Blanche // Our Indictment alleges Southern Poverty Law Center secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION IN FUNDS to white supremacist & extremist groaps including: $ 1M + National Alliance affillate $300K+ Aryan Nations affilate $270K + "ente the Right" member $140K+ Elia National Alliance Chairman $73K + Farmer KKK members $19K+ pressient Efelon

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BREAKING: DOJ announces charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center based on allegations of paid informants in an indictment in the Middle District of Alabama.

"This investigation is very much ongoing," FBI Director Kash Patel said.

Well...this is one hell of a problem.

Martin Heinrich D-N.M.

“I can tell you, as somebody who has been a natural resources trustee, who has had to negotiate with copper companies in my own state, that this type of copper mining has never been done without polluting the water. Never, not once,” he said in a floor speech before the vote.

Photo at sunrise of Kahekili Beach on Maui. There are bushes in the foreground, then the sandy beach, then the blue Pacific Ocean. There is a small sailboat in the middle distance. In the background is the island of Lanai, with clouds in the sky above.

Good morning from Kahekili Beach on the beautiful island of Maui. Let's make it a great day.

A photo of a sunset over the Pacific Ocean, with a sailboat to the left of the setting sun. Photo taken from Ka'anapali Beach on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

I was about to say, wow you're early...then I remembered I'm on Maui and on Hawaiian time.

April 20, 2026 Late Saturday evening, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey of the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was so unstable and angry after learning on April 3 that Iranians had shot down an American jet that...

April 20, 2026

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...

April 19, 2026 On the evening of April 18, 1775, the people who lived in the British colony of Massachusetts had gone to bed with the sun, as usual.

April 19, 2026

"Liking his job"?!? You mean, *needing* it. Where else would someone be able to be drunk to incapacitation, missing, and unreachable and still keep his job?

The Adjudicated Rapist-in-Chief claims he could bring down the Papacy, the Vatican & the entire Catholic Church overnight.

Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants...
dragging that which is sacred into darkness & filth."

tRUMP: "I'm not a fan of Pope Leo."

#HappySundayToAll ✝️

Trump is clearly not fit to serve.

That’s why I am co-sponsoring a 25th Amendment bill with @raskin.house.gov.

Our country cannot afford having a madman in power.

It just occurred to me that yes, in fact, I would prefer W over the filth we have now, and that is wild. I despised W and counted the days until he was gone. But what we have now is so, so much worse.

Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater.

Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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With the ever-worsening climate crisis, the EPA must take direct action to mitigate the climate risks on Superfund sites across the state and country.

I joined Rep. Kamlager Dove and @cleaver.house.gov to ensure we are putting the public’s health first.

WELKER: Why is the US rewarding Russia by extended these sanctions waivers? Russia is working with Iran

MIKE WALTZ: That's oil that was going to market. Now, instead of just going to China, it can go to some of our other allies and partners.

W: It's a reversal of what Bessent said on Wednesday

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

Think hard about the fact that history is going to show you for the fascists you are, just as we can search and find Nazis, and we know who supported them. This is a stain that will last your lifetime.

Chart showing media bias

You failed in your analysis during the campaign. Now we reap what you have sown.

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

April 18, 2026 And, just like that, President Donald J.

April 18, 2026

We are living in a timeline so dumb it's exhausting.

Hegseth Again Threatens Attacks on Iran’s Civilian Infrastructure

Pete Hegseth stood at a Pentagon podium this weekend and threatened to bomb Iran’s civilian power grid.

Under international law, intentionally targeting civilian energy infrastructure is a war crime.

A headline reads: "Times Exclusive: The Inside Story of 5 Days That Remade the Supreme Court. Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine 'shadow docket' rulings on presidential power."

Confidential memos by Supreme Court justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how they decided to bypass time-tested procedures and create the modern “shadow docket,” a rushed and secretive new way of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I am not a lawyer, but am I reading correctly that the majority opinion cited the concern of “irreparable harm” to the coal industry (which employs ~40,000 people) with no mentions of the “irreparable harm” higher CO2 emissions could bring to the population of (at the time) ~7,500,000,000 people?

Those should both be statements, not questions. That is exactly what happened.

April 17, 2026 This morning, after a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect Thursday, Iran announced the Strait of Hormuz was open to commercial ships.

April 17, 2026

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt is the 17th Reported ICE Detention Death of 2026 Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, a 27-year-old man from Cuba, died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days.

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt is the 17th Reported ICE Detention Death of 2026

A 27-year-old man from Cuba died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/aled-damie...

Missouri's murder rate is 73% HIGHER than California’s.

No amount of right-wing spinning can change reality: our state is investing in prevention, enforcement, and is holding criminals accountable.

The U.S. Senator from Missouri should fix his own failed policies before lecturing us.

Trump wraps up his press gaggle on Air Force One by threatening that if Iran doesn't capitulate to his demands, then "unfortunately we'll have to start dropping bombs again"