in bets on the war & oil prices just minutes before major occurrences. Legal AF

A new investigation has been started by Senate leaders against Pete Hegseth, based on reports in the Financial Times that he tried to invest $ millions in defense contractor stock funds BEFORE the war with Iran started, betting on human suffering & destruction. Congress also investigates $ billions⬇️

conservatism.”
— Judge Michael Luttig

“Justice Thomas intended his speech as a Republican & conservative manifesto for our times & for all times. But the political & constitutional philosophies he described & embraced are neither doctrinal conservatism nor Republican nor political conservatism, & they are manifestly not constitutional ⬇️

Iran refuses to negotiate while the Trump’s US naval blockade remains. The ceasefire expires around 3 am Tehran time on Wednesday.
No Iranian diplomatic delegation has arrived in Islamabad, & JD Vance has not left Washington.

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Get your kids vaccinated!
Rebecca Archer’s daughter Renae was 5 months old & too young to get the measles vaccine before an outbreak occurred in her town. She caught the disease. Complications arose 10 years later, & she died from them.
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This is Trump after the shooting in Butler, PA. His ear was never injured & that’s fake blood.

“Larry Johnson, a retired CIA analyst, claimed Trump tried to access nuclear codes, but was stopped by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” Newsweek

replacements.” Gary Jacobson, professor emeritus, U of CA-San Diego
The Supreme Court has been complicit in the undermining of trust.

has been “highly consequential in an overwhelmingly negative way. He will leave a lasting negative legacy.” Michael Bailey, Georgetown political scientist
“The mass firing of dedicated & experienced civil servants has made government dumber & weaker and will make it harder to attract talented ⬇️

Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’

“America can thank the president for environmental deregulation that could sicken & kill people by the tens or even hundreds of thousands. Voters in this country twice elected a president with no ethics, no empathy & no end to his narcissism.” Thomas B. Edsall
Trump ⬇️
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“Easily the Worst President in US History.
The damage President Trump has inflicted on the United States & the world is so enormous & wide-ranging that it is hard to grasp.” — Thomas B. Edsall

search of Mar-a-Lago where Trump was illegally storing classified documents.

It’s a seething snake pit.
After Patel’s behavior in the locker room of the US men’s Olympic hockey team, when he was recorded shouting & chugging beer, NBC News reported Trump was unhappy with Patel. Shortly afterward, Patel directed the FBI to fire at least 6 FBI employees connected to the 2022 ⬇️

we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago Mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights.”
Rep Jon Ossoff (D-GA)

“It’s not just Jared getting in on the action. A company owned in part by Eric & Don Jr. has been pitching Gulf kingdoms on its drone interceptors during this war. The Financial Times reported, ‘Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defense fund before Iran attack.’
I tell you what, never before have⬇️

about the people who confirmed him?…Senate Republicans confirmed people like Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr. & Kash Patel. All of them deeply unserious & deeply unqualified. And now the country is paying the price.” Rep Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

“Kash Patel is deeply unqualified, deeply unserious & his behavior is deeply un-American. He should no longer be the FBI director…He never should have been confirmed to begin with…We have to stop putting all the blame on the people who nominated this incompetent, toxic, malignant individual. What ⬇️

“We are spending $ billions to keep our entire Navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.”
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)

Netanyahu convinced him the Iranian people would support such strikes. After his extraction of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro & his wife, he convinced himself the military could pull off another quick victory. He has no understanding of Iran’s culture, history or people.

The Wall Street Journal reported Trump was so unstable & angry after learning on April 3 that Iranians had shot down an American jet that aides kept him out of the room as they received updates.
The journalists described him as erratic, & who entered the war after Israel’s prime minister Benjamin ⬇️

Republicans’ own Heritage Foundation estimated voter fraud at less than 0.00001% in the US. The SAVE America Act is unnecessary legislation, & nothing more than a voter suppression bill supported by Republicans because they fear losing the midterm elections.

borne much of the cost of these import taxes — American consumers — won’t see a penny of refund. The $175 billion will just contribute to the record profits of American corporations. Robert Reich

The government — that is, US taxpayers who fund the government — owes tens of $ thousands of importers up to $175 billion in refunds for the tariffs imposed by Trump last year under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, per the Supreme Court ruling.
But the people who have actually ⬇️

direct result of Trump’s personal decision. Trump went into this war without consulting anyone or getting anyone else on board — not Congress, not our allies, not NATO or the UN — & he didn’t even explain to why he was taking the nation into war. Robert Reich

Energy Secretary Chris Wright admitted it “could be next year” before gas prices return to below $3/gallon. Initially, Trump said he could end the war “in 2 or 3 days.” We’re now in the 8th week of Trump’s “little excursion” into Iran.
The economic costs of this war to average Americans are the ⬇️

chairman in September & will be replaced by John Ternus, 50, the head of hardware engineering. Ternus joined Apple in 2001 & oversaw the development of Macs & iPads.

Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, said he would step down later this year. His nearly 15-year tenure as the head of the iPhone maker was one of the most successful management runs in American history. Annual profits quadrupled to more than $110 billion under his leadership.
Cook will become Apple’s executive ⬇️