Well, it would be a shame if anything happened to it before they put people in it

FOX: “Home foreclosures jumped 26% in the first three months of this year.”

This is what happens at concentration camps

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

Iran’s Parliament Speaker MB Ghalibaf accuses Trump of lying, saying he made “seven claims in one hour, all false.” He adds Iran—not the U.S.—will control the Strait of Hormuz, with ships requiring “Iranian authorization” to pass.

Donald Trump single-handedly making Iran a trustworthy arbiter of the truth is not something I would have thought possible

Just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market. Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, ​a $760 million bet that oil would go down. These orders were much larger than anything else at the time. The traders made huge gains. Unusual.

The odds that one or more of my sources have been making an insane amount of money on insider trading... probably quite high

The only president or major party candidate in half a century not to disclose his tax returns—who fought for years, at taxpayer expense, to keep them private, and lost—now wants the IRS to MORE THAN DOUBLE HIS NET WORTH at taxpayer expense as a part of the systematic pillaging he calls a presidency.

Logjam of U.S. immigration applications puts millions at greater risk of deportation An NPR analysis shows how immigrants' attempts to live or work legally in the U.S. are caught in a bureaucratic morass.

An NPR analysis shows how immigrants' attempts to live or work legally in the U.S. are caught in a bureaucratic morass. n.pr/489bla1

I was thinking that in any sane time this would be the sappy feel good story at the end of the 10:00 news, now it’s just another scene in our daily horror show

Exclusive: DOGE cuts prompt scramble to feed troops at remote US base The remote Army base is responsible for shooting down nuclear missiles targeting the United States.

Large parts of the business of keeping the US military fed were privatised to civilian contractors.

And then last year DOGE started making cuts in those civilian contractors.

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The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.

🤣 the timing

ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

About the Lady Astronaut novels What are the Lady Astronaut novels about? The first novels are a duology, The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky. Where do these books fit in with the short story “The Lady Astronaut of Mars…

maryrobinettekowal.com/lady-astrona...

sacrilicious!

a young man says " you guys are getting paid " in front of a white sign Alt: " you guys are getting paid?!" Meme

There’s a track?!

Time for a best free butter follow up article

as Congress wrangles over extending vs. reforming controversial government surveillance powers under FISA Section 702, Trump has logged on to say the quiet part out loud: a clean extension of Section 702 would enable ongoing violations of our rights

Who could have foreseen that voting in a bunch of reactionary jackoffs cowed by a cult of personality to a supreme leader would lead to a rudderless party bereft of leadership?

Roughly half of STEM PhD students in the U.S. are international students.

75% of them stay in the U.S. long term after graduating to contribute their skills to U.S. scientific research and development.

Cutting international student visas hurts U.S. science now and long into the future.

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

New from @gaigedavila.bsky.social: “It’s not targeting criminals, it’s not targeting dangerous people, it’s targeting individuals who are members of our community, who have a lot to offer and continue to offer a lot of positive things for our entire country and our society.”

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart The family of Marie-Thérèse, from Brittany, fear for her health after she was cuffed and placed in a detention centre

An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US to marry her 1950s sweetheart is being held in a crowded detention centre in Louisiana after she was arrested by immigration agents and cuffed by her hands and feet.

One of many bizarre things about the present moment is that that Trump is not only very clearly fundamentally irreligious personally but regards his enthusiastic Evangelical supporters as total lunatics, with an amused contempt he barely even bothers to conceal. And it just never seems to register.

Concentration camps

spongebob squarepants is making a funny face with his hands in the air and says imagination . Alt: spongebob SquarePants making a rainbow above his head with his hands while saying “imagination”

“Resolves itself somehow”

MAGA credulity knows no bounds

Former Syracuse basketball player to be deported after more than a month in ICE custody

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball.

Now being discarded as if he was human refuse.

Shame on Syracuse for not intervening.

www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

Hungary's prime minister elect announcing that Orbán was funding CPAC and other Trump-related political activities (also Heritage Foundation's Project 2025), and this will now end.

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

This is NUTS

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