A correction was made on April 21, 2026: Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated which day the New York Mets suffered their I1th straight loss. It was on Sunday, not Monday. Even the Mets cannot lose on an off day.

I’m pretty critical of the NYT but this correction is 👨‍🍳💋🤌

Senate Republicans just voted NO on my amendment that said this reconciliation bill should have lowered out-of-pocket health care costs for the American people.

$140 Billion for ICE and Border Patrol.
$0 to lower your health care costs.

Not only are Republicans trying to pass a budget resolution that does nothing to make things more affordable for Americans, they’ve also blocked my amendment to feed children, seniors, and veterans.

Ossoff: "I have zero interest in running for president in 2028. I love serving the state of Georgia. Let's keep our eyes on the ball, folks. We need to win decisively in Georgia and every battleground state and every competitive US House district this fall."

Connecticut Just Told Masked ICE Agents to Show Their Faces SB00397 bars masks on every officer in the state, forces feds to show badges, and opens state courts to sue them. A first in the country.

No law enforcement officer operating in Connecticut—federal, state, or local—can wear a mask on duty. ICE and CBP agents have to show their faces and badges. And when an officer assaults someone recording them, commits false imprisonment, false arrest, or malicious prosecution, they lose immunity.

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REPORTER: I just want to make sure I understand. You're alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of KKK and other groups?

BLANCHE: I'm not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that says that

I've seen no limit of characters inhabiting BlueSky...

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files.

Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas.

You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump.

Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done.

Yet only one is considered a "power grab."

Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.

Two Iranian Women in ICE Detention Are Not, In Fact, Related to Qasem Soleimani, Documents Show After Laura Loomer pointed to two women she claimed were connected to the late Iranian military commander, they were arrested and remain in immigration detention. One is now gravely ill.

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani.

Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

Mobile Fortify: ICE’s Dystopic Facial Recognition App - ACLU of Wisconsin Nightmarish surveillance app creates a biometric registry of immigrants and citizens alike.

With Mobile Fortify, agents simply need to point a phone at anyone in public in order to instantly access their name, date of birth, and other data.

This is how you build a biometric registry.

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Isn’t that the truth.

Thank you for sharing these images with us all. Nice work.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is out with a new (very bad) decision, and it's a doozy.

The Fifth Circuit says that Texas can require the Ten Commandments in classrooms. But somehow it gets worse.

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Dear Demorcratic Party. In Virginia, the governor just did ALL THE THINGS you claim to believe in and never quite seem to do... and everyone said Oooooh people won't vote for that. Take notes. We are HERE for that. Quit pretending to be progressive... and PROGRESS! (de-typoed version) Midterms!

Police say charges will be filed against adults 'who stood by' during shooting in North Carolina park Police in North Carolina plan to charge adults "who stood by" during Monday morning's deadly shooting in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (WFMY)

Its interesting that regular people can be charged for "standing by" during a shooting, but cops can't (thinking of Uvalde)

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When I first introduced my bill to ban stock trading in Congress 5 years ago, only a handful joined us.

Since then, we’ve built a movement of bipartisan reformers committed to ending the corruption once and for all.

The time is now Speaker Johnson.

Put the bill on the floor.

"Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated which day the New York Mets suffered their 11th straight loss. It was on Sunday, not Monday. Even the Mets cannot lose on an off day."

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

Two things can be true:

Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and

Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

In big win for Democrats, voters approve Virginia redistricting plan, moving battle to court Virginia is now the second Democratic-controlled state to approve a redistricting plan in response to President Donald Trump’s unprecedented mid-decade gerrymanders in other states.

🚨BREAKING: Voters in Virginia have greenlit a plan that could see Democrats gain up to four more seats in Congress during the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

#StephenColbertShow only has one month left. We need to boost his ratings way up before he leaves on May 21st, then drop CBS/Paramount flat. Show them they made a big mistake.

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
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I just finished writing my reflections on tonight's big win in Virginia. I've been fighting this fight for ten years, including three cases in SCOTUS. Tonight we won a big one at the ballot box.

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I need you all to remember ICE is still destroying families and assaulting people daily.
Don't forget to keep protesting.

Who is the photographer? They deserve credit: the composition and lighting in this photo are spectacular.

The verdict of a prominent conservative website and magazine:

"A 79-year-old man who has long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, his good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum—he never had those...

I've often thought elections should run Tuesday through Sunday, with results posted at noon local time a week and a day later. (The following Monday.)
Plenty of time to verify, count, collate, and recount.

I’m worried about the voting machines.

How can we get back to paper ballots and hand counting. Or at the very least least hand count validation.

Maybe we should stop expecting instant results and spend a week validating elections.

Accuracy over speed.