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Recovering journalist, repentant attorney.
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New in PN: White guy DEI "Pretending that Hegseth got nominated on merit is ridiculous, but it’s a fiction conservatives have all agreed to adopt. To admit he’s not qualified would mean acknowledging that straight white maleness does not automatically confer expertise."

“Solidarity is a force stronger than gravity. It lifts us up. And we need to get ready for a general strike!” - Sara Nelson speaking at the Bernie rally in Montana this afternoon. www.youtube.com/live/5pst2Y7...

How are we not beyond the "rebuke" stage yet? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Travel | 36 Hours in El Salvador

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

To all news outlets: stop calling it “enforcement” when it’s a violation of human rights and our constitution. Call it what it is: kidnapping and human trafficking.

Quite the beauty-pageant answer here.

Why Bukele's tieless looked killed, while Zelensky's bombed.

1. The Trump administration claims that a program to protect rural Alabamans from raw sewage is racist so it is canceling the program as part of its crackdown on "DEI" According to a press release, this is about treating "every individual with dignity and respect." 🤔

Remember the day when these two smirked about disappearing innocent people and pretended they cannot undo it.

Solid weasel wording from the Times

Sorry, America. We can pay cancer research teams or we can pay to fly Trump and his entourage to a UFC fight in Miami. We can’t afford both.

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

This you?

The dream is dead

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court rejects Republican effort to disqualify more than 60,000 votes in close judicial election. However, GOP dominated court rules 4-2 that several thousand other ballots must be "cured" to be counted. Democratic candidate will continue legal fight in Fed court.

Sorry is this reporter just three Donald Trumps in a trench coat

Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

RIP, Clem Burke.

The only difference, in this case, is that she is an actual witch. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

Crockett: "My Republican colleagues are here using today to continue pushing this false narrative of sanctuary cities harboring criminals, yet right here in DC we have a 34 count felon being harbored in the White House."

one of the most accurate memes out there

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

Pining for the fjords ...

As Time Goes By The usual suspects went to Don's Café to kiss the ring but now we're at the end of some beautiful friendships. Perhaps Trump is only playing it again because his opponent was more Hubert Humphrey than Humphrey Bogart. So remember this: he won't always have Harris. by Maureen Dowd

U.S. Recessions/Panics/Depressions, 1870-1913: 1869-70, 1873-79 Long Depression, 1882-85 Depression, 1887-88, 1890-91, 1893 Panic, 1896 Panic, 1899-1900, 1902-04, 1907 Panic, 1910-11 Panic, 1913-14. (One quarter of all recessions in U.S. history.)

LUJAN: Do you agree w/ President Trump that families are gonna have to feel a little pain? GREER: I'm not gonna speak for POTUS L: I know none of you have the courage to stand up to him. Do you agree that what the president said about people having to feel pain? G: Of course I agree w/ POTUS

If Joe Biden had been serious about battling inflation, he would have staged a military parade on his birthday.

Crockett: "If we are gonna talk about efficiency, let's talk about the fact that as of March 30, Trump's golfing has cost us approximately $26 million. And the last time I checked, we're not getting anything in return for that ... he decided he was going to golf instead of receiving four heroes."

Garcia: "We're here talking about furniture while Donald Trump is destroying the economy ... were you aware that as markets were crashing Donald Trump the next day went out to play a few rounds of golf?"

Schiff: "That may end up being the most enduring image of the Trump presidency: The president out on a golf cart while peoples' retirement is in flames."

There is absolutely NO situation in which Donald Trump will serve a third term as President of *these* United States, full stop. Don’t get distracted. This Administration and the GOP are undermining the Constitution and Rule of Law. We must continue to raise our voices!

Even among the darkest recesses of the human condition, there is no more paralyzing, bladder-loosening fear than conservative men’s fear of subways.

Trump supporters, 2016: Look at that jet! Donald Trump is an American success story who'll use his years of business experience to put more money in your pocket! Trump supporters, 2025: Listen to the leaves in the wind...the calling bird...the humble cricket...what possessions compare to these?

Woke: Going to college and maybe being a doctor or accountant or scientist or something America First: Homeschooled about how well slaves were treated as preparation for your career producing “No Fat Chicks” merch

Target buys its T-shirts from China where they cost $2 each.🇨🇳 A T-shirt made in America costs $10.🇺🇸 Trump’s tariff means the T-shirt from China now costs $3. Will Target now buy from America instead? All that happens is YOU pay more. Its. A. Consumer. Tax.

Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who agree to be completely white. by Stephen Miller

What is Trump doing now that he has sabotaged the US economy with massive tariffs? He's at his golf club in Florida, where the Saudis are paying him to host a professional golf tournament.

Really looking forward to Jeff Bezos' forceful public condemnation of Trump's tariffs since he is so committed to "free markets" that he made a rule that every opinion piece published in the Washington Post must support "free markets" For some reason, Bezos hasn't said anything yet. Must be busy.

President Bonespurs finally committing to the Vietnam War

Walz: "It's like Trump is stuck in the '80s. His music, his clothing, his thinking. He's been on this tariffs thing forever and every economist will tell you they just don't work ... I think the biggest myth perpetuated on this country is that Trump understands anything about business."

During WWII, Americans sacrificed to defeat tyranny. Harris wants your sacrifice in support of it.

“After much deliberation, we have opted to part ways with Ms. Ruffin so we can refocus the event on sitting silently and eating dinner in prolonged, muted fear,” said association president Eugene Daniels theonion.com/white-h...