Gerrymandering shouldn't exist at all. But it does, and if you let the other side do it while you sit back with an outsized sense of unearned morality, you're a chump. I hope my native state votes Yes today.
If trump isn’t asking Warsh to do anything differently than Powell is already doing, why is he so adamant about replacing Powell?
GALLEGO: Earlier today, you told Sec. Kennedy that Trump never demanded you to cut interest rates. Is that your sworn testimony?
WARSH: That is, senator.
GALLEGO: Okay. Well someone here is lying then. Because Trump confirmed he pressed you on interest rate cuts.
The slate of unfinished business greeting North Carolina legislators when they return to work Tuesday could include consideration of vetoes Republicans want to override. ncnewsline.com/2026/04/20/n... #ncpol
Thanks to his stunning defeat in the March primary, this will be Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger’s 16th and final go-round running the General Assembly’s upper house. ncnewsline.com/2026/04/21/s... (Commentary) #ncpol
Here's an example of an outrageous grift from the North Carolina state legislature:
"Parents for Educational Freedom" (PEFNC) gets $1M in taxpayer dollars, recurring every year as a part of the private school voucher scam, to campaign against public schools and teachers.
Wake NCAE will rally again outside today's Wake County school board meeting to lobby for "fully funded schools." They also intend to speak at the board's budget public hearing. Wake NCAE President Christina Cole will become NCAE president this summer. #ncpol #nced #wcpss
After the long-running Leandro litigation ended earlier this month, Anne Blythe and I looked into what might come next in the fight to secure a "sound, basic education" for all NC children. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati... #ncpol
Charts! The quarterly @wsj.com economic forecasting survey for April in detail -- plus a report card on how our panel of economists fared in 2025. With my colleague Peter Santilli.
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3 Cabinet members fired in 7 weeks.
All women.
As @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social says, “none of these departures should be lamented by anyone who values competence, integrity, or honesty in government.”
“The problem is that he hasn’t fired the men.”
His “DUI hires,” if you will.
A senior law enforcement official said the situation fit the description of an active shooter.
That meant officers should have gone into the Hortman home to confront Vance Boelter and not waited to deploy drones.
Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.
Penis costume protester prevails in court
Alabama officers said the woman's costume created a public safety threat and arrested her at an October "No Kings" rally.
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BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned after a tenure marked by allegations that she had an affair with a security staffer and that her husband sexually assaulted her employees.
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Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.
“Oh, everyone knows the Court isn’t doing law” no the thing is they don’t and saying that they do doesn’t make it true.
I share Steve’s concerns. An observation:
The Court’s immense power, such as it is, is contingent upon its at least plausibly appearing to do law. This may seem like an academic debate, but it’s literally over whether the Court is doing law or something else. That matters.
Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.
They found one. One.
And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.
Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.
I am again asking people to pay attention to what has happened to our National Science Foundation and by extension thousands of researchers across the country.
The devastation is ongoing and worthy of continued outcry to officials and journalists. 🧪
Trump is angry at the Pope, so he has canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
In a talk with chief data scientist with Pfizer, it was machine learning and neural networks, combined w/ very careful data cleansing, that allowed them to develop their mRNA Covid vaccine as quickly as they did. Just a reminder that not all AI is gen AI.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash's Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation
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So this is what prompted Melania to make that bizarre speech.
What’s incredible is that Ungaro’s tweets didn’t mention Epstein or claim Melania met Trump through Epstein, just that she had damaging info. So why did Melania leap to that the next day?
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
So if Keystone Kash Patel has hired Mark Robinson's defamation attorney - you know that he and we are all royally fucked.
#NCpol #LE
Reporter: If you don’t have a deal by Wednesday, will you extend the ceasefire or restart attacks? Trump: Maybe I won’t extend it… and we’ll have to start dropping bombs again.
Peace when markets are open
War when markets are closed
Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!
