A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job.
One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution.
Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?
Breaking MS NOW:
The Justice Department has begun withdrawing several subpoenas that had just been issued in the criminal probe of former CIA Director John Brennan — revealing the confusion and disorder within the controversial investigation.
200,000 acres of Native Hawaiian land. 100 years of federal trust obligation.
Trump's move: reclassify them as a racial group, not a tribal nation. Same land. New legal category. Zero obligation.
That's not a budget cut. That's a legal erasure. #taxtherich
Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...
Remember in 2015, when Sen. Tom Cotton and 46 of his Republican colleagues wrote to Iran in order to undermine their own country’s negotiating position during delicate nuclear negotiations?
As talks in Islamabad continue, I keep thinking about that GOP sabotage effort.
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ICE has been using a Navy logistics contract to outfit detention warehouses with minimal oversight. New documents show it may want its own construction contracting vehicle — one that's faster and less transparent.
@em-knepp.bsky.social, @ripest-plum.bsky.social, and @mwriston.bsky.social report.
This is not an either-or situation. Trump is both unable to fulfill his duties and has committed high crimes & misdemeanors.
He needs an independent cognitive assessment now. We can't wait until he gets mad at another country & decides to commit war crimes in the middle of the night.
NEW: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that key actions Trump took to delay solar and wind projects across the U.S. were illegal (me for @heatmap.news)
Armed 'No Kings' counter-protester in Tenn. faces new charges, including child porn www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Kash Patel must resign or be fired.
More than two dozen current and former FBI officials are alleging that he has a serious drinking problem. Patel’s own security detail reportedly had to request breaching equipment because they could not wake him.
RUIZ: Bloomberg reports that Trump & the WH have benched you because you're making the president look bad
RFK Jr: That's not true
RUIZ: I think the reporting is correct. You're making the president look bad. You talked publicly about snorting cocaine off a toilet bowl seat. Your words, not mine.
BALDWIN: Do you think NIH should fund less cancer research?
RFK Jr: No, they should fund more, & one of the few agencies that got a raise in the budget was NCI
B: That increase is less than $1m for an institute with a $7b budget. That's a .01% increase. It wouldn't even cover one additional grant
BREAKING: Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has resigned from Congress just before the House Ethics Committee was set to announce sanctions.
She faced allegations of misusing millions in COVID relief funds tied to her family business, along with multiple campaign finance violations.
And .. here come the Freedom of Information Act requests for Kash Patel records
DC watchdog group Democracy Forward has formally requested Patel's calendars & any messages from security detail that include words "drinking", "hungover", "inebriated"
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Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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1/ Russia is entering a full-scale debt crisis, according to newly published official figures. Non-payments have reached an all-time high equivalent to nearly 4% of GDP or a fifth of the entire federal budget. It's a fresh sign of a deepening economic crisis worsened by war. ⬇️
1/2 Remember when Ukraine was “the country that needed help”? Now it’s becoming the country other regions turn to for "protection" battle-tested, tech-smart, and forged in the hardest conditions on earth. I am very happy for Ukraine. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Are we witnessing the final unraveling of Donald Trump and the fragile coalition that brought him to power? His choice to pursue war in Iran has all but sealed his fate. My latest.
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This interview is clearly revealing a man who is insane and it’s just not registering at all.
Fascinating interview with the brilliant @sulliview.bsky.social. Thank you, @parkermolloy.com 💥
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This isn't a normal year duh
Don't you get paid for analysis? Seems you're pretty dense
With its last contract expiring, activists say garage owners should spurn ICE to avoid becoming complicit in Trump’s deportation blitz.
Instead of promoting democracy, Trump is seeking to install deferential dictators. As he said, “When somebody’s nice to me, I love that person… even if they’re bad people.” Installing obsequious autocrats may gratify his ego, but it’s hard to see why it serves U.S. interests. wapo.st/4vLxQfs
CHRIS WRIGHT: What happens when the wind blows right now? We turn down natural gas plants and we save 2 cents in reduced natural gas price. We pay a 4 cent subsidy and save 2 cents
WYDEN: What you are describing is fiction
RFK Jr. is testifying to a House committee.
Dem Rep. Diana DeGette tangling with him over cuts to family planning services.
"The secretary refuses to tell the American women whether he will let poor women used the contraception method of their choice."
"Let the record also reflect: It is 2026."
"The fact that Patel either doesn’t have or doesn’t listen to advisors who could tell him that flying a government Gulfstream jet to a place literally called “Boondoggle Ranch” is all you need to know about his tenure at the FBI and level of talent he’s surrounding himself with."
Thom Tillis still refuses to blame Trump for anything: "The problem I have is that some US attorney or assistant US attorney with a dream thought it would be cute to bring Chair Powell under an investigation ... the boss said he didn't know anything about it"
“Some Trump officials privately acknowledged to CNN that the president’s public commentary has been detrimental to talks, noting the sensitivity of the negotiations and the Iranians’ deep mistrust of the US.”
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A simple Google search shows he said he wasn't Catholic way back in 2019
Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."
