Source: The Atlantic
by Lawrence Glickman
“Newspaper columnists instructed generations of citizens about the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, the country seems to have forgotten how clear the law is.” (04/28/26)
Source: Fox News Forum
by Jonathan Turley
“‘Incredible, unstoppable titan of terror!’ Those words advertising the 1954 movie Godzilla could be the billing of a new freakish giant stretching across the sleeping farm fields of Virginia. Now in a court near you is The Lobster, a monster over 100 miles long. The only saving grace is that this creature only devours Republicans, leaving roughly half the state with virtually no representation in Congress. Virginia was a quiet, pastoral state before the creature’s appearance. It was considered the gold standard among states rejecting gerrymandering, with fairly divided districts in a state divided right down the middle. It then elected a governor, Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who assured voters that she was adamantly against gerrymandering and then immediately called for the most radical gerrymandered map in the nation after she was elected.” (04/28/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-virginias-lobster-district-gerrymandered-godzilla
Source: SFGate
“A U.S. special forces soldier is due in federal court in New York on Tuesday on charges that he used classified information about the mission to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to win more than $400,000 on the prediction market Polymarket. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, has been charged with the unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud and making an unlawful monetary transaction. The case comes during heavy scrutiny on prediction markets, which allow people to trade or wager on almost anything, as policymakers call for stricter regulation of the platforms amid concerns about insider trading.” (04/28/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/us-soldier-charged-with-using-intel-to-win-400k-22229443.php
Source: Crooked Media
“Political Violence Shocks Washington.” (04/28/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8896323-political-violence-shocks-washington
Source: Semafor
“Mark Cuban on his pharma fight, Dallas Mavs regrets, and the PE-ification of sports.” (04/28/26)
Source: Liberal Currents
by Nathan Goldwag
“Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.” (04/28/26)
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Ian Proud
“Both Russia and Iran illustrate that wars with oil-rich countries cause oil prices to surge. By using actual warfare alongside economic warfare, the Trump Administration has increased Iran’s economic advantages at America’s expense. With Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner no-showing in Islamabad for peace talks, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi continued his shuttle diplomacy to Oman and Moscow on Monday. It is without question that Iran and Russia are two countries who have in many ways shocked the world community with their resilience in the face of sanctions and embargoes.” (04/28/26)
Source: Popular Information
by Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims
“On Monday, Cole Tomas Allen, an educator from California, was charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump. … Trump was asked about the suspect and his motivations during an interview with CBS News’ ‘60 Minutes’ on Sunday. In response, Trump said the ‘No Kings’ protests were to blame. … The truth is that the No Kings rallies have been some of the largest and most peaceful protests in history. … Trump has described the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol as a ‘day of love’ and said that his supporters acted ‘patriotically and peacefully.’ Yet the January 6 riot caused far more harm than the No Kings protests, despite having just a fraction of the attendance.” (04/28/26)
https://popular.info/p/trump-blames-no-kings-for-assassination
Source: USA Today
“Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel responded to calls from the White House for him to be fired by Disney and ABC by telling first lady Melania Trump to speak to President Donald Trump about what he called the president’s ‘violent rhetoric.’ ‘I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject, I do, and I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it,’ Kimmel said during his monologue on the April 27 episode of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Kimmel mirrored the language the first lady used when suggesting ABC should axe him over a joke at her expense, he told days before the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.” (04/28/26)
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by JT Morris
“If democracy is our nation’s engine, then political protest is its gas pedal — and it has been since our founding. Early Americans rose up to protest the tyranny of the Stamp Act and the Tea Act, fighting taxation without representation and planting the seeds of independence. Two decades later, they enshrined the freedom to protest in the First Amendment. All throughout America’s 250 years, that freedom has given millions the voice to demand change. It spearheaded the fight against segregation. It secured voting rights for women. And today, Americans gather in public parks and city streets for No Kings rallies, the March for Life and countless other political and social causes. But a lawsuit that has snaked through the courts for eight years threatens our prized freedom to protest, exposing protesters to vast damages for acts they didn’t commit and chilling Americans from making their voices heard.” (04/28/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/lawsuit-against-black-lives-matter-activist-could-chill-all-our-speech