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.
New piece ↓
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🔥 “I’m so glad people are finally waking up to your cruelty — and to the idiocy of your star disciple Pete Hegseth.”
@wajahatali.bsky.social eviscerates Hegseth’s pastor Doug Wilson (with @timmiller.bsky.social & piers in the front row)
It's official: The House has sworn in Democratic Rep. Analilia Mejia.
The fact that Jared Kushner derives nearly all his income from the Saudi government while he purports to be negotiating issues of acute interest to the Saudi government allegedly on behalf of the US is simply swept under the rug by US mainstream media.
The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.
Jorge L. Alonso said that the Trump Administration violated the First Amendment when it pressured Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking groups and apps.
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Dems in fight mode
👏👏👏 Wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer steps in to save NPR’s future with $80M gift www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Right out in the open, Donald Trump is suing his own IRS to try to steal $10 BILLION taxpayer dollars.
I just introduced a bill that would make this theft ILLEGAL.
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸
THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet…
It reads: “Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.”
"I was held overnight in Capitol Police headquarters, they essentially uncuffed me from the wall, discharged me, I ate three slices of bread, and I came into your studio to talk to you in the same outfit I was in the night before." www.democracynow.org/2026/4/17/minneapolis_la...
The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history
The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.
Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.
Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.
It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.
You would think they would have learned the first time he was in office! Why do these people continue to vote for their own decimation? 🤔
Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
Russia targets Ukrainian kids online. Security trainer Vasyl Filonenko teaches children to spot and avoid Russian online traps.
Here's my latest for our newsletter about the consequences of the Iran war, Aftermath.
We're about 3 weeks away from mass flight cancellations in Europe and already there in Asia, because of shortages of jet fuel, which is not refined widely.
prospect.org/2026/04/16/a...
It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.
What he says…
The nonstop grift the Trump family is running on taxpayers is just extraordinary.
It is not a conspiracy anymore.
Yep…
Hitler never was able to build it, but he sure had plans for his own triumphal arch that looks eerily identical to Trump's plan:
