If you socialize with the worlds most notorious child trafficker and are the Commerce Secretary you don't get the luxury to only respond to questions about the budget.

Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt · 3h Trump, the biggest failed strategist in US history, has plunged America into a strategic catastrophe. During his self-proclaimed “victory parade” against Iran, he squandered at least 45% of the US's precision-guided missile arsenal in just seven weeks—including half of all THAAD missiles and nearly 50% of Patriot interceptor missiles. This isn't some fake news blog reporting this, but CNN, citing a CSIS analysis and internal Pentagon data. The result? An “imminent risk” of munitions depletion should a real conflict erupt in the coming years—for example, with China. Trump has ruined the US defense capability for years to come. And for what? For nothing. No regime change in Iran. No destroyed nuclear program. No strategic breakthrough. Just a shaky ceasefire that gives the mullahs time to rearm while America stands naked. Trump, the great “Art of the Deal” master, has once again only produced hot air – and in doing so, burned through the most expensive and scarce weapons in the USA like a pubescent boy with fireworks.

This seems bad.

And I'm pretty sure our enemies are paying attention.

Because this makes sense, it will probably never happen, but just once, if they lifted the cap, it would make the system work as it was designed. Can you imagine how much life could change for people who rely solely on Social Security to get by?

‘Dark Money’ Floods Virginia Redistricting Fight, With Millions Linked to Peter Thiel The results of Tuesday's referendum could reshape the midterms this November.

Peter Thiel, who thinks freedom & democracy are incompatible, and hates the social safety net & women voting, is trying to buy the outcome of VA’s redistricting vote to further his disgusting anti-democratic views.

Don’t let him!!!!! VOTE YES, Virginia, on 4/21, to stop Thiel.

Don't understand how traders trade these market with all the misinformation, much of it coming from the White House, let alone Iran. Also don't understand the lack of outrage about apparent insider trading ahead of the President's pronouncements. How are the exchanges themselves not investigating?

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is leaving the Department of Homeland Security DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced the move Thursday evening and wished Lyons well.

Todd Lyons led a secret police force for Trump where masked agents attacked our own American streets, violated Constitutional rights, and shot our own citizens.

We’ll hold you accountable too.

Yaaaaaas!

In the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse exposes the self-dealing and self-enrichment of Donald Trump and his family and the pay-to-play pardon scheme out of Mar-a-Lago.

More of this please!

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Nothing the Trump regime says can be trusted -- NOTHING.

“He posted an image of him looking like Jesus… the Pope spoke out against the war and said I’m not afraid of Trump… What’s going on??”

🔥PELOSI: “You’d have to ask a psychiatrist.”

(H/T @calltoactivism.bsky.social )

"Orange man bad" was true & sufficient from the very beginning. Here we are, over 10 years into this shit, and the supposed adults in charge of US elite politics & media just keep ... discovering it. Again & again. Exclaiming. "Gosh, y'know, he really does seem bad!" No shit you f'ing lumps.

Meet Roy Benavidez, The Vietnam War Hero Who Took 37 Battle Wounds For His Fellow Soldiers Roy Benavidez saved the lives of eight soldiers during a 1968 rescue mission.

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🧵 If it weren't for my interest and research into lesser-known stories of American history, I would have never come across Roy Benavidez. Pull up a seat, my friends. 🪑 (cont)

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You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

BREAKING:

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result, ending 16 years in power.

So Trump and his Pentagon MAGA sycophants threatened Pope Leo's ambassador, saying:

"America has the power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”

Pope Leo just doubled down on his message.

Please repost if you stand with him as we do! 🔥👏🏻

In case anyone is unclear that he and his family and friends are war profiteering, he included the stock ticker — seemingly to remove any doubt

I’m sick and freaking tired of a bunch of idiots saying he’s going to back off his threats.

Ok, maybe!

But what if he doesn’t?

Why would they take the chance of murdering that many innocent people??

Meanwhile Prof Tim Snyder is also issuing warnings about the same.

Screenshot of a tweet by Dean Withers criticizing messaging about rising costs, quoting Rep. Jeff Van Drew suggesting people get another job. The image shows Van Drew’s portrait with an audio waveform overlay.

Perhaps the good Congressman should be the first to get a new job. After the midterms, perhaps?

The US Department of War Crimes.

EXCLUSIVE: Senator probes DOJ's deal to end historic Iran sanctions case Giving a pass to a record-breaking Iran sanctions-busting scheme during the war smacks of "rank incompetence" — or worse, Sen. Wyden says.

SCOOP: Senator probes DOJ's deal to end historic Iran sanctions case

Giving a pass to a record-breaking Iran sanctions-busting scheme during the war smacks of "rank incompetence" — or worse, Sen. Wyden told Scott Bessent. buff.ly/NAswRNO

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#BuhBYE

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled that President Trump can be held accountable for his actions on January 6.

Bring on the lawsuits. trib.al/0o2sUOQ

It’s increasingly clear that Donald Trump has declined in alarming ways. His vocabulary is shrinking, his cadence is slowing, his speech is often slurred. Nothing in his recent appearances suggests the capacity expected of a president. The only question is whether those around him will confront it.

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

PM of Poland

The man who gave Iran $14 billion for oil is out here falsely claiming that Obama gave Iran $1.4 billion.

April Fools Day is canceled this year. Because no prank is greater than the joke that is running this country right now.

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Four-byline alert: 🚨

“.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

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