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Unprecedented, Sickening Corruption. All out in the open Podcast Episode · The Social Contract with Joe Walsh · April 20 · 36m

The most corrupt President, the most corrupt presidential family, in American history. When will enough Americans care? Today’s show.👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Yeah, I've thought all along this would hurt Rs more than Ds. The nature of the requirements hurts R-favoring demographics the most.

INFOWARS @infowars Lies! Lies! Lies! The Epic Lies And False Reality That The Onion Lives In!

"The Onion lives in a false reality"

Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit" in 1947. The song became one of her biggest hits. Photo credit: Library of Congress.

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1939: Billie Holiday first records “Strange Fruit” for the independent label Commodore Records. The song, which protests the lynching of Black Americans, became her biggest-selling record and a definitive anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. /1

The Strange Death of Orbánism Franz Pokorny

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

Dismantling Voice of America was one of the most devastating things I’ve witnessed. VOA wasn’t propaganda, it was proof that free press could criticize its own leaders and still survive. And now we’re throwing away one of our greatest tools of freedom.

This Saturday may be the most embarrassing moment in the history of the White House press corps. I’ll be talking about this all week. Here are my thoughts today. Full show: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

Donald Trump is very unpopular and being seen as opposing Donald Trump in clear moral terms is an almost instant path to political and cultural relevance.

Hannibal Lecter's victim inviting him to dinner and asking what pairs well with liver.

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

Breaking: President Trump launches last-minute Get Out The Vote effort on behalf of Virginia Democrats.

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

I keep thinking there must be some obvious reason why this is not corrupt... but no, it's corrupt. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

What a debacle.

We’re about two months away from RFK Jr. launching a new initiative to distribute blankets contaminated with smallpox to public schools.

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

GET HIS ASS

I'm still waiting for a Republican to ban fools from falling in love.

To a very close approximation, everyone who is obsessed with IQ or intelligence as a population characteristic more generally, from Francis Galton to the present, is a racist.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Victoria Toensing @VicToensing Hubby being sworn in as Counsel to the Attorney General. 4:04 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 6,199 Views Jason Reding Quiñones, the US Attorney in Miami, swearing in a much shorter Joe DiGenova.

Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past.

Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic.

emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

Again, people need to not be reactive and powerless, with this"I won't vote unless you convince me". The far left shouldn't act like people without agency just sitting waiting for someone else to act the way they want. They should assume they have agency and ask how they can direct politics.

Kash Patel Blusters About Suing Over Devastating Story ‘Conspicuous Inebriation’ On Friday evening, The Atlantic published a devastating account of...

A ton of prime Morning Memo fodder today, starting with The Atlantic's devastating account of Kash Patel’s first year as FBI director. Most of the piece focuses on Patel’s alleged drinking on the job. The anecdotes were numerous … and astounding:

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Whatever happened to merit? President Donald Trump’s administration is stuffed tip to toe with the very worst, least-qualified toddlers, but sometimes there’s one that just gives you a jump scare. Meet 27-year-old Samuel Samson…

The Trump administration’s Europe strategy currently includes a 27-year-old adviser criticizing allies on Substack.

This is not a metaphor.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Every time you do this, you're only embarrassing yourself. Were your parents like you? Children? You're everything to be ashamed of.

“Massive corruption going on in the White House. The Swiss gave [Trump] a personalized gold bar… Qatar gave him a jumbo jet… [Trump] pardoned a criminal because that person…helps his family with crypto. The amount of corruption is… unconscionable.”
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Trump just gave himself $1.2 Billion of our money.

I work in tech, which means I always feel a little compromised ethically. It’s often not intolerable, but I have in fact quit a job because they asked the wrong things of me.

Money is complicated… but if you work at Palantir and you’re NOT a Nazi, I don’t know how you can spend another day there.