Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
Battleground Republicans are starting to worry about the Senate
Democrats still face serious challenges to flipping the chamber. But Republicans are no longer dismissing the threat as quickly as they once did.
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice is demanding that Wayne County, Michigan turn over its ballots from the 2024 election to investigate voter fraud claims. Michigan’s attorney general and secretary of state have responded saying that’s not going to happen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Note to Democrats: Voters giving up Trump only to vote for the next Republican solves nothing.
The problem isn't Trump, it's the Republican party.
Don't allow Republican politicians dodge accountability by claiming it was all him.
Stop praising Orbán for not attempting a coup.
He only stepped down because Magyar's win was too massive to steal.
He rigged the constitution, captured the institutions, and used state media to his advantage.
He did everything he could to destroy democracy, and he failed
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
Doesn’t sound like “America First” to me. How about you?
You can call it a hoax. You can call it a staged event. But mostly you can call it the workings of a sick, demented man.
“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
A renewed threat to JPL as the Trump administration tries again to cut NASA
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Annual NASA Budget Cut Process Starts Up Again
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On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.
Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?
Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers.
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What have Harris County Democrats done from April. 6 - Apr. 19, 2026? Check back in next week to see what your local electeds are up to. See you there!
#HCDP#HarrisDems#BlueTexas#TexasDems
I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.
WE Pay for
palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society
Roddenberry Archive exhibit at RenderCon 2026 yesterday. Great display of costumes and the re-created TMP captain's chair, used in the RA's interview of William Shatner. On the screen: RA interviews and documentary shorts directed by Roger Lay, Jr, including our interview with George Takei.
Roddenberry Archive panel at RenderCon 2026! L-R Mildred Von Hildegard (costume design), Dave Blass (prod design), Rod Roddenberry (exec prod), Leonidas Jaramillo (dir of photography), Carlos Baena (director),Jules Urbach (writer, exec prod.)
CNN’s Harry Enten: “It is a blowout in the net popularity ratings. It’s not even close. It’s a nearly 50 point blowout amongst the American public at large. Pope Leo XIV absolutely crushing Trump when it comes to how popular they are.”
Wow. This is the FBI Director.
Several officials say Kash Patel’s drinking has been a recurring concern across the government.
At the FBI, it’s called reasonable suspicion. That’s enough to trigger testing or administrative action. So what are we waiting for?
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Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted:
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Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims, according to federal court records.
Does anyone feel safer now
Here is the question for Hawai‘i’s Democratic supermajority: with Trump moving to gut Native #housing block grants, will you lead a Legislature that finally stops asking Native Hawaiians to wait another generation for what they are owed?
#hawaii #politics #policy
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As Trump has elevated religious zealots into positions of power, a holy war has been brewing in his administration. Now that Trump is escalating both his war in Iran and attacks against the Pope, it appears Trump has taken sides, which could mean an even wider rift among the GOP at large.
