Sens. Warren and Blumenthal investigate NLRB decision to drop charges against SpaceX for retaliatory firings Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., are investigating the NLRB after it dropped charges against Elon Musk's SpaceX in February over retaliatory firings.

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In 2022, SpaceX was charged with illegally firing workers who spoke out against Elon Musk.

Then, Elon Musk helped elect Donald Trump, and Trump's labor board dropped the charges.

Was this a political favor? I'm pressing for answers.

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:

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‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facility A hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th.

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@Republican.Army BREAKING: California Mayor Bill Wells Just Said Top anti-ICE Protesters Are PAID Between $80,000 to $100,000 per Year. REST IN POWER

They don't just consume the propaganda; they crave it.

Oh yeah, that extra $80-100K side hustle I've got going here in CA has me rolling in dough.

My full time gig is marveling at how dumb these people are.

A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout the scene. Toward the left there is a prominent brown shape that looks like a head with two horns. The left horn points left and is wavy. The right horn is triangular and points up. The brown dust continues, flowing down, as if along a back, and up toward the top right. A prominent line, about the same length as the left horn, appears below the middle of the body, and changes from orange to red. A small, separate semi-transparent pillar is left of the head. A few slightly larger, blue foreground stars with four diffraction spikes appear throughout.

NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF THE TRIFID NEBULA TO START OFF ITS BIRTHDAY WEEK!!! 🌌

ICE’s hiring spree led to recruits of “questionable qualifications,” adding to pattern The entirety of the Trump presidency has been a grand experiment in what happens when an administration embraces amateurism and deprofessionalization.

ICE lowered its hiring standards, which followed DOJ lowering its standards for prosecutors, which followed the FBI lowering its standards for agents.

Trumpism is a grand experiment in what happens when an administration embraces amateurism and de-professionalization.
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Two weeks that pushed Trump to the edge. Is his presidency unravelling?

The president has opened fissures in his base by starting a war he couldn’t finish with Iran, stoking inflation and offending Christians. Barred from running again, he may feel he has nothing to lose

Under pressure Kash Patel claims FBI has ‘evidence’ that 2020 election was stolen The Director, rumored to be facing dismissal, says he has ‘information that backs President Trump’s claim’ that Joe Biden’s victory over him was achieved by widespread fraud

Under pressure FBI Director Kash Patel claims agency has ‘evidence’ that 2020 election was stolen from Trump: ‘Stay tuned this week’

Big shoutout to Kelty this week. They’re donating 5% of every purchase to the Conservation Alliance in support of saving the US Forest Service. Kelty is one of the four companies that actually founded the Conservation Alliance back in 1989, alongside Patagonia, REI, and The North Face.

The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.

The American Library Association has released its list of the most challenged books of 2025 The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at libraries across the country – the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color.

The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at libraries across the country – the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color. n.pr/4vFxjvp

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.

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Disabled veterans arrested by Capitol police protesting the war on Iran.
"Not another nickel, not another dime, no more for Trump's war crimes/the cost of war is too damn high."

Sharon Lokedi repeats as Boston Marathon women's champion, leading a Kenyan top four Sharon Lokedi captured her second straight Boston Marathon title on Monday, fending off a late challenge and powering through the 26.2 miles of the world’s oldest and most prestigious annual marathon ...

Congrats to Sharon Lokedi on her second (back-to-back) win at the #BostonMarathon. 🥳

Lokedi is today's women's champion with a time of 2:18:51. #Kenya

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May Day is next week and there are many ways you can join the massive day of economic disruption, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...

FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic claiming false reporting about drinking, absences FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and its ​reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick following the publication of an article on Friday alleging the director had a drinking probl...

If I represented the Atlantic, I’d lock in the earliest deposition date on the calendar. Call Patel’s bluff. He has zero interest in putting any of this under oath.

Eden Rainbow-Cooper, of Portsmouth, England, raises her arms while approaching the finish line while winning the women's wheelchair division of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 20, 2026. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Congrats to Eden Rainbow-Cooper for her second Boston Marathon wheelchair title! 🥳

Rainbow-Cooper is an English Paralympic athlete--finishing today in an unofficial 1:30:51.

#Boston #BostonMarathon

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

In light of Trump’s increasingly cruel and bonkers behavior, many of you want to know: “What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-f4a

This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

🆕 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a renewed view of the Trifid Nebula, a scene it first observed in 1997.

🔗 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

@science.esa.int @stsci.edu

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Discovery:

Kash Patel has sued the Atlantic for $250 million over their reporting of his heavy drinking, unexplained absences, and erratic behavior.

Team Trump reverses its reversal, gives Russia another break on oil sanctions “Enough is enough,” key Senate Democrats said. “President Trump needs to stop letting Putin play him for a fool.”

Team Trump keeps finding new ways to reward Russia:
- extended break on oil sanctions
- shrugging off evidence that Russia has helped Iran
- allowed Russia to bypass Cuban oil blockade
- vouched for Putin’s trustworthiness

And that’s just from the last couple of months.
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Furious Trump 'locked out' of Iran meeting after 'screaming at staff for hours' Donald Trump was reportedly locked out of a high-stakes Situation Room meeting after Senior officials feared his temperament could jeopardize the rescue mission of a downed American airman in Iran

Trump 'locked out' of Iran Situation Room meeting after he 'screamed at aides for hours'

Important investigation- national policy bends to the will of billionaires if the Trump clan will make $ from it

A studio portrait photograph of Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, the pioneering Norwegian politician, physician, and global diplomat born on April 20, 1939. In the image, an older Brundtland is shown from the shoulders up in a classic head-and-shoulders composition, positioned slightly to the right against a seamless, deep-black studio backdrop that creates dramatic contrast and focuses all attention on her. Her short, softly wavy silver-gray hair falls just above her shoulders in a natural bob, framing her face. She gazes directly at the viewer with bright, clear blue eyes that convey warmth and quiet confidence, her mouth open in a broad, genuine smile that is accented by vivid pink lipstick. She wears a tailored black blazer with structured shoulders and lapels, beneath which a richly textured blue scarf—woven with subtle variations in tone and a delicate pattern—loops gracefully around her neck and drapes down the front of her chest.

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland (b. #OTD 1939) was #Norway's 1st female Prime Minister, 1981.

+ Director-General of WHO, 1998-2003, officially declared health a fundamental human right

+ Global leader in public health & environmentalism, often called the "mother of sustainable development" #WomenInSTEM

Feeding at the Public Trough Trump is stealing our tax dollars. He's not the only corrupt one.

“Trump’s systematic exploitation of Executive Branch power to loot billions of dollars from American taxpayers is the ongoing scandal of this ruthlessly corrupt Administration,” Rep. Jamie Raskin said.

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