Supreme Court agrees to review a Colorado law to determine if preschools that decline children of same-sex couples may receive state funding https://cnn.it/4cFPPer

25-581 25-5343 CERTIORARI GRANTED ST. MARY CATHOLIC PARISH, ET AL. V. ROY, LISA, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to Questions 1 and 2 presented by the petition. BEAIRD, KENDRICK J. V. UNITED STATES The motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma 2 pauperis is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to the following question: Whether Stinson v. United States, 508 U. S. 36 (1993), still correctly states the rule for the deference that courts must give the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court takes up two new cases for next term, including a case over Colorado’s exclusion of Catholic preschools from public funding.

The case specifically raises a question the court has circled around for years: Whether 1990’s Employment Division v. Smith should be overruled.

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

This should be a bigger story. 

Scientists are more concerned than ever that a critical current will collapse soon and wreak havoc on North America and Europe.

Republicans are turning against legal marijuana GOP support for legalization is plummeting, especially among younger Republicans.

Republicans are turning against legal marijuana.

GOP support for legalization is plummeting, especially among younger Republicans.

See the data here: goodauthority.org/news/republi...

The 2016 Supreme Court memos and the mess that John Roberts has made of his court The New York Times scoop about the Clean Power Plan case SCOTUS memos highlights the conservative justices' brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now.

NEW: The 2016 Supreme Court memos and the mess that John Roberts has made of his court.

The New York Times scoop about the Clean Power Plan case SCOTUS memos highlights the conservative justices' brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Palantir V @PalantirTech X.com Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense ot the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

🧵 Why is Palantir advising on foreign policy?

This bit is interesting:

“National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost”

Full post ⬇️

The way the students get intrigued by this case!

Gov. Bill Lee signed a resolution defining family as a man, a woman, and their children, a move critics say targets LGBTQ+ households.

https://mrf.lu/HSG4

Among U.S. adults, over 2.1 million people -- 0.8% of the population -- identify as transgender. Minnesota has the highest percentage of transgender residents at 1.2%.

Read the full report at bit.ly/TranspeopleUS

Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

‘Psychological torture’: outcry over conditions at ICE desert detention camp Detainees tell of abuse at sprawling Texas facility whose giant generators gobble energy and fuel climate crisis

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Eighth Circuit swats challenge to Minnesota policy embracing trans athletes A circuit judge said since Trump's executive orders aren't yet established law, they can't be relied on to prove the likelihood of Title IX violations.

8th Circuit panel composed of all Republican appointees, including 2 Trump appointees refused to find Minnesota's trans inclusive sports policy violates Title IX.

www.courthousenews.com/eighth-circu...

Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17. ¶28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.”

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

Trump Created Fake Job to Keep ICE Barbie Out of the Senate The president wanted to put Noem “out to the glue factory,” sources have told PunchUp.

The Trump administration invented a senior government role for Kristi Noem specifically to prevent her from entering the Senate, according to a new report by PunchUp.

Give me a RuPaul’s Drag Race example and I’m all for it!

Lisa Rinna & Harry Hamlin snag Pelosi LGBTQ+ Ally Award. They warn of ‘authoritarian takeover’

The actors, who will be honored at Equality PAC’s National Pride Gala, discuss politics with The Advocate.

That’s exactly my reaction…

It was WORSE than this before elements …

Two things that really annoy me: filing taxes and updating elements for my faculty reporting.

NEWS:

I've written before about how USAID was the first government agency killed by conspiracy theory. This confirms it.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Graduate student Wataru Onishi (2026) develops a framework outlining the limitations of partisan motivated reasoning and supports it with evidence from the UK Partygate scandal.

Published in Research & Politics, 13(1)
doi.org/10.1177/2053...

#PoliticalBehavior #PublicOpinion #ComparativePolitics

Good professor vibes in the past week. Two doctoral students not knowing what if any data may exist for their particular RQs.

Found and acquired data for both! Now go write those papers! 🤓

(One in public opinion and the other in criminology)

join us for our upcoming fashion show—oops, i mean research presentation—next week!

these people epistemically seceded from consensus reality long ago and it will take a lot of re-integrate them into consensus reality

BREAKING: Eric Swalwell just announced he's resigning from Congress.

It's not too late to join us on April 17 for our 25th Annual Update Conference.

An afternoon of panel discussions, the finale of our Moot Court Competition, and a reception to close out the evening.

Register using the links below:

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A digital screenshot of a news article from "The Independent" website, dated April 13, 2026. The headline reads: "Trump gets McDonalds DoorDashed to White House and then takes Iran war questions with delivery person." Below the headline, the subheader states: "Trump grabs two bags of McDonald’s before issuing threats to Iran over nuclear program." The article features a video still showing Donald Trump standing outdoors in front of a white building, wearing a dark suit and purple tie. Next to him stands a woman wearing a red t-shirt that says "DOORDASH GRANDMA." The video player includes a title overlay that reads: "Trump claims offensive Jesus meme was him 'as a doctor' healing the sick."

Not the onion.