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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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Virginia! Today is the last day to vote in the redistricting referendum.

Make sure to vote YES.

You can find your polling location at IWillVote.com/VA.

Have to work out the double standard before you can grasp who will and who will not be suspended on X for this!

FFS! What is this Russia?

Virginia is for 💙 voters

Now it’s Robert’s wife making millions? This kind of undisclosed financial entanglement (bribes? Commissions?) with law firms that appear before the Court deepens concerns that the Supreme Court has a systemic ethics problem, with too much self-policing. No oversight! #Pinks

Rachel Maddow just played this video of Jon Ossoff talking about Trump crime family grifter Jared Kushner. Ossoff is Maddow's guest tonight. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

The Florida Grand Jury is not releasing its findings on the Alleged $10 million dollars in Medicaid fraud by Governor DeSantis & his wife Casey that was allegedly diverted into her charity Hope Florida.

What makes this worse is that Rick Scott appointed the Judge!

RNC claimed 'election integrity win' over 'non-existent problem,' Virginia county election director says Prince William County Director of Elections Eric Olsen said the RNC is "trying to invent a headline to further a political agenda."

NEW: The RNC claimed it scored an 'election integrity win' over a Virginia county by forcing it to change its elections guidance on detecting noncitizen voters. The county's elections director said the RNC's claims are unfounded - an attempt "to fabricate a nonexistent problem."

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Robert, thank you very much for including me!

They are physically grabbing citizens and illegally detaining them in those privately run “immigration prisons”

CITIZENS !!!!!

ICE has to be dismantled
And guilty ICE personnel should be prosecuted.

Excited to share some good news for Illinois families — we’ve reached over 100,000 children in our state receiving books from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

Let’s keep reading.

ICE’s heavy-handed immigration enforcement was tried once before – by Arizona’s notorious sheriff Joe Arpaio in the early 2000s The Trump administration’s immigration detention policies appear to be, in part, inspired by the heavy-handed tactics of the former Arizona sheriff.

ICE’s tactics aren’t new.

Years ago, sheriff Joe Arpaio turned Arizona into a testing ground for aggressive immigration enforcement including mass detentions, racial profiling and tent jails.

Much of it was later ruled unconstitutional.

CHILD RAPIST PEDOPREZ's security personnel were in ON IT. They herded the press to get pictures, the exact reenactment of the Hitler assassination picture, the fake blood capsule, and making sure his photo op with his fist in the air.

TOTALLY STAGED AT THE COST OF 2 LIVES AND OTHERS INJURED.

We can’t afford two more years of unchecked power
—President Obama. 🇺🇸
Virginia answers back TOMORROW, April 21, 6 AM–7 PM. Same day registration available at your polling place. Vote YES to stop gerrymandering & protect fair House seats for our future.
#VoteYesVirginia
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Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

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Trump just issued a last-minute warning to Virginians that if they vote YES on the redistricting referendum tomorrow, he will lose power:

“If the Democrats get additional seats, they’re going to be making changes at the federal level.”

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

“It’s not targeting criminals, it’s not targeting dangerous people, it’s targeting individuals who are members of our community, who have a lot to offer and continue to offer a lot of positive things for our entire country and our society.”

Kyiv shooting death toll rises to 7, mayor says — Meduza A Kyiv resident wounded in the April 18 shooting in the Holosiivskyi district has died in the hospital, Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said, bringing the death toll from the attack to seven.

A Kyiv resident wounded in the April 18 shooting in the Holosiivskyi district has died in the hospital, Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said, bringing the death toll from the attack to seven.
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Peace talks are in doubt as the U.S. seizes an Iranian ship President Trump said a U.S. delegation will head to Pakistan to resume talks to end the war with Iran, but Tehran expressed reluctance after the U.S. seized one of its cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

President Trump said a U.S. delegation will head to Pakistan to resume talks to end the war with Iran, but Tehran expressed reluctance after the U.S. seized one of its cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz. n.pr/4dYG0dS

Child psychologist: This common issue can hurt kids' future success, happiness—they won't just 'grow out of it' Test anxiety can hurt your child's academic performance and, if left unchecked, their future success and well-being, says clinical psychologist Tram Huynh.

Test anxiety can hurt your child's academic performance and, if left unchecked, their future success and well-being, says clinical psychologist Tram Huynh.

Who would’ve guessed? An administration filled with grossly incompetent people, led by the stupidest president to ever occupy the Oval Office, failed to end the illegal war they started.

April 12, 2026.

Ukrainian ports met 98% of transhipment target in Q1 2026 despite being attacked every five days Ukrainian ports fulfilled 98% of their transhipment target in the first quarter of 2026, handling over 21 million tonnes of cargo.

👏 Ukrainian ports met 98% of transhipment target in Q1 2026 despite being attacked every five days

Break Up the Big Court The federal court suffers simultaneously from lawless leadership and chronic understaffing. Let's fix both problems at once.

"This is a solvable problem, but a problem perpetuated by one party will not find a solution bursting with bipartisan collegiality. (. . .)It’s a problem caused by conservatives and conservatives are, for now, quite happy with it. So, it will fall to Democrats to fix it."

Ok, having treasured Broadway for 56 yrs, I’m hooked on #PaddingtonTheMusical. Thinking about this, it’s the love of humans for animals & children! Yes, Kindness Always Over Hate! Sane Americans Must Vote for Our Children & to Feed, House & Care for Them! youtu.be/2iz5PzVUcrI?... go.bsky.app/ArSZzir

“When a prison camp opens in your town… When a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom… When the president* destroys what’s left of the Constitution… They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” @aoc.bsky.social

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