1. The central claim in the indictment of SPLC is a lie.
The DOJ/FBI accuse SPLC of lying to donors about seeking to “dismantle” extremist groups while secretly funding them. But the funds were used to infiltrate & help law enforcement dismantle these groups. Kash Patel knows this is the truth…
EXCLUSIVE: The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche.
Another dark day for DOJ.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
CNN exposes a global “online rape academy” that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone.
Joseph Schwartz’s case is the latest in a string of health care fraud pardons by Trump.
The president also granted clemency to nursing home magnate Philip Esformes, convicted of a $1.3B scheme, and Judith Negron, convicted in a $200M fraud case.
"Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself." - Hermann Hesse
(Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico)
ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
Just to go back to basics:
I once worked on a (winning) presidential campaign.
Something too obvious for anyone to mention was: "Don't get into a fight with the Pope over who knows more about Jesus."
These people are morons.
The board voted at its March meeting to require transgender students to use locker rooms and bathrooms that match their sex assigned at birth. The superintendent said social workers would meet with the affected students to go over the changes.
In case it is unclear: your ethical and moral obligation is to refuse to participate in enforcing this. To validate that this is wrong. To push back and stand with trans kids. To offer safe bathrooms. It is not to make it palatable or tolerable for other adults.
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Trump’s budget director Russ Vought was asked about this today by Rep. McGarvey.
Vought responded by saying "our budget fully funds WIC."
McGarvey corrected, "No it doesn't. It says it right here."
The takeaway today was Vought actually couldn’t truthfully defend most of the attacks against him.
Catholic leaders need to stay out of politics. Except when they are endorsing Trump or denying Democratic politicians communion.
On April 11, Pope Leo led a prayer vigil in Rome; his words in support of peace and in rejection of war express the very mission of Pax Christi -- the peace of Christ, the peace that Christ has assured us, which we are called to share and to embody. Other dioceses held similar services for peace.
The price of beef is massively subsidized, not least by the fact that the cost to graze cattle on public land has not changed since the 1960s.
$1.35 per cow-calf pair per month - 30 to 50 times less than market value.
If you really want to stop corporate welfare, beef prices are gonna go up.
I keep forgetting, should we get rid of ICE or give it the gross national product of Austria in additional funding
Caity Weaver is doing restaurant reviews again!!!
The greatest lie I ever believed was that local newspapers died because the internet made them irrelevant. Newspapers were wounded by the internet, they DIED because of private equity vulture owners, full stop. One of the first industries targeted.
(Read “Bad Company.”)
I’m a UU so not a lot of Jesus cred, but pretty sure he was weak on crime too.
People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.
You know what would be amazing, if Vance can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; and commits to all of this for at 10 years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.
Post from Dale Partridge claiming nobody wants to live in diverse neighborhoods
I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries.
Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.
US President Donald Trump says the US Navy would immediately start blockading the Strait of Hormuz and would also interdict every vessel in international waters that had paid a toll to Iran. https://aje.news/x545rk
We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline
Nothing in Rufo’s record indicates he’s qualified to speak about the state of higher education. He’s done no academic research and admitted that his crusade against critical race theory relied upon misrepresentation. Even Republican allies view Rufo’s trusteeship at Florida’s New College as an unmitigated disaster, complete with faculty purges, an ousted president, a grossly ballooning budget and a significant drop in the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings. Despite his record of failure, my university’s new center paid him more for his hour of propaganda than most University of Iowa graduate students make in a year as teaching assistants.
The inaugural speaker for the center's opening event was the unqualified hack Christopher Rufo. Rufo's goal is destroying, not expanding, intellectual freedom and he's open about it. Asking him to speak at this event is inviting the arsonist to come marvel at the fire.
Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Mug spells hunk in symbols from the periodic table
The whole article is unsettling & creepy—the Bezos are deliberately turning away from their basic responsibilities as human beings. Also—does Bezos lack anyone normal in his life? Because 99% of the world is making fun of you for this mug. I cannot even imagine the carnage a teenager would do…
there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears.
"She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.”
“'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."
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