MAHA influencers have been promoting nicotine for at least nine months

Epstein Craved Harvard Connections. Many There Were Eager to Help.

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

Two Magicians Warn the Supreme Court About Junk Science

Gift article.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

two men in suits and ties are sitting in front of a window with blinds ALT: two men in suits and ties are sitting in front of a window with blinds

@andrewtorrez.bsky.social and I are debating whether it would be funnier for this case to be assigned to a liberal judge like Ana Reyes, or a conservative like Tim Kelly.

Do you wanna watch a judge eat Patel for breakfast? Or watch Patel try to retcon a Trump appointee as a dirty activist?

McFarlane v. Esquire Magazine, 1994 WL 510088, *16 (D.D.C. 1994)(“[Defendant] did know that plaintiff disputed the substance of the statements; however, this alone is not sufficient evidence of actual malice”), aff’d, 74 F.3d
1296 (D.C. Cir. 1996)

bsky.app/profile/snip...

"Each of the foregoing statements and implications is false. They are so demonstrably and obviously false, or easily refuted, that it was at best reckless to publish them."

Yes, that is how you demonstrate actual malice. Great job, dudes.

FBI Director Promises To Pound 'The Atlantic' Like A Six Pack On A Tuesday MAGA trollsuit lawyer prepares for another round.

As we all await Kash Patel's eleventy trillion dollar lawsuit against The Atlantic, let's spend a little time with his wonderweasel lawyer Jesse Binnall

www.lawandchaospod.com/p/fbi-direct...

You did it you son of a bitch

tim cooked

Vladimir Solovyov claims the West is trying to destabilize Russia from within YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov explained why America can no longer be taken seriously. He blamed the West for trying to destabilize Russia from within by using Victoria Bonya, whose name he no longer mentions (she threatened to sue).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Ii...

say cheese!

evergreen probably

27 years since the Columbine High School massacre.
27 years of failing to protect our kids.
27 years without common-sense gun laws.

I watched it as a student. Now it’s only gotten worse for our kids.

We need an assault weapons ban.

Amanda Frost Wins UVA All‑University Teaching Award University of Virginia School of Law professor Amanda Frost is one of nine recipients of UVA’s All-University Teaching Award for 2026.

This award and this magnificent teacher, scholar, and friend @amandafrost.bsky.social has me in the feels. To a glorious teacher, Prof Amanda Frost!!! See www.law.virginia.edu/news/202604/...

You heard it here, first: if we get to 1000 new and upgrading MaxFun members supporting @bullseye.maximumfun.org in the #MaxFunDrive, I will make a new season of The Turnaround, the podcast where I interview interviewers about interviewing.

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Unpacking a Death at Amazon A man died April 6 at an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Oregon. Our reporting on the facility continues.

Staff at an Oregon Amazon facility have continued to come forward since our reporting last week on a death there to describe what they say are challenging and sometimes dangerous working conditions.

We take you inside our reporting in this episode of Notes from the Edge.

NEW VIDEO: How did sports debate shows turn into the way we talk about everything?

I went inside the rise of hot take culture, talked to the people who built it and traced how hot takes took over media.

In collaboration with Vice Sports:
youtu.be/ndGUBh3EjJw?...

boy, "when you hire a clown, expect a circus" seems like it's underselling the point, particularly since we hired Pennywise and John Wayne Gacy.

I've always been fascinated with sports journalism as a low stakes microcosm of news reporting in general. It's the blueprint for rage bait algorithms that have dominated political news for well over a decade. Same psychology as pro-wrestling. Trumps only real talent is manipulating that ecosystem.

TVs in this airport bar are all sports talk, and even though I’m not really listening, the tone of the convo is so gross to me. Blowhard Know-It-All-ism on a loop. The type of talk that if overheard in real life, regardless of topic, would send me looking for alternate seating. So glad I’m a sissy.

💎 Gemstones aren't only for jewelry.

Learn more about these magical art pieces through "Unearthed: Raw Beauty," now on view!

The Aides Keeping the President in the Dark Donald Trump’s advisers are treating him like he can’t handle the reality of the war in Iran. They might be right—but that fact is a danger to the constitutional order.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

Gift article.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

THE FIRST TO EVER DO IT 🙂‍↕️

Daryl Watts becomes the first player in PWHL history to score 10 goals or more in all three seasons!

#TorontoSceptres

so they had the press secretary fire the labor secretary via tweet but the labor secretary is now like fuck off Oddjob, I'm staying and has lawyered up, just another day in the golden age of America

I do love libraries, and I love a BOGO (or BOGO half), but I am not understanding the library connection here? Just saying "yay libraries"? That's it?

Trump administration begins refunding more than $166bn in tariffs Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs

So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.

The Art of the Deal.

“And more” is bench pressing 300 here

C IC G (person's head) TA SF which is supposed to be CHICAG (person's head) TARS FC

Hmm. I like it, but you can barely see the green letters.

C IC G and so on