The heat is on: A Bit Closer to Holding Big Oil Accountable open.substack.com/pub/billmckibb…

Helen Vendler, who died last week, at 90, had “an almost tactile understanding of the ancient practice of creating poems as art,” Nathan Heller writes. “She could see not only what poets did but how they did it.” nyer.cm/TEg7LWv

Want to know who four of the biggest funders are of the assault on liberal democracy? You can’t. It’s a secret: How a Few Secret Donors Are Fueling the New Right-Wing Infrastructure – Mother Jones motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Classic Allahpundit.

'The surest way to tell that the story hasn’t helped Noem’s chances is by the number of populist Republican rivals who have scrambled to trumpet their love of dogs this weekend. Trust me: If there were any advantage to career advancement in the GOP by

ICYMI: There’s a reason Trump’s been meeting with the oil barons: Five Major Climate Policies Trump Would Probably Reverse if Elected - The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/04/26/cli…

Here’s our pup. #Don ’tShoot🐾!

A reader wrote to me suggesting a connection between the Manhattan hush-money trial and Thursday’s immunity argument at the Supreme Court. In slow-walking the immunity case, the reader wrote, the justices are engaged in their own catch-and-kill operation.

King Donald—our podcast discussion of the big Supreme Court arguments with Evan Osnos Jane Mayer and special guest Neal Katyal

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NEWS --> Prominent conservative Michael Luttig excoriates the right wing SCOTUS justices as 'radical,' predicting that in the 1/6 case, they'll protect Trump entirely.

“I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will ever be tried,' Luttig tells me.

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I feel like it’s flown a bit under the radar that Trump would flip out and call for innocent people to be executed all the time.

Trump’s speeches were always dark but he’s changed. “This is how fascists campaign” an expert tells the The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/04/27/mag…

If Nebraska changes their Electoral College rules to winner take all to help Trump, Maine will try to do the same to counteract that impact, Maine's house majority leader says in a statement

Even if you can’t get to Ari Berman’s event anyone who cares about democracy should read his new book, Minority Rule. It’s terrific.

Lawyers used to laugh when they heard Nixon’s analysis during Frost/Nixon: “When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.” Listening to the arguments before today’s Supreme Court, it appears the Republican Justices are all in with Richard Nixon. American democracy may…

JUSTICE KAGAN: What if the president staged a coup—would that be an immune official act?

TRUMP LAWYER:…

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Congrats to AP on winning a Webby for Adrift: An AP Investigation projects.apnews.com/features/2023/…

Thrilled to have been part of the team: FRONTLINE Nominated for Six George Foster Peabody Awards pbs.org/wgbh/frontline… via FRONTLINE

So are human hearts better in other democracies than the United States? Why would that be, if United States is exceptional and/or blessed by God?