Virginia Democrats Win Redistricting Referendum, Potentially Flipping Four House Seats By turning Trump's own redistricting gamble against him, Virginia just changed the math on Congress.

By turning Trump's own redistricting gamble against him, Virginia just changed the math on Congress.

UK could face ‘hacktivist attacks at scale’, says head of security agency Officials warn a conflict situation could cause disruption similar to recent major ransomware incidents The UK could face “hacktivist attacks at scale” if it becomes embroiled in a conflict and the impact could be similar to recent high-profile ransomware incidents, according to the head of the country’s online security agency. Richard Horne, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), will warn today that nation states now account for the most significant incidents the NCSC deals with. Continue reading...

UK could face ‘hacktivist attacks at scale’, says head of security agency

Ex-Waco attorney Adam Hoffman gets 30 days in jail in sexual abuse of son’s friend Adam Hoffman was facing life in prison without parole before pleading guilty to charges reduced by Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office.

Time for accountability. Last week AG Paxton's office ⬇️ 1st degree felony charge to 2 class A misdmeanors & offered a plea deal with NO ADDITIONAL JAIL TIME.

In the end, the plea deal was 30 days jail & NO REQUIREMENT TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER.

#proudblue #pinks
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‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

What the American "drug war" looks like on the ground: Ecuadorian fishermen were attacked in a double drone strike, arrested at gupoint, taken to El Salvador and then finally released.
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Millions in India stripped of vote before critical state election, as government seeks to ‘purify’ electoral roll Experts say Muslims and other minorities have been disproportionately deleted from the electoral roll ahead of the West Bengal elections this week

Millions in India stripped of vote before critical state election, as government seeks to ‘purify’ electoral roll

Exactly the plan Trump has for America.

Trump admires the autocratic brute Modi for a reason, and it is the same reason Elon Musk does: none of the three men have any identifiable principles.

Most serious cyberattacks against the UK now from Russia, Iran and China, cyber chief will say The head of the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre warns that hostile nations like Russia, Iran and China are behind the most serious cyberattacks in the U.K.

The head of the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre warns that hostile nations like Russia, Iran and China are behind the most serious cyberattacks in the U.K.

Trump Keeps Trying to Pressure Ukraine. Zelensky Doesn’t Care. The American president is trying to use leverage he doesn’t have.

Steve Witkoff has visited Moscow seven times yet never traveled to Kyiv. For some reason, the Trump administration isn't playing its cards against Vladimir Putin.

He gets no bonus points for seeing the light. He’s only talking like this as he’s been kicked in to the curb from Fox. He will be forever linked to Trump.

Bulgarians head to the polls to elect a parliament for the eighth time in 5 years Bulgarians are heading to the polls for the eighth time in five years hoping to finally elect a parliament that would be capable of resolving the prolonged political impasse that has gripped the country for years.

Bulgarians are heading to the polls for the eighth time in five years hoping to finally elect a parliament that would be capable of resolving the prolonged political impasse that has gripped the country for years.

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

SEN. @ossoff.bsky.social : “Draft-Dodging Donald loves sending other people’s children to war… Just 2 weeks into this war Trump said he needed $200 BILLION to fund it — that’s a decade of nationwide universal pre-k… instead, a war no one voted for, and no one can explain.”

If SCOTUS had kept the individual mandate as originally enacted the rates would be lower. We still need universal health care!!

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.

The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.

The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.

It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.

Here’s the thing—especially on April 15: cutting the IRS isn't some abstract budget trim. It's a tax cut delivered through weaker enforcement. And it mostly goes to people with the most scope to hide income.

MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol?

These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes

Meanwhile, the wealthiest 1% get an average tax cut of more than $50,000 a year, every year, for a decade.

Republicans claim they’re helping working people with tips and overtime deductions. Those expire in 2028. The tax cuts for millionaires? Permanent.

#TrumpRiggedYourTaxReturn

He’s still ranting about the Pope

People forget that Amazon Prime has broadcast some of the greatest moments in NBA history.

Peter Meijer: "Is the Democratic Party not also a party of faith?"

Emily Austin: "I don't know, they made Trans Visibility Day on Easter."

Sarah Matthews: "And Trump dropped the F-bomb on Easter and didn't go to church, he went and played golf."

The nonstop grift the Trump family is running on taxpayers is just extraordinary.

Move for en banc and sanction the Trump-appointed judges who are the only ones blocking Boasberg's entirely appropriate inquiry.

Time to appeal to the en banc panel……let all 11 Judges hear the case and decide

Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

“Trump’s DOJ asked a federal court to vacate Jan. 6 convictions against a dozen ex members of the right-wing Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, most convicted of seditious conspiracy — aiming to wipe away some of the final Capitol riot charges still standing.” www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-mov...

Remember, the pope is "soft on crime," but Trump is issuing hundreds of pardons to fraudsters, eliminating their duty to reimburse their victims, and pardoning people who brutalized and assaulted police officers.

IMF cuts global growth forecast during Hormuz blockade Higher global inflation forecast at 4.4 percent, up 0.6 points, driven by surging oil, gas and fertiliser costs.

Higher global inflation forecast at 4.4 percent, up 0.6 points, driven by surging oil, gas and fertiliser costs.

The United States is in an unprecedented crisis.

A convicted criminal has attained the presidency.

And he has decided that a crime is not a crime if it is committed on his behalf.