😮 “while carving out an exemption for themselves” is wild

We were just suspended without warning from threads and Instagram. We have no idea why.

If any of y’all are on those apps and want to let them know to fix that we would be appreciative.

Who did this? 😂

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

This is a lawless regime.

Everything is written by Miller.

Warnock: Don’t lecture to me about meritocracy while I witness you nominate the most unfit unqualified people we’ve ever seen.

You cannot lecture me about merit while nominating Pete Hegseth…

After Trump kills the National Climate Assessment, scientists vow to create their own Key authors of the critical, congressionally mandated report were ousted this week.

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Apparently 1-in-3 Americans would have suffered fentanyl-related deaths in the last 100 days (from each taking one fifth of a pill) if not for the Attorney General's innumeracy.

You mean the regulations Trump promised to and did repeal on day one???

I think the way to turn this administration’s tanking polls around is to have this creep talk about his plans for our children as much as possible.

Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States

Scattershot, extreme, untargeted, here-today-gone-tomorrow tariffs like Trump's probably can't work on *either* count.

But they certainly cannot work on both.

A few reporters keep pointing this out. All should.

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Trump Guitars hit with cease and desist from Gibson over use of Les Paul body shape Breaking: The patriotic line was launched as “the only guitar officially endorsed by President Donald J. Trump”, but Gibson says it infringes on its trademarks

What a great day to remember that Trump, in coordination with a factory in China, violated Gibson Guitars intellectual property rights.

And he did the same thing to Omega watches and many other companies.

Correct. And that is a feature, not a bug for Donald Trump.

The interesting thing is that according to our own Justice Department, MS-13 began restricting tattoos (c. 2015) on its members precisely bc law enforcement was using them to ID them. Members have to get permission, which means fewer people would have them over last decade

40 Acres and a Lie

4/ The print vessel for the amazing @revealnews.org series that showcased the incredible work of Center for Public Integrity (RIP) reporters, as they proved that formerly enslaved people were given legal title to plantation land, only to have it taken back: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

American Oligarchy

2/ For General Excellence, we submitted two issues, and a bunch of other stories/projects/videos.

Starting with our special issue on American Oligarchy: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Public Christian schools? Leonard Leo’s allies advance a new cause A tight-knit group of activists tied to Leo’s nonprofit network are rallying around an Oklahoma effort to create a public Catholic school.

Justice Barrett has since recused herself. As I reported, her close friend, Notre Dame law professor Nicole Stelle Garnett has worked with St. Isidore from the start of its application process.

But this is not nearly where the potential conflicts end.

www.politico.com/news/2023/12...

Give them credit for helping this catastrophe happen in the first place.

Exclusive | Kristi Noem dodges kicks from migrant suspect as she leads ICE deportation raids in Phoenix Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem isn’t afraid of getting her hands dirty on President Trump’s deportation raids.

literal lol

"Also in the BearCat with Noem was former Trump campaign manager and senior adviser Corey Lewandowski, who introduced himself to the federal agents as 'chief of staff.' DHS later clarified that he is an adviser to DHS..."

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More of them; we have a few

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim—

Oh.

cnbc front page just before 3pm on friday 4.4.25

the president himself is off to a golf event.

Raid all those botanical gardens for greenhouse bananas and coffee plants…

Hey, who wants to work in a shoe factory making $3 an hour?