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I'm so sorry for your loss.

Insisting on a myopic view that brings them riches now and dooms the rest of us.

New lawsuit aims to block Trump DOJ from building national voter database via state voter roll grab The lawsuit calls the effort “a key component of the Trump Administration’s attempts to take over elections from states and subvert the 2026 midterms.”

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to block its bid to build a national voter database using private voter data from every state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

HIRONO: Does anybody have the kind of expertise that Secretary Moniz had when he participated in the JCPOA?

CHRIS WRIGHT: Absolutely. Absolutely

HIRONO: Who?

WRIGHT: Our whole team

HIRONO: Can you see I have some major skepticism?

KIM: Are you concerned there could be real long-term effects of this war in Iran with fuel and fertilizer?

WARSH: If my reform agenda stands for anything, it's for the central bank to stay in his lane

KIM: But you're also charged with forecasting

Chris Wright insists that collapsing snow pack in Colorado is the result of "the path of the jet stream last year," not climate change

Screenshot of a tweet by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) showing a Fox News Sunday Morning Futures exchange in which Maria Bartiromo asks FBI Director Kash Patel about the 2020 election being rigged, and Patel responds that arrests are coming "soon." The embedded video shows a split screen of Bartiromo in a red jacket and Patel in a suit, with a chyron reading "FBI Dir Slams Atlantic Article as 'All False.'"

Man accused of being hammered on the job tries desperately to save it.

He requires applause for all aspects of his existence.

Baseball role reversal: #AGoodPlace

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A small greenish bird is nectaring on a large pink flower. This is a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, a medium to long-distance migrant that spends winter in Central America. They usually arrive in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York in May.

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #Petals&Perches: a Ruby-throated Hummingbird on milkweed. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-s...

#hummingbird #RubyThroatedHummingbird #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds

The image shows five yellow and grayish birds perched on a feeding station in winter. These are Evening Grosbeaks. Evening Grosbeaks breed in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, but we are most apt to see them in winter at our birdfeeders.

The alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WhatTheFlock. Here’s a little flock of Evening Grosbeaks. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-w...

#eveninggrosbeak #grosbeaks #grosbeak #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds

There is some reason Rubio is not being sent. Is he in the dog house?

I believe it would be beneficial to American if we were to take away the lifetime healthcare and pensions for elected representatives and made them find healthcare and benefits just like their constituents
We have created lifetime of benefits for a job that was not meant to be a career

Term limits!

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.

AIPAC’s Campaign to Defeat Senator Jon Ossoff, NRSC hails the AIPAC’s attack. Senate leaders face pressure as AIPAC and Republicans unite against Democrats backing Gaza aid cuts. Find out what’s at stake.

"Senator Ossoff, who is Jewish, voted for a resolution to cut US supplies of the rifles used by the settlers and IDF to kill Palestinian civilians. As a result, AIPAC has targeted him for career destruction along with other, less vulnerable Democratic Senators."

Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia, speaking to an audience. (Mike Stewart / Associated Press)

Jon Ossoff: "Draft Dodging Donald loves sending other people’s children to war—

While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions of dollars — bc they’re crooks, & everybody knows it”

Thank you, Senator Cantwell!

'I know everything': Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro, Paolo Zampolli, and how the Epstein Network Brought Them Both to Trump's White House Flown to New York on Epstein's jet at 17, partnered for two decades with the man who brought Melania to the US, deported before she could post bail after a single phone call to a federal official, Ama...

In 2002 a 17 year old from Londrina, Brazil boarded Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet in Paris and was trafficked to New York. Around 30 girls were on that flight. Ghislaine Maxwell prowled the cabin. Some girls sat on Epstein’s lap. The teenager was Amanda Ungaro.

www.yacnews.com/amanda-ungar...

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today:

Active Voting Rights Cases: 158
Active Redistricting Cases: 44
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 85
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 71
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 30

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Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

He tried so hard

Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end Trump's elfish toady is quickly losing control of the House.

New in PN: Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end

"Johnson has such a small majority he can’t afford to alienate anybody, & he has nonetheless managed to alienate everybody. The coming months will be brutal for him & are likely to end w/his speakership destroyed in a humiliating, titanic blue wave"

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...

ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

(Published 2021)

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
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 his aides kept him out of the room as they received updates, simply telling him….

Recently, Dua Lipa raised funds via a Service95 event to provide the 1st Separate Medical Battalion with a pickup truck. It is now already helping our defenders💙💛

As they said, chances were “low but never zero”😉

Thank you to Dua Lipa for her support and radical optimism!

Amazonian royal flycatcher: #AGoodPlace

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This is fun

AOC: In some ways, you kind of want this guy on a golf course more than you want him in the Oval Office. But that also calls into question the 25th Amendment, because if the determination is that Trump cannot be trusted in the Situation Room, then he's not fit to be president.

This is a war based on lies