Josh Marshall - We are where we should know we are. The Roberts Court is a corrupt institution which operates in concert with and on behalf of the Republican Party and to an ambiguous degree right-wing anti-regulatory ideology. If we believe in a different set of policies or even democratic self-governance we will have to succeed at that with the Supreme Court acting as a consistent adversary. Read more
The Onion has sold to a new Chicago-based firm called Global Tetrahedron, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller announced Thursday, TheWrap has learned.
A Ukrainian fighting force known as the "Georgian Legion" trolled MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in the best way on X Wednesday. Greene posted a video of a nightclub in Ukraine, perpetuating the right-wing conspiracy theory that the war in Ukraine isn't actually happening. Responding to Greene's assertion that "Ukraine is BOOMING!" and that in "most countries who are under attack, bars and restaurants shut down," the Georgian Legion invited Greene on a special all-access tour of the battlefield. Rupert Murdoch's New York Post recently trolled Greene with a cover picture of the MAGA Congresswoman wearing a Soviet-style sable hat with the headline "NYET MOSCOW MARJORIE."
Feminism made the error of telling us to behave and think like men. This error was a grave one, and women like myself are paying for it, like gamblers in a casino that has been fixed. We are not men, and in living the single life, with its casual encounters, we play for much higher stakes and have more to lose. I wish I had not been taught to throw the dice so high. Even Shakespeare's princes needed someone to look after them in their old age.
From the outset, Justice Alito, along with several other conservatives on the bench, was highly skeptical of the government's indictment of former President Donald Trump for his role in fomenting the Jan. 6 insurrection, going so far as to suggest not only that Trump may be immune from prosecution but also that the federal fraud conspiracy law he is charged with violating may not be valid, either. Read more
A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders. Al-Hayya did not say whether his apparent embrace of a two-state solution would amount to an end to the Palestinian conflict with Israel or an interim step toward the group's stated goal of destroying Israel. Read more
The White House is seizing on remarks by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that former President Donald Trump was resistant to accepting any bipartisan compromise to toughen border security laws.
A senior Cuban diplomat has expressed his nation's commitment to further boosting ties with China but ruled out the possibility of hosting any foreign military bases, even as an intensifying geopolitical feud between China and the United States comes to the Caribbean.
A video shared online shows that the device, called Thermonator, can jump and operate in a dark environment. It is also equipped with a torch light. The firm has touted the fire-spewing robot as a tool to help remove snow and ice. Some of the other uses mentioned include wildfire and agricultural management, and entertainment purposes. Read more
Thursday's argument in Trump v. United States was a disaster for Special Counsel Jack Smith, and for anyone who believes that the president of the United States should be subject to prosecution if they commit a crime.
A complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission has alleged that the Trump campaign and its related political committees have potentially violated federal law by concealing who is being paid or much of the former president's legal work. The complaint, which was filed with the FEC by the Campaign Legal Center (CLC), a nonprofit government watchdog, alleges that Trump's campaign and four other related political committees reimbursed compliance firm Red Curve Solutions $7.2 million for legal fees and expenses between 7 December 2022 and 18 March 2024. However, Red Curve "does not appear to offer any legal services," CLC noted in the complaint.
A FEDERAL JUDGE has rejected Donald Trump's bid for a new trial in E. Jean Carroll's defamation case against him, keeping the former president on the hook for $83 million in damages.
A woman whose face is covered in tattoos and piercings claims she was denied a job at TJ Maxx over her body art. Read more
The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in the blockbuster case over whether former President Donald Trump may claim immunity in special counsel Jack Smith's federal election subversion case.
Stephen A. Crockett Jr. - For forty years Clarence Thomas has been an albatross for Black people, an arbiter of "do as I say, not as I do" politics, a mime whose silence on the bench has been deafening. And, he's been all the things he claims to hate about Black people: He's a welfare queen, a duplicitous double agent, a diversity hire, a beneficiary of reparations and a minstrel show. Read more
Anyone who reads the Cass Review, and who then reads most recent mainstream American media coverage of youth gender medicine, will be gobsmacked. The review, spearheaded by the respected British pediatrician Hilary Cass (and ably summed up in The Morning Dispatch last week), explains that youth gender medicine "is an area of remarkably weak evidence, and yet results of studies are exaggerated or misrepresented by people on all sides of the debate to support their viewpoint. The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress."
