We should also be clear: Republicans are funding ICE/CBP through reconciliation *because* they want no oversight for those agencies. Republicans have refused all bipartisan reforms, and are going it alone specifically to avoid having any reforms.
Not a penny to make life more affordable for American families, but $70 BILLION for ICE to terrorize our communities.
The SPLC has long monitored and exposed white nationalist and Christian nationalist hate groups, so it makes sense that an administration staffed by many people sympathetic to one or both of those movements would use the DOJ to go after them.
Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.
"I'm doing a ballroom now" -- Trump is now ranting about his ballroom on CNBC
Secretary of War Pete Hegs... # © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.
Make this make sense.
Jeffries on Kash Patel: "We have to stop putting all the blame on the people who nominated this incompetent, toxic, malignant individual. What about the people who confirmed him? It's extraordinary to me that Senate Republican confirmed people like Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, RFK Jr, and Patel."
Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) * ... @magyarpeterMP Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then - on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office.
Hungary’s Péter Magyar issues an ultimatum.
Peace Talks Day is off to a great start.
For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.
I have seriously lost track of how many times we've completely obliterated Iran's military and how many times Trump has reopened the Strait of Hormuz.
in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer
In that case, if Trump continues with his war, he will be violating the War Power Resolution—in addition to usurping Congress's authority under the U.S. Constitution.
BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down from her Cabinet post amid a series of misconduct allegations against her and her top staffers.
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
NEW: The DOJ is now targeting voting in three of the country’s key Democratic swing-state strongholds — all of which are disproportionately non-white.
With the department demanding Wayne County’s 2024 ballots, the move suggests it’s focused on areas set to play pivotal roles in upcoming contests.
The Person Playacting as President May Be Getting Addicted to Snuff Films
emptywheel.net/2026/04/20/t...
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
From the report’s framing, a reader might think that only the Biden administration—or perhaps other Democratic administrations—prosecuted FACE Act cases against anti-abortion defendants. But a careful look at the report’s footnotes and appendices undercuts this narrative. A number of the supposedly nefarious emails from members of the “Biden DOJ” were actually sent during the first Trump administration. One exhibit, which the report identifies as an example of the “Biden DOJ’s” disparate treatment of anti-abortion and pro-abortion-rights demonstrators, includes a list of five FACE Act prosecutions involving threats or attacks on abortion clinics brought from 2017 to 2020 by Trump’s own Justice Department. At the time, DOJ leaders appointed by Trump made statements emphasizing the importance of these cases.
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The European Commission will encourage remote working and public transport subsidies to cut fossil fuel use, as countries grapple with the energy price shock from the war in the Middle East.
www.ft.com/content/bbc9...
Several people with signs like this at the Boston Marathon today
I decided to write about at each & every one of the 32 states with supreme court elections this year.
Why? On abortion, redistricting, death penalty, & more, these institutions & their elections remain so critical.
So here's everything you need to know. NEW from me:
Maryland has, for now, stopped ICE from converting a warehouse designed to hold commercial products into a warehouse used to hold people.
Similar lawsuits have been filed against ICE's warehouse detention camp plans in New Jersey and Michigan.
MS NOW confirms: The Trump DOJ has removed the lead prosecutor overseeing the investigation into John Brennan.
Maria Medetis Long told colleagues that she had recently told her superiors that there was not ample justification to bring criminal charges against Brennan.
last comparable situation is maybe carter '78. hoover '30 is on the horizon though.
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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Global energy-related CO2 emissions reached a new record high, but growth nearly ground to a halt (+0.5%)
CO2 fell in China, India and the EU, while rising in the US
7/10
EV sales surged everywhere apart from the US, rising more than 20% globally in 2025
* EVs were half of Chinese sales and electric truck sales in China tripled
* EV sales outside CN/Eu/US grew 80% (!)
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