6. Reminder: Huckabee also invited Jonathan Pollard, the unrepentant convicted former U.S. government employee who spied for Israel and betrayed the United States, to meet with him at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.
And now this?
3. A sitting U.S. ambassador publicly cheering one foreign minister’s attack on another ally’s foreign minister, particularly from a NATO ally, would be unacceptable in most administrations.
Poland is one of the most strategically important NATO allies today.
1. Why is Mike Huckabee, the sitting U.S. Ambassador to Israel, involving himself in a dispute between Israel and Poland?
This is outrageous.
Huckabee is in Israel to represent the interests of the United States, not the State of Israel.
NEW: The immigrant Catholic bishop overseeing Mar-a-Lago had a statement read at Masses across the diocese calling Trump's attack on Pope Leo XIV “disrespectful and violent.”
This comes as Bishop Robert Barron once again whitewashes the war, saying it’s not the Church’s place to judge it.
A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."
The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.
$1,700 is roughly the FIT burden of a household of three filing joint making 65k, to put that into tax perspective.
IF you make 65k or less, the tariffs effectively doubled your tax rate, and in fact, if you make much less than that it made the percentage increase incalculable because if you make less than like 50k and have a household of three you don't pay FIT net
5. This case arises from the President's March 26, 2026, Executive Order, Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors. 6. The Contractors Order equates most mentions of "race or ethnicity" to "racially discriminatory DEI activities." In doing so, it attempts to use intimidation to coerce much of the country to abandon efforts to promote inclusion and belonging, to forgo attempts to achieve more diverse communities and workplaces, and to ignore that this country's history requires many paths to reach equality. The Order is an unlawful attempt by the Administration to erase the realities of race, ethnicity, and a history of discrimination in this country, and to dismantle the architecture of equality. 7. The Administration views discussion of race and ethnicity as unlawful, and the very concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion as discriminatory. But that is flat wrong. The Contractors Order sanctions legal, and laudable, expression on race or ethnicity, and in doing so, violates the free speech, free association, and due process rights of Plaintiffs and their members.
BREAKING: A broad-based challenge was filed today in federal court in Maryland to the March "anti-DEI" federal contractors executive order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“Donald Trump, 79, reportedly threw such a tantrum during a fraught rescue operation in Iran that his aides banished him from the room as they were briefed.”
www.thedailybeast.com//white-house...
White House insiders told the newspaper that Trump was banished from a briefing on a rescue mission for two American airmen who were missing in Iran, with aides opting to update Trump at intervals instead of having him in the room.
l.smartnews.com/p-7zgT8o00/s...
I mean, yes, "allegedly" and so on, but I have a lot of trouble imagining The Atlantic got a *dozen* FBI/DOJ sources on the record for a story that is not, at least in the broad brushstrokes, largely substantively correct, even in the vipers' nest of the Trump administration.
You first, Trump!
The Kentucky Supreme Court has denied the plaintiff's request to remove Judge Cohron from presiding over the murder trial of Sheriff Mickey Stines.
Leave it to Trump to fuck up the US role in WW2.
LLMs won’t make us dumber; the Trump Admin we’re already positions. But it will allow us to indulge our stupidity, without being to understand what it is we are saying or where we get our facts from.
❗️Zelensky said Ukraine aims to create its own anti ballistic system within a year to reduce reliance on Patriot systems. He also said that withdrawal from Donetsk and Luhansk regions would mean defeat and weaken defensive lines, adding that Ukraine now acts as a defensive shield for Europe. #Ukraine
Washington can only pay attention to a scandal or two at a time, which means in the Trump age there are all sorts of should-be-big-deal scandals that don’t get the oxygen or media focus that they should.
I'll bet you've missed at least three of these: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-trump...
I had not been aware of this one.
If I'm recalling correctly, this facially absurd figure comes from a study that tested like a dozen malnourished and traumatized refugee children, then extrapolated the result to the entire country. It gets repeated purely because it panders to racist preconceptions.
Because remember, I just reported this a few weeks ago!
bsky.app/profile/jess...
Kash Patel’s lawyers are apparently using Urban Dictionary as a spellcheck.
ICE detain wife of 27 year active duty U.S. Army sergeant—she is also legally employed by Fort Bliss Army Base.
She was granted asylum from El Salvador under the Convention Against Torture protection in 2019.
Now facing deportation to Mexico—a country where she's never lived.
In a post on his personal website, Trump called ALL Democrats — tens of millions of Americans, all of whom he serves, & hundreds of elected representatives in Congress — “traitors”.
Treason is a capital offense.
Deadly serious.
Trump should retract, & apologize.
But he won’t.
Impeachment warranted.
Virginia, outside billionaires like Peter Thiel are trying to steal our elections. 💰
🚫 Not on our watch.
TOMORROW, April 21, 6am–7pm, vote YES. Same-day registration at your polling place.
Stop the illegal gerrymandering. Period.
#VoteYesVirginia
"'I would want to see what happens to the CDC homepage,' Debra Houry, the agency’s former chief medical officer, told me. 'Is it no longer filled with political diatribes? Is it back to just focusing on data and science and health guidance?'"
I think about this all the time. Old, white men, in power, who do not care about others because they do not worry about their future, are playing games that will take decades to undo. Shameful.
Surely nothing could possibly be amiss with this study.
Virginia voters, it is time to take a stand for fair elections!
Voting YES stops rigged maps and puts the power back in your hands. Let us end partisan gerrymandering together tomorrow.
Same day registration available your polling place!
#VoteYesForVirginiaLive
If we pull this off tomorrow (vote YES!), it will give me hope. Really need NoVA and VA Beach to understand the assignment though.
"judiciously"
