That’s pretty much the cult line. All he’s got left are people who will drink the kool-aid if the order was posted on Truth Social.

Clearing Strait of Hormuz of mines could take 6 months, Pentagon tells Congress The Pentagon assessment, shared in a classified briefing for lawmakers, suggests gasoline and oil prices could remain elevated through the midterm elections.

Clearing Strait of Hormuz of mines could take 6 months, Pentagon official tells Congress in classified briefing

wapo.st/4eIeBgm

It's all just overtly blatant.

With their grifting there are NO COINCIDENCES.

Meanwhile, early this morning somewhere near Nashville…

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

Trump treats the government as his personal ATM machine. At tax time that's just disgusting. We pay taxes. They steal our money and they use the government we pay for to make their rich friends richer.

We pay taxes. They steal our money and they use the government we pay for to make their rich friends richer. My latest on how Donald Trump is using the federal government as his private ATM Machine.
open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

Kash Patel and the Lessons of FBI Leadership How does the current director stand up to his predecessors?

Hey Bluesky. I just posted my first article on Substack. And this makes my first Bluesky post. Check it out and share it if you like
Let the games begin. 🙃
www.therealmccabe.com/p/kash-patel...

Washington Post article on STEM cuts at federal agencies. NSF tops it at -42%!

“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.”

OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.)

NSF at -42%!

The fact there was a mass shooting with EIGHT dead today and it barely made the front page of any news site tells you everything you need to know how fucked up we are as a country. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/us/shreveport...

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

Sarah Longwell: We are committing superpower suicide in real time. Trump is making China Great Again. Poll: People in *every single one* of the top US-allied countries now believe it’s better to depend on China than on the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.

WE Pay for

Ossoff: I don’t know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week. Don’t worry—no one showed up. The stadium was empty.

Right out in the open, Donald Trump is suing his own IRS to try to steal $10 BILLION taxpayer dollars.

I just introduced a bill that would make this theft ILLEGAL.

Gift article: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office

Trump Thinks He’s Become Orange Jesus In Trump 1.0, people mocked the President by calling him Orange Jesus. In Trump 2.0, he actually thinks he’s become Jesus, Susan B. Glasser writes.

At 250 feet tall, Trump's arch would be the biggest such structure in the world. Asked last fall what this modern-day arch was meant to commemorate, Trump pointed to himself and replied, “Me.” @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Former UN Ambassador Rice:
"The U.S. is systematically weakening itself across all 5 pillars of global power—

Military: increased spending without modernization, depleted weapons stockpiles, politicized purges of experienced officers/generals, weakened legal/military norms, and a costly Iran 🇮🇷 1/7

Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to plead guilty in child sexual abuse case, adding to pattern Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 rioters were already indefensible. As many of them run into fresh trouble with the law, the move continues to look even worse.

Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims.

David Daniel has reached a plea agreement in connection with a pending charge of sexual exploitation of a minor and possessing sexually explicit images of children.

Bill Grueskin, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, said Hegseth’s latest attacks on the press revealed a misunderstanding of the role of the media in the U.S. “It’s no surprise that a Fox News host who has done so little actual reporting in his career would fail to understand how journalists do their jobs,” Grueskin said. “But Hegseth gives it away when he says, ‘Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what side some of you are actually on.’” “Ideally, reporters are on the side of the truth and see their role as providing the most accurate, complete and transparent account of what’s happening on the ground,” added Grueskin, a former senior editor at the Miami Herald, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News. “That is especially difficult given that Hegseth himself has limited journalists’ access at the Pentagon and that it’s almost impossible for U.S. reporters to work inside Iran’s borders.”

yes, that's an accurate quote www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Iran has a military budget of $10 billion

Pentagon is asking for $200 billion on top of $1 TRILLION to fight Iran

ANYBODY ELSE SEE A PROBLEM HERE?

Why do we have lawmakers in Congress who are willing to hold fellow members of Congress accountable for sexual assault but not a President?

Treasury is holding thousands of Epstein‑related financial records — including overseas payments from Epstein routed through Russian banks

Treasury refuses to release them to Congress

Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted:

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

Trump’s Latest Meltdown Attacking the pope was only part of the president’s disturbing night on Truth Social.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social on the obligations of the House, Senate, and voters as Trump deteriorates in plain sight: "America cannot keep ignoring the dysfunction of the commander in chief, the sole steward of the codes to a massive nuclear arsenal." 🎁
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.