Illustrating once again the extent to which the Venezuela raid emboldened Trump to engage in further military adventurism.

It was literally two weeks ago that he promised to destroy the entire Iranian civilization. And a month before that, his military bombed an elementary school that killed at least 150 young girls.

Chavez-DeRemer stepping down as Labor secretary The scandal-ridden secretary is the latest member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet to exit.

BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down from her Cabinet post amid a series of misconduct allegations against her and her top staffers.

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

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.

Get excited.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

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.

Israel never talked me into the war with Iran, the results of Oct. 7th, added to my lifelong opinion that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON, did. I watch and read the FAKE NEWS Pundits and Polls in total disbelief. 90% of what they say are lies and made up stories, and the polls are rigged, much as the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged. Just like the results in Venezuela, which the media doesn’t like talking about, the results in Iran will be amazing - And if Iran’s new leaders (Regime Change!) are smart, Iran can have a great and prosperous future! President DJT

Trump on his historically dismal approval numbers: "The polls are rigged, much as the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged"

Quite literally Nazi propaganda.

SPOILER [Wrestlemania Spoilers] Update to commentary team [Wrestlemania Spoilers] Update to commentary team For Jade vs Rhea, Michael Cole and Wade Barrett have been joined by *checks notes* Adam Weitsman, a New York entrepreneur, who has paid to be seated at the commentary table (without a mic) for the duration of the match

Oh so they're BROKE broke

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

This is incredible news

www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

I bet a car could do this no problem, who cares. They’re the same to me

DOJ demands Detroit-area 2024 ballots, escalating election scrutiny DOJ official Harmeet K. Dhillon wrote that she is seeking ballots to investigate election law compliance. Democratic state officials call the request baseless.

The Justice Department is demanding all ballots from the 2024 election in the Detroit area, a highly unusual move that comes shortly after prosecutors seized 2020 ballots in Georgia and obtained 2020 election records in Arizona.

One of multiple parts of the Atlantic story that is one hundred percent true is President Trump’s frustration that the MAGAfied feds aren’t jailing nearly enough of his political enemies so u can read his words today in the context of liking his job title and wanting to keep it

Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist The government's cybersecurity needs are outweighing the Pentagon's feud with Anthropic.

The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Mythos Preview, despite top officials at the Defense Department,— which oversees the NSA — insisting the company is a "supply chain risk," 2 sources tell Axios.

i dont understand, 2 days ago i was told there was a deal, i was told it was over and we got everything we wanted, i was told the strait would never be closed again, i was told all this just as markets were hitting their stride on friday afternoon

STEFANIK: President Trump didn't call for genocide, Jake. You are putting those words in his mouth


TAPPER: 'Your entire civilization will die'?

STEFANIK: It's the terrorist regime, Jake. He's targeting the terrorist regime


TAPPER: You're changing his words!

The Stefanik defense is "he didn't mean to say what he said." But when he's now said it three separate times over nearly two weeks, how is that a viable defense? bsky.app/profile/atru...

WELKER: Why is the US rewarding Russia by extended these sanctions waivers? Russia is working with Iran

MIKE WALTZ: That's oil that was going to market. Now, instead of just going to China, it can go to some of our other allies and partners.

W: It's a reversal of what Bessent said on Wednesday

So…doesn’t deny it

Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."

it's remarkable how crazy this video is, especially in light of what we just learned in that Atlantic article

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

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...

This is a momentous story in a lot of ways. One incredible little detail: the Roberts clerk and the Alito clerk who wrote the key memos creating the shadow docket, Joseph Benjamin Tyson III and Barbara S. Grieco, ended up getting married two years later.