This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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"Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent," said Chad Mizelle, former chief of staff for Bondi. "Many career prosecutors are not interested in this kind of work. It's a very small group of people."

Bondi's former chief of staff Chad Mizelle: "Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent."
From @paulareidcnn.bsky.social and other @cnn.com folks:

Ex-Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema Sued For Being An Alleged Homewrecker Sinema also sent a photo of herself in a towel showing her bare back and what appeared to be cupping bruises.

This lawsuit against Krysten Sinema for destroying a marriage is a gift that will continue to give. "Sinema asked Matthew to bring MDMA (aka molly or ecstasy) to help “guide him through a psychedelic experience.”

hiphopwired.com/3051756/kyrs...

The thing about that Washington painting behind him:

“Washington wanted to make sure that his troops were not affected by disease, and he believed that inoculation would help with that. So, just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers.”

"This is an important thing to think about."

Sen. Reed to Warsh: "I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately, it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Federal Reserve."

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

This is embarrassing for him. And a red flag for the Senate.

He is not wrong.

Come With Us YouTube video by Kemi Amos - Topic

This song is very good.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdh1...

They not only won’t cancel; they’ve handed the entire event over to the fascists.

Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth are sitting at CBS’ table.

FCC’s Brendan Carr has actually been invited, while he’s trying to take away press freedoms.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".

Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.

So to recap:

-$160 BILLION+ unconstitutionally collected in tariffs from 🇺🇸 corps, despite Trump saying foreign co’s pay

-they pass that cost to us

-Now corps collect the💰back… from us?🤔

heads they win, tails we lose!😕🤷🏼 (almost like this was the plan all along)

RIGHT NOW -- Veterans are being arrested in #washingtondc after peacefully demanding an end to the War on Iran. @vetsaboutface

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The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Signaling and the Racial Politics of Immigration Enforcement | Stanford Law School This post is part of Challenging Precedent, a blog of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice examining race, law, and regulation in the Trump era. Whe

The Supreme Court is fundamentally corrupt & after the NYT reporting there's a big opening for Democrats to make a huge stink about the shadow docket and that it was born to stop the first Black POTUS's climate agenda. We must talk about how the shadow docket has become a racially weaponized tool.

Uh-oh. Whiskey has gone woke.

"Fisher-Price will exit the “child development toy” vertical and re-emerge as Mattel·igence AI Defense Systems, a fully integrated autonomous weapons manufacturer focused on AI-enabled lethality solutions for the modern battlefield.

Our stock is up 4,000 percent."

Post from Solomon about dogs, followed by blank reply box with a message from Bluesky that says, "The post you're replying to was marked as being written in Japanese by its author. Would you like to reply in Japanese?"

Solomon, are you writing in a secret form of Japanese that looks exactly like English?

Patel is about to enter the "Find Out" portion of his FAFO adventure.

As a journalist I've spilled more words on crooked Trump lawyer Joe diGenova and his lawyer partner Victoria Toensing than any author writing in English. For years I told U.S. media to watch these two, as their specialty is Roger Stone-style election ratfuckery.

Now here we are.

That wouldn't be very interesting!

I CANNOT EXPLAIN HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS.

I will note that many legislators in the late 19th century used this rationale to withhold support from millions of newly freed African Americans: they want control of the resources they receive. That was considered outrageous and unacceptable.

“The county is giving away quite a lot of public money in exchange basically for nothing."

This Data Center is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

Rockland County, NY, gave a $77 million data center tax break to JP Morgan Chase to create exactly one job. On a dollars-per-job basis it appears to be the costliest subsidy in U.S. history, possibly even a world record

nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...

Mayor Mamdani, wife Rama Duwaji to skip 2026 Met Gala, sources say New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji will not attend this year's Met Gala, sources said.

Mayor Mamdani will not attend the Met Gala, this year being sponsored by Jeff Bezos and his wife. An individual ticket for the event costs $75,000. He says he wants to keep the focus on "“affordability & making the most expensive city in the United States affordable.”
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Opinion | A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality

Corporate executives were arrested & sentenced to years in prison for decisions they made as business executives. Incredible. Didn't happen in the US, though.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...

"The Court is deciding massively important questions not just out of public sight, or through unsigned and unexplained rulings, but with remarkably cryptic behind-the-scenes deliberations, too. These decisions are being made in the “shadows” in any number of ways."

"Roberts didn’t change his mind sometime between 2016 and 2025; he’s just being a hypocrite. It’s irreparable harm for Republican presidents; just not Democrats."