Mehdi Hasan quotes Tucker and then gives his perspective: "We're implicated in this for sure... you & me... are the reason this is happening right now. So l do think it's a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. We'll be tormented by it for a long time, I will be, & I want to say 1 am sorry for misleading people." Tucker Carlson finally apologizes for his own role in giving us Trump Term 2 &, by extension, this war in Iran. I'm glad he did it. An honest moment. I just hope he isn't doing it to help pave the way for his pal JD Vance in 2028.

headquartersnewsroom: Tucker Carlson: I'll 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.

Are these the kinds of posts I can expect to wake up to every single day until Tucker is the 2028 nominee?

Tucker regrets that Trump has not been MORE successful in their shared white power political project. This is not an “honest moment.” Tucker hasn’t changed. He has his eyes on power.

if the right is successful, it must be because the liberals possess some fatal shortcoming or overreached in a way that mechanically produced backlash. the idea that the political right is its own thing with its own aims, can harness discontent and take advantage of contingency is verboten i guess

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

And .. here come the Freedom of Information Act requests for Kash Patel records

DC watchdog group Democracy Forward has formally requested Patel's calendars & any messages from security detail that include words "drinking", "hungover", "inebriated"

democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

The New Yorkers who can't get housing vouchers as Mamdani fights program expansion The Mamdani administration said a package of laws to expand CityFHEPS is too costly.

The New Yorkers who can't get housing vouchers as Mamdani fights program expansion gothamist.com/news/the-new...

The heart of Fuentes’s message was that young men in the United States have gotten a rotten deal. In his telling, a nation of entitled baby boomers, like those leading the Republican Party, had poisoned American society with bad jobs, unbearable women and a racially diverse population intent on depriving White people of what they’re owed

Maybe the Republican Party can’t deal with its Nick Fuentes problem because this message is more or less the same as theirs so the criticism comes off as disingenuous www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

EP 970 - Donald Trump Renews Threats to Iran Amid Reality of His Fecklessness! YouTube video by Jesse Dollemore

Episode #971 up now wherever you get your podcasts or you can watch on YouTube!

youtu.be/wdadev8fpKE?...

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Why the ceasefire in Lebanon won't stop Israel's expansionist ambitions Israel’s push for buffer zones and 'natural borders' suggests the emerging ceasefire is unlikely to halt its ongoing ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon.

"....Israel is reportedly planning to expel only Shia residents, warning Sunni and Christian residents not to harbor their neighbors — a chilling instruction on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day."

www.972mag.com/israel-leban...

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

"Rescuers in Lebanon have long been wary of the double-tap attack, when Israeli forces target a location, wait until people gather to help survivors, and then strike again. Wednesday’s three-wave attack after the initial one prompted the coining of a fearsome new term: the quadruple tap."

Learn whatever you want about "law," it doesn't matter because GOP Justices blew up the entire process of deciding cases based on chats with rich friends and stuff they watched on TV. That was the entire basis on which SCOTUS switched to the shadow docket.

Schumer is out of step with his caucus and should step aside.

Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says “When I saw evidence that our products were being used to harm people and undermine the law, I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me.”

“When I saw evidence that our products were being used to harm people and undermine the law, I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me.”

Does “everybody” include Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies?

we clearly didn’t make the cartoon villains evil enough

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

"The demolitions came after Israel’s minister of defence, Israel Katz, called for the destruction of “all houses” in border villages “in accordance with the model used in Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza”... The Israeli military destroyed 90% of homes in Rafah, in south Gaza."

Republican Party Still Making the Same Mistakes After the Failed War on Drugs! YouTube video by Brittany Page

From federal investment in nationalized treatment clinics for addiction to a predatory system focused on profits, leaving those who need the most help behind, Dr. Emily Dufton takes us through Nixon's legacy, the failed War on Drugs, and our pathway to fixing our broken treatment system.

Graham Platner claims he's changed. Why is he still using the r-word? The left have their own ableism problems to grapple with, not just Republicans.

Using the r-word is just bad. Democrats should have higher standards for themselves than Trump when it comes to using a slur that MANY disabled people find offensive. Looking at you, Graham Platner. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

MTG Snakes Her Way Back Into Mainstream to Partner With Useful Idiots YouTube video by Jesse Dollemore

youtu.be/cQ8HLvP6s-k?... via @idoubtitpodcast.bsky.social #leftisbest

MTG Snakes Her Way Back Into Mainstream to Partner With Useful Idiots YouTube video by Jesse Dollemore

This isn't difficult or controversial:

NO COALITION BUILDING WITH NAZIS!

SIMPLE!

youtu.be/cQ8HLvP6s-k?...

I had a personal run-in with the below fascist enabler on a flight last year. They only hire the best in Trump’s regime.

Pete Hegseth Press Secretary WAS ON MY FLIGHT Showing the Documents On Her Work Laptop!!!
youtu.be/2fBU8vQahMI

Apropos of nothing, just something I think about a lot:

During the worst pandemic in a century, lots of people told a bunch of outrageous lies that caused much, much more death. It was one of the more grotesque moral crimes I've ever witnessed & zero (0) of those involved faced any consequences.

Riley was showing off her phone and laptop with full brightness in a dark cabin, typing away in her “Department of War” chats while we watched. When she caught us observing & confronted us, @dollemore.com called her a fascist. She promptly put her laptop and phone away. 😇

"Israel Katz, the minister of defence, has said: “All houses in villages near the border in Lebanon will be destroyed - according to the model of Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza - to remove, once and for all, the threats near the border to northern residents."

"I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops,” Sotomayor said, referencing a concurrence written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh... “This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour."

"Watch Megyn Kelly completely unleashing on Trump!"

Yesterday, she said she would still vote GOP if Trump dropped a nuke while her guest giggled.

It's a tragedy that these soulless people who traffic only in clicks and attention so easily achieve their goals in this media environment.

The conspiracy theorists running our nation's health agencies are attempting to bury research showing the benefits of Covid-19 vaccination, including decreasing risk of hospitalizations and visits to emergency rooms for healthy adults. Scientists are speaking out anonymously for fear of retaliation.