Not comfort. Not control. Not being proven right.

Righteousness.

The kind that restores. That heals. That feeds the soul — and the world.

It’s not about moral superiority. It’s about longing — aching — for things to be made right, in us and around us. That ache? Jesus calls it blessed.

CBS… CNN…

With troops and protests, Trump's feud with California moves to the streets of LA President Trump's deployment of California National Guard soldiers in spite of Gov. Gavin Newsom's objections escalated tensions between the Republican administration and the Democratic state.

Links:

calmatters.org/politics/202...

apnews.com/article/dona...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

static.heritage.org/project2025/...

Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"

Senator Chris Murphy Upbraided Noem

Senator Chris Murphy LAID into Noem before she testified!

Wonderful book. Well deserved!

This is what courage looks like. Kudos to the team at 60 Minutes.

“There’s zero percent chance that someone hasn’t tried to install Pegasus or some other spyware on his phone,” Mike Casey, the former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said... “He is one of the top five, probably, most targeted people in the world for espionage.”

“He is one of the top five, probably, most targeted people in the world for espionage.”

That seems accurate!

That’s insulting to six year olds.

I know you are but what am I?!

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

Trump Tariff Adviser Peter Navarro Invented His Very Own, Fictional Economics Expert The White House trade guru has often cited “Ron Vara”—an anagram of his own last name. That might explain a lot.

Trump’s views on tariffs come from a guy who has made a career referencing a fictional economist who he invented.

Wish I were making it up.

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

In which I try to call things what they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

I’ll tell y’all something this morning. I still believe the Lord is good. I still believe in the grace that is chocolate. That as long as there are tomatoes, there is salsa. That birds sing because they know something we don’t. I believe laughter is audible hope. And love is spite to the darkness.

Premier Scott Moe says U.S. restoring Russian fertilizer market will fund death of Ukrainians | CBC News "This is the most disturbing action that I think we've seen from [U.S. President Donald Trump] since his election," said Scott Moe.

Yep

Thank you for posting. I have to admit I wondered what this would achieve.

She had watched..Elon Musk..[moving to] the beat of rock music, slicing..what he called the ‘chain saw for bureaucracy.’ She..listened to Trump’s aides and allies deride federal employees for being ‘lazy,’ ‘parasitic,’ ‘unaccountable’ and ‘essentially wasting’ taxpayer money in their ‘fake jobs.’”

“Our Constitution, top to bottom, forbids attempts by the government to punish citizens and lawyers based on the clients they represent, the positions they advocate, the opinions they voice, and the people with whom they associate.”

Thank you @JennerBlockLLP & @WilmerHale for suing
#BlueSky #MedSky

Someone tell DOGE! Brutal photo by huff post i love it

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social A little humor of you haven’t seen it.

The Greater Scandal of Signalgate The spectacle of incompetence and the attempts to smear a reporter are a misery; even worse is the encroaching threat of autocracy that cannot be concealed or encrypted.

“This is an Administration that does not have to slip on a Signal banana peel to reveal its deepest-held prejudices and its painful incapacities.” David Remnick writes about Signalgate—and the threat of autocracy that hides in plain sight.

ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security."

CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security."

MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security."

CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security."

Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."

Brilliant white teeth in movies set before, well, now, and manscaping are my time line pet peeves.

I just found out thru a relative that a user on Twitter called Hesgeth "Whiskileaks" and this needs to go viral, as the kids say.

Lawyers Who Anger the Feds Face New Penalties by Decree A new memorandum from the Trump administration opens lawyers who oppose the federal government in court to new peremptory and damaging sanctions decided on by the federal government itself, not by cou...

New from me at Cato: a new Trump White House memorandum exposes lawyers who oppose the federal government in court to crippling sanctions to be decided on by the feds themselves, not by courts. And few law firms have protested. The hour grows late for a basic element of constitutional liberty. /1

1995: Hi, I'm the year Michael Bérubé and Cary Nelson co-edited a book titled "Higher Education Under Fire"

2025: Hold my beer

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.