Source: Liberal Currents
by Holly Berkley Fletcher
“Around the country, Mainline Protestant churches are stepping up to help organizing the resistance to ICE’s incursions into their communities.” (04/22/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-untapped-potential-of-organized-mainline-american-protestantism/
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Alan Mosley
“Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic, is a clarion call for Silicon Valley to abandon its consumer trinkets and rush headlong into the arms of the military-industrial complex. According to Karp, America’s future depends on wielding hard power through technology — arming soldiers, AI-weaponry, and mass surveillance systems — rather than on the ‘soft’ influence demonstrated by free markets and liberty-first principles. The book claims that ‘the survival of the American experiment depends on the technological revitalization of the military-industrial complex’ and urges the country’s engineering talent to focus on national defense. … This techno-militarism dressed up as patriotic duty presumes that concentration of power in the state and its corporate allies (isn’t there a word for this?) is not only desirable, but morally required.” (04/22/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/a-palantir-manifesto
Source: The Bulwark
by Mona Charen
“It’s time for sincere believers to pull the wool from their eyes and see the truth about the president and his followers.” (04/22/26)
Source: People
“A Los Angeles school board has voted to be the first district to limit student screen time. On Tuesday, April 21, the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education (LAUSD) approved a measure to limit student access to screen time to ensure “developmentally appropriate guardrails” for all learners across the district, the board announced in a press release. The vote was passed 6-0 with one recusal, NBC News reported. According to the LAUSD, the new restrictions prohibit student-led use of YouTube and other video streaming platforms in the classroom. The board will also review a report of all classroom technology contracts, following the new measure.” (04/22/26)
Source: Crooked Media
“J. Edgar Boozer.” (04/21/26)
Source: The American Conservative
by Harrison Berger
“When the NSA responded to [Tucker] Carlson’s 2021 allegation that the agency had been monitoring his communications, it said only that he had never been an intelligence ‘target,’ a carefully lawyered denial that conspicuously avoided saying his communications had never been queried under programs like FISA Section 702. The NSA’s response was also unusual since three-letter agencies typically neither confirm nor deny whether any specific individual’s communications have been collected. On how Trump, another documented victim of FISA abuse, and Johnson, who built his political identity around opposition to FBI overreach, both ended up as the leading advocates for a clean renewal of those spying powers, Carlson pointed to institutional capture and coercion.” (04/22/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/on-mass-surveillance-will-the-deep-state-win-again/
Source: Associated Press
“Record growth in solar, especially in China and India, was a driving factor for clean energy sources surpassing the world’s strong demand for electricity in 2025, according to a new global power analysis. Clean power generation grew 887 terawatt hours last year, exceeding overall global electricity demand growth of 849 terawatt hours, according to a report by energy think tank Ember, released after midnight Tuesday London time. Ember analyzes electricity data from 215 countries, and studied 2025 data for 91 countries, which the firm says represents 93% of global demand. Overall, the share of renewables — including solar, wind, hydropower and other clean energies — hit more than one-third of the world’s electricity mix for the first time in modern history last year, growing 33.8% to 10,730 terawatt hours.” (04/21/26)
Source: The Bulwark
“Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller and JVL celebrate JVL’s Webby win (sort of), and cover Tucker Carlson’s sudden ‘regret’ turn and what it means about MAGA, Donald Trump Jr. as a 2028 front-runner, and the continued disaster in Iran. Plus: the ongoing dysfunction inside the administration, including the latest turmoil surrounding Kash Patel.” (04/21/26)
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Tucker Carlson had it ALMOST RIGHT.” (04/21/26)
Source: Expression
by Michael Hurley
“Imagine you’re a professor who disagrees with your university’s indigenous land acknowledgement, so you write your own as a joke — and then your school investigates you for ‘unacceptable’ and ‘inappropriate’ speech. Or imagine you invite a controversial former Black Panther to speak on campus, so your university forces the event online. These are real stories, and FIRE’s archives are full of plenty more just like them. But thanks to a new measure passed in Tennessee, the university’s actions in cases like these wouldn’t just violate the First Amendment, but state law, too.” (04/21/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/the-critics-are-wrong-about-tennessees