NEW: After today's #NotOkGoogle "town hall" meeting on retaliation, Google employee activists are planning a "company-wide day of action" on May 1 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/26/google-worker-activists-accuse-company-of-retaliation-at-town-hall

🚨 Wayne LaPierre accuses Ollie North of extortion >> Mr. LaPierre, in a stinging letter sent on Thursday to the N.R.A.’s board, accused Mr. North of threatening to leak damaging information about him and other N.R.A. executives unless he stepped down https://nyti.ms/2VxfS1G?smid=nytcore-ios-share

What’s happened since New Jersey overhauled its cash bail system? - The state’s pretrial jail population dropped by 44% - Crime rates have plummeted - No statistically significant change in court nonappearance or rearrest rates #EndMoneyBail https://talkpoverty.org/2019/04/26/new-jersey-bail-reform-works/

Elizabeth Warren would be a beloved Harvard Law Professor not a presidential candidate if @barackobama and @JoeBiden had not worked with her to make her idea to form a consumer financial protection bureau law

lmao Wayne LaPierre and Oliver North were supposed to sit next to each other at the NRA annual meeting event where organization business is conducted. North isn't there. https://t.co/5DWBM8fbDF

Massive room packed with NRA members. Incredibly silent as Oliver North who has been a decades long board member essentially resigns and steps away from the National Rifle Association

Goop queen Gwyneth Paltrow is throwing a fundraiser for wunderkind presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg—elevating pseudoscience into the political conversation https://trib.al/knVchom

SCOOP from @RosalindZAdams: Erik Prince’s company is back in Iraq — with Chinese funding https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/blackwater-erik-prince-frontier-services-group-iraq

2020 Dem says Sanders and Warren are too liberal to beat Trump http://hill.cm/Gvlu5Ot

Sunday @PKCapitol: No district in America might tell us more about the state of politics than NY19. Obama won it by 6%, Trump won by 7% and last year @repdelgado won it back for Dems. Impeachment isn’t an issue here. They want broadband, job training. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/in-a-trump-district-a-freshman-house-democrat-works-on-repeating-his-success/2019/04/26/dd5703b8-6799-11e9-a1b6-b29b90efa879_story.html

The Minnesota State Senate has voted to take away 20% of the Minnesota Historical Society’s operating budget because the GOP is upset that Fort Snelling now includes the Sioux name of Bdote, a name used for the site prior to the establishment of the fort. https://www.twincities.com/2019/04/25/fort-snelling-at-bdote-republican-senators-threaten-minnesota-historical-society-funds-over-alleged-revisionist-history/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_content=fb-PioneerPress&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR2IEawFfy7d15wo7fqMSBj4Qfm8WT8v7UbvZ6tdnGunebo-a61dhIbt9M4

Reader Todd K. would like me to know that “very fine people” sometimes *have* to march with neo-Nazis because of sunk-costs.

Nick Bosa was the second overall pick, he’s white and a vocal critic of Colin Kaepernick. Kyler Murray, was the #1 overall pick, he’s black and won the Heisman Trophy. Which one did the president take time to congratulate? https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1122109651087241216

Beto says he wants farm to table restaurants in *every* community when asked about poor nutrition in many places.

Caputo said "The Department of Justice is wrecked. It is befouled. And we need to take that place apart with a flamethrower." https://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/caputo-leads-cheshire-county-gop-in-post-russia-probe-victory/article_6b42f9f6-5238-5bab-a0da-bd929a36b160.html

NRA membership votes, opposes executive session and a secret session without press

This week at #Time100Summit, @tim_cook won applause by bemoaning extensive screen time, and talking up @apple’s efforts to help people scale back. Now the @nytimes reveals the truth: Apple is using the halo of such rhetoric to actually crack down on apps that fight addiction. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1122126118834900995

O'Rourke tells audience that he met with Harry Reid before he got to forum, talked about the passage of the ACA. It's a way for O'Rourke to explain why he supports the Medicare for America Act -- implication, that it can pass, unlike some ideas.

At least four people shot during a Passover holiday celebration, according to @10News. https://www.10news.com/multiple-people-gunned-down-at-poway-synagogue-police-search-for-shooter

#BREAKING Sudan protest leaders, army rulers agree on joint civilian-military council: protest leader

Spokesperson for New York AG Letitia James to me just now: "The Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James has launched an investigation related to the National Rifle Association (NRA). As part of this investigation, the Attorney General has issued subpoenas."