EU risks fallout with US over Trump-linked Balkans pipeline plan Exclusive: Brussels seeks to stall award of contract to firm fronted by US president’s lawyer in letter seen by Guardian

Staggering levels of corruption…
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A reminder: No matter how much he backtracks and backgrounds to the press to try to cover his tail in the president’s disastrous war of choice, Marco Rubio is not now and has never been the “adult” in the room. He is willing, even eager, participant of the insanity and has been since the beginning.

FWIW, Mussolini made his son-in-law the Italian foreign minister.

I read things daily that I unfortunately can’t share here, but the situation with Iran is far more chaotic than most people realize. The effects will reverberate across the Middle East for a long time.

F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend

Kash Patel's girlfriend got the FBI to investigate the NYT reporter who wrote a story about how the government is providing her security detail www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Serious question: If a publicly held company was eligible for tariff refund and opted not to claim it (particularly for political reasons), wouldn't that be violating their fiduciary duty to shareholders?

Kind of like the world treated Putin’s 2014 invasion and occupation of Crimea?

Epstein’s victims say others abused them. Files shed little light on how investigators followed up | CNN There is little clarity in the DOJ’s Epstein files release on how investigators pursued the leads from victims who alleged sexual abuse by other men.

NO! Not "raising doubts." Instead, these reports further confirm reports of sex trafficking by Epstein that have been known for decades. Girls as young as 13 submitted sworn statements that Epstein trafficked them to Trump.

The voices of women and young girls were simply ignored.

Pigs. #AbolishICE

Can we put Unitarian Universalist principles on the walls, too? Can a question about the 10 Commandments segue into a discussion of other religions’ governing doctrine? Inquiring minds want to know.

Trump will soon be demanding the Fields Medal for discovering a new method of calculating percentages...

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.

What is this even supposed to mean? What’s the logic train here? Truman opted not to send in troops, while D-Day was part of a broader strategy that had been planned for years.

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

This…exactly…

Screenshot of an online opinion article by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "The Texas gerrymander freakout," with the subheadline, "What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy." The publication date is August 20, 2025.

​Screenshot of an online opinion article from The Washington Post by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss," with the subheadline, "The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

The WaPo editorial board when Republicans gerrymander in Texas versus when Democrats gerrymander in Virginia.

Iran’s FM spokesperson:
Iran has not decided to join the new round of talks with the US, as Washington keeps changing its stance hour by hour and lacks consistency and a unified approach in its decisions.-IRIB

Opinion | Trump Holds the American People in Total Contempt

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...

Virginia voters just handed Democrats another win in the Great Redistricting Wars Trump’s gerrymandering efforts are backfiring.

Trump thought he could steal the midterms by making MAGA minions rig the House maps.

They thought blue states would sit back and do nothing.

We proved them wrong. Thank you to VA Indivisibles and organizers across the commonwealth for this huge win and your commitment to protecting our democracy.

Well done, Virginia!

A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss (Gift link!)

As a (small) donor, I’m happy to learn that’s how they spent some of my contribution. And I fully appreciate why they wouldn’t publicize it.

Seriously? Like every Trump nominee, he’s lying.

The National Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel The FBI Director is a national embarrassment — and desperate to keep his job.

The fact Patel either doesn’t have or doesn’t listen to advisors who could tell him that flying a govt Gulfstream jet to a place literally called “Boondoggle Ranch” is all you need to know about his FBI tenure and level of talent he’s surrounding himself with. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-nation...

Well, at least if all of DOD gets the flu in the Fall, they won't be available to disrupt the November election if the wannabe dictator tries to invoke martial law or impose military rule.

If not for Trump, what's the emoluments clause for? What's impeachment for? What's the 25th Amendment for? What's section 3 of the 14th Amendment for? What are checks and balances for?

The baddies are cherrypicking the Constitution the same way they do the bible: for their own benefit.

Trump has created a defence crisis for the US. The military has heavily depleted key missile stockpiles during the Iran War, raising concerns about readiness for another major conflict, CNN reports.

One expert warned it has opened “a window of increased vulnerability”.

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Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’

Worth reading, but I can imagine Trumpists seizing on and highlighting the 'one of the five most consequential presidents' quote, ignoring that it's presented as a huge negative, highlighting the terrible consequences of his actions.

Explore this gift article... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Could read ‘Enabler’ or ‘Complicit’ or even ‘Collaborator’

This World War I Killer Took Almost as Many US Troops' Lives as Combat World War I, which would claim 20 million lives by its end, and the Spanish flu is estimated to have killed between at least 50 million people.

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