A poster with a colorful stack of books on the left and this text on the right: “Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.” ~ Jeff Zentner

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

"Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.”
~ Jeff Zentner

Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

Half of all new electricity demand in the U.S. last year came from data centers—just as public opinion of them plummets
Source: Fortune

Wow:

More Corruption from the felon.

Congress must prevent Commerce from using Gold Card funds to sidestep spending controls - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW's testimony calls on Congress to prevent Commerce from using Gold Card funds to sidestep spending controls.

Congress is being warned “Gold Card”💰 may be used to route around spending controls—another backdoor in a system stretched thin on oversight. Ethics monitors argue this isn’t just sloppy governance, but a pattern: loosen the rules, shift💰, No accountability
www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...

Trump administration begins refunding more than $166bn in tariffs Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs

So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.

The Art of the Deal.

If the US had honest negotiators . . .

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

Vance calls cutting U.S. aid to Ukraine a “proud achievement,” raising questions about pride amid Putin's attacks on civilians. Supporting leaders, who harms innocents, poses serious moral concerns.

ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary

Trump and his sons have enriched themselves by over 4 Billion dollars since he came into office

This is by FAR the most corrupt administration ever

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

Donald Trump crime family inside a trading More extraordinarily well-timed bets on falling oil prices raise suspicions

The financial world’s suspicions have been raised after yet another flurry of bets were placed minutes before a major Iran War announcement www.news.com.au/finance/mark...

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

Trump prison camp federal court ruling excoriates Trump Admin for "clear failure" to follow the law "in purchasing a large warehouse in Williamsport MD built to hold cargo and seeking to quickly convert it into a detention facility to house human beings..."

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

trump and republicans making america great again by... cutting cancer research:

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Moulton: "Trump is negotiating from behind with a team of completely amateur negotiators"

Arresting disabled veterans for exercising their 1st Amendment rights they fought to defend.

Enough is enough.

An actual lunatic is running the country

Speak Serious Truth.....

Kelly, Gallego urge DHS to halt planned ICE detention facilities in Surprise and Marana | Arizona Mirror Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego are urging DHS to halt planned ICE detention facilities in Arizona's Surprise and Marana amid concerns

"Arizona U.S. Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego are urging the Trump administration to put a halt to two planned detention facilities in the state as opposition to them grows and questions continue to mount...

"The two Senators have requested a response by May 1.

azmirror.com/briefs/kelly...

Rural Dialysis Unit Closes Despite State Getting $219M in Rural Health Funding The influx of money is out of reach

This is what results when healthcare becomes a profit maker and not a human right. The response from those who could prevent this is 'oh well'.

Rural Dialysis Unit Closes Despite State Getting $219M in Rural Health Funding www.medpagetoday.com/nephrology/g...

"The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped ... they're a net drain on the society" -- even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking

Well, today, we’re taxing the rich." Mayor Zohran Mamdani just stood in front of a $238M penthouse to announce a massive surcharge on billionaires. This is leadership. See the plan: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-resist...

“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”

—Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief American Prosecutor, Nuremberg, 1946

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian state media says reports of a second round of US-Iran talks in Pakistan are false.

"The news published by the US is part of their propaganda campaign and a 'blame game' aimed at pressuring Iran."

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

10 children were shot today in Shreveport, LA and 8 of them died. The police chief just doesn’t know how something like this could ever happen. But I think he knows exactly how something like this could happen and it has to do with the > 393 million guns in this country w/ very little regulation.

I am in Barcelona today to help unite progressive parties from around the world in a defense of democracy and a war against corruption. A first of its kind event. Necessary to beat back the forces of fascism.

🔥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.”