UGA women's tennis champions visit White house — and stand behind the men The UGA women's tennis team are national champions, but during a recent visit to the White House, they were posed behind men, sparking outcry.

and trump only shook hands with the dudes what the

Good god the kicker:

Judge bars certification of Virginia redistricting results; state AG promises appeal | CNN Politics A congressional map approved by Virginia voters that aims to help Democrats net four US House seats in November’s midterms faces another legal hurdle just one day after its passage. Tazewell County Ci...

Trump isn't leaving peacefully or legally.

All the signs are there.

Here's another.

www.cnn.com/2026/04/22/p...

< Donald J. Trump * C Donald J. Trump * @realDonaldTrump •1h To the Iranian leaders, who will soon be in negotiations with my representatives: I would greatly appreciate the release of these women. I am sure that they will respect the fact that you did so. Please do them no harm! Would be a great start to our negotiations!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP Eyal Yakoby O @EYakoby BREAKING: The Islamic Republic is preparing to hang eight women. Not a word from the international community or so-called human rights organizations. 10:13 PM - Apr 20, 2026 - 402.8K Views

Seems like the President demanding the release of completely fake AI porn bots at a critical juncture in war negotiations should be a bigger deal.

(As far as anyone can tell, exactly one of these women is real -- Buta Hemmati, an anti-regime protestor)

A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.

Prominent Collector and Navy Secretary John Phelan Rode On Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Plane Trump supporter and Navy Secretary John Phelan, an ARTnews Top 200 collector, rode on Jeffrey Epstein's private plane before his first indictment.

Why does everyone in the administration have ties to the E-man?

I mean I spent 29 years in markets and know that second-guessing them is frequently, even generally, expensive. But the last time I remember this level of refusal to acknowledge disaster would be 2007-08.

How North Carolina Officials Kept the Truth About a Police Shooting Hidden In 2019, a state trooper killed Brandon Webster claiming self defense. Evidence contradicted that account but wasn’t made public—until now. 

How North Carolina Officials Kept the Truth About a Police Shooting Hidden

In 2019, a state trooper killed Brandon Webster claiming self defense. Evidence contradicted that account but wasn’t made public—until now. 

Nothing to worry about, just the Heritage Foundation publishing an article on how the Republican Congress can refuse to seat Democrats www.heritage.org/election-int...

Up to 56,000 people died from COVID-19 or RSV last year RSV was associated with 190,000 to 350,000 hospitalizations from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, as well as 10,000 to 23,000 deaths, according to new CDC data.

RFK Jr: I terminated the COVID vaccines because it didn’t make any sense. COVID is gone.

Note: From July 2024 to June 2025 in the US, COVID19 caused up to 450,000 hospitalizations and 53,000 deaths.

COVID ain’t gone, shitbird.

The Trump regime, which is unconstitutionally withholding evidence that the President sexually abused children, sent the FBI to investigate an NYT reporter for investigating the FBI director’s use of government planes for his girlfriend.

Just a true thing that we learned about today!

OMG -- the RFK Jr breathing noises during this hearing are absolutely horrifying

JUST IN: The Trump administraiton tells SCOTUS that it has reached a settlement with CARTER PAGE over misuse of FISA surveillance in his case. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

The Virginia Gerrymander Disenfranchises Republicans Republicans seem to have expected that Democrats would continue to follow rules they had long since enthusiastically abandoned.

Republicans loved gerrymandering as long as their opponents were committed to fair maps. Now that Dems are responding in kind, conservatives aren’t having as much fun. But the only thing worse than constitutional hardball is unilateral constitutional hardball. (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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.

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.

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

I FUCKING CALLED IT! bsky.app/profile/krag...

Crypto billionaire Justin Sun is suing Trump-linked World Liberty Financial, alleging it froze his $75M investment, blocked sales, and stripped his voting rights.

Sun says he was pressured to buy more and retaliated against when he refused—calling it a scheme to “profit through fraud.”

‘Impossible’ to reopen strait of Hormuz amid ‘flagrant’ ceasefire breaches, Iran says Iranian forces seize two ships in critical waterway as Washington and Tehran maintain separate blockades * Middle East crisis – live updates Iranian forces have seized two ships in the strait of Hormuz as the US and Iran doubled down on imposing separate blockades of the critical shipping waterway that have choked global energy markets. The standoff over the strait – through which about 20% of the world’s oil and liquefied fossil gas passed through during peacetime – has raised doubts about whether stalled peace negotiations will resume. Continue reading...

‘Impossible’ to reopen strait of Hormuz amid ‘flagrant’ ceasefire breaches, Iran says

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:

James Comer is under fire after a memo revealed Republicans are shifting away from traditional hearings on the Epstein Files.

Instead of formal proceedings, the committee is moving to “roundtables”—informal sessions with no authority.

Witnesses are not even required to be under oath.

As war negotiations stall, Trump is posting about The Apprentice's ratings online.

I was wrong about the danger of smartphones in schools. It’s far, far worse than I thought | Lola Okolosie The new ban in England should be welcomed. But teachers like me know that enforcement is time-consuming – and even, sometimes, dangerous, says English teacher Lola Okolosie

I was wrong about the danger of smartphones in schools. It’s far, far worse than I thought | Lola Okolosie

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

We could just ... not let them do this.

The Price of Safety: Stories of Abortions Denied, Careers Disrupted, and States Left Behind - Center for Reproductive Rights For many Americans, reproductive healthcare policy is determining where they choose to live, work, and start families. Those decisions ripple outward—reshaping medical systems, labor markets, and the ...

"Younger workers and highly educated professionals are more likely to leave states with abortion bans, and nearly one-in-five people planning to have children within the next decade has moved, or knows someone who has moved, because of these restrictions."

Reactionary policy = "brain drain."

4 Democratic members of the House have died in office since this Congress started in January 2025. (That's roughly 2 percent of the Democratic caucus elected in November 2024.)