We Deserve Better Than This….

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

Deplorable & unforgivable. But his wasn't "THE" one vote, there were 213 others who could have provided "THE" 1 vote to stop war. He needs to be called out & reviled. But why let the other 213 off hook? any single ONE of them cld have been the defining vote too. Don't minimize the culpability.

This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

Yessssss www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

Brazil creates the South Atlantic's largest marine park | Conservation International Conservation International helped secure a million-hectare marine park, two decades in the making.

Brazil has created the South Atlantic’s largest marine protected area, spanning about one million hectares. Supported by Conservation International, the reserve—roughly the size of Jamaica—aims to safeguard biodiversity, fisheries, and critical ocean ecosystems.

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕

*All four astronauts went to public schools!

This Day in Labor History: April 14, 1975. The Bunker Hill Mining Company in Kellogg, Idaho announced a new policy in response to worries about female workers suffering reproductive problems due to lead exposure. They had to be sterilized to work!!!! Let's talk about this horrible policy!

Canada's minority Liberal party wins majority government, on a wave of anti-Trump Canadian determination. Canada is done with the US.

(Not a Liberal party fan, nor a fan of majority governance, but this is quite a remarkable anti-Trump effect).

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

Illiberalism is not Inevitable

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Text reminding readers of the interconnectedness of life on Earth, describing communication among trees, octopuses, whales, elephants, bees, crows, ants, cats, and forests.

Yes. 🫶 🌍

Truth. None of Trump’s priorities and actions actually help Americans. Seriously, can you name a single thing he has done to improve the lives of average Americans?

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

Voters head to polls in 3 federal byelections that could deliver majority Liberal government | CBC News Voters in two Ontario ridings and one in Quebec will head to the polls on Monday for a slate of crucial federal byelections that could deliver the Liberals a majority government — cementing their hold...

Voters head to polls in 3 federal byelections that could deliver majority Liberal government #GetOutandVote #Canada #Ontario #Quebec

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Trump doesn't know 💩

Literally.

So the leader of Iran is condemning the U.S. President for attacking the Pope.

If you had told Me a decade ago this would happen, I would have baker acted you.

Whenever I find a new way to view the Epstein files, I pass it along.

The government website was created to make it as difficult as possible for us.

This is one I’m perusing today. It has certainly made viewing the videos much easier.

#ProudBlue #EpsteinFiles
exposingepstein.com/video/2311

ARTEMIS II MISSION REQUIREMENT:
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From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Weird war, where the winner gets skyrocketing gas prices, inflation and market crashes while the loser gets control over 20% of global oil flow.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a decree establishing Universal Healthcare for all Mexican citizens.

The United States could’ve had this, but people chose economic collapse, cruelty and death instead. I’ll never regret voting for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

If we had continued on with Obamas investments in solar ,wind, clean energy and electric cars the straight of Hormuz could have gone and fucked itself by now.

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 345. 4/9/26 … Melania Trump addressed the media today on Epstein in a surprise statement, although she took no questions from reporters.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 345. This is a big one - nonstop madness. Here is everything that happened today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Tucker Carlson: "It's vile. It begins w/ a promise to use the US military to commit a war crime. Those people who are in direct contact w/ the president need to say 'No. I'll resign. I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this, bc this is insane. And if given the order, I'm not carrying it out'"

THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:

The receipts. A complete timeline of the shifting rhetoric. More: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...