STEFANIK: President Trump didn't call for genocide, Jake. You are putting those words in his mouth
TAPPER: 'Your entire civilization will die'?
STEFANIK: It's the terrorist regime, Jake. He's targeting the terrorist regime
TAPPER: You're changing his words!
a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure
🚨BREAKING: FBI director Kash Patel said that his agency will soon make arrests – maybe this week – in connection to the 2020 presidential election, which he claims was rigged. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The letter fragment I've seen from Swalwell's attorney threatening defamation bears several things that, in my experience in this area, makes me immediately suspicious of Swalwell and his attorney and reflect meritless thuggery.
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Stupid people: “Man, This is Al Franken all over aga-“
I recently learned someone is posing as me, trying to work people for info.
So I did some reporting of my own on what appears to be the latest evolution of online deception...
www.propublica.org/article/impe...
Rather than attend Easter services, the president spent the day roaming D.C. and visiting his golf course.
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
Posted the full thing on IG because people need to see exactly what he said: www.instagram.com/p/DWwOL-Diez...
This isn’t journalism. This is creative writing by fascist sycophants.
The media protecting the president by deleting his statements is the definition of state media bsky.app/profile/atru...
NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post. Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6. If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement. “Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps.
The NYT literally rewrote Trump saying “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell” as:
“Mr. Trump issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz”
NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post. Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6. If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.
“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps. Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war. Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war. The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.
The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane
Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”
There are roughly 2,000 ships stuck in the Persian Gulf with more than 20,000 seafarers on them, according to the International Maritime Organization. Most have been stuck on board more than a month, because fewer than 200 ships have managed to slip through the Strait of Hormuz. In normal times, 20% of the world’s oil flows through the narrow waterway to global markets, along with critical supplies of natural gas, fertilizer and other cargo shipments. It’s unclear when the vital shipping lane will get back to normal. Fresh vegetables and freshwater are running out on many ships, so the sailors are using social media and very-high-frequency marine radios to share survival tips and tactics. Some Chinese crew members have filmed themselves collecting condensate from air-conditioning units to shower and wash laundry. Others have taken to fishing over the side of their tankers, catching tuna, squid and largehead hairtail to cook.
WSJ has a piece on the merchant sailors stuck aboard ships inside Hormuz. There are 20,000 of them (many from less privileged nationalities), effectively held hostage and running out of food.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
The dealership model also facilitates the creation of a hard right petit bourgeois on the outskirts of every city, with plenty of negative follow-on cultural and social effects.
Study Quantifies How Much the Dealership Model Costs Customers—And It Ain’t Pretty www.thedrive.com/news/study-q...
The CIA executed a deception campaign to buy time to find the Air Force officer who was hiding in Iran after his plane was shot down. Here is what we know about the agency’s role in the rescue operation and intelligence collection.
Chumbox ad “The Sleep Apnea Trick Doctor Never Mention - But Patients Love It” and it’s a before and after AI looking photo of an old man looking like Dick Vitale who then looks like James Carville
It’s called “Gollumizing”
If there’s not a good deal with Iran by Tuesday, “I’m blowing up everything over there,” President Trump tells Axios. www.axios.com/2026/04/05/t...
Easter Sunday message on his social media account from the president of the United States: "…Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. …"
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" then "Marshmallowpeeps.com" and "Peepsbrand.com". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the Peeps website from March 3, 2000, and March 7, 2026.
🐥 #Peeps marshmallow chicks have been around for 73 years! 🤯
Their official website's decades old, but tracing its changing domains is like an Easter egg hunt through web history.
Take a "peep" into the colorful past of your favorite sites with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org
#Easter
🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, LADIES OF LEISURE (1930).
#OTD 1930, Barbara Stanwyck broke out in a star-making role under Frank Capra. 🎬
🎭 Her raw, naturalistic performance helped redefine screen acting in the talkies.
Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/ladi...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
“Let those who have weapons lay them down,” Pope Leo XIV said in his first Easter address. “Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!” religionnews.com/2026/04/05/p...
This is from my 2017 post: Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer pressthink.org/2017/09/norm...
"A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job."
He was willing to testify against the cartel — but ICE got to him first.
A look at how the Trump administration's immigration enforcement blitz led federal prosecutors to lose a trial against two alleged drug traffickers.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.
China surpassed the US in global approval ratings in 2025, with a median of 36% approving of China’s leadership, compared with 31% for the U.S. China’s five-percentage-point advantage over the U.S. is the widest Gallup has recorded in China’s favor in nearly 20 years.
news.gallup.com/poll/707945/...
A Dem-sponsored poll of California's governor race shows the two Republicans ahead, at 16% and 14%.
Eight Democrats follow: Swalwell, Porter, Steyer are at 10%, & everyone else below that.
(Reminder this'll go to a 'top 2' runoff, regardless of party. cadem.org/wp-content/u...)
A reminder that this kind of perverse lockout isn't a hypothetical under California's top two system. It's happened before, repeatedly. It's indefensible.
CA could, right now, re-legalize write-ins in general elections by statute. Two thirds needed to take immediate effect, which Dems have. There's also a bill filing deadline already past, but bills approved by the Speaker or Senate Rules Cmte are excepted.
It's nuts they haven't done this already.
