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There's long been a type of savvy, conservative-coded con man who's especially adept at siphoning the money of AARP-eligible suburban and rural white Christians into their own, city slicker pockets. But the link between the grift and the right wing politics has rarely been as tight as it is today.

Aaron Astor: My general tendency is to reject conspiracy theories. And yet, this keeps happening - massive trades just minutes before Trump announces something. And that something (Iran handing over uranium and opening Hormuz) often turns out not to be true at all.

Yet another ICE inmate death is ruled a homicide by medical examiners.

Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks President Trump and his family are suing federal agencies over leaks of their tax information. Court filings say they’re in talks to find a solution instead of heading to trial.

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury...

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April 17, 2026 This morning, after a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect Thursday, Iran announced the Strait of Hormuz was open to commercial ships.

April 17, 2026

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE.
Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

Federal judge rejects Trump’s dubious defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal The demise of the president’s case is a demonstration of the benefits of fighting back — and of the folly of appeasement.

"The only way to lose in a fight against Trump is to try to appease him...

Those who "stand up for themselves and resist the ridiculous attempts at intimidation have prevailed..."

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

this would be less transparently pathetic if the focus on "costs, corruption, and affordability" actually included meaningful and consistent challenges to unchecked corporate power, which they're ALSO too feckless to do

Screenshot of a Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump). The text reads: "Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East. We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate. Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week" [image cuts off].

we're being held ransom by a sociopath with a head full of diarrhea and a corporate press incapable of being honest with itself

April 7, 2026 At 5:06 this morning, President Donald J.

April 7, 2026

April 6, 2026 (Monday) “It’s really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” journalist Aaron Rupar of Public Notice told George Grylls of The Times about President Donald J.

April 6, 2026
“It’s really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” journalist @atrupar.com of Public Notice told George Grylls of The Times about President Trump. Rupar explained that political journalists are trained to think, “‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’

The US is making “double taps” official military policy. This makes us monsters. Tell your lawmakers it’s got to stop.

The Iranian Embassy in South Africa weighs in:

ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy

Please share this story because everyone needs to hear the abusive use of detention by this administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

A photo of dozens of officers, nearly all of them white men, with a NYT headline that reads: Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List

Quite a photo + headline pairing.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

We can no longer tolerate a rigged tax code that enables billionaires to pay a lower effective tax rate than the average worker & corporations like Tesla & Palantir to pay ZERO in federal income taxes while making billions in profits.

Yes. The wealthy must pay their fair share.

25th Amendment: Former Trump attorney calls out Cabinet for not invoking Ty Cobb questions Cabinet inaction on 25th Amendment, calls Trump "clearly insane" during Jim Acosta interview.

Former Trump attorney Ty Cobb says the president is “clearly insane” over his disastrous Iran war and unhinged 4am rants, demanding the Cabinet finally invoke the 25th Amendment.

There’s currently a frantic search taking place for two US pilots who were shot down in Iran, and this idiot is talking about taking the oil.

THE BEAR WILL.......🐻

March 22, 2026 President Donald J.

March 22, 2026

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

Jeff Bezos, worth $233 billion, wants to raise $100 billion to replace factory workers with robots.

That’s a declaration of war against the working class.

He must explain to the American people what happens when millions lose their jobs. How will they survive?

the republican justices are as pickled in MAGA slop as any pardoned jan 6er

LIVE BLOG: Supreme Court hears GOP case that could decimate mail-in voting The case is squarely part of the broader GOP effort, led by President Donald Trump, to restrict mail voting, out of a belief that it helps Democrats.

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🚨HAPPENING SOON: SCOTUS is hearing arguments in a GOP challenge to Mississippi’s mail ballot grace period — a case that could impact YOUR vote if you depend on mail-in voting.

Check out our live blog and follow this thread for real-time updates and analysis from Marc Elias and our team:

Watching both sides of this war blatantly manipulate the US stock market is maddening.

Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men on earth, is raising $100 billion to replace workers with robots around the world.

The oligarchs want it all. Not going to happen.

Stand up and FIGHT BACK.

March 20, 2026 On Wednesday, Israeli forces hit Iranian facilities in the South Pars natural gas field in the Persian Gulf, shared by Iran and Qatar.

March 20, 2026