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...

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Words & Phrases We can agree Iran has not agreed to anything

Words & Phrases:
We can agree Iran has not agreed to anything
by Jennifer Rubin

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Trump 'tried to use nuclear codes but was stopped by military chief'

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Why Consumers are F*cked Trump's Never-ending War and Trump's Never-ending Tariffs are pushing up Never-ending price increases

Why Consumers are F*cked
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Goodbye and Good Riddance, Madam Secretary of Labor You've disgraced yourself and a great department, and it's Trump's fault for nominating you in the first place

Goodbye and Good Riddance, Madam Secretary of Labor
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Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
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Larry Sabato: New NBC Poll: Trump’s job approval at 2nd term low. 63% Disapprove, 37% Approve. 50% STRONGLY Disapprove. So much winning.

Hundreds rally against ICE as judge agrees to block detention center construction - Maryland Matters A federal judge on Wednesday limited further construction on a planned Washington County immigration detention center, saying the government's plans for the facility and its impacts on the environment...

"In addition to filling the courtroom gallery and two additional overflow rooms, hundreds of protestors rallied outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Baltimore before the case was set to be heard..."

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Nice

April 19, 2026 On the evening of April 18, 1775, the people who lived in the British colony of Massachusetts had gone to bed with the sun, as usual.

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What You Can Do NOW The 10 Most Important Ways to Resist Now. (Revised, Updated, Expanded.)

What You Can Do NOW

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Trump Is Making China Great His blunders inure to our chief rival

Trump Is Making China Great --
His blunders inure to our chief rival
by Jennifer Rubin

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*talk about your golden idol*

'What a fool': Trump sculptor says he got played over that 'awful' rush job as missing money starts to become the bigger story

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🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

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Remember when Trump said he'd eliminate the debt? President Donald Trump likes to claim that his administration has been a radical departure from the past, but one conservative commentator has statistics which tell a very different story.Simply put, Trump has continued a pattern that began under Republicans like Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Geo...

Remember when Trump said he'd eliminate the debt? President Donald Trump likes to claim that his administration has been a radical departure from the past, but one conservative commentator has statistics which tell a very different story.Simply put, Trump has continued a pattern that began under Rep

The White House refused to answer how much the war is costing us. Now Trump wants $1.5T for defense, which is almost 70 percent of the discretionary budget.

Trump is funding war & tax breaks for billionaires at the expense of healthcare and childcare for Americans.

If this weren't so horrifying, the idea of the Palantir dweebs as the standard-bearers for a "culture producing vital advances" would be beyond fucking hilarious

April 18, 2026 And, just like that, President Donald J.

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The Worst Justice Ever His attack on progressivism last week was the last straw

The Worst Justice Ever
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Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

#MedicareForAllNOW

Trump Plans Oil Lease Sale in Alaska’s Arctic Wildlife Refuge The Trump administration plans to offer at least 400,000 acres in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling rights in June, marking its first such sale in the rugged area prize...

Starting in June, you too can defile the earth. Wasn't enough to kill the Boundary Waters, Hood River National Forest, & Chaco Canyon to fill rich folks coffers. 🖕🖕🖕

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TODAY: Folks in Texas are protesting the Dilley ICE detention center, demanding the Trump administration shut it down.

Signs read: NO KIDS IN CAGES.

#VaticanFilesToDistractFromIranWarAndEpstein 😮

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.

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Kennedy Center whistleblower tells all on shady Trump admin takeover, $2 million seats near Trump

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Images of food being served to sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Tripoli, published by USA Today. Supplies "are going to get really low" and "morale is going to be at an all-time low," one sailor messaged his mother

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Christian Nationalist Pete Hegseth has come up with a way to motivate Iranians to kill more American troops. Instead of framing the war as being against the Iranian regime, which many Iranians dislike and wouldn't fight for, he talks of the war being against their Islamic faith. He's smart that way.

Schiff: What more will happen? You know, really, the sky’s the limit. We have to anticipate they could create some provocation at a polling place to create a pretext to call on the military or to seize ballot boxes. And we’re going to be prepared for whatever they throw our way…