This is a good thread.

“… nearly half of the children detained have since left the country."

“This is a systemic violent act, to be detaining children, that has long-term consequences,” said attorney Kira Kelley. “It’s massively detrimental to the well-being of these families and our whole communities.”

ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve

WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question

WARSH: I believe this body certified the election

WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces a Justice Department criminal probe over paid informants The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation and faces possible charges over its use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

This is an uptick from Trumps out of control DOJ. They are now siding with the domestic terrorists that build pipe bombs and the like over those who try and prevent their actions. Truly unbelievable. apnews.com/article/sout...

Since when would it be a criminal issue bringing attention from the DOJ even if a legit nonprofit were seen to be "unfair" to right-wing organizations?

InfoWars Let me tell you a story. When I was a child, I suffered from night terrors. It was always the same dream: I could hear my family and neighbors wailing…

Some timeline stuff:
— We expect to get InfoWars.com after the judge clears it in a couple of weeks.
— We'll build a world of characters on the site and across social media. Tim Heidecker is in charge, and we have grand designs.
— Visit theonion.info, buy a subscription, help us dominate the world.

Che Ahn on Real America’s Voice complaining he’s not on the ballot because he didn’t submit his taxes in time. He says that if he was a “Black, democratic woman that was lesbian and I was 2 hours late the would say come on in no worries”

The SAVE Act Will End Voting Rights for Women in America The SAVE Act has passed the House—we cannot let it pass the Senate

BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.

I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...

Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence on Americans

Here's what a senior homeland official told me about their development of ICE smart glasses: "It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens...but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protesters."
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Ed Krassenstein I'm Center-left. I don't smoke weed

Happy 4/20 reprobates

New Unabomber Manifesto just dropped! 🫳

Twitter just banned @gilduran.com for saying that the fascist Palantir Manifesto was fascist.

Musk & Thiel don’t want you to read Gil’s book. Read his book!

The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars

SCOOP with Elizabeth Williamson: The Onion has a new plan to take over Infowars. It has entered into an agreement to license the Infowars brand and plans to operate it as a comedy site. A Texas judge must approve the deal.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

@katerqburns.bsky.social

🚨 LA Local Election Bombshell 🚨

LA Times reporting on City Attorney Hydee Feldstein-Soto speaking at a local rightwing rally: link.latimes.com/view/65329fd...

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Alt text:

A chicken being fitted for a coat at a store for chickens.

A chicken modeling a new coat - looking at itself in the mirror with wonder

A chicken being fitted for a coat to wear

I regret to tell you that the Instagram algorithm has once more read me perfectly.

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.

SCOOP: Home Depot Shareholders to Vote on Whether Company's Camera's Are Helping ICE Find Customers A vote at the company's May 21 annual meeting could force the retail giant to account for how its license plate reader network may be enabling immigration enforcement near its stores.

I think Home Depot & their board members & other companies using Flock should know about how Flock employees are using the system to obtain videos of your children for pornographic reasons.

open.substack.com/pub/jasonhun... open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

For a comic, going to the White House is worse than going to Riyaadh.

The Americans Shaping Europe’s Far-Right Ecosystem American political operatives and conservative figures linked to Trump and the Heritage Foundation are active across Europe’s far-right network, working through groups connected to Viktor Orbán; via h...

Across Europe, American political operatives inked to Donald Trump and the Heritage Foundation are assuming roles within far-right institutions, shaping policy agendas, coordinating advocacy, and advancing legal strategies that target human rights and democratic governance.

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Coming in the morning: my conversation with a surprise Democrat looking at a 2028 presidential run ... will be up on CN Politics | CNN Politics From cnn.com 7:40 PM • 4/18/26 • 41K Views

Joe Biden

Trump lawyer from effort to overturn 2020 election to oversee probe of ex-CIA director, DOJ official says Joseph DiGenova, a conservative attorney, is being tapped by the U.S. Justice Department to lead an ongoing criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan.

“For my friends everything; for my enemies the law.”

DOJ has become an instrument of authoritarianism. No more laments for what it was; or talk of “abuses”; or wishful thinking about how they can’t get away with it. They can, if not confronted across the board.

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-l...

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned Elon's latest baby mama exposes the MAGA narrative machine

If you haven't read this yet, you should. The online right influencer scene, is well paid, well coordinated, and working in lock step with the right wing politicians. There's nothing like this on the left.

Elon's baby mama spills the dirt.

thecycle.substack.com/p/hell-hath-...

Frustrated with women wanting to be treated like actual people, chuds and incels look to sex traffic vulnerable women abroad

Fixed it.