We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it.
He’s just burning your tax money.
Jared Kushner is incredibly corrupt. He corruptly distorted US foreign policy in Trump’s first term to get more money into his and his father-in-law’s private accounts, and he’s accelerated those efforts in term 2.
Anyone who praised his Gaza real estate scheme as “peace” helped perpetuate it.
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.
Ashley St Clair, former MAGA influencer and Elon Musk’s baby mama, posted a TikTok 6 days ago called “How MAGA influence campaigns operate” and it's WILD. www.tiktok.com/@ashstc/vide...
It's 9+ minutes long and worth the watch. And no, it does not work like this on The Left.
It's gotten a bit of notice but probably not enough that the director of national intelligence has been effectively exiled to Siberia.
Good morning!
Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—
💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion
💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million
💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million
💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million
And Jared became a billionaire last year.
Have a great day!
"U.S. and Iran are said to near a framework for future negotiations" New York Times headline April 17, 2026. Story by Michael Crowley and Farmaz Fassihi https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/strait-of-hormuz-open-iran-talks-negotiations.html
US and Iran are said (passive voice) to near (aren't at) a framework (not a deal) for future negotiations (to talk later)
In other words, they can't even agree on what to hold a meeting about.
Peace reigns! All rejoice!
The president of the United States is bragging about being able to write his own signature.
Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.
A headline reads: "Times Exclusive: The Inside Story of 5 Days That Remade the Supreme Court. Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine 'shadow docket' rulings on presidential power."
Confidential memos by Supreme Court justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how they decided to bypass time-tested procedures and create the modern “shadow docket,” a rushed and secretive new way of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Let me help those who don’t understand this. The Pharisees were Jews. He is blaming the Jews who “control the media.” He’s an antisemite. Fire him.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: On multiple occasions, Kash Patel’s security detail had difficulty waking him because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to info supplied to DOJ and White House officials. A request for “breaching equipment” was made because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors.
Simply filing this lawsuit is an impeachable offense.
Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.
Dear Media:
Blindly quoting the President without fact-checking or context is just misinformation with a press pass.
We don’t need stenographers; we need journalists. Do your job.
🧵Trump's war against Pope Leo is about something far larger than his foreign wars, it's actually a struggle for control of American Christianity.
This thread will summarize the main points of my latest essay about how Trumpism is a replacement Christianity. Continue or click through:
@kamalaharris.com speaking to young children here in Columbia, SC today. She's the best of us.
CNN's Harry Enten breaks down Analilia Mejia's overwhelming victory in a special election in New Jersey’s 11th District, allowing Democrats to further narrow Republicans’ razor-thin majority in the House.
We're only going to get out of this awful, inhumane moment with someone who is genuinely kind & empathetic. Democrats shouldn't want their own Trump. Don't support someone bc you like how he dunks on Trump while he's playing kumbaya on his podcast w/ people who terrorize the marginalized.
"Welcome back, #Neukgu!"
Escaped wolf in South Korea recaptured, returned to zoo after huge manhunt.
The young male wolf, named Neukgu, had dug himself out of his enclosure and eluded capture for 9 days
u.afp.com/SEXg
Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"
Big "holy war" vibes from Pete Hegseth this morning, insinuating that doubting Trump is like doubting Christ
Q: How much longer will American continue to see these high gas prices?
TRUMP: Well, they're not very high
Q: $4 a gallon still
TRUMP: That's what ABC says, but the stock market is up. Everything is doing really well.
The LAPD is working with ICE & lying about it.
After ICE throws our neighbors into cages in the B18 concentration camp in the Metro Detention Center, LAPD brutalizes protestors at the gate, but bc they’re just “guarding” the camp, they don’t report it
Excellent reporting by @ericanders.bsky.social
NYT headline "Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology"
one of the best NYT headlines ever. We have newly baptized JD Vance telling the "infallible" Pope how to do the religion part of his job
I'm as lapsed as a Catholic can be (don't tell my mother) but even i know that is not how it works
The Trump DOJ paid a $1.1 million settlement to an anti-abortion protester, even after a judge dismissed the protester’s lawsuit against the government with prejudice, according to a former DOJ prosecutor and the protester’s lawyer.
Read more from @juliannemcshane.bsky.social:
But the Pope is weak on crime.
GOVT ASKS DC CIRCUIT TO VACATE CONVICTIONS AND REMAND FOR DISMISSAL IN OATH KEEPERS AND PROUD BOYS CASES. Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, everybody. ...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
