📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration.

It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.

Just the president promising to start a war against a city run by the opposition.

Game on.

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

I have curated a list of state and local reporters from all 50 states.

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Let me know if you have a favorite reporter you would like added to the list.

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵

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A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

EXOSPHERIC BLOCKING

Yeet trolls into the highest level of the atmosphere, deprive them of oxygen, they float into space

I don’t take credit for this meme, but I do co-sign.

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

In my experience, the number one determinant of whether a friend of mine ends up happy in a marriage is whether the husband understands that she is a person with ambitions and wants and a need to be challenged and interests that go beyond meeting his needs and the needs of the children.