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Need proof that the Supreme Court’s honor system is a joke? Enter Samuel Alito. Four former officials confirmed that Justice Alito’s son, Philip, has worked as a lawyer inside Trump’s Treasury Department since early last year. His role was kept off the public record: no résumé, no LinkedIn, no mention on Treasury’s own website, and outdated bar listings. While he was there, the Treasury was a named defendant in a case argued before the Supreme Court over Trump’s emergency tariffs. The department never disclosed the connection in court, and Justice Alito did not recuse himself. He sat on the case. Treasury’s defense is that the son never touched the tariff matter, so no recusal was needed. That misses the law entirely. Federal law requires recusal whenever a justice’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned. The test is not whether anyone can prove influence. It is whether a reasonable person would have doubts. A justice ruling on cases involving the department that signs his son’s paychecks fails that test on its face. This is the textbook definition of a conflict of interest, and Congress must act. I support withholding funding from the Court until the justices adopt a binding ethics code with real recusal review. forbes.com/sites/alisondu…

say goodbye to your family before Thanksgiving the most deadly serious Thanksgiving slate I’ve ever seen this is ridiculous 🔥🔥🔥

@BillSimmons RIP 😔

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…

@SarahLongwell25 @BulwarkOnline Maybe stop telling voters what will happen and “percentages” based on your own biases and listen to them and the candidates they are supporting

I would give Platner a lower than 5% chance. But there’s no doubt there will be ‘28 chatter about any Dem that picks up a super important Senate seat. The bigger point is that Dem voters are furious with their party for not standing up to Trump and they’re rejecting establishment candidates who they believe haven’t been sufficiently aggressive at standing up Republicans. Sound familiar?

Three months later, this is my last @washingtonpost story — delayed because nearly everyone involved in it was laid off. I am very grateful to newsroom friends who made sure it published anyway, and to brave Roman Mongold and his family for their time. wapo.st/4cNY7Cm

The Voting Rights Act was reauthorized by Reagan and Bush, and enforced by a Republican Supreme Court majority for 55 years. The idea that it was far-left partisan Democratic legislation is just ahistorical.

Democrats could try picking a young candidate who has a solid record of running a big city economist.com/united-states/…

@jonfavs The truth we all need to remember is that in politics and the violence that follows, people who wind up doing bad things to other people often believe they are righteous

I think this is worth reading, even if you don't end up agreeing with all of it. Trump gets most of the blame for the sickness, but the sickness is still spreading. And yes, I also think it's better to deal with this by actually engaging with these views, because they're not just going away on their own.

NEW: Sergey Brin, his "MAGA Girlfriend" and a $57 million bid to kill the California billionaires tax. The inside story of how a Google cofounder and a gut-health influencer ghosted Matt Mahan and confronted Gavin Newsom — even if Newsom is "handsome." nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/…

Breaking News: A U.S. soldier who helped capture Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information to bet on the mission on Polymarket. nyti.ms/4sOj8l7

EXCLUSIVE: It could take six months to fully clear the Strait of Hormuz of mines deployed by the Iranian military, and any such operation is unlikely to be carried out until the U.S. war with Iran ends, the Pentagon has informed Congress — an assessment that means the conflict’s economic impact could extend late into this year or beyond.

Google DeepMind researcher argues that LLMs can never be conscious, not in 10 years or 100 years. "Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight."

New @PuckNews Even before the misconduct allegations, Eric Swalwell was an attention-seeking political striver whose professed progressivism may have been his greatest lie of all On the “empty suit” of California politics > puck.news/eric-swalwell-…

With a net approval rating of -43, Donald Trump has surpassed Richard Nixon's final approval rating of -42 to become the most unpopular president in modern history. Nixon posted his eye-popping -42 net approval in the final poll of his presidency, between 8/2-8/5 of 1974.

Hungarians singing “We Are The Champions” after Orban’s landslide defeat

orban getting absolutely hammered, as expected, in hungary. after 16 years of incompetence, mismanagement and europe’s most kleptocratic governance by a long margin…a historic win for the hungarian people.