Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women The two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths.

For the first time since ProPublica reported on preventable deaths of pregnant women under Texas’ abortion ban, the state’s medical board has disciplined doctors in those cases.

Justin Sun, a Chinese national accused of fraud who invested $45 million in President Trump’s crypto firm after his election victory, is now suing the shady venture, which he says is “on the brink of collapse.” trib.al/FY2je98

Crypto billionaire Justin Sun sues Trump family’s World Liberty Financial Fraud claims come amid escalating feud between the Trump venture and one of its biggest supporters

Crypto billionaire Justin Sun sues Trump family’s World Liberty Financial ft.trib.al/A9uA1rZ

When @MarshaBlackburn talks about Trump cutting taxes, this is what she counts on us all being too dumb to understand

SARA EISEN: The president is just expressing what he wants in terms of monetary policy

ELIZABETH WARREN: I'm sorry. Is that real? You think it's not different to say 'here's how I read the numbers' and being the president and employing the DOJ to bring criminal charges against someone?

Investigating the Good Guys DOJ claims the Southern Poverty Law Center was "paying off" the Ku Klux Klan. The group's track record and common sense suggest otherwise.

A little background on who the Southern Poverty Law Center is and what kind of work they’ve been doing for decades makes it clear that DOJ’s indictment (which is of the center, not of any individuals) is vindictive & malicious, an attack on civil rights work itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

🔴 BREAKING: EU provisionally approves €90bn Ukraine loan as 🇭🇺 Hungary drops opposition
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/22/u...

George Washington’s Woke Vaccines What the Founders would have thought about Pete Hegseth lifting the requirement that service members get the flu vaccine.

Hegseth's repeal of universal flu vaccines is nonsense on so many levels, but his claim vaccine mandates were an "era of betrayal" irked me as a historian. Here's my response, in @thebulwark.com this morning;

www.thebulwark.com/p/george-was...

Warsh Ties Himself in Knots to Please Trump. It Can’t Last Would-be Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh dismissed concerns that President Donald Trump was trying to undermine the central bank’s independence at his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Trump has weaponized the Justice Department against the central bank’s leadership and used his social media account to demand lower interest rates and lob schoolyard insults. But to hear Warsh tell it, the greater threat to independence is the Fed itself, which has supposedly lost credibility through so-ca

Would-be Fed chair Kevin Warsh blames the Fed, rather than Trump, for the threat to its independence. That's a convoluted argument (via Bloomberg Opinion)

AP-NORC poll:

Only 33% of U.S. adults approve of Trump's overall job performance

30% approve of his handling of the economy

32% approve of Trump's leadership on Iran

AOC: In some ways, you kind of want this guy on a golf course more than you want him in the Oval Office. But that also calls into question the 25th Amendment, because if the determination is that Trump cannot be trusted in the Situation Room, then he's not fit to be president.

Trump fought to keep the ballroom fundraising contract secret. Here’s what’s in it. The agreement governing hundreds of millions in private donations was kept secret until a watchdog group sued and a judge ordered it disclosed.

Exclusive: The Trump administration has declined to disclose the total amount raised, the identities of all donors or basic details about the White House’s ballroom design — until now.

Here’s what we learned from the records obtained by The Post:

Exclusive: US turns to Ukrainian counter-drone tech after Iran attacks, sources say By David Jeans April 22, 202611:03 AM GMT+1Updated 1 hour ago A damaged U.S. E-3 radar aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base A damaged U.S. Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control aircraft following an Iranian strike on the airbase, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia in this picture obtained from social media released on March 29, 2026. SOCIAL MEDIA/via REUTERS/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights

Turns out Ukraine not only had some cards, but the US has decided to use them.

😜

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Kash's kayfabe lawsuit His defamation claim makes a mockery of the law.

New in PN: Kash's kayfabe lawsuit

"Patel seems to think he dropped a world of hurt on The Atlantic when all he really did was show that both he and his attorneys seem to have been struggling with hangovers during their first year of law school."

Hope John Roberts, who assured us that absolute immunity would prevent presidents from going after their predecessors, sees this

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.

less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

Q: Can you explain the computer log in issue? Your lawsuit contends you were not able to log in

PATEL: Survey -- how many of you people believe that's true?

Q: Did you communicate that you thought you were fired?

PATEL: It never happened. You are lying.

Q: The lawsuit says the opposite!

Just insane slap to the people who so bravely helped us, and then had to flee their country because of a withdrawal Trump agreed to with the Taliban. He is reliably never on the side of human rights

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is so heinous, I do not know what to say. This shit devastates me.

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Subpoenas were issued in probe of Russia ‘conspiracy,’ then DOJ clawed them back, sources say The Justice Department sent subpoenas to witnesses, and then withdrew them, in its investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan for his role in the Russia investigation.

The DOJ has begun withdrawing several subpoenas that had been issued just days prior in a criminal probe of former CIA Director John Brennan for his role in the Russia investigation, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Warsh sidesteps questions over Trump’s influence on Fed rate policy Nominee to head US central bank grilled by senators over president’s public calls for cuts

Warsh sidesteps questions over Trump’s influence on Fed rate policy ft.trib.al/AID7Eh9

Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."

"Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent," said Chad Mizelle, former chief of staff for Bondi. "Many career prosecutors are not interested in this kind of work. It's a very small group of people."

Bondi's former chief of staff Chad Mizelle: "Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent."
From @paulareidcnn.bsky.social and other @cnn.com folks:

Still holding out for some crafty Dem to set up this pitfall—start by asking about the 2016 and 2024 elections, before circling back to 2020—but Warren's better than most. www.offmessage.net/p/the-fights...

Trump’s words could be considered as a threat to companies that do seek refunds for the tariffs they paid, as would be their right under the Supreme Court’s ruling. In the past, he has praised companies whose executives have cozied up to him or donated large amounts of money. trib.al/dqj7wUV

Given recruitment difficulties and losses from disease, George Washington literally mandated smallpox inoculation for all troops in 1777

Five Trump Scandals You’ve Probably Missed Swirling scandals—from the Pentagon to DHS to the IRS to the Labor Department—that represent basic betrayals of public office, trust, and confidence-in-leadership that should be the table stakes of go...

@vermontgmg.bsky.social on five Trump 2.0 scandals "that under any normal interpretation of democracy and American politics would be administration-shaking and yet there’s a good chance you haven’t even heard of at least three of them." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-trump...

"I'm doing a ballroom now" -- Trump is now ranting about his ballroom on CNBC

It’s critical to note that this clip should be taken as evidence that Trump is (obviously) taking cuts of the funds being used to build his new white house ballroom, the arc, etc