Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Tracking the Trump family’s business deals and profits in his 2nd term In his second administration, President Trump’s family members, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and sons Eric and Don Jr., are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions o...

In his second administration, President Trump’s family members are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest. https://to.pbs.org/4tTfPdh

This has to be the end for the #Palantir #FDP

A damning editorial in the BMJ

Streeting: Make your move. Pick your side.

www.bmj.com/content/393/...

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Discovering Prince, Ten Years Later - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decadesq of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. anildash.com/2026/04/20/p...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

Democrats Need to Solve the Tactical Problems with Impeachment before Relying on It - emptywheel Democrats are gung ho to use impeachment if and when they win back the House. But before they do that, they need to rebut the tactical means Trump used to stonewall in 2019.

"I’m all in favor of using impeachment...but tell me first how you’re going to coerce the admin to provide documents and testimony, a problem that undermined every effort to impose accountability in 2019."

@emptywheel.bsky.social comments on my George Conway pod:
emptywheel.net/2026/04/17/d...

How the AI oligarchy devoured America How the AI oligarchy devoured America.

1/ we have an incredible package out today on our AI overlords and how the entire world is being ravaged in their pursuit for domination www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!

Weak on crime

This really spoke to me

What a nightmare.

Elon Musk and his gang of pimple faced hackers ran wild in the government. According to both whistleblowers, they broke the law, over and over again. Today, we're launching a simple demand: #InvestigateDOGE and hold them accountable 👉 actionnetwork.org/petitions/el...

Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says “When I saw evidence that our products were being used to harm people and undermine the law, I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me.”

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the technology and content conglomerate that owns the Reuters media agency but also owns and operates the investigative CLEAR database, fired a longstanding employee after they spoke out about the company selling data products to ICE.

Breaking:

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,” Rep. Adelita Grijalva said. “It is frightening in there. It is disgusting.”

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.

NASA women save stars. 🫶🏻💫

All the worst cunts in the world - from journalism to politics, the Kermlin to the White House - are suffering tonight.

‘In perhaps one of the more dystopian cases, a blind woman lost her Medicaid coverage because the state sent digital notices to her, instead of her caregiver who handled her paperwork. She couldn’t read the notice. She was one of many eligible beneficiaries who lost coverage …’

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

Putin's Puppet Project in Peril - emptywheel JD Vance took time out of Trump's Crusades against Iran to tamper in Hungary's election not just because Viktor Orbán is the ideological figurehead of the far right, but because Hungary serves as a ke...

“This is a trans-national effort, funded by Russian oil, to replace Western liberalism with a pro-Russian ideology... Orbán is not just the puppet that gives this packaged ideology a European face... he oversees the money laundering vehicles to fund the larger network”
emptywheel.net/2026/04/07/p...

New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...

Lebanon: ICRC outraged by deadly strikes in densely populated areas The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is outraged by the devastating death and destruction in densely populated areas across Lebanon today following intensified military operations.

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this.

"Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings."

ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project"

That could all end if Orbán loses...
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‘Proactively fall in line:’ Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to office Two former employees said they believed the museum was altering its content preemptively to avoid unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...