Awww, this just made my heart grow three sizes!

There is no current writer whose wisdom and insight I respect more than @mollymckew.bsky.social’s. This piece beautifully sums up where we are, what we face, and how we shall prevail, and it has left me in tears:

ICYMI: The 3rd Circuit ruled Pennsylvania must count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots, determining that rejecting such ballots was unconstitutional.
“Casting a ballot and having it counted are central to the democratic process,” a judge wrote.

There’s plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death — vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.

Why Canadians will not cross the border into crazy-town.

Here's my post, btw. I note that when the extent of Trump's humiliating failures on the deals he claims to be negotiating becomes clear, he will need to compensate for the Narcissistic injury.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/29/m...

Over on The Hellsite, JD Vance has now functionally called for an end to due process for migrants. His argument is riddled with deceptions, bad faith, and embarrassingly awful logic. I think it needs a real response, so here's what I put up over there.

First, his 20 million number is fiction. 1/

I wrote about some details that the Trump administration might not want to come to light when it comes to what kind of deal Trump has truck with Bukele asharangappa.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

It's not that Trump shouldn't meet the caskets, it's that he shouldn't even be ALLOWED to do so if he wanted to. Trump's mere existence dishonors the dead.
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Great 🧵