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🚨 Bill Nye and hundreds of Planetary Society members are heading to DC next week to protest the White House's proposal to slash NASA's science budget

• 47% cut to NASA science funding — 23% cut to the agency's overall budget

• Would be the largest single-year budget cut in NASA's history

NEW: Justice Dept demands Wayne County, Michigan turn over all ballots, ballot receipts & envelopes from 2024 election

"This request is as absurd as it is baseless,” said Michigan Atty General Dana Nessel

State says letter cites allegations that are “incorrect and not credible"

How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

Eligible voters of VIRGINIA:

You can still register to vote in the April 21 special election on the congressional redistricting referendum.

In-person same-day registration is available at early voting locations and at your Election Day polling location.

More at npr.org/vote

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

Surge in U.S. Concern About Immigration Has Abated The percentage of Americans wanting less immigration has dropped by nearly half this year to 30%, with 79% now saying immigration benefits the U.S.

New Gallup Poll Results:

A Record High 79% of Americans Now Say Immigration Benefits the United States

news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

Eligible voters of GEORGIA, KENTUCKY and WEST VIRGINIA!

You have only days left to register to vote in the May primary elections.

Already registered? You may want to check your status, especially if you have moved, changed your name or haven't voted in a while.

More at npr.org/vote

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

(Gift Link) Among so many things here, in this entire exchange there's not one word about the text of the law Roberts asserts couldn't possibly authorize Obama's climate change reg, Congress' intent in passing it, past cases - any indicia at all that LEGAL reasoning is involved in its decision.

Eastman was disbarred for lying, repeatedly & intentionally, to the court. The findings that he lied were made after extensive evidentiary hearings, detailed at length by the bar court. Lying is barred by rule every court in the country. Why? Law becomes indistinguishable from politics without it.

Eastman was disbarred for lying, repeatedly & intentionally, to the court. The findings that he lied were made after extensive evidentiary hearings, detailed at length by the bar court. Lying is barred by rule every court in the country. Why? Law becomes indistinguishable from politics without it.

Rümeysa Öztürk. Text on the card reads: “Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey”

Breaking news: Tufts University graduate Rümeysa Öztürk, who was arrested by masked immigration agents last year, has returned to her home country of Turkey, citing the "state-imposed violence and hostility" she said she experienced in the United States. trib.al/7GKyEiz

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:

Thank you to our Crane Fellow, Prof. Kate Shaw, for joining our PLUS students and Prof. Dodd for lunch this week to discuss her podcast Strict Scrutiny, the Supreme Court, and her current research.

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Lawyer John Eastman Disbarred for Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election

Lawyer John Eastman Disbarred for Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

This isn’t about righting a wrong. It’s about the next wrong they want them to do.

IMPORTANT: Under federal law, it's very hard, at times near-impossible, to sue federal law enforcement officers for civil rights violations. But legal theorists have said for decades that there is a possible way to sue under state law instead.

This is a VERY big test case.

Electoral College cartogram showing which states are in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and which ones could join in time for it to activate by 2028. Each state is sized and labeled according to its number of electoral votes. The states are spaced out enough to accommodate the changes in size but retain their general shapes and relative positions on the map. Current members are in solid orange, potential members are in light green, and nonmembers that are unlikely to join are in medium gray. Members have 222 electoral votes, potential states have 68, and the unlikely states have 248. The compact would only activate once states with at least 270 electoral votes have joined. The seven potential members and their electoral vote are Alaska (3), Arizona (11), Michigan (15), Nevada (6), New Hampshire (4), Pennsylvania (19), and Wisconsin (10). Democrats would need to gain the governor's office and/or legislative chambers to win unified power in these states, as detailed in the spreadsheet linked in this post.

NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate.

This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Really not sure it's ever going to be possible to get our arms around the depth and breadth of the theft of Americans' money this administration will have carried out, aided or abetted - but we're going to have to try.

This is facilitated, in part, by a recent MSPB decision that says removal protections for Immigration Judges are unconstitutional. The MSPB's decision is wrong under existing precedent, but it has certainly emboldened the administration.

The farthest any human has ever been from their dog. Puts it all in perspective.

This interaction between White House election security official Kurt Olsen and Paul Brown, the head of the FBI’s Atlanta field office, is eye-popping. Brown was pressured to retire for not going along with the plan to seize 2020 ballots from Fulton County. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

There is now a massive street party with huge crowds dancing in Budapest. Hugs, tears and bottles opening. Orban is gone, Peter Magyar took power

Hungary’s Orban, Beacon to the Right, Concedes Election

Credit to NYT for leading in headline and text Orban’s enormous influence on/ cooperation with MAGA here in the U.S.

"A fair amount of disbelief, a lot of joy, a great deal of excitement:" CNN's Melissa Bell in Budapest, Hungary describes the reactions from the huge crowds celebrating Viktor Orbán's defeat.

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

orban concedes

OMG yes!

Very early going...

Solidarity with the people of Hungary right now and all those around the world who want nothing more than freedom and democracy.

This era of corrupt autocratic hateful strongmen must come to an end.

It’s up to us to end it.

Orbán's Hungary drove a top university campus into exile. JD Vance said it should be a model for the U.S. “The closest conservatives have ever gotten to successfully dealing with the left-wing domination of universities is Viktor Orbán’s approach in Hungary,” Vance said in 2024.

"Orbán's Hungary drove a top university campus into exile. JD Vance said it should be a model for the U.S." www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...