NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
So was the hit piece on Kash Patel fed/authorized by Susy Wiles, VP Vance, or who? Angry Pam Bondi maybe?
So was the hit piece on Kash Patel fed/authorized by Susy Wiles, VP Vance, or who? Angry Pam Bondi maybe?
All these right wingers who converted to Catholicism in adulthood were just shopping around for an ideology that justified their pre-existing instincts and prejudices. If you convince them that Catholicism means peace and charity they'll just drop it and keep shopping.
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
When she lays down with the back of her seat down the guy below won’t even be able to get up and out
Thing is, Hegseth is dumb like John Travolta’s character in the film.
'US political reporters smugly praise messages concealed in their pocket squares while wearing suits to an event alongside the people destroying the constitution' is really too on point as a satire.
The "income tax" system we have is—by design—allowing oligarchs to amass great wealth while the rest of us struggle to get by. #ta www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Internal emails obtained by @wired.com reveal that one conservative legal group got direct access to FCC leadership to escalate complaints -- namely about Jimmy Kimmel -- sidestepping the standard FCC process:
Serious question: if the IRS has a $25,000 cap on tips that are tax-free, how did the DoorDash grandma save $11,000 in taxes?
Serious question: if the IRS has a $25,000 cap on tips that are tax-free, how did the DoorDash grandma save $11,000 in taxes?
Protestants too?
Nah, Jared is driven by what Netanyahu wants, not the Saudis.
I wrote with @mattfavas.bsky.social on the US blockade of Iranian ports. We think Iran can endure a blockade for many months—it survived a big slump in exports in 2020. Meanwhile oil prices are likely to spike again. Can Trump hold his nerve for that long?
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
ICE has detained over 6,200 children during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to recently released numbers analyzed by the Marshall Project.
Advocates warn trauma from detentions will cause kids lifelong damage.
Not real but also perfection
Hi. Is Jon Stewart ill?
welp i didn’t even know jon stewart was sick
All were deeply invested in keeping Orban in power, as were the Trumps themselves. Instead they helped cause his defeat. But the same people are now putting all their effort into backing Nigel Farage and the French right. We can hope the results are the same.
Folk don't realize just how much the "intellectuals" of the MAGA/GOP/Trump movement backed Orban and by extension Russia: the Latin-mass Catholics, the faux "free market" "cut spending" economists of the Heritage Foundation, the political scientists of Claremont and Hillsdale.
Chicago White Sox pope hats giveaway
In the running for greatest giveaway of all time
There are a lot of people who are standing up for what America really stands for. This is just an effort to keep the Catholics in the driver seat. The pope is good, but we don’t need to look to him to guide America.
We have the President's son-in-law, who is lifelong buddies with Bibi and on the payroll of the Saudis (who, to be fair, aren't getting their $$ worth).
We have Trump's developer buddy whose spawn is in the fake $$ business with Trump's spawn.
And JD, fresh off doing Putin's bidding.
Reup: One key sign that Trump's Fraud Task Force is about framing Dems is that he included Scott Brady on it, the guy who helped criminally frame Joe and Hunter Biden.
emptywheel.net/2026/04/10/t...
In his petition to Dr. Bhattacharya, Mr. Siri similarly argued that vaccines that blunt illness but do not prevent infection or transmission do not have an impact more broadly on the population, so individuals should be free to choose for themselves whether they wish to be immunized. He included in this category vaccines against polio, tetanus and human papillomavirus or HPV.
I'd like to take a second to explain all the ways that this comment is disqualifying as a marker of legitimate expertise in vaccination. 🧵
www.nytimes.com./2026/04/09/h...
I have no idea if this is true but I hope it spreads like wildfire across social media and MAGA people start to kill themselves over it.
