Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Yikes! Always something…

We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI.

📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks President Trump and his family are suing federal agencies over leaks of their tax information. Court filings say they’re in talks to find a solution instead of heading to trial.

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury...

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"Do you have an idea of how we could solve the Black maternal mortality crisis if we can't say 'Black?'"

I could watch Democratic House Rep. Summer Lee bat around RFK Jr. all day.

She's magnificent.

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Nothing says "I'm going to fight for Oregonians who are struggling to afford housing" like posting pictures from your recent fundraiser on the sprawling lawn of a CEO's big house overlooking the Columbia River. It might be more forgivable if this GOP gubernatorial candidate offered actual policies.

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The USDA is shuttering Forest Service regional offices and moving headquarters to Salt Lake City—and the agency’s own chief admitted to the Senate it was intentionally withholding congressionally approved funding. Four senators have demanded an immediate halt.

Haha. Same.

I just think it's also important to, like, remember how, how bad it was like, as someone said to me recently, like, I don't know whether we'll call this trauma with a capital T or trauma with a lowercase t, but it definitely like it was to have everyone crying in the office all the time. People had so much anxiety that we would kind of like have to take turns working for. The last few months I was there to be like, All right, you can't handle Today. Today. I'm okay. I can handle today, but you might have to handle tomorrow for me, because I might not be able to handle tomorrow. Like, I've never seen such a thing. You know, one of our younger designers had asked, because it was their first job out of grad school. Like, is this what it's like in the private sector too? Because this is so terrible. And someone's response who worked in the private sector was that, no, like, I've been terrible places, like I've worked at Amazon, I've worked other places where they didn't care about us, but we never felt like our leadership hated us just for existing. And that's what those months felt like, like, not our direct leadership, but anyone above that, and especially the highest levels, just hated us for existing, and that was really hard when, like our we had committed our careers to serving the citizens public.

Coding interviews of technologists who were purged from government under DOGE, and the sense of trauma is really palpable. Compared to the private sector orgs like Amazon, the jobs meant more and the way they were treated was way worse.

It "felt like our leadership hated us just for existing."

Please speak out against Trump’s threats to destroy the whole civilization of Iran. It is wrong and reckless.

Honestly, after that Trump post, I’m begging @nytimes.com, @apnews.com, @reuters.com, @washingtonpost.com, @npr.org and all of the other newspapers and media outlets to take this seriously. This is not normal and we need to stop pretending. This is a crisis.

Pip pip hooray! One of Jackie and Shadow's chicks is starting to break out of its shell One of the Big Bear bald eagle couple's eggs started to hatch, known as a "pip." The event marks a joyous turnaround after the raptors lost their first clutch to ravens.

Pip pip hooray! One of Jackie and Shadow's chicks is starting to break out of its shell

Thank you.

Scientists Politely Remind World That Clean Energy Technology Ready To Go Whenever CAMBRIDGE, MA—Stating that they just want to make sure it’s something everyone keeps in mind going forward, an international consortium of scientists gently reminded the world Wednesday that clean ene...

this (onion) article is nearly 12 years old

"At press time, representatives from the world’s leading economies had signaled that they would continue to heavily rely on fossil fuels until they had something more than an overwhelming scientific consensus to go on."

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video.

“It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?”

This lady’s response is🔥

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from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

RIP. Loved his work. 🥺

Trump Retained Classified Documents Because Of His ‘Business Interests,’ Jack Smith Alleged Trump allegedly showed a classified map to people aboard his private plane, Smith found during his investigation.

Trump allegedly showed a classified map to people aboard his private plane, Smith found during his investigation.

Minnesota Democrats report being followed, harassed by ICE agents during immigration surge Federal agents ran Rep. Brad Tabke’s license plate information before leading him to his house in January and February.

Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota reporting that ICE agents stalked and harassed several of them during the occupation earlier this year www.startribune.com/minnesota-de...

Democrats have offered standalone bills to fund TSA again and AGAIN.

Republicans are BLOCKING us. Republicans are standing between TSA agents and their paychecks.

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Oregon GOP gubernatorial candidate poses for pic (left) with a supporter who recently did time for trying to violently break into the Oregon State Capitol building in December 2020 (right). At that same event, that guy assaulted two different journalists.

The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, mental health — and nearly everything else Revealed in one chart.

This is a national disgrace and it should cost Bhattacharya his job at NIH.

It should result in him being ostracized from academia for the rest of his career.

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the same number of troops have died in this war that died in the evacuation of afghanistan fyi, weird how the media has decided that isn’t a point to drive home this time

Hegemonic suicide

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."

That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
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ICYMI — “No one wants to fight for Israel!”

Marine veteran Brian McGinnis had his hand injured as AIPAC-backed Senator Sheehy (R) & joined Capitol Police officers in physically removing him as he spoke out against Trump and Bibi’s war.

This is what happens when oligarchs control the *news*

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment: