And on top of that, all non-American Cubans or Venezuelans have no say whatsoever over anything that happens to them in any sense. No elections, no citizenship, no participation in Congress, no freedom of movement, checkpoints on every road, segregated towns, even segregated access to water.

And to add onto that, it would entail American-settlers in Venezuela being made the Treasury Secretary, a deputy defense secretary, head of the DHS, multiple Justices of the Supreme Court, a couple dozen members of Congress.

In other words more than 1 out of 10 Israeli Jews do not live in territory that is recognized by the international community to be Israeli land. An equivalent number would be, say, 34,000,000 Americans in Venezuela.

For clarity re 10%. Over 800,000 Jewish settlers in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank correspondent to roughly 7.4m Jews in Israel+Palestine overall.

This is a war based on lies

CERTIORARI -- SUMMARY DISPOSITION 24-1099 SMITH, KYLE, ET AL. V. SCOTT, ROCHELLE, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Zorn v. Linton, 607 U. S. ___ (2026) (per curiam). Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the petition for a writ of certiorari.

By a 6–3 vote, and with no opinion, the Supreme Court throws out a lower court decision denying qualified immunity who killed an unarmed, mentally ill man by using "bodyweight force" to restrain him. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

Just came back from a workshop. It reinforced my “gut instinct” that so many of America’s problems are rooted in over-financialization.

The “big money” is increasingly made by extracting rents through informational, political, or legal arbitrage.

Former Biden administration senior advisor Amos Hochstein says he supported last summer's Operation Midnight Hammer, in which the Trump administration struck Iran's nuclear facilities, because "we had thought internally in the Biden administration we may have to take [strikes] if there was a second term." "We did war games. We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into it, because that may have had to happen under

Biden's point man on Lebanon and one of his overall most important advisor for MENA said yesterday morning that he agreed with Trump's strikes on Iran last year lol.

Democrats really need to reassess how people like this were (and still are) allowed to be at the top of their foreign policy echelon.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

these are both William h Macy

I am in Barcelona today to help unite progressive parties from around the world in a defense of democracy and a war against corruption. A first of its kind event. Necessary to beat back the forces of fascism.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI: "It is sad that for too many Americans when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, they have to turn to a history book."

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

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.

the most interesting thing about this story is not the survey itself—which is a year old and has since been retracted over huge problems with the sample—but that media outlets keep trying to push stories of a massive religious revival among the young in absence of any evidence

And on the basis of this -- a pure policy disagreement about which he was demonstrably, wildly wrong -- Roberts dreamed up "major questions doctrine" & thereby rendered US law one big game of Calvinball.

You just can't exaggerate how low, how scummy, how dumb, how fraudulent it all was.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

There’s Trump-style corruption, which is all bullshit, bluster, bags of cash, and him daring you to stop him. And then there’s corruption of the John Roberts kind. It’s just as deliberate and destructive, but quieter, more genteel, like a cancer that grows in your bones rather than on your face.

Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.

SCOTUS judges know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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if you’re brain is fried on RW media, you’re a poster now.

Retiring is the equivalent of being kicked off a site by mods. Outtathequestion.

Iran being pretty clear that they're only allowing the Strait to be open as long as Israel stops bombing Lebanon.

making sense of this:

even when employment is awful most ppl are employed

even when wages are low most people are moving up the wage scale even is more slowly

but everybody shops

(& in good times ppl shop more)

Donald Trump post "The U.S.A. is the “HOTTEST” Country in the World right now. Just a short time ago, under Sleepy Joe Biden, IT WAS DEAD, LAUGHED AT ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! But not anymore - Nobody’s laughing!!! President DJT"

Trump slowly evolving into dril

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

argue (converse in good faith) with a fool, people won’t know the difference

we are all made meaner and dumber by including unethical people and unserious thinkers in our discourse over the public good.

faux liberalism (ezra klein) vs actual liberalism (mill)

This is such a monumental success. I have tears in my eyes.