To be a bit self-serving, this exact argument is why I'm launching stopthetrillionaires.com

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

New reporting shows the election denial movement isn’t on the outside looking in anymore—it’s now embedded in the machinery of government.

Over the past several years, billionaires + right-wing foundations poured tens of millions into building that infrastructure. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Rival PACs line up to target GOP cosponsors of immigration bill The Dignity Act, a bipartisan immigration reform bill, has sparked a revolt on the political right.

Rival PACs line up to target GOP cosponsors of immigration bill - POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Jerusalem Post: Despite a “ceasefire” the IDF is giving orders to open fire on everyone in Southern Lebanon trying to go home — “Even if the person is unarmed… based on the idea that there are no civilians left in Southern Lebanon.”

www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

"It’s hard to tell Renae’s story, but I can hear her saying, 'Go on, Mom.' It’s the only thing I can do."

Hey republicans & independents- when he starts active more “normal” (for him) closer to the election, remember why you’re so angry with him now.

This is fun

More generally: Trump’s economic policy makes more sense once you recognize it’s just an elaborate bribe-solicitation mechanism.

Did Trump actually “save HBCUs?

Read more at @contrabandcamp.bsky.social

There's a tiny detail in the Atlantic story that reveals how books on pressing news really come together. Reporters don't hold their most important stories for personal gain, the way everyone on Bluesky thinks.

#TrumpEpsteinFiles
#BelieveSurvivors
#PEDOPHILEPOTUS

This is glaringly obvious to everyone except for the faces of corporate media, who desperately want to walk a red carpet

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@wsj.com #Florida

We tried the carrot. Here’s the stick.

#ICE is ramping up attacks against immigrants and American citizens— and #Palantir is their surveillance backbone.

Go to www.purgepalantir.com/the-palantir-payroll/ for the list of dirty politicians trading our rights for Palantir $$$ — then call them out.

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.

“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.

The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

(Published Jan. 2026)

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...

Hungary Answered. Now What Are We Building? The people everyone had written off showed up and took down a fascist. Now what are we building?

Hungary answered whether it's possible. The question for us is different: whether we build something worth moving for. Full essay, including the 89 Million breakdown and the two problems we have to solve at once: medium.com/@ashleewooda...

Dark background card with four stacked lines of white text reading "We have the numbers. We have the grievance. We have the moral clarity. What we don't have is the container." Italic serif on the first three lines; heavy display on the final line.

The US answer isn't a better message. It's a container. We have the numbers. We have the grievance. We have the moral clarity. What we don't have is the thing that lets a person in Chattanooga and a person in rural Ohio recognize each other as part of the same fight.

Tisza didn't out-message authoritarianism. They out-organized it. 200+ local hubs. Tens of thousands of members. A two-round primary so people picked their own candidates. Hand-delivered papers to villages independent media couldn't reach. Groceries and corruption, not democratic norms.

Hungary's turnout hit 79.5% on April 12. The story isn't that Orbán lost after 16 years. It's the underlying math: a bloc everyone had written off became the majority when someone finally built the pipeline to reach them. That's the same math we're sitting on here. 89 million of them.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".

Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.

The Tariff Refund Nightmare - The American Prospect In principle, Americans are owed $166 billion in refunds of Trump’s illegal tariffs. But actually collecting is like unscrambling an egg.

" What’s clear is that many consumers, importers, and producers will never collect the refunds that they are owed. What’s even clearer is that Trump never should have imposed the illegal tariffs in the first place."

prospect.org/2026/04/21/t...

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Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence inside the U.S.

🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Keep this in mind next time Dreher opines on welfare, the state, and minorities.

Break Up the Big Court The federal court suffers simultaneously from lawless leadership and chronic understaffing. Let's fix both problems at once.

“The most common proposal is to tie the number of justices to the number of circuit courts, which was the norm until 1869, and would give the next Democratic trifecta a Supreme Court of thirteen justices to rebalance. This is a measured response. Judicious, even. But not sufficient.”

A new paper questions the quality of many authoritarianism scales (eg RWA) as they are confounded with cultural.

"Political Intolerance" is the best measure of authoritarianism, suggesting that the disapproval of belief diversity might be a core aspect of authoritarianism.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Someone last week said that JD Vance having the temerity to debate theology with the pope is another example of the death of expertise, the rise of my-google-search-is-the-equivalent-of-your-degree culture, and like yeah.

(alongside images of the US, megaphones, Liam Conejo Ramos’ bunny hat, and signs that read “NO ICE WAREHOUSE,” “SHUTDOWN DETENTION CENTERS,” and “NOT HERE/NOT ANYWHERE”) NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION STOP ICE WAREHOUSE DETENTION APRIL 25, 2026

The regime is purchasing and converting warehouses to serve as concentration camps for the people ICE and Border Patrol disappear off the street — but local communities are fighting back. Join us at @detentionwatchnetwork.org's national day of action on Saturday: www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...

If you live in Virginia, tomorrow you have a huge opportunity to make it clear to the GOP that if they want to win, it won’t be by changing the rules and redrawing maps. At least, not without a fight. Vote YES on the redistricting vote, and push back!