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The countdown is on! Join us tomorrow from 12–3 PM ET for the 100 Days virtual conference Watch live, free on Substack and YouTube, and Subscribe to The Contrarian for an email alert 🔗 contrarian.substack.com/p/youre-invi...

SCOTT PELLEY says ‘60 Minutes’ executive producer Bill Owens resigned after Paramount started meddling in their content, because they wanted to get their merger approved by Trump — specifically mentioning their coverage of Israel and Trump.

Columbia cancelled my Race, Media and Int'l Affairs course. But I'm teaching it anyway. In just two days, 360+ of you enrolled. If you are interested in a scholarship, email [email protected] w/ subject line, "Scholarship Request". karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...

Macron shook one hand.

Welcome, @katiephang.bsky.social!

The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim. We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

250 years ago today America began its march toward independence at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The battles marked “No Kings Day, Part I.” Today millions of Americans will take part in “No Kings Day, Part II.”

Auchincloss: "This issue about the Maryland man is not about border security or immigration. It's about freedom. Freedom in the US means that if your feet are on American soil, you get to stand in front of a judge on an equal basis to the awesome power of the state and put forward the facts."

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Ben Wittes, Roger Parloff, Quinta Jurecic, & Anna Bower, I would be glad to make a “Champion” contribution toward the $15,000 match by your generous donor. Lawfare is literally indispensable in these historic times in which we live.

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

WATCH: Bannon ties himself in knots trying not to say Trump is ever wrong about anything

I wrote about the final season of "The Handmaid's Tale" and #Resistance feminism in retrospect, for @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

They are obviously slow learners

You’re not imagining it. Americans aren’t nearly as smart as we need to be to understand what is happening in this country. A must-read. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

Nevada Republican Governor Joe Lombardo said during a recent private dinner that his message to people who criticize him on social media is "fuck you."

Sammelthread der "Hands Off" Proteste in den USA. Gerne ergänzen... Louisville, Kentucky

The Rains of Castemere

The worst news of the week. "The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

MASSIVE SHIFT Pro-democracy channels on YouTube are now growing faster than right-wing channels for the first time. MeidasTouch is proud to lead the way as the fastest-growing YouTube channel in Q1 2025. Keep this momentum going: YouTube.com/@meidastouch

After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.

ICYMI: Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social had some words for Rep. Farmer after Farmer grossly disrespected Pearson for missing time to grieve when his brother recently took his own life with a gun. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DHrFSp-...

Jim Banks Skips Town Hall, Mocks Constituents With Donut Stunt Video The GOP Senator is now facing backlash online meidasnews.com/news/jim-ban...

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

Brian Kilmeade calls for the end of due process: "It's not practical to think we can do due process on 8 million people ... if we're gonna give every one of these guys a day in a court and a lawyer, we can't do it. They don't deserve it."

Part 1 on neighbors being disappeared by the US government.

Someone needs to explain to our Sec of Commerce how capitalism works. America has a GLOBAL TRADE SURPLUS on services. Services have the highest margins and profits of our exports. That is where capital and expertise focused. It is why we dominate in tech globally.

Trump did that.

Candyman Ronny Jackson is in Florida, and I think he is so mad at Zelensky that he might actually be crying a little bit as he rages. His hero was disrespected, I guess.

My God. What a freakin’ outrage.

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

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We are arms dealers to terrorists.

Trump attacks Zelenskyy: "He refuses to have elections. He's low in the real Ukrainian polls ... the only thing he was really good at was playing Joe Biden like a fiddle ... a dictator without elections, Zelenskyy gotta move fast or he won't have a country left."

An 11-year-old girl took her own life in Texas after she was tormented for weeks by her sixth-grade classmates at Gainesville Intermediate School, who threatened to call ICE authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said. 💔 💔