Julia Davis This, for me, was the most frightening and alarming tool of repression in the toolkit of the old Soviet Union. It was described by a non-Russian religious figure as akin to 'spiritual murder'.

And here is is, making a comeback in modern Russia.

Meanwhile in Russia: TV shows are promoting the return of punitive psychiatry. In a poll, most of the viewers agreed with State Duma member Vitaly Milonov, who says Democrats are psychos and wants to send drug users and cat people to psychiatric asylums.
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BREAKING: Michigan executed new warrants against Chesebro 👀 cnn.com/2024/04/29/pol…

emptywheel edit name to remove checkmark The man auditioned to be Trump’s AG replacement for Sessions by telling everyone that Hillary’s emails was the gravest threat to US national security he’d ever seen. And still people like Ben Wittes said we should trust Barr. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

The international media isn’t paying enough attention to the scale of the protests in Georgia tonight.

The pro-EU protesters that came out against the Russian-style “Foreign Agents Law” are chanting that Georgians want to be with Europe, not Russia

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Perfection indeed!

I'm looking for one person tonight to help me flip both statehouses in Arizona this November.
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Here's why we decided to focus on Arizona, even before the 1864 abortion ban was reinstated by a packed GOP court.

Cricket has learned her lesson

by Susan Collins

Biden-Harris HQ Lost his temper? Trump sounds too emotional and unfit for office.

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.

He really is ghastly, and not much different from the evangelicals who think Trump is somehow God's instrument.

Kristi Noem wants to own the libs, so she's bragging about killing a puppy and old horses.

Anatomy of an elite press corps

this is …. insane. Noem is a possible Trump VP. She shot a fourteen-month-old dog because it didn’t do well on its first pheasant hunt & later was left loose & killed some chickens. Then killed a goat because it smelled & acted like a goat. This, she claims, shows leadership

The 'other unpleasant job' she had to do was shoot a goat in the same gravel pit where she had just shot the family puppy.

Benjy Sarlin Alex Lawson 🎰 Never underestimate the things that motivate the conservative base. huffpost.com/entry/sarah-pa…

According to Pecker’s testimony, taxpayers were eventually funding Donald Trump’s hush money scheme.

SCOTUS: The president does not have the power to forgive student loans under this particular law.

TRUMP: OK, but he could order someone killed, though, right?

Umm. David Pecker testifies that he had a joint call with Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — taxpayer funded WH officials, at the time — about whether Karen McDougal’s contract should be extended. 'Both of them said that they thought it was a good idea,' Pecker said.

Apropos of nothing, TIL you can cancel your NYT subscription but keep the puzzles for $.38 per week. You know you want to!