When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it.
Anyway: fund basic research.
It's all just overtly blatant.
With their grifting there are NO COINCIDENCES.
There is a reason Watergate was broken by Woodward & Bernstein on the metro desk AND NOT by the White House press corps.
Izzy Stone was mocking White House reporters as useless back in the 1950s
FBI began investigating @nytimes.com reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she wrote about Patel using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with security and transportation. DOJ officials were concerned it was retaliation and found no legal basis to proceed. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe X.com EXCLUSIVE: It could take six months to fully clear the Strait of Hormuz of mines deployed by the Iranian military, and any such operation is unlikely to be carried out until the U.S. war with Iran ends, the Pentagon has informed Congress — an assessment that means the conflict's economic impact could extend late into this year or beyond. 11:52 AM • 4/22/26 • 5.3K Views
Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe X.com A senior Pentagon official shared the estimate, which has not been previously reported, during a classified briefing Tuesday for members of the House Armed Services Committee, officials said. The timeline was met with frustration by Democrats and Republicans alike. 11:55 AM • 4/22/26 • 1.4K Views
⚠️ It could take six months AFTER the Iran War ends to clear mines from Strait of Hormuz, per Pentagon.
This timeline means the war’s economic impact could extend late into this year and beyond.
Reporting by WaPo:
A reminder that Hung Cao claimed Monterey that was overrun with witches
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That’s pretty much the cult line. All he’s got left are people who will drink the kool-aid if the order was posted on Truth Social.
Kash Patel turns reality on its head: "You have to ask yourself about the explosion of crime under the Biden administration, and thankfully President Trump was put in place to tamp it down."
(The crime wave that ended under Biden started during Trump's first term.)
I get the funny feeling the Supreme Court is not eager to take up President Trump's appeal in the E. Jean Carroll case. www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx...
As FBI Directors normally do in totally legitimate criminal cases, they go discuss the prosecution on Hannity
BIPARTISAN FORMER WHITE HOUSE ETHICS OFFICIALS CONDEMN RETALIATORY PROSECUTION OF SPLC
@democracydefendersfund.org statement 👇🏼
“.. Developing Asia is already in a full-blown energy crisis. .. Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines are facing shortages, rationing and demand destruction. .. If the strait remains closed, this will develop, horribly, into a food crisis ..”
@robarmstrong.bsky.social
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‼️👀 Zelensky: We have signed three major security documents – Drone Deal with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE.
“Shahed” can cost from 80 to 130 thousand dollars. It will be destroyed not with a missile costing 3-4 million dollars, but with an interceptor costing 10 thousand dollars.
Todd Blanche smears SPLC on Newsmax
Rightwing media outlets are great at creating villains for their audience - and the Trump regime is playing this game with SPLC. Nothing in the indictment shows that the group’s informant program was used to sponsor extremists, as opposed to dismantle them. More to come…
Nothing he can say to them will be as degrading and disgraceful as their own decision to be there in the first place.
He is so predictable.
My guy @jimswift.bsky.social was at the Turning Point USA & Vivek Ramaswamy event at Ohio State and succinctly captured the deeply weird vibes emanating through the third-filled arena noticeably light on college students.
www.thebulwark.com/p/who-goes-t...
Eric Trump -- the president's son -- is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract
Phelan’s firing comes after a rocky tenure under Hegseth and Feinberg, including tension over Phelan’s close relationship with President Trump, according to three people familiar with the internal discussions. Phelan regularly chats with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club, just down the street from his own Florida home, and told lawmakers last year that he texts with the president about shipbuilding in the middle of the night. The top Pentagon leaders were particularly annoyed last fall when Phelan pitched the idea for a modern battleship directly to Trump, bypassing Hegseth, the people said.
According to the WSJ, Hegseth abruptly fired the Navy Secretary in the middle of a crucial wartime naval blockade because he was jelly of his closeness with Trump. These are the dumbest, most embarrassing, childish nitwits alive - and they are in charge of the world's most monumental military might.
"They're staffing the administration... Laura Ingraham’s in business with Donald Trump Jr. I mean, they’re just in too deep at this point."
@mattgertz.bsky.social told me don't expect Fox News to distance itself from an increasingly unpopular Trump anytime soon.
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Good god the kicker:
Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—
AOC: Wah wah wah.
We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.
What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
So Hegseth didn’t get along with the Navy Secretary and also doesn’t get along with the Army Secretary. He seems to be the common denominator.
Sean Parnell, spokesman for Pete Hegseth: STATEMENT: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately. On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy. We wish him well in his future endeavors. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become Acting Secretary of the Navy.
Trump just fired the Secretary of the Navy and replaced him with Undersecretary Hung Cao, one of the biggest idiots Virginia politics has produced this century (really saying something here) in the middle of the Iran war
BREAKING: A GOP-appointed Virginia judge has struck down the Democratic-backed redistricting amendment in full, ruling it unconstitutional and “void from the start.”
AG Jay Jones says he will immediately file an appeal.
The administration wants the informants exposed to protect white nationalists
Holy shit. The FBI raided this woman's house with a helicopter based on the word of a "gait analysis" quack they found on X.
Alex Jones is literally mad, red and nude online thedailybeast.com/obsessed/shi...
This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit.
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Fox News and Leavitt are now pushing a narrative that Trump is turning on Sheinbaum and Mexico
