“What are you in for?”

“Felony bralessness”

The Ben Bagdikian Fellowship Program

We're hiring editorial fellows in SF and DC. Great gig that has launched hundreds of media careers:
www.motherjones.com/careers/fell...

Spy Smart. Funny. Fearless."It's pretty safe to say that Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s. It might have remade New York's cultural landscape; it definitely changed the whole tone of mag...

also, are you on a lunch break? do you need laughs? Well, the entire archive of Spy Magazine is on google... kids, this was a late 80s/early 90s NYC snark mag that targeted many people, but one that we now know too well in particular. we were warned. it is hilarious tho!

well, yep, i take generic Allegra every day during the season and have since 2017 or so, but it's lost some effectiveness...

guess i have allergies. tho i did go for a lovely bike ride. now i'm just sitting here sneezy with my achey throat, eyes and nose. just like everyone else in the Denver metro i suspect.

There Is Nothing “Qualified” About Qualified Immunity Once again, the Supreme Court twists itself into knots to extend legal protections to cops who kill.

You know the Supreme Court be playing fast and loose with the shadow docket but I'm telling you, qualified immunity cases? Some of the fastest and loosest

Let a lower court spell out why cops should stand trial, & the Supreme Court lifts it without explanation

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...

Odd thing here: he cites religious objections, but appears to be limiting this to the flu vaccine in particular.

Religious objections to vaccination were actually relatively rare pre-COVID, but have grown since the pandemic.

But I'm unaware of religious objections to *only* flu vaccines?

and it's been pointed out to me that this is probably aimed at some company that needs a pad for traveling execs. in which case it's a business expense that's tax deductible. in which case we are really all sharing the cost of the rent

right? all of it is just... wrong...

These three Dems hope to take back Colorado’s swingiest district But first, one of them will have to win a hard-fought primary. They are vying to take on Gabe Evans in November.

hese three Dems hope to take back Colorado’s swingiest district #CO08 www.cpr.org/2026/04/21/8... #copolitics

curious about who in my feed can afford $35K a month for this place. went to an open house here when it was initially on the market and some of these bedrooms have no windows.

"New sign-ups for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans are paused."

Sexual misconduct by lawmakers is widespread — but often goes unreported New data from the nonprofit National Women’s Defense League, shared first with The 19th, comes on the heels of the resignations of two members of Congress.

Exclusive: new research from the National Women’s Defense League and shared first with The 19th, has tracked 30 allegations of workplace sexual misconduct against members of Congress made since 2006 — a number the report’s authors say is likely 3-4x higher in reality 19thnews.org/2026/04/sexu...

In southeastern Colorado, a rancher’s elaborate filtration system reveals the high cost and long wait for clean drinking water Kevin Karney insulated himself from the worst of the region’s water woes. But not everyone can. That’s why the Arkansas Valley Conduit matters, he says.

In southeastern Colorado, a rancher’s elaborate filtration system reveals the high cost and long wait for clean drinking water www.cpr.org/2026/04/19/l...

For everyone everywhere. I’m too old for this!

Sex and the City meme, "And I couldn't help but wonder who assigned so many things to grade?"

It now appears that Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson is following the lead of his colleague in Colorado, William Martínez, in directly ordering habeas petitioners be released -- sidestepping immigration judges who are holding sham bond hearings.

Because this. www.nytimes.com/athletic/720...

It is reported that Oklahoma State gave Audi Crooks $1.4 mil in NIL. That would make Crooks the 3rd highest paid player in all of women’s basketball behind A’jia Wilson and Aliyah Boston.

Via Skim Mulkey

The 2014 Senate class of Republicans is kind of cooked now:
Tillis: Retiring
Ernst: Retiring
Cassidy: Fighting for his life in a primary and backing RFK Jr.
Sullivan: In a tough race vs. Peltola
Daines: Retiring
Gardner: Lost in 2020

The only guys who turned out all right were Cotton and Rounds

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.

Colorado GOP asks judge for emergency order blocking unaffiliated voters from casting ballots in the party’s 2026 primaries The request piggybacks off a ruling late last month that the requirement in Colorado law that 75% of the party’s central committee must support opting out of the primaries before it can happen “consti...

NEW: Colorado GOP asks judge for emergency order blocking unaffiliated voters from casting ballots in the party’s 2026 primaries coloradosun.com/2026/04/20/c... #copolitics #coleg

These schools want to get public funding while also REJECTING 4-YEAR OLDS because their parents are gay or transgender, just to be clear

NEW: # of U.S. troops wounded in action during Operation Epic Fury is now *415* per latest update from Pentagon's database of U.S. military casualties

• Army = 271
• Navy = 63
• Marines = 19
• Air Force = 62

Age group w/ the highest # wounded (130) is >35

dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/con...

These Middle Eastern News Sites Are Actually U.S. Government Propaganda Operations Al-Fassel and Pishtaz News publish pro-U.S. coverage about the war on Iran and the Trump administration’s plan to redevelop Gaza.

NEW: I found two "news" websites active on X and other platforms—Al-Fassel and Pishtaz News—that are in fact U.S. government-operated anti-Iranian military propaganda mills. Both appear tied to U.S. Central Command.

theintercept.com/2026/04/20/p...

Employers trust them in their homes. But can immigrant nannies and cleaners trust their employers? Domestic workers — many of them lacking permanent legal status — live in fear of their employers, who they say are now more likely to use their immigration status to exploit them.

From inside their employers’ homes, domestic workers — nannies, home cleaners and health aides — have watched attitudes on immigration shift to the right. They know some of the people who employ them may be the very people who want them out of the country.

19thnews.org/2026/04/immi...

Despite her recently acquired and extremely vehement anti-LGBT stances, Mace does have a strong personal investment in opposing sexual violence against cis women—a position that has alienated her from many in her party. It’s conspicuous to me that this is one way the MAGA coalition is fracturing.

In February 2025, Mills was investigated for domestic violence against his mistress. In August, 2025, another woman sued Mills, alleging that he had threatened her with revenge porn. Mace has pushed for greater transparency into sexual harassment investigations and payouts in Congress.

but did they thank him for making the Friday afternoon news drop become a Monday morning rehash?!

Building with MuckRock: An Introduction to Datasette Cloud In this Building with MuckRock session with Alex Garcia from Datasette we covered how you can use your MuckRock account to get started with Datasette Cloud and hit the ground running with importing…

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