Investigating the Good Guys DOJ claims the Southern Poverty Law Center was "paying off" the Ku Klux Klan. The group's track record and common sense suggest otherwise.

Understanding the federal government’s indictment of a civil rights icon, the Southern Poverty Law Center:
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump Twitter Archive All 50,000+ of Trump's tweets, instantly searchable

How many times has Trump called the press the "enemy of the people"?

At least 61 times through 2024-08-08.

link:

www.thetrumparchive.com?searchbox=%2...

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...

I keep coming back to this

LIVE: Melania Accidentally REVEALS Ghislaine BLACKMAIL SCHEME?! YouTube video by MeidasTouch

Who is Amanda Ungaro? Is Ghislaine using leverage to get a pardon? What’s up with Melania’s weird pre-confession? My latest: www.youtube.com/live/6BC5AVW...

Yep!! 🥳💪🏽

There is NO reason unless she's trying to get out ahead of something. Why on earth would the administration risk putting the Epstein files back into the news cycle? I think (dons tinfoil hat) Ghislaine is threatening to spill the tea in exchange for a pardon.

‼️ NEW Trump tells MS NOW he didn’t know anything about Melania’s statement beforehand

ICYMI yesterday: My diagnosis and prescription for using public participation to *expedite* the rulemaking process.

Taking out power plants is only ok if it is to facilitate a full ground invasion. If it’s used as punishment, it’s a clear war crime.

Trump has removed all doubt about the whys and is clearly ok with war crimes.

The question is will the generals understand they have some responsibility?

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today:

Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

23 people could stop this genocidal war criminal. That’s it. 23.

20 Republican senators and 3 republican reps in the house and he’d be out of politics forever. But they won’t.

They’re addicted to power. A drug so strong they’d rather see a civilization die than give it up.

The President is threatening genocide and possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran.

It’s clear the President has continued to decline and is not fit to lead. The members of his Cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment immediately.

“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“

Likely the worst El Niño in 140 years. Harvests will be bad even without a fertilizer crisis. GOP will head to elections with scorching food inflation. And they will blame Belgium for not opening Hormuz. And 35% of Americans will be very angry at Belgium.

Maybe ask @nktpnd.bsky.social

Well, well…

If the 14th amendment was not meant for modern immigrants, then the 2nd amendment was not meant for modern arms.

#truth

The Government of Uganda makes the false claim that these 8 people had their claims "reviewed and approved by an immigration judge." That is a complete fiction. A "Safe Third" transfer involved a judge refusing to hear the asylum claim on procedural grounds to facilitate the deportation to Uganda.

The US Department of War Crimes.

Someone sent me this.

Poland PM: 🇵🇱

“In order for us..to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is..a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy..their lives lose all value”

Jimmy Carter

A graph titled “the public health success of the measles vaccine” that shows the number of measles cases in the United States plummeting after the vaccine was introduced in 1963

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

imagine naming a library after someone illiterate.

Epstein lawyer Roy Black died in 2025 -- and the search for Epstein's computers may have died with him.
Why didn't prosecutors get them to begin with? My new substack: open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

NEW: Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate Joe Oltmann is intensifying his antisemitic attacks on the "Synagogue of Satan Jews" who Oltmann claims control the world and run Colorado

Bondi: "Being a citizen in our country is a privilege, not a right. And Donald Trump is going to have everyone in this country who deserves to be here who is a citizen."

How AI Hype Masks the Exploitation of African Workers AI is a consolidation of labor hierarchies, a plunder of African skills, and a commodification of African knowledge, write Marché Arends and Kathryn Cleary.

What is marketed as AI “innovation” is, in practice, a consolidation of global labor hierarchies and a commodification of African knowledge, write Marché Arends and Kathryn Cleary, drawing on their year-long investigation supported by the Pulitzer Center and published by Africa Uncensored.

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline.

A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.