A long 🧵 but a really important one. It's a who's who in the interconnected web of wealth accumulators, right wing religious personnel and political hacks behind the Christian nationalist machine here and abroad. Some you probably know of. Many you don't. Eye-opening stuff. This one's a keeper.

"Difficult but productive talks"

What's next? Are we going to describe divorce and affairs as the waiver wire and transfer portal??

For his next act, Pete Hegseth is manually going to chisel off every single "employees must wash hands" sign from every armed forces cafeteria bathroom.

Page One.

@wsj.com #Florida

“The MAGA crowd is made of dumb people — like, SUPER dumb people. And they fall for it.”

For my @wired.com feature debut, I talked to Sam, a guy who made thousands of dollars on Instagram by scamming MAGA men with Emily Hart, an AI generated, Trump-loving influencer. www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces criminal investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants.

The Strange Death of Orbánism Franz Pokorny

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

I said that if the Cleveland Browns get a dome I'm done. That remains true, but Jimmy and Dee Haslam sure seem to be doing everything within their power to move that timeline up.

WHY?!

Oddly elaborate callback to the seven fishes episode of The Bear

I miss Paul Harvey

Whose table is he sitting at for the White House Correspondents Dinner?

Victoria Toensing @VicToensing Hubby being sworn in as Counsel to the Attorney General. 4:04 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 6,199 Views Jason Reding Quiñones, the US Attorney in Miami, swearing in a much shorter Joe DiGenova.

Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past.

Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic.

emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

Florida’s Population Boom Fizzles as High Costs Drive Away Middle Class Orlando and other Florida cities are either losing domestic migrants or gaining them more slowly, threatening the state’s economic model.

Hmmm... But I was told this was just a problem in super lefty, socialist CA. /s

“The affordability picture has changed in FL almost more than anywhere else in the (US)..."

Pretty grim read--and this is the WSJ (gift linked).

Just getting up.

Are we destroying a civilization this fine morning or negotiating the same treaty we tore up? is the waterway open or closed? Or all of that in the same gibbering sentence?

Trump hates Pope Leo because he sees himself as the real vicar of Christ The president is trying to rebuild Christianity in his own image, but the first American pope is standing in the way

🧵Trump's war against Pope Leo is about something far larger than his foreign wars, it's actually a struggle for control of American Christianity.

This thread will summarize the main points of my latest essay about how Trumpism is a replacement Christianity. Continue or click through:

Strange People on the Hill A gripping story that reveals what happened to a small American town when an influential white nationalist group relocated its headquarters there, illustrati...

Next time someone asks me what it's like to report on the far-right, I'll point them to @michaelehayden.bsky.social's new book. He captures the mental/emotional labor involved w/ reporting on people who want us dead, while providing riveting accounts about

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...

Go FC!

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

DANIEL SCHNEEMAN!!! #FORTHELAND

Opinion | Joe Rogan’s down on Trump — but he’s forever anti-vax MAHA Anthony L. Fisher: The influential podcaster continues to spread RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine gospel — and a new poll shows more Americans are growing comfortable with having measles back.

When the next measles outbreak makes it to your hometown, call it “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

(new @ms.now column)

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

For @wired.com’s April cover, we take you inside Madison Square Garden’s surveillance machine — which has allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Revelatory work from @noahshachtman.bsky.social & @robertsilverman.bsky.social that I’m proud to publish and urge you to read.

OF COURSE THE MOMENT I TURN ON THE GAME

What an outing by Parker Messick! #guardsball #fortheland

It might be! You've piqued my curiosity as a watch guy! Wayfarer is 635 6th Ave.

Wayfarer Tavern in Dayton, KY

Very pleased to see that KARE, the NBC affiliate in Minneapolis, has won the Collier Prize for governmental accountability reporting. Their coverage of the Medicaid fraud scandal was remarkable and accurate - unlike a certain YouTuber's videos

www.jou.ufl.edu/collier-priz...