimes

Virginia voters spoke. MAGA lost. And now a rogue Republican judge is trying to override the will of the people because they didn’t like the outcome.

That’s not democracy. That’s desperation.

Statement from the Stop DOL Cuts Coalition, April 22, 2026: "Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s blatant abuse of power and failure to uphold the values of the government agency charged with protecting workers demonstrates just how little this administration cares about workers across the country. Under Chavez-DeRemer, the Department of Labor has dismantled protections for American workers, repealing more than 60 workplace rules meant to protect workers’ pay, health and safety, and working conditions, and Chavez-DeRemer turned the Department’s social media into a platform for white nationalist-coded propaganda."

Statement from the Stop DOL Cuts Coalition, April 22, 2026: "But the Trump administration’s damage to the Department of Labor goes far beyond Secretary Chavez-DeRemer. Thanks to DOGE and other Trump political staff’s attacks on federal employees and their work, the Department is understaffed, key work is not being performed, lifesaving rules have been paused, and DOL staff are not able to fully execute the Department’s mission. The American people deserve a Secretary who will take DOL’s mission seriously and who will fight for workers in the United States – not against them."

Statement from the Stop DOL Cuts Coalition ⬇️