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"Trump ended free trade for Mexican tomatoes. Prices are up 23 percent in the last year." reason.com/2026/04/17/t...

In a big victory for customers across the nation, a court has stopped Nexstar’s merger with Tegna as our lawsuit continues.

This win ensures local news remains independent and fees don’t climb higher.

I'll keep fighting to enforce the law and protect the future of local TV.

Are the markets going to fall for this week after week

Oh, you're my age.

Far-right election clerk caught illegally purging voter rolls: report An election clerk in a far-right Michigan county has been purging voter rolls without authorization, Votebeat reported on Tuesday.According to the report, the Michigan Bureau of Elections "sent a lett...

Republican Election Interference Crimes

Michigan Bureau of Elections notified Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop that she "made voter registration changes 'that fall outside the scope of your statutory authority and fail to comply with the law.'"

#ElectionCrimes

www.rawstory.com/michigan-gop...

I'm ex-Catholic. FYI.

i NEED y’all to understand that legal misgendering is a form of state sponsored sexual violence

Federal judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar-TEGNA deal April 17, 2026 - A federal judge in California has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar's acquisition of TEGNA while a lawsuit filed by DIRECTV and several states proceeds.

#BREAKING: A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction that blocks Nexstar Media Group's acquisition of TEGNA while a lawsuit challenging the deal on antitrust grounds proceeds through the court.

“Celebrating the First Amendment” my ass.

Great. Discovery should be fascinating.

And Savannah Guthrie’s mom is still missing

Did you employ some keywords posting this .gif?

Federal Appeals Court Opens Door to Moving Trans Inmates Under Trump Gender Order

Federal Appeals Court Opens Door to Moving Trans Inmates Under Trump Gender Order www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u.... Gift. They just don’t let up on the trans community. Children. Parents. Inmates.

The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.

Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.

Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.

Margaret, talk to your gay Catholic friends and see what they have to say. Or ask me.

Gift link.

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

”The problems with his conduct go well beyond what has been previously known, and include both conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

"Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media
The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters." (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

'We've Got Your Six' Billboards Outside Clinics Follow VA Abortion Shift Democratic senators' efforts to overturn the VA's ending of abortion services narrowly failed earlier this year.

Read More: www.military.com/daily-news/2...

When the VA rolls back essential care, we step up.

We partnered with @brigidalliance.bsky.social to launch our #WeveGotYourSix campaign with billboards outside VA clinics to ensure no veteran is left behind. Need reproductive care? We’re here to help with logistics and support.

If he dies I don't think his family will come to the funeral.

He's next.

Meta threw a party for a right-wing influencer who wants to “save the West” The celebration offers a cocktail-fueled look at the tech behemoth's rightward pivot.

NEW: Meta co-sponsored a celebration with the Daily Wire for podcaster Isabel Brown, who often foments about Islam and wants to "save the West," which is an interesting, cocktail-party-level look at the company's rightward pivot www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

John Eastman: The Dems Made Me Do It Author of the “coup memos” says 2020’s “existential” stakes justified extreme action.

The two intolerable abuses that Eastman specifically named, btw, were drag queen story hour and trans people using the bathroom.

No, I am not kidding. www.thebulwark.com/p/john-eastm...

He has laundered this sort of thing through CBS before.

Not sure to distrust more: Iran saying it to Trump, Trump saying to to CBS News, or CBS News reporting it.

CNN’s Richard Quest Reports Ships Aren’t Actually Sailing Through the Strait of Hormuz Despite Trump’s Assurances "We haven't actually seen the ships, by the way, going through. And so yes, the market has given an extremely positive reaction because this is what they want"

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CNN’s Richard Quest Reports Ships Aren’t Actually Sailing Through the Strait of Hormuz Despite Trump’s Assurances

Reality at odds with Trump’s “assurances”?

Just an idea, but maybe don't believe everything Trump says