Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

New study from Denmark shows that Tylenol is not linked to autism A Danish study involving over 1.5 million children has found no significant link between prenatal Tylenol (acetaminophen) use and autism.

Well this is interesting: New study from Denmark shows that Tylenol is not linked to autism

Hope that everyone in the 🍊🤡 administration reads this!!!

www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

Remember how a key feature of the recent Hungarian election that ousted Viktor Orban was the building of a broad cross-ideological anti-corruption coalition?

I feel like that detail is going to be important, going forward.

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.

95% of people in the comments at Reason

Democrats should channel FDR:

“The Court has improperly set itself up as a third House of the Congress—a super-legislature… We have reached the point as a Nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.” www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fi...

So the whole thing comes down to the pope denying that Jesus was pro-war? Is this why I keep seeing reports that Leo and Trump are "feuding"? Yes, but that framing, which is all over the media, is totally wrong. Leo and Trump aren't "feuding," and Trump did not "hit back," "strike back," or "return fire" against the pope. Trump has repeatedly launched unprovoked military actions that he and his lieutenants have attempted to cloak in the language of Christian righteousness. The pope has said that Christian righteousness is incompatible with unprovoked war. Trump has publicly mocked, derided, and attacked the pope; the pope hasn't attacked Trump at all. A feud requires the participation of two people. If you say, "We should respect the sovereignty of each individual, for we are all children of God," and I say, "Fuck you, you dirty hippie," what we have is not a feud. What we have is a principled person trying to have a conversation with an asshole.

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

"We tried to fight a war we thought would be very easy and instead gave one of the countries in the world most hostile to America the greatest hostage they could possibly imagine" is such a perfect MAGA-style foreign policy disaster, in that its idiocy is only rivaled by its absurdity

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.

Exactly one year ago today:

Here's the article which includes the actual interview in question. Yes, he absolutely said this and yes, it's in context.

wordinblack.com/2025/02/rfk-...

I think a French guy wrote some shit about this sort of thing once.

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems.

There should be a law removing nonprofit status for Universities with <20% acceptance rates, tuition >$50k, and endowments over 10 Billion USD. There's no reason to subsidize the hedge fund elitism engines.

Over the past week, the president posted an image of himself as Jesus, the vice president challenged the pope on Catholic doctrine, and the secretary of defense quoted the speech of a fictional hit man and presented it as scripture.

Nice

kinda funny how Republican voters are inarguably happier when a Dem is president. they don’t actually want to be in charge of shit, they want to roll coal and whip themselves into a frenzy over wholly imaginary liberal tyranny. now they’ve caught the car and it fuckin sucks

There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame

If you have standards or values, you can be excoriated or investigated for failing to live up to them, if you don't, you are completely free to do anything you want. That is the unavoidable lesson of the last decade of American politics.

This should be embarrassing for the Very Serious Conservative Catholics who carry water for this administration.

ICE exists to break the law, kill and torture people, full stop. It has no legitimate role in the world.

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time

RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.

A gold Rolex day-date always looks like you're somewhere on the Judge Smails to Trump spectrum.

Exclusive: Trump’s son Eric to join father's state visit to China By Reuters April 14, 20263:33 PM GMT+1Updated 16 mins ago U.S. President Trump departs the White House in Washington U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Eric Trump as they walk together to depart the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 10, 2026. REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump ​and his wife, Lara, will ‌accompany the president on his May trip to China, a ​spokeswoman for Eric Trump ​told Reuters on Tuesday.

I hate to whatabout, but this was literally the core of what right wingers wanted to impeach Biden over.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/m...

Should be part of his next test.

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

This is NUTS

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Harry Sisson: Trump is having a mental health episode right now. He’s been posting on social media all night. He posted at: 9:49pm (Ai Jesus photo) 9:50pm (Trump tower on moon) 10:10pm (dumb meme) 10:32pm (news clip) 10:53pm (news clip) 12:43am (announcing Hormuz blockade) 2:35am (article about Biden) 2:36am (article on naval blockade) 2:37am (article on Rep. Swalwell) 2:37am (posted the same article about Biden again) 2:38am (article on his ballroom) 4:10am (article on Iran) He’s not sleeping, he’s pretending to be Jesus, and he’s posting all night. He’s not well.