Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.
Some timeline stuff:
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Great journalism here: "The BBC... found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public.
Some analysts say it bears the hallmarks of illegal insider trading..."
The USS Spruance fired on an Iranian-flagged cargo ship today, hitting its engine room according to Trump, and then Marines seized it. First direct action against a ship in or near the Strait of Hormuz as part of the US blockade. taskandpurpose.com/news/marines...
NPR journalist David Folkenflik writes that this donation, and another $33 million from an anonymous donor, “were intended for specific purposes, not to build the endowment or to expand news coverage.”
NEW: A post-midnight revolt in the House sank the White House's efforts to extend Section 702—a warrantless spy program the FBI has used to look into members of Congress, protesters, and political donors.
NEW:
Much of MAGA is now convinced that the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA was staged
www.wired.com/story/maga-i...
The news is out. In June, NOTUS becomes The Star.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/business/medi...
Seems fine. “NOTUS found that at least twice in 2025, the agency redirected money to ICE that was originally intended for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office: one lump of money for training and another for a national biosurveillance center.”
www.notus.org/immigration/...
Last month, GOP Rep. Warren Davidson voted YES on ending the Iran war without congressional approval.
Today, he flipped to PRESENT when the vote was closer and the measure was in danger of passing.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
NEWS: House effort to end Trump's war with Iran fails by one vote
213-214.
Republicans are sticking by Trump in favor of the war.
Among Rs:
—The only NO was Massie
—1 (Davidson) voted "present," 3 didn't vote
All but one Democrat (Golden) voted YES.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Russ Vought, the architect of the illegal budgetary actions of the Trump admin, responsible for illegally gutting many agencies, is testifying before the Senate on the president's budget request. This will be a rare opportunity for Dems to question him. I'll be live posting in this thread.
🚨 Mark Kelly - a 2028 hopeful - says he will support the efforts to block weapons for Israel.
The Trump administration is moving to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of extremists involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, who earlier received commutations instead of full pardons. n.pr/3OEEHGE
Knowing he could not win if he stuck to cities, Magyar has been traveling the country since 2024, visiting small towns and villages, many more than once. He avoided global politics and Ukraine, focused his campaign on the economy, health care, and schools.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better. And I do make people better. I make people a lot better.”
i feel like a lot of people are dissociating and not reacting to the threat of nuclear war with an appropriate level of alarm?
Congress still in recess, btw
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Any member of the House can force a vote on impeachment, but Jeffries as minority leader has the extra perk that he can force it immediately rather than within two days.
"An Indianapolis city councilor said his home was fired at on Monday, with a note left behind suggesting he had been targeted over his support of datacenters."
Trump advisers think the age of imperialism ended because of wokeness, not because 1) colonized peoples made colonialism untenable 2) technology made territorial empire unnecessary. They thought mere brutality and perceived genetic superiority would make wars against countries like Iran easy.
WaPo Editorial: US cut aid to Africa. The continent proved resilient.
The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"
Maryland sued to stop an ICE detention warehouse. Then New Jersey. Then Michigan. Each case cites the same fifty-year-old environmental law — and a federal judge has already frozen construction in Maryland using it.
Arizona's warehouse went through the same process. Arizona hasn't filed anything.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top Dem on the House appropriations panel, says DHS is *choosing* not to pay TSA workers while paying its other employees.
She says:
85% of ICE + CBP are being paid
75% of Secret Service
0% of TSA workers
"The Department made that decision," DeLauro says on the House floor.
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Disconcerting news from Miami federal court:
No reporters — zero — have been allowed into the courtroom to see Marco Rubio testify this morning.
I & others were first in line & forced to wait outside the building since dawn. When we walked in, court staff & security already filled every seat.
#1A
