Peter Kohan

For those who never had to go through a “duck and cover” drill in case of nuclear war during the Cold War, it’s kind of like opening up this app every morning.

Kristen Clarke did not leave the Justice Department quietly. She left, took the general counsel position at the NAACP, marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday in March, and then sat down to explain precisely what was done. The cases her division spent years building — carefully constructed voting rights enforcement actions — were "withdrawn from the courts, dismissed without basis, without any justification offered to the public." No explanation. No legal rationale offered. Gone. She documented what replaced the people who built those cases: "reckless, sloppy work." Missing filing deadlines. Typos in court filings. An official who accidentally revealed a federal civil rights probe in a social media post. "Its ranks are now being filled by people who are inexperienced, who don't know what they're doing, who've never enforced federal laws before." The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department is the unit that enforced the Voting Rights Act, pursued discriminatory redistricting, and brought cases against jurisdictions that systematically blocked minority voters. Clarke calls it "nothing more than a shadow of its former self." She is now general counsel at the organization that will litigate against the department she built. The person who wrote those cases is now the person who will try to bring them back in court. That is not a footnote. That is the next chapter.

SCOOP: In the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington quietly removed from its website educational resources about American racism and canceled a workshop about the “fragility of democracy.” politico.com/news/2026/04/0…

After financing Jared Kushner’s 666 Fifth Avenue property in New York for $1.2 billion, gifting a $400 million private jet to Donald Trump and vast sums of money and luxury in exchange for security, they now realize they've been conned and betrayed by Trump and his family. 😂

If you were wondering whether the President’s weekend bender helped or hurt the long-term interest of American business, futures markets just opened, and delivered their verdict.

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The wife of an Army staff sergeant, who is set to train for deployment, was taken from a military base where the couple planned to live. ICE agents had entered the base and detained Annie Ramos. nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/…

Absolute panic in Tel Aviv. A TRT World correspondent reveals massive crowds of Israelis are violently defying police to protest the war on Iran. They expose Netanyahu launched this disastrous war solely to save his own political career. The Zionist regime is imploding.

Bombing civilian infrastructure is a war crime, and the time to speak out against it is right now.

N.J. senator: We need 200,000 affordable homes. The solution may be in your neighborhood nj.com/opinion/2026/0…

Oil prices are now crossing above $115/barrel in the US. As a result, our models indicate that if current levels are sustained another ~7 weeks, US CPI inflation will rise to ~3.7%. This would put US inflation at its highest level since September 2023. Amid the surge, Americans have spent an additional $240 million per day on fuel costs since the Iran War began on February 28th. That's a total of +$8.6 billion in increased spending on fuel over the last 36 days. Our new base case is 3.0% CPI inflation and it is only rising as the war's timeline is extended.

But wait, there's more! The Times ALSO published P.G. Sittenfeld's piece on redemption Christ, without mentioning he got *pardoned* by Donald Trump for engaging in pay-to-play corruption as a Cincinnati city councilman.

Longer analysis here, with some context about the last decade or so in the media business. natesilver.net/p/social-media…

Among the material pulled from the Holocaust Museum's website were teaching materials about the parallels between Nazism and Jim Crow and a conversation between a Holocaust Survivor and a woman whose father was lynched in Alabama.

Israeli leaders have begun to condemn settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. "It’s a smokescreen. The recent wave of denunciations...aims to obscure the fact that settler violence is state policy." trib.al/u9jiXN4

Sorry but directing your energy towards Hasan Piker while America and Israel drag the world into hell is such outrageous behavior. We bombed a school and Israel is hunting Muslims in Lebanon. “Anti-Israel rhetoric will be destroyed” is a death sentence for the Democratic Party.

Give credit where it’s due, this is a proper headline.

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

Acting like Border Patrol and ICE. I told y'all this would happen.

BREAKING: Israel is wiping out entire civilian homes in the village of Taybeh in South Lebanon — a village that stood for over 7,000 years. Not a battlefield. Not a military base. Homes. An ancient village erased in real time.

NEW: An immigrant dad waited five months for a fingerprinting appointment required to reunite with his daughter. In that time, the toddler was sexually abused in government care, according to a civil lawsuit filed. apnews.com/article/immigr…