April 20 - The Bravest of Conductors On this day in Labor History the year was 1853. That was the day that Harriet Tubman led her first trip on the underground railroad, the clandestine network that helped enslaved people escape slavery and move north to freedom. One of the most remembered ‘conductors’ on the railroad, Tubman had herself escaped slavery in eastern Maryland.

April 20 - The Bravest of Conductors

On this day in Labor History the year was 1853. That was the day that Harriet Tubman led her first trip on the underground railroad, the clandestine network that helped enslaved people escape slavery and move north to freedom. One of the most remembered ‘condu

Is the United States Worth Saving? Every generation has faced a moment when quitting seemed reasonable — and every generation refused. We have no right to be the first.

He's correct. We have no right to be the first not even to try.
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I realize they are gaslighting, but it IS decisive in that it will decisively end the period of American hegemony (which was in decline, but now can officially end) and important in that it will rewire global economic and military alliances away from the US, possibly forever. Decisive end of an era.

As if we needed more evidence that legacy media is failing the US in terms of what we need to understand about the administration, this analysis is damning. Kurshner's has no formal role in the administration, was never confirmed, and is 🍊's son-in-law. Cover him that way.

Chart claiming to show immigrants' 'illegal entries' to US under Biden misrepresents real data Sure, numbers don't lie. But statisticians can present data in ways to fit chosen narratives.

Your MAGA relatives have already seen a misleading chart on immigration under Biden on X or Facebook. Here's a good analysis of why it is misleading:
www.snopes.com/news/2026/04...

“Sorry I cut off the cancer research funding for your husband, fake DoorDash granny. Bibi needed new bombs. Here’s a hundred bucks. That makes us even.”

Peter Thiel's Secret Political Network Is Already Planning Life After Trump When these people say liberal democracy has failed, they are not talking about the left. They are talking about the American ‘experiment’ itself.

Worth your time:
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Yikes! Always something…

We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI.

📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

Ossoff: I don’t know who placed those trades, but I’ll tell you this: the SEC better find out. And if they won’t, when you elect this new majority in Congress and you give us gavels and subpoenas, we will.

Donald Trump is a reflection of what America has become: a nation comprised primarily of uneducated, arrogant, racist buffoons without a conscience or even basic social skills, scamming their way thru life with impunity while believing that laws apply only to other people— never to them.

The Iranians are playing this brainsick dullard like a yo-yo.

Pay attention folks. This is how it's done. Trump sues his own DOJ, run by his private attorney, for $10 billion. Normally that would go through the courts with the DOJ arguing AGAINST giving Trump $10 billion.

Instead, his DOJ will negotiate a settlement OUTSIDE of court. Literally inside dealing.

Fossil Fuels Are Not The Future….

Palantir Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2025 While Raking in Taxpayer Funds to Surveil Americans Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year.

Palantir Paid No Federal Income Tax in 2025 as It Partnered With ICE, Pentagon. Seriously, zero. truthout.org/articles/pal...

Attorney I work with asked me to check out 3 appellate cases cited by opposing counsel.

Two did not exist and the third favored our position.

#LawSlop

Did Obama give Iran $1.7 billion in cash? Claim is missing key context The Obama administration sent Iran $1.7 billion in 2016, but social media posts often omitted why.

Now that Trump is contemplating a financial payment to Iran (in addition to making their oil much more profitable), it's worth bringing back an explanation of the misleading "pallets of cash" critique of Obama. Snopes explains it well:
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Pallets of cash to Iran, you say?

Palantir Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2025 While Raking in Taxpayer Funds to Surveil Americans Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year.

Palantir Paid No Federal Income Tax in 2025 as It Partnered With ICE, Pentagon. Seriously, zero. truthout.org/articles/pal...

The world is on fire because of our madman, yet the US stock market is on fire in a positive way. What explains the disconnect? JVL offers a theory: when chaos becomes normalized, it no longer looks like risk. For example, the tariffs:

Orban copied Trump. Trump copied Orban.

And in the end, the people of Hungary chose democracy and the rule of law. As will happen here too. But only if we do our work, like they did.

From America, America:

We should be learning from other countries...

We live to fight another day! A victory tonight—as we killed a backroom deal Johnson and the WH cut to extend FISA authority for five more years. Dropped in the middle of the night.

We killed it on the Floor. But, it will be back. So we must keep fighting!

'There Is Only One Majority in This Country, That's the Working Class,' Says Mamdani | Common Dreams "It's time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what it is that we're pursuing and not as part of the appendix."

Mamdani: Democratic socialism viable anywhere. “...this is a politics that can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country – that’s the working class, and it’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of [public policy]..." www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...

$500,000 buys a “one-on-one meeting” with Trump On Friday, President Trump is scheduled to appear at the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, for a Turning Point USA event.

And the grift goes on, and the grift goes on 🎼
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The Oldest System Nobody was surprised.

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The Quiet Way Authoritarianism Begins to Crumble Among the many reasons for Viktor Orbán’s defeat was the rural clubs where citizens relearned democratic habits.

Worth reading, thinking about, and considering how this might relate to an emerging "run everywhere" approach that some Dems are advocating (especially for rural communities).
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Did Obama give Iran $1.7 billion in cash? Claim is missing key context The Obama administration sent Iran $1.7 billion in 2016, but social media posts often omitted why.

Because I’m tired of explaining why Obama sent💰to Iran to people who just repost the memes, I’m sharing an explanation by Snopes that covers it well:
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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admited that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from the Epstein files release.
DEATH? The truth is probably far worse than anyone can imagine. Blanche needs to be proescuted as well.

Ballot initiative to end Idaho’s abortion ban close to 100,000 signatures • Idaho Capital Sun The group behind a proposed ballot initiative to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban says it is close to qualifying for November ballots.

Ballot initiative to end Idaho’s abortion ban close to 100,000 signatures idahocapitalsun.com/briefs/ballo...