‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

These fishermen are lucky to be alive. We will probably never know how many of the ~180 people killed in similar US attacks were also just fishermen.

It's so weird that centrists keep scolding "the left" for losing them an election and meanwhile the former Democratic nominee of the party is like "all these Nazis need to be welcomed into the tent" like idk maybe these two ideas are part of the reason she lost idk

Tucker Carlson: I'II be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. We're implicated in this. I misled people.

It'd sure be nice if Kamala Harris' campaign organization wouldn't constantly promote Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and whatnot. But oh well.

Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.

Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.

And then there's this...

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

#ICYMI: We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

"The Royal Navy - and later the United States Navy - should always win. This is the entire International Maritime Law; the rest is commentary."

It can be a blockade and it can be piracy. They're not mutually exclusive.

E. Conclusion This Court can scarcely recall an APA action that has come before it in which the agency's action was so clearly unlawful. Indeed, many of Defendants' arguments rest on the same falsehoods about the Kennedy Declaration and its effects that the Court already rejected in response to Defendants' jurisdictional arguments. Defendants' merits briefing takes these absurd arguments a step further by suggesting that finding the Kennedy Declaration unlawful would impinge Secretary Kennedy's First Amendment right to express his views and hinder public debate on a matter of public importance. Page 39 OPINION AND ORDER Case 6:25-cv-02409-MTK Document 93 Filed 04/18/26 Page 40 of 49 Defendants cannot bully or gaslight this Court into ignoring the many procedural and legal flaws of the Kennedy Declaration by invoking one of the most sacred principles of our constitutional democracy-the freedom of speech-when that principle comes nowhere close to being implicated. Plaintiffs' claims do not contest Secretary Kennedy's rights to express his views on gender-affirming care, and their lawsuit does not seek to limit Secretary Kennedy's ability to speak generally about gender-affirming care for minors. Rather, Plaintiffs' claims challenge Secretary Kennedy's authority to unilaterally, categorically, and without any process, supersede professional standards of care regarding gender-affirming care that apply in the Plaintiff states. Secretary Kennedy's First Amendment rights are not even at issue, much less offended. However, several other principles sacred to our constitutional democracy are both implicated and offended: the rule of law and state sovereignty. The Kennedy Declaration exceeded Defendants' statutory authority, flouted applicable notice and comment rulemaking procedures, and impeded Plaintiffs' rights to regulate the medical profession and their discretion to design their own statutorily-compliant Medicaid plans.

8. Perhaps most absurdly, the government argued that striking down the Declaration would violate Sec. Kennedy's 1st Amendment rights—essentially claiming that the Declaration was just one man sharing his personal opinions about medicine.

The judge was not amused.

LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally.

As foretold by prophecy, LAPD used their "first responder" drones to spy on No Kings protests and anti-ICE protests: theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.

The judge also blocked "any similar policy."

Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.

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Researchers warn of severe long-term damage to the brain after Covid following new study Scientists warn long Covid could be linked to lasting brain damage, including memory issues and increased risk of neurological decline.

Researchers warn of severe long-term damage to the brain after Covid following new study

January study of essential workers (with blood samples before & after COVID infection) found those with long-term neurological symptoms had higher phosphorylated tau—a protein linked to early brain degeneration

These statements don’t always align with an organization’s actual willingness to remove a perpetrator from a position of power.

But after a public debate about whether sexual harassment is “bad enough” for someone to leave Congress, let this be a reminder that the policy is clear: yes, it is.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

the pointless, militarized occupation of Washington DC continues with these armed, camo'd figures constantly patrolling the safest, calmest areas of the city. Glad my corner grocery store and the steps leading in to Kalorama Park are so heavily guarded

I share Steve’s concerns. An observation:

The Court’s immense power, such as it is, is contingent upon its at least plausibly appearing to do law. This may seem like an academic debate, but it’s literally over whether the Court is doing law or something else. That matters.

Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.

You're not actually being blackmailed by leftists, the subsection of non-voters who are still vocal simply happens to be leftist. The party is dealing with an apathy crisis, and if you aren't capable of seeing where that's coming from you need to listen more.

Buddy we offer alternatives all the time.

Also, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but there is no polling data at all to indicate that it was progressives who didn't vote in 2024. People who Biden voted in 2020 but not Harris in 2024 were an even spread across the non-Republican spectrum.

To be blunt? Because he's not a fucking idiot.

You know how much people would trust that Democrat talking about political corruption who pretends it's only been on one side?

N O T A T A L L

We want to win this, we have to acknowledge how we got to this point: endemic corruption induced apathy.

Well one of those decisions involves losing all freedom of movement, moving to a place they don't know the language and have no connections or standing, and being vulnerable for the rest of their life to being handed over to the use as a diplomatic bargaining chip. So...

Now that's just not true in the least. Companies settling lawsuits is largely unrelated to the ego of their business leaders. But executives are often fundamentally incapable of accepting that them having less control can sometimes result in better outcomes.

Just so you're aware, all modern computing electronics are filled with tiny QR codes. Basically every component of every chip has tracking QR codes which are used during the manufacturing process, but which can also be used to track down people who try to mass fence stolen electronics.

Because their assets are not liquid like that and such a move would impact their quality of life and self-perception in a way that none of these billionaires have experienced in many years, if ever. And what you're describing would require them cutting and running early and without a fight.

I think you are really overestimating how easy it would be for them to do that.

But that's not the kind of fleeing which makes it easy to leave without getting financially scraped to the bone on the way out.

Actually I think the most likely reason they would try to flee is because prior to being successfully taxed, they will have committed so many crimes resisting it that they are afraid of spending the rest of their lives in prison.

I think I have said repeatedly that they would hate this and resist it very strongly. Murderously, in fact. But when push comes to shove, after and if they lose, material realities about their quality of life choices will matter.

And fleeing would be far from costless in that regard.

Sometimes the only solution is choosing how gracefully you lose. And I just don't see any reason to believe the United States has a path to maintaining umambiguous naval supremacy. Not even if we solve our corruption and graft problems.

That's the thing. When people in the military sphere - who aren't warhawks and seem to genuinely not want war - lay out cogent arguments for how US Naval power will decline with current or reduced spending, I'm inclined to believe them.

I just don't think the implied alternative would work either.

You mean, "Sexual predators frustrated with women's autonomy abuse immigration laws to lock women into legally coercive abusive relationships as sexual possessions".