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Screenshot of "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth" on X, writing: "The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately."

I can't get over the fact that this guy sees himself as a quintessential "merit hire."

It’s utterly ludicrous and corrupt for any journalist to go to this event.

“On the one hand, government is censoring curricula; on the other hand, someone criticized my word choice at a conference. These things are the same.”

Warsh may be a reasonable guy and capable economist just playing a role here. But if integrity and independence are qualities we value in a Fed Chief, he does not have them.

Every nominee who dodges this question tells us that they have no meaningful commitment to American democracy.

Thanks for voting, Virginians. Keep democracy alive. Polls are open until 7 pm tonight. 👏🗳️

So when it comes to beards and hairstyles, discipline requires strict conformity. When it comes to contracting and spreading a preventable illness that directly affects unit readiness, follow your bliss, man.

Don't forget the radicalizing power of being denied pierogis.

In both foreign policy and economic policy, the core belief of Trumpism is that there is some button one can press to instantly and easily solve any problem, and every political leader this country has ever had was simply too cowardly to press it. That’s it.

This is not consistent with First Amendment law. At all!! Strong 1A protections apply when lawyers engage in public discourse. (Even when they don't, see Chiles v Salazar!)

People who went to UCLA will appreciate this -- although I don't believe it anymore, I *did* believe, all through my freshman year, that Bunche Hall had to be rotated using helicopters and construction cranes to resolve problems caused by glare on the 405.

Moonstruck – You’re gonna die, just like everybody else YouTube video by Philosopher Jim

They all desperately need to hear and internalize this: youtu.be/kBWxqcvH7Dk?...

I think it's mostly an inability to face their own mortality, combined with years of living in the bubble that comes with extraordinary wealth.

I keep thinking about this moment. So inspirational.

World leaders gathered in Barcelona, Spain for a summit entitled “In Defense of Democracy,” and I felt heartened and hopeful. We need an answer to CPAC and the Kremlin, a worldwide coalition to stand against the far right.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

This piece is incredibly important. Read the whole thing.

Beware those who lecture their colleagues about civility … the true message might just be, “respect me (and my ideological brethren) more, or I’ll do everything in my power to destroy you!”

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

It's notable that Sen. Ossoff is pressing this attack in a tight re-election fight in a purple state. The rest of the party needs to pay attention.

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.

She missed these trials by a few months.

One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.

I feel such a hole inside.

In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

NIH grantmaking plummeting under Trump

How many people will die from diseases that would otherwise have been preventable

these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.

Indeed. Our podcast this week is on precisely the power of this message. In Hungary, the anti-corruption message hit Orban hard.

17 Mollie reposted Sean Davis ~ @seanmdav X.com Elena Kagan is a psychopath. At the very moment conservative justices were at risk of being assassinated following the Dobbs leak (but before its official release), Kagan tried to delay the release of the opinion. Maybe in the hopes one of her colleagues would be murdered and the pro-life majority would evaporate. Kagan screamed so loudly at liberal ally after Dobbs leak th...

For book promo, Mollie Hemingway is boosting conservative influencers floating the idea that Elena Kagan’s pace of work was part of an elaborate plot to get Sam Alito murdered. This is the kind of poison the conservative justices’ media diets are pumping into their brains. Don’t care for it at all.

That sentence struck me too as highly implausible

Excuse me. I’m not one to complain, but I placed my order some time ago.

Great to know we have an objective jurist who focuses on the merits of the cases before him on the Court

When you're a false prophet, they let you do it

They’re so desperate to post the 10 Commandments everywhere and yet somehow, even more desperate to violate them.