Fisherman. We're blowing up fishing boats.

I had to stop at him calling Carville a “sleazebag.” I mean… no one, NO ONE, epitomizes sleaze more than DJT.

JUST IN: Trump still railing against #SCOTUS. He says he's likely to lose birthright case & complains "certain" justices he put on court "totally misrepresented who they were and the true ideology for which they stand." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Trials. From top to bottom, the whole chain, from the White House to those pressing the button.

#38 in Patel v. Figliuzzi (S.D. Tex., 4:25-cv-02548) – CourtListener.com MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Granting 25 Opposed MOTION TO DISMISS FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM (Signed by Judge George C Hanks, Jr) Parties notified. (knp4) (Entered: 04/21/2026)

JUST IN: A federal judge has tossed a defamation lawsuit Kash Patel brought against former FBI official / pundit Frank Figliuzzi.

Figliuzzi’s claim that Patel spent more time in nightclubs than at FBI HQ was “rhetorical hyperbole,” the judge rules.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.

I bet Tim Cook has dealt with a lot in his time, but this has to be the most embarrassing girlbye shoutout I have ever seen.

"Court documents show Trump knew he was going to tear down the East Wing at least two months before doing so, but he never told the public."

Any AUSAs who agree to take on this case, any AUSAs who oversee them, and any USA/DAG who chooses to lead them should never find employment as lawyers again.

(Except obv the oligarchs will find sinecures for some--but not all--of them. Accountability and billionaires are too often incompatible.)

Trump Is Making Republicans Wet Their Beds The president's war in Iran and mass deportation campaign are having major - and negative - political consequences. Plus, his outgoing labor secretary discovers you can in fact have too many scandals.

"Trump Is Making Republicans Wet Their Beds"

The president's war in Iran & mass deportation campaign are having major - & negative - political consequences. Plus, his outgoing labor secretary discovers you can in fact have too many scandals.

Today's First Draft morning newsletter:

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation The U.S. spy agency has significantly expanded its international antidrug work under President Trump and CIA Director Ratcliffe.

Surprise!

washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/21/cia-mexico-accident-counter-narcotics/?itid=hp_alert

And on top of it all, they’re illiterate in their weirdly ironic critique of the third world

YES YES YES YES MORE OF THIS ALL DAY EVERY DAY

This will never not be right to me.

What??! This is the one I had to stop and say, no no no, not possible. The rest? Sure, I can see it.

Exactly. I don’t think there’s any duty here

He really extra super means it this time

I remain part of the group that think Trump wants to lose the midterms.

Why? He is bored. Johnson is a servile little lap dog who can’t manage the House. Thune is a stick in the mud. The legislative agenda is dead.

But a Dem House and/or Senate? They will want a fight? And Trump LOVES a fight.

How To Deter "Look Forward Not Backward" Thinking Inside the mailbag: Benghazi ... Brian Schatz ... Eric Swalwell

There should be Dem Fight caucuses, and members with genuine hunger for aggressive oversight should demand enforceable concessions that prevent leadership + frontline members from shutting down promising inquiries. www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-det...

I'm all for far more transparency on the investigation into the assassination attempt, but I remain (at least for now) firmly in the "it was not faked" camp.

“The Woman Who Knows Too Much”

Amanda Ungaro says Paolo Zampolli abused her, seduced her underage, recruited girls for Epstein, had a hold on Melania (who worked undocumented for years)

He had her deported as they battle for custody. He still works for Trump.

She is willing to testify.

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

Thanks for quasi-inspiring my latest: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-takeaw...

“They’ll never close the Strait again” lasted a solid 10 hours.

Masterful negotiation (read: market manipulation) from Trump

I hope they stress about it every day.

And then I hope they’re right so we can hold them all accountable.

That’s my theory. He’s been focus grouping Vance vs Rubio for 28, and Rubio is winning.

I think he’s also going after the Pope specifically to spite Vance.

Sid Rosenberg @sidrosenberg19 X.com Figures! Mr. Met ran away from ME last season!!! And he's hugging the Mayor! Mr. Met is an Antisemite!!!!!!! katie honan @katie_honan • 6d Mr. and Mrs. Met (@MrMet) meet Mr. @nycmayor

Sid Rosenberg O @sidrosenberg19 X.com Just when you thought things couldn't get worse we found out today that Mr. Met is a raging antisemite!

Sid Rosenberg • @sidrosenberg19 X.com This was me at Citifield last season being IGNORED by Mr. Met! Yesterday Mr. AND Mrs. Met were hugging and kissing our Antisemite Mayor @NYCMayor! Easy to conclude that Mr. Met is an Antisemite!!!!!

Sid Rosenberg @sidrosenberg19 X.com l'll be 59 on Sunday:) For the first time ever I'm sporting a Yankee jersey as I make my way to the Bronx. The official transition from a life long Met fan to a Yankee fan is now underway. Like my friend @CGasparino once wrote "Go Woke, Go Broke!" The Mamdani Mets are too WOKE for me! See ya at the Stadium soon fans!

Absolutely dying at right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg getting so angry that Mr. and Mrs. Met hugged @mayor.nyc.gov that he started calling them antisemites and became a Yankees fan.

'How Not To Drown' Donald Trump is taking no part in leadership: he was always an absentee POTUS (his disastrous Executive Orders and goofy Resolute Desk ‘media time’ notwithstanding), but he seems to have lost any appe...

“Adderall is being used to make the Leader of the Free World feel in control of what I believe is a lifelong undiagnosed learning disability - of which of course, there is no shame, but I believe his family chose to hide it instead of dealing with it when he was a child.” open.substack.com/pub/noel

Small Government, Now in Your Plumbing The GOP Toilet Police Have Entered the Chat

This isn’t public health and it’s not about clean water. This is state-sponsored humiliation.

And seriously? Go try to find any justification for this anywhere, in any chapter of any Bible. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/small-gove...

JHFC. I had to stop reading. I am over my daily consumption limit of GOP plans of horrific misogynistic cruelty and humiliation.