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“While breaking bread with Carr isn’t quite on the level of “honoring” Trump’s anti-press White House, it is still appalling.”

What a nauseating guest list: Trump, Carr, Hegseth and Steven Miller. A stunning error in judgment by these journalists.

JUST IN: Judge Amit Mehta (Obama/DC) opens door to deposition of Trump in #Jan6 civil lawsuits. Discovery against Trump on merits of cases could begin in May. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The person negotiating in the Middle East on behalf of the United States does not technically work for the United States.

The Trump regime is a magnet for creepiness and corruption.

Complete and total incompetence and it's not just the three women either. Every single person in Trump's cabinet is grossly unqualified and worse, going along with his authoritarian capture of our country. Disgraceful.

Mark's right: If you can't report on clearly, concisely and persistently on Trump's authoritarian rot, then you are part of the problem.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer Has Resigned A Labor Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

"Chavez-DeRemer’s exit marks the third cabinet secretary to be removed from their position since January, in a soft shakeup of officials ahead of the midterm elections. All three ousted secretaries were women."

Meanwhile...Patel and Hegseth still on the job.

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Trump’s Pardons Are Costing Shooting Survivors Millions A Trace analysis found that revenue once generated by fining white-collar criminals is drying up — now that the president has pardoned so many of them.

Trace senior news writer @jenmascia.bsky.social analyzed all of Trump's pardons and found that he forgave $113 million in fines and penalties that would have gone to help victims of violent crime

Florida’s Population Boom Fizzles as High Costs Drive Away Middle Class Orlando and other Florida cities are either losing domestic migrants or gaining them more slowly, threatening the state’s economic model.

Florida’s Population Boom Is Big Bust, Fizzles as High Costs Drive Away Middle Class - WSJ www.wsj.com/economy/flor...

LOVE the new rainbow logo! 🌈

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Dan Rather and other news vets urge organizers of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner “to forcefully demonstrate opposition to President Trump’s efforts to trample freedom of the press” even while they host him as guest of honor.
That’s ridiculous. Cancel the damn dinner, as I wrote last week.

Sean Hannity claimed Trump's recent feud with the Pope is the reason he's leaving the Catholic Church. He publicly declared he was no longer Catholic in 2019. He also said the Pope's reading of the Bible wasn't accurate. Hannity's David vs. Goliath example was awkward at best.

Vance Heads to New Talks With Iran. At Stake: Peace and His Own Standing.

the charisma king is ready for a second round www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

You think you have a good sense of how despicable & dangerous Bezos, Musk & Zuck are. Then you read something like this and realize they are orders of magnitude worse.

“They float in a sensory-deprivation tank the size of the planet, in which their actions are only ever judged by themselves.”

Trump Is dooming his party to a midterm blowout It's almost as though he wants Republicans to lose.

New in PN: Trump Is dooming his party to a midterm blowout

"The difference between '18 and '26 is that not only has Trump become even more repellent, his actions have made everything worse. In fact, it’s hard to imagine what more he could do to enrage voters & ensure his party’s defeat in November"

"Kushner, who has a multi-billion-dollar business relationship with the Saudi government"

See, it's not hard to add the required context about Jared so repeatedly leaving it out sure seems intentional. Another good journalism malpractice catch by @juddlegum.bsky.social ...

Dan Schulman is the new CEO of Verizon and he is predicting 20 to 30% unemployment within the next 2 to 5 years due to AI.

Not a typo. He thinks 1/3 of people currently employed will lose their jobs by 2030.

Trump is going to redraw his arch plan to make it 20 feet higher after hearing this clip.... Anything Obama sends him off the rails.

Using a high profile platform like the MI Dems convention to rail about some obscure phrase instead of focusing on what Democratic voters are truly interested like say Trump's authoritarian capture of the US govt is political malpractice.

Pennsylvania's motor-voter system effectively screens non-citizens from voter registration • Pennsylvania Capital-Star The audit also revealed problems with PennDOT’s data security protocols and recommended tighter internal controls.

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.

They found one. One.

And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

1. As Jared Kushner heads to Pakistan to represent the United States in critical talks with Iran, the media is ignoring a historic corruption scandal.

Kushner is serving in this role while on the payroll of the Saudi government.

Let's look at the data.

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Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

The Forces of Scarcity Hitting Asia May Soon Spread Across the World

If you read one piece today, make it this one:

-Crops ready to be harvested last week are rotting in fertile fields
-Entire industrial clusters have been shut down for weeks
-Air travel...veered toward chaos. 92,000 flights canceled worldwide

GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...

Barry McCaffrey: Trump muses on awarding himself the Medal of Honor. A truly vile insult to the US Armed Forces.

Even if there is a peace deal soon, the future of this industrious region that has driven global economic growth for decades will likely include months of canceled flights, surging food prices, factory pauses, delayed shipments and empty shelves for products long considered quick and easy to buy worldwide: plastic bags, instant noodles, vaccines, syringes, lipstick, microchips and sportswear.

"shortages could push several countries into convulsions of unrest, followed by recession..."

Remember when egg prices had US voters in a tizzy? This is what's happening in Asia and could spread worldwide because of Trump's reckless war on Iran.
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221. Chief Justice Roberts and the Clean Power Plan Remarkable reporting from the New York Times provides a peek behind the curtain of the February 2016 rulings that ushered in the modern emergency docket. And what it reveals is pretty discouraging.

"In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes."

Me on Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop in today's "One First":

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
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The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.