WaPo: it could take 6 months to fully clear the Strait of Hormuz of mines deployed by the Iranian military, and any such operation is unlikely to be carried out until the U.S. war with Iran ends, the Pentagon has informed Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Well, well, well..,
The only 🧵 you need to read about the bogus DOJ case against the SPLC (at least until Wonkette's story is up, because of course you'll wanna read that).
@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social & I sounded the alarm on the attacks on SPLC last year
Here's our next forecast
The Trump admin taking the side of the Klan against those fighting white supremacy will blow back BIG TIME
www.contrariannews.org/p/chip-roys-...
Let's be clear: The Trump Admin's vendetta against the SPLC is a sign of how impactful their work is.
The SPLC has been at the forefront of exposing some of America's most notorious hate groups, like the KKK. The fact that the Trump Admin feels threatened by that speaks volumes.
Never stop being shocked by the flagrant abuses of power we are seeing.
SPLC is an incredibly important institution, and that is why they are being targeted by this nightmare circus of an administration.
Impeach Kash Patel.
The war at home never stopped despite the wars overseas. The US continues its crackdown against civil society groups.
"The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche" www.lawdork.com/p/splc-indic...
"US criminally charges Southern Poverty Law Center, Blanche says" #HungaryPlaybook? www.reuters.com/world/us-cri...
QUICK! While the Hungarian guy is out, but before the Bulgarian guy comes in!
I’ll support any Dem that moves to kick Palantir off the public dole and out of doing business with the US.
The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.
SPLC under attack by Trump’s DOJ!
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The indictment is arguing that by paying the informants, the SPLC was helping further extremist activity. But as Ryan notes below, the SPLC was sharing its intelligence with law enforcement. Is the Justice Dept suggesting that the FBI was using that intelligence to help these groups? Makes no sense
🔴 BREAKING: EU provisionally approves €90bn Ukraine loan as 🇭🇺 Hungary drops opposition
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/22/u...
NEW: Common Cause, ACLU, CREW and other pro-voting groups sued the DOJ to stop it from building a national voter database using private voter data from every state.
They called the effort a bid "to take over elections from states and subvert the...midterms" and a threat to Americans' voting rights.
This is huge. And it provides a major test for Peter Magyar and whether he will comply with pro LGBTQ decisions from the EU invalidating Hungarian laws.
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...
This is racist xenophobic bullshit.
Donald Trump's Fed Chair nominee could not even say Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.
He is nothing more than a sock puppet.
Why won’t Amazon explain why it reportedly paid three times as much as the next highest bidder for the Melania documentary?
This looks like bribery in plain sight. Amazon must give the American people answers.
🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to block its bid to build a national voter database using private voter data from every state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".
Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.
If your commander-in-chief is being excluded from military operations (coz he’s a lunatic) and blocked from accessing the nuclear codes (coz he’s a lunatic), you’re overdue for a new commander-in-chief.
Peace Talks Day is off to a great start.
I noted the day of the SCOTUS decision that JB Pritzker IMMEDIATELY moved to make this point, by demanding a refund for IL. And State refunds may be the best way to politicize how Trump created the worst of all worlds. But Elizabeth Warren is, predictably, focused on it as well.
OTD in 2021 German Foreign Minister decided that the Russian army massing on Ukraine's border was not a reason to cancel Nordstream 2.
To Kremlin it meant "an invasion will not stop commercial relations". It thus made an invasion more likely. Cos that's how appeasement works.
