A bad, bad weekend for Trump: After Vance talks fail, he says the US will blockade the Strait of Hormuz. WEEKEND QUOTABLES: He bashes the Pope and then depicts himself as Jesus.

A bad, bad weekend for Trump: After Vance talks fail, he says the US will blockade the Strait of Hormuz.
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The AIPAC candidate.

Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"

Live Updates: Inflation Surges as Effects of the Iran War Show in Prices. Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the United States has “no inflation” or that inflation has been “defeated.”
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Frightening thought as we look at the lunatic with the button.

Weekend Quotables Trump's Easter Message vs. The Pope's

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If only...

Col. Lockjaw?

It wasn't just a US jet that was shot down. Trump's "easy victory" story fell with it.

It wasn't just a US jet that was shot down.
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White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request

“It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things,” he said.
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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Don’t Let the Trump Administration Move Department of Education Programs | NEA Shifting programs to other agencies hurts kids and communities, and usurps the power of Congress.

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Israel Is Dropping 2,000-Pound Bombs on Densely-Populated Tehran, Reports Say Israeli forces said last week that they have dropped 3,600 munitions on the Iranian capital alone.

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Who Are the Houthis? The Iran-backed militia has launched an attack on Israel, appearing to open another front in the spiraling war in the Middle East.

The Houthis, an Iranian-backed militant group that controls much of Yemen, said on Saturday that they had launched a ballistic missile attack on Israel. Here’s what to know about the Houthis and how the move escalated the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

The Pentagon is considering sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East even as President Trump claims peace talks with Iran. (WSJ)

The Czar is wilding again.

In California, a Republican Sheriff Seizes Ballots, Prompting Criticism

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What's the ugliest
Part of your body?
Some say your nose
Some say your toes
(I think it's your mind)
But I think it's YOUR MIND
(Your mind)
I think it's your mind, woo woo -- Zappa

Trump threatens to bomb Iran's power plants...then walks it back...Chaos at US airports. WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Trump threatens to bomb Iran's power plants...then walks it back...Chaos at US airports. PLUS WEEKEND QUOTABLES by Mike Klonsky on Subtack. open.substack.com/pub/michaelk...

Convoy to Cuba busts Trump's blockade. A blockade only works if others fear it. A flotilla is what happens when they don’t.

Convoy to Cuba busts Trump's blockade.
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Miller's Law: Due process is just a speed bump. He's the architect of exclusion

It’s a moment when the country is forced to ask what these agencies are for and what constitutional limits still bind them, even as the White House openly argues that due process is a speed bump.
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Venezuela!!!!!

Then why are we pirating Venezuela's oil? And why are we being gouged at the pump?

Trump’s cancellation of licenses for immigrant truckers takes effect The rule bars immigrants who are asylum seekers, refugees or DACA recipients from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses.

The Transportation Department’s rule will weigh on the beleaguered trucking industry, which is critical to transporting goods across America at a time when energy costs are surging due to the war in Iran.

The Great Venezuelan Gold Heist
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What about the genocides of the Jews and Gaza Palestinians.

Hegseth on the Strait of Hormuz: 'Umm, we planned it this way.' Lots of braggadocio about military superiority, but the straight remains closed.

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Oil Shock Sends Tremors Through World Economy: ‘This Really Is the Big One’

In Hanoi, Vietnam, gas station owners posted “sold out” signs. In Kenya, tea growers and traders worried their exports to Iran would rot on the dock. And across the United States, Canada, Europe, Britain and Mexico, farmers blanched at the surge in fertilizer costs.
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U.S. Military Refuses to Endorse Trump Claim That Iran Bombed Girls’ School “It would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation,” CENTCOM told The Intercept.

“This is another instance of Trump lying and just talking out of his ass,” said a U.S. government official who reviewed satellite images of the Shajarah Tayyebeh school. “This clearly was not a failed rocket from the IRGC base.”
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