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

This story should be much bigger. Trump essentially signing death warrants for the Afghan allies who risked their lives to aid American troops. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation.

She represents us and the rage we feel.

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

(Published Nov. 2025)

TV weatherman saves newspapers, forecasts fair winds and growth A promising new model in Iowa is helping save rural newspapers and should be considered by philanthropists and other state associations.

"The association is working with Mid-America to keep the papers going with a form of bridge funding, giving them and potential buyers a better chance to succeed."

Jake Tapper did as good a job as an interviewer could in those last minutes.

Researchers monitor advance of invasive fish threatening Lake Champlain
www.adirondackexplorer.org/environment/invasive-spe...

“Alligator Alcatraz” Guards Allegedly Beat Prisoners for Requesting Phone Access The ACLU told a judge that guards were obstructing her March order to provide phone access in the jail.

As a result of our lawsuit, guards at "Alligator Alcatraz" are required to allow people detained at the facility to call their lawyers, in accordance with the Constitution.

Yet when our clients asserted their right to access phones, guards brutally beat them. ICE must be held accountable.

Did President Trump release his 2025 tax return yet?

Magyar Péter: After a year and a half, I am back in the "public" television studio. We have just witnessed the last days of a propaganda machine. After the formation of the TISZA government, we will suspend the news services of the “public” media until its public service character is restored.

It has gotten to the point that we now, reasonably, believe any source before we believe the White House.

The White House Correspondents Association is planning to "honor" Trump at its dinner three weeks from now.

No way.

It was egregious before. Now it's obscene.

Just sayin': After years of using the desktop version of TurboTax, I've been forced to go online. And I hate it.

Grassroots Efforts Bring Print Newspaper Back to Lumberton The Lumberton Post in Lumberton, Mississippi, is a new grassroots print newspaper created to help fill a local communication gap.

“Everyone wants to tune in to the homicides or whatever happens crime-wise, but the real stories are about what’s really happening in the communities,” John Maroney said.

‘I Will Destroy You’: The Battle Inside a Midwestern Media Dynasty The twin heirs to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade are estranged as their industry transforms

Why the twin heirs to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade are estranged, according to one.

Schenectady aquatic center plans sent back to drawing board The Schenectady County legislature is reevaluating its most recent plans to construct an aquatic center after community outcry over the increased size and cost.

The Schenectady County legislature is reevaluating its most recent plans to construct an aquatic center after community outcry over the increased size and cost.

Judge who destroyed emails should be barred from bench, state panel says Smithville Town Justice Jordon R. Lilley retired under investigation, but the Commission on Judicial Conduct says his misconduct merits permanent disqualification.

The problem with the judicial disciplinary process is that the accused remains on the bench — in this case for more than a year — despite the fact that none or very few of those who appeared before him were aware he had been the subject of a complaint of gross misconduct.

The First Post-Reality Political Campaign Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.

JD Vance is heading to Hungary to endorse Viktor Orban after Easter. Here is a description of the corrupt regime, and the post-reality campaign, that the US administration now supports:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

As an American, there are always disappointments to register and arguments to engage; amid the chaos of our battered, monied attempt at self-governance, dissent is constant.
But this feeling of being utterly ashamed of America and embarrassed to the core by its president is new, raw and unnerving.

US to allow Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba, New York Times reports The United States is allowing a Russian tanker full of crude ​oil to reach Cuba, in an easing of ‌the de facto oil blockade that Washington has imposed on Cuba, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing a ​U.S. official briefed on the matter.

US to allow Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba, New York Times reports reut.rs/4bWfy1Q

ICE said it plans to spend $38.3 billion on a new detention model that includes acquiring warehouses and converting them into detention centers, according to a government memo The government said it plans to convert warehouses for an immigrant detention network that would collectively hold more than 92,000 people.

The government said it plans to convert warehouses for an immigrant detention network that would collectively hold more than 92,000 people. on.wsj.com/3NQXMov

Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80

RIP Tracy Kidder — a nonfiction master in the league of John McPhee. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

Proposed Michigan public notice changes spark transparency fears from newspaper industry • Michigan Advance A leader in the House Republican caucus is in the early stages of researching ways to amend the state’s public notice requirements that presently rely on postings in local newspapers to keep the publi...

"I don’t know how much more modern we can get without the government being in control of it, which is not a good thing. That’s just the fox watching the henhouse.”

This is my personal reminder to go back to making bad photoshops in Word.

Millions advised to stay inside in Florida

Millions have been urged to stay indoors.

BREAKING

Bob Mueller, the former FBI director and Trump special counsel, has died, his family said in a statement.

He was 81.

“’They’re holding news conferences,’ Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD) told reporters last week, so there is no need for official hearings.”

Wow. So the news, which is all fake, should keep me well informed about a war that it needs approval from the Pentagon to report on.

How many times do we have to give farmers billions of dollars because Trump’s policies screw them over constantly? They overwhelmingly voted for this guy 3 times. Ask him for the money - maybe he can sell some crypto.

Journalist Estefany Rodríguez free from ICE custody on bond - Nashville Banner Nashville journalist Estefany Rodríguez, in ICE custody for more than two weeks, is released on bond. Her legal battle for freedom continues.

Nashville reporter Estefany Rodríguez is free

Opinion | Trucks and tractors reflect a bubbling frustration in rural America The right-to-repair movement is a bellwether. Which party will recognize the stakes?

"Rural voters, even those without dirt under their nails....retain a deeply resourceful, neighborly mindset. ..the “progress” rolling into town doesn’t feel like a helping hand. It feels like a shackle, binding farmers to proprietary software and local economies to absentee control.

States reconsider Cesar Chavez celebrations after sexual abuse allegations