Notably, this incident does not correspond to any of the videos posted online by SOUTHCOM.

this is why Dems need to go as hard as possible on reforms and actually fixing things rather than kick the can, because "people will remember how bad things were and not put these folks back in charge" is a demonstrably false statement

DTMFA

no paywall: archive.is/2026.04.18-1...

Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Shadow Papers

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

I am re-sharing this today to make sure there is no paywall. This is because in my 40+years as a lawyer, I have never read anything so shocking, unconscionable, and heartbreaking. Truly ashamed of this court. The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

‘No peace’: Nearly a year after her son’s death, she learned that ICE was responsible — NPR Ruben Ray Martinez is considered the first person to be killed by ICE during President Trump’s second term. His mother believes his death could have been avoided.

apple.news/AJn4yZ6X2R-C...

CASAR: You've met with CEOs, you've met with billionaires. How many have you met with that have lost their health insurance?

RFK Jr: I've met with the advocacy community on virtually everything

C: Have you met with any of the 1.4m who lost their coverage?


K: They're almost all illegal immigrants

Number go up Our charts tell the story of oligarchy in overdrive.

These men are spending more money than ever before, in a race against each other that’s leaving the rest of us in the dust.

We’re talking net worths climbing toward the trillion mark, lobby tabs that put the fossil fuel industry to shame.

These charts tell the story of oligarchy on overdrive.

How the AI oligarchy devoured America How the AI oligarchy devoured America.

Two years ago, we devoted an entire issue to the rise of a new American oligarchy. Since then, this system has only become more entrenched, ever concentrated around a crew of tech titans going all in on AI.

Our newest cover story investigates these new AI overlords and their consolidation of power.

Appeals Court Ends Contempt Inquiry Into Deportation Flights

More MAGA mischief: two MAGA Trump judges again interrupt a contempt inquiry into MAGA DOJ, before the proceedings even take place.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

DOJ Rapid Response • O @DOJRR47 X.com Yesterday the Department of Justice filed a motion to vacate the convictions of several Americans who had received clemency from President Trump. This ends these years-long, Biden-era weaponized prosecutions. President Trump demanded we stop the two-tiered injustice—and we are delivering. No more rigged system. 1:32 PM • 4/15/26 • 6.7K Views

The individuals referenced here are adjudicated terrorists.

They were found guilty of conspiring to use force against their own government to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

A conservative, Trump-appointed judge applied terrorism enhancements to their sentences.

How quickly Trump's promise of "no more foreign wars" turned into "pivot the entire economy to World War II-era levels of weapons production for our foreign wars"

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:

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:

Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M

That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.

It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

Trump’s Antifa Terror Even as fears mount that Iran could activate sleeper cells in the U.S. and Europe, the Trump administration is quietly working to designate antifa as a top counterterrorism priority—despite the protes...

5/ "The Trump administration is quietly working to designate antifa as a top counterterrorism priority—despite the protestations of experts who say this is a pretext for targeting domestic dissent."

@juliaioffe.bsky.social (who had the first scoop on this)
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Stalking victim sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT fueled her abuser's delusions and ignored her warnings | TechCrunch OpenAI ignored three warnings that a ChatGPT user was dangerous — including its own mass-casualty flag — while he stalked and harassed his ex-girlfriend, a new lawsuit alleges.

TechCrunch's story about the new lawsuit v. OpenAI:

techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/s...

And more details from the SF Standard:

sfstandard.com/2026/04/13/w...

They’re doing this now, knowing it won’t pass, but with the knowledge that it will when they take back the house and senate. Paper trails are important in the *long run.* this goes for john larson’s articles of impeachment filed recently too.

WA State: Protect Trans Girls in Sports! Three anti-trans policies are on the horizon in WA State. The WIAA (Washington Interscholastic Activities Association) is meeting April 8th-17th to vote on a slew of amendments, one of which explicit...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: WA State: Protect Trans Girls in Sports!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/wa-s...

Did he glue challenge coins up there? Who gave him the Elmers again?

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

Ugh, I want out. The dating pool sucks, too.

this new series is actually disappointing…

I love how I get a fucking 'verify you are human' challenge on every website but bots are allowed to freely scrape everything including the work of actual humans.

Leo: "The message of the church, the message of the gospel -- blessed are the peacemakers. I do not look at my role as being political. I don't want to get into a debate with him. I don't think the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing."

If you hear someone say, “this was an open secret for years,” and your response is to ask why they didn’t tell anyone, I think you misunderstand the term “open secret”.

What they’ve saying is that people without power couldn’t get the powerful to listen to them.

imagine arguing with your devout catholic grandma and shouting "the pope is WEAK on crime"

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.

/w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes