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Thinking again about how Mackenzie Scott has given away $19 billion of her $38b and still seen her net worth increase, these are some weird little pissbabies

there’s a lot of ham handed poetry in trump beginning by promising to build a wall and make mexico pay for it and ending by demanding taxpayers pay for a giant ballroom in his honor that no one needs or asked for.

New: “How the Trumps’ Billion-Dollar Crypto Stake Depends on a Company That Helped Iran Evade Sanctions.” my first report for @publiccitizen.bsky.social 1/

I just love it when Fizz T. Doge does her ~ most interesting dog in the world ~ pose

We're in the waiting days to see whether the FDA will ban shocking autistic and other disabled kids as punishment, which only one school, in Massachusetts, continues to do. The decision is slated to come before May. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'd just like to note that JD Vance and RFK jr. compared Trump to Hitler

People actually worked to get this person elected to Congress.

Kimmel’s monologue has dropped youtu.be/zust6eID9mk?...

Asked yesterday on Fox when he last spoke to Putin, Trump said, “Well, I don’t want to reveal that.” He’s been offering similar answers to the same question for about a decade now, and the White House has never explained why. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

one weird trick to not being surprised by billing changes in AI is to never use AI in the first place because it's worthless and awful

Jimmy Kimmel has defeated the president again

Murc's Law never fails!

Americans: I can't afford groceries or gas Republicans: Say no more

“Police shouldn’t pay income tax” is a third-tier Robocop subplot. It’s 2002 Giuliani cosplay.

Wait we don’t even need to pass let alone enact a wealth tax to get rid of these parasites?

Trump admin informed Congress last week that it would use money originally appropriated for global health to deal with the costs of shutting down USAID, including paying off contractors who were screwed by the DOGE rampage and are now suing. Congress, reasonably, is calling this "impoundment."

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams of Miami expressed skepticism on Friday that the President Trump and the IRS he oversees are sufficiently adverse to give her subject matter jurisdiction over his $10 billion claim for the leak of his personal tax info: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

I wrote about Trump destroying America's science and innovation engine for my newsletter

Trump’s pardon for Michael Flynn was among the most corrupt moves of his first term. The pardon, however, wasn’t enough. The disgraced former White House national security adviser wanted a taxpayer-financed payout, too. Then he got one. And now he’s getting another. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Sorry but that is objectively funny

it's giving "i can't be a misogynist, my mother was a woman" but like somehow much, much worse

I already have my joker origin story but if I didn't already, Jeffries positing that "driving down the cost of living" and impeaching Trump are goals fundamentally at odds with each other would probably do it

As the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that could stall lawsuits against Roundup's role in causing cancer, we have a 3-part series from @exposedbycmd.bsky.social on Bayer/Monsanto's drive for immunity from Roundup liability. First, on the overall lobbying, PR, & legal campaign:

Car bomb in Northern Ireland War in Lebanon Apparent presidential assassination attempt at the Washington Hilton Michael Jackson smashing box office records Red Sox in last place

Yeah not for nothing but a pope saying something like this this explicitly — and in this particular way — is actually kind of a *huge* deal.

Tipsy has detected human-like typing and her ruling is NO

🚨 Major new investigation: The controversial weed killer Roundup is being sprayed in record amounts in California’s forests. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm so tired of these selfish, greedy assholes

An interesting thing here: Trump has cast the alleged WHCD shooting suspect as "anti-Christian," but he thanked his church in his alleged manifesto and made a theological argument in defense of violence. Unclear what his church is, but his family is tied to an evangelical* (<- see footnote) church.

this is why the patriots need to build a ballroom

I hope, somehow, they both lose

I don't think anyone here needs reminding of this, but living in a state where existing LEOs/state gubmint are working with ICE to target immigrants is fucking awful. There are great resistance movements doing all they can to combat this shit, and yet: these fuckers

Also, this guy is calling *Julie K. Brown* a fraud. I pointed out on his home turf that he always has the option, on his own volition, to stop. But he's gotta go live with Matt Taibbi later, so I guess that takes precedent.

Are prediction markets a "truth machine" because so many people are giving input into a question, including insiders, that we discover more about reality? No, @ryanlcooper.com says. "This is a stupid idea." prospect.org/2026/04/27/w...

are we sure “no taxes on cops” isn’t a VEEP joke that got cut in editing?

I support you being mean to the president. You are a patriot in my eyes

I forgot the actual anniversary a week or so ago but whatever my book came out 9 years ago and is maybe still mildly relevant

There's a fight brewing over the demise of USAID -The admin wants to use billions in 2025 global health funds to pay for the aftermath of destroying the agency -Senate Dems are pushing back, saying the $ should go to making global health contractors whole talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-...

Some people in positions of power are profoundly malevolent. Some are deeply incompetent. A very few hit the jackpot.

They're charging you too much for this ballroom, Mr. President. I'll build it for much less. I can start immediately. This is not a trap

Really interesting point from @joshmcelwee.org here. "The unity or division of the Church should not revolve around sexual matters," (Pope Leo said). "I believe there are much greater and more important issues such as justice, equality... that would all take ​priority before that particular issue."

Certainly tracks and hey, by the way, what happened to all that "programs to help new mothers" shit Republicans said they were gonna pass when Roe got overturned?

Billionaires who seek to avoid contributing to the common good are trash and this headline is also trash

In which a U.S. Senator from South Carolina — where more Revolutionary War battles were fought than in any other state — suggests the President build a ballroom at least partly to welcome the King of England in 2026, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Yet another death in ICE custody, and it was a man who translated for U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan, risking his life for a country that repaid him by...doing this.

Spirit is getting a bailout and other budget airlines are asking for more, mainly due to soaring jet fuel costs. Taking a government stake to share in the upside is reasonable, but Trump's version is laced with corruption, Bob Kuttner writes. prospect.org/2026/04/27/s...

Right-wing figures are claiming that political violence only comes from the left. That is a shameless lie. The CATO Institute found that 63% of politically motivated murders came from the right, and just 10% from the left, between 1975 - Sept 2025 (excluding 9/11). I laid this out on CNN last year

this seems to me like the sensible response and one that takes seriously the idea that he’s lost the country irrevocably and they don’t need to pretend anymore that 2024 was some epochal and permanent shift in electoral politics.

There is now a hype video for this event. Note: the speakers include one rabbi and three Catholics, but the rest all appear to be evangelical. That means arguably most of the faith traditions claimed by the *Declaration signers themselves* aren't represented. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VabU...

Substantial numbers of Hollywood workers oppose the sale of Warner Brothers to Paramount. 99% of shareholders supported it. That speaks to a real problem, Harold Meyerson writes. prospect.org/2026/04/27/w...

I'm not in charge but if Neil the Seal is not on the next season of Australian traitors I will riot from half a world away (he's obviously a faithful)

New: Camp Mystic’s college-age counselors had no emergency training or drills before a gigantic and deadly flood swept through the historic girls youth camp last summer, an investigator told state legislators Monday.

For Flytrap Tuesday, @katelynburns.com wrote about losing her best friend Samwise, who saved her during dark times. Unpaywalled, totally free: "Through it all, there was Samwise, lying on top of me as we walked through Mordor together." www.theflytrapmedia.com/who-rescued-...

"security functioned as it should have so the president must be allowed to build his garish absurdity" just insanely embarrassing stuff, gtfoh

I have to say, it was legitimately wild to rewatch Project Hail Mary and see Bruce Springsteen on tour over the same weekend as the White House press dinner, like the degree to which I actively sought out hope and was also served more fuckery at the same time is truly ... well, expected

Cool cool because what chemical companies need is more liability shields to protect them from being sued by the people they poison.

NEW: The White House Correspondents' Dinner suspect has been charged with three felonies, including attempting to assassinate Trump. @dell.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/cole-a...

On executions, there’s been a generational pattern of adopting methods considered less gruesome and less barbaric than previous methods. But when it comes to firing squads, Trump, Blanche, and Co. are rolling back the clock — because they just don’t seem to care. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Clay Travis tells Jesse Watters on Fox News that if the Dems win the midterms, Hakeem Jeffries will be the Speaker and third in the line of succession, and thus the Dems will try and kill both Trump and JD (yes, he said this, almost verbatim): "We have to prepare for everything."

Wait, so the Trump White House is now accusing Dems of crossing this line, seriously?? Trump has provoked and encouraged political violence like no other, by an order of magnitude. I documented a ton of it here—and this is just since the start of his second term www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New: "The president’s second son pitches his bitcoin company as a money-printing machine. It’s actually an arbitrage vehicle that preys on MAGA-minded investors." A must read by @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com

It's very obvious there's nothing to suggest that the attempted shooting at the WHCD was staged; the spread of that idea does make me wonder if conspiracy theories are just an emergent property of certain kinds of social media platforms? www.wired.com/story/staged...

Hello hive mind! I'm putting together resources for reporting on autism from a neurodiversity perspective at a journalist's conference (talking with an autistic person!). What resources do you think I should include?

Amicus brief just came in on the Polymarket Maduro insider trading case... and it's the former CEO of a real estate startup arguing that the case must be dismissed because the defendant should be charged with illegal gambling and not commodity law violations

i love it when i drink wine and do skeets and it pays off with content my much-beleaguered baseballman husband simply cannot possibly fault me for obtaining while he makes dinner and does all the chores

Hell yeah you love to see it!

"But He Could Rescue Others" is up there with "I Can Change Him"

I still don't get the Angel Moms racket. Far more Americans are killed by the native-born than by immigrants. I guess they think murder is less heinous when performed by a Mayflower descendant.

Is there an all-time ratio leaderboard?

This is part of a really good lineup at @prospect.org today, including a 3-part series of Bayer-Monsanto's efforts to avoid liability for causing cancer. We're telling critical stories about ideas, politics and power. You should read them! prospect.org

Via the great @kathrynpost.bsky.social: The Christian DNA of suspected White House Correspondents’ dinner shooter religionnews.com/2026/04/27/t...

The Trump administration will pay more energy firms to cancel offshore wind projects: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...

Bring on a minimum occupancy requirement and seize homes left unoccupied for…three months or more a year feels reasonable.

Truly grateful for people who engage with me on here! It's the biggest following I've ever had. For lil ole me.

this muggy weather can really eat shit, this is not what central texas is supposed to feel like

Something extremely rude just happened in Pistons-Magic #NBAsky

Oh wow, no thank you!

BTW, ABC didn’t give any coverage to the Trumps’ calls to fire Kimmel; CBS mentioned it in passing and noted the “widow” line came along with jokes about Trump’s age/health; but NBC did a full 90-second report in which it falsely said Kimmel’s joke “made light of the president’s death.”

A foolproof indicator that your life has taken a pretty sideways turn is when people refer to your meandering blog post/personal essay as a "manifesto"

Just a reminder: Late-night comics used to make jokes about Joe Biden being close to death because he (like Trump) was old, and nobody batted an eyelash. Trump + Melania can lie and suggest Kimmel's joke is about someone shooting Trump; it was clearly about his age. youtu.be/4Srd8oC7M90?...

I wonder how much more of this we’re going to see with male athletes in the coming years

Scientists have linked Roundup to cancer and other ailments, so how did a company convince regulators to approve widespread spraying in America’s forests? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I got to make the illustration for tomorrow's @theflytrapmedia.com post from @katelynburns.com on a subject that is as close as possible to my own cat-loving heart and I can't wait for it to land in y'all's inboxes (subscribe if you don't already, it's a free post!)

The LarryShemp car has to be around here somewhere

The West is repeatedly breaking temperature records, which, it turns out, is not great for the environment.

Leopards eating faces are strong with this one, the people who voted for a border wall probably deserve to get got.

Und next I vant Brendan Carr to do zomezing about Moose and Squirrel

Trump Reading Bible Aloud Is Exactly The Asshol-ish Behavior Jesus Was Talking About New newsletter, read, subscribe! evanhurst.substack.com/p/trump-read...

I guess this week Republicans are back to being gerrymandering fans again

Suburban sprawl doesn't have to be like this!

have I had a decade or more to create a macro that converts "abortoin" to "abortion"? Have I done so? NO

The leader of the opposition party in the lower chamber promises to not even try to expel him from office

Btw Melania has an extremely overextended chief of staff and is advised on several topics by a guy who looks like a vampire / dark wizard (Marc Beckman)

If only cable networks still offered this level of curation—or if streamers ever tried it—TV would be so much better off. If LPs, CDs and DVDs can make comebacks—and all have—I firmly believe curated TV can, too. youtu.be/zsPKBtSR8Hs?...

Why do they imagine anyone will care about 'assassination attempts' that barely interrupted their terrible parties for a half hour?

Texas’ newly redrawn congressional map is officially cleared for use. In November, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the map to be used temporarily. A Monday ruling from the high court maintains that status quo permanently, ensuring the new lines will be used for the 2026 midterms and going forward.

This was a strange exchange

The Supreme Court has now rejected two cases on this issue since it ruled on the shadow docket in favor of parents who objected to a law in California that restricts when schools can notify parents about their child's transgender status. Procedurally very weird. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Good morning! Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates— 💰His net worth is up $2 billion, to $6.3 billion 💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million 💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million And Jared became a billionaire last year. Have a great day!

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