I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public

Joe diGenova was sued after he said publicly that a former Trump administration official who didn’t back the election lies “should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot."

The official sued him and deGenova was forced to apologize.

2026 Midterms: Why the whole country should be watching Maine's Senate race YouTube video by NBC10 Boston

SUSAN COLLINS HAS HELD THIS SENATE SEAT SINCE 1997. Democrats think 2026 is finally the year. But first they have to choose between two-term Gov. Janet Mills, the establishment pick, and Graham Platner, a combat veteran and oyster farmer who has never run for office…

Islamic Society of Orange County under heightened security after online threats Violent threats against the mosque and community center in Garden Grove followed claims that an expansion plan sought to create a Muslim "parallel society" in Orange County.

A disinfo campaign has lead to violent online threats against ISOC, long considered the mother mosque of SoCal Muslims.
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One reason to exclude Vance is that he is a terrible and disinterested negotiator. Another is that its bad to have another adult in the room to witness for Kushner's conversion of diplomacy into a wealth extraction machine.
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Best Twitter riposte of the day.

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal Man arrived in the central American country on Friday as part of a group of 22 deportees

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal

Next week's to-do list: SPORTS 🏀🏒 🏈⚾

Full coverage here ➡️ https://trib.al/XzNg2LX

Civil engineer sues immigration agents who violently arrested him His lawyers argue that agents racially profiled him and violated his constitutional rights by forcefully arresting him without any legal basis.

A civil engineer whose violent street arrest in Portland, #Maine, became a flashpoint during a massive #immigration raid earlier this year has sued the #ICE agents who detained him.

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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

A ton of previously unreported details here about Jim Dolan and MSG’s surveillance empire. Incredible stuff from @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @robertsilverman.bsky.social

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."

Wtf

Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami charity of funding to house migrant kids The move comes amid rising tensions between the administration and American Catholics.

The Trump Admin has abruptly canceled an $11M contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship between the Catholic Church and the U.S. government dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

Vault: Treasury quietly asks private credit firms for data Treasury has begun quietly asking private credit firms to submit information detailing their business models and ties to the regulated financial system.

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The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.

NEW: Teenage boys are pulling classmates' photos off Insta and running them through cheap nudify apps and the fallout has now hit nearly 90 schools across 28 countries with 600+ known victims since 2023, per a WIRED/Indicator analysis.

UNICEF estimates 1.2M children were targeted last year alone.

WATSON COLEMAN: What would you say to the mothers of the kids who died because of your dismantling of USAID? Harvard says there are more than 100,000 of them

VOUGHT: Harvard?

Another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to admit guilt in child sexual abuse case David Daniel has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors after a judge ruled that President Donald Trump's pardons in the Capitol attack did not apply to child exploitation.

Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims, according to federal court records.

U.S. sends thousands more troops to Mideast as Trump seeks to squeeze Iran The deployment includes sailors and Marines due to arrive as the administration attempts to enforce a maritime blockade against the regime in Tehran.

Breaking WaPo:

The Pentagon is sending thousands of additional troops into the Middle East in the coming days.

The forces moving into the region include about 6,000 troops aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and several warships escorting it. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Elderly Boston resident trapped inside her own home with ‘tenant from hell' An elderly homeowner reached out about her ordeal with a tenant living on her property in Dorchester. Despite not paying rent, it took more than a year and numerous housing court appearances to get an eviction.

An elderly homeowner reached out to us about her ordeal with a tenant living on her property in Dorchester. Despite not paying rent, it took more than a year and numerous housing court appearances to get an eviction. on.nbcboston.com/sInkFJb

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart The family of Marie-Thérèse, from Brittany, fear for her health after she was cuffed and placed in a detention centre An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US to marry her 1950s sweetheart is being held in a crowded detention centre in Louisiana after she was arrested by immigration agents and cuffed by her hands and feet. The family of the woman, named only as Marie-Thérèse, said they feared for her health as French consular officials attempted to secure her release. One of her sons told the Ouest-France newspaper that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had treated his mother like a hardened criminal. Continue reading...

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart

Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says “When I saw evidence that our products were being used to harm people and undermine the law, I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me.”

404 Media - Reuters’ parent company, which also owns and operates the investigative CLEAR database, fired a longstanding employee who spoke out about the company selling data products to ICE, according to a lawsuit filed today. www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

Why aren't students protesting?

Carver man accused in years-long dogfighting conspiracy A Massachusetts man is accused in what authorities described as a years-long dogfighting conspiracy. Corey Elliott, 49, a Carver resident, is accused of working with a co-conspirator to breed, train and fight dogs for profit, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Authorities allege that Elliott and the unnamed co-conspirator ran the venture for years, sometimes…

NEW TODAY: A Mass. man is facing federal charges in what authorities described as a years-long dogfighting conspiracy that included hosting fights at his home in Carver. on.nbcboston.com/m4Rw49o

The artist formerly known as Kanye West faces a choice only he could have engineered: Grovel back to relevance, or bet millions on a stadium tour that probably won’t pencil out in the end. Promoters at Live Nation were impressed by West’s comeback shows earlier this month at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and are willing to reverse a company policy against working with the embattled rapper—but only, I’m told, if Ye takes meaningful steps to clean up his image. Specifically, executives want West to engage with a civil rights organization like the Anti-Defamation League and issue a formal apology for years of antisemitic behavior, including a 2021 tweet threatening to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” and a song titled “Heil Hitler” released last May. The ask is significant on both sides. For Ye, it requires a sustained, credible gesture of contrition. For the ADL, any involvement carries real reputational risk, but the upside is that a legit apology could reverberate across the culture. (The ADL declined to comment.) The stakes are high: Ye’s two SoFi shows grossed $33 million in ticket sales, outperforming recent stadium runs by Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, and The Weeknd—a result that has Live Nation executives eager to book a full North American stadium tour. But they want to see considerably more from Ye before signing off on a global deal.

According to Puck, Live Nation execs say they're willing to work with Kanye again ... if the "Heil Hitler" rapper cuts a deal with the Anti-Defamation League.

INFLATION SURGES 🥵

U.S. wholesale prices surged last month as the Iran war drove up energy costs.

Producer prices rose 0.5% month-over-month and 4% year-over-year—the biggest annual jump in over 3 years.

Energy prices spiked 8.5%.

Opinion | Is It Too Much to Ask to Care About Sudan?

"Is it too much for us to care about the world's largest humanitarian disaster," @anncurry.bsky.social asks in this excellent @nytopinion.nytimes.com essay about the horror unfolding in Sudan. Here's a gift link to Ann's essay: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Mind the Gap Ireland is the second richest country in Europe, and this week a single protest shut it down. Here's why.

"Ireland did not just lack the infrastructure to manage a fuel crisis; Ireland is lacking so fucking much that it lacked the infrastructure to have a conversation about the fuel crisis."

A damning indictment of Ireland's recent failures, from Sinéad O'Sullivan

www.butthistime.com/p/mind-the-gap

Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.

Tuesday’s election in Festus, Missouri, a city of 12,000 people along the Mississippi River a half-hour south of St. Louis, is the latest voter backlash against local government agreeing to host giant data centers over the objections of residents, Politico reported.

#DataCenters
#VoterRevolt

It’s getting ugly in Quincy: Fresh faces challenge mayor’s long-held grip over City Hall - The Boston Globe The changes have ignited a political firestorm, one that has pitted many longtime Quincy residents against newer arrivals.

This is a really nice piece of local political reporting about changes at Quincy City Hall from the Globe's great Brian MacQuarrie

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