This is insane.

This should be a much bigger story.

The Trump administration is about to hand TotalEnergies, a French oil company, nearly $1 billion of your money to cancel its American offshore wind projects. And they are pulling the cash from an account they are not allowed to use this way.🧵

Hungary Must Arrest Visiting Leaders Sought by ICC, Magyar Says Hungary’s incoming Prime Minister Peter Magyar said he would halt the departure from the International Criminal Court that his predecessor Viktor Orban initiated, affirming that Hungary would respect ...

After Netanyahu's office claimed that Peter Magyar had invited him to visit Hungary, the PM-elected says that he will enforce all ICC arrest warrants once the country re-enters the Rome Statute.

[Hungary will] "have a legal obligation to enforce the ICC rulings and I'm sure [Netanyahu] knows this".

I've seen the SAVE Act compared to a poll tax, but it's worse and more indiscriminate than that. Red states can, through intransigence and red tape, withhold the documents needed for _anyone_ with a legal name change to retain voting eligibility.

Jobs didn't invent that look. He swiped it from the 1950s Beat Generation. 'Cuz irony is long dead, drawn & quartered, burned at the stake.

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

"for much of America, it's a luxury"

For, like, 94% of America, to be precise.

As opposed to what? The Trump™️ Warfighterz™️ Nucular Force?
How's the Trump™️ ceasefire coming along?

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WHY does the media continue to waste ink and pixels on CEO opinions???

"CEOs are sPEciAL" is the data-illiterate derp-worship that landed Trump in the Oval Office. It's the OG Kardashianism.

Businesses race to apply for tariff refunds Exactly two months after the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, businesses that paid those levies began requesting refunds Monday.

If a Dem POTUS had inflicted a $166 Billion tax on American businesses and consumers, with absolute zilch to show for it because it was always just pure Imbecile Theater, this country would be in flames. FLAMES.

www.npr.org/2026/04/19/n...

I can't get over the fact that we (the US) elected such a malignant piece of shit that our neighbors to the north are now on a permanent crisis footing for the foreseeable future.

Not a single person that reports on white supremacists with their actual name questions why antifascist activists do it anonymously. I don't know how they do it. They're worthy of great respect and support and thry don't get enough of either.

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

Is US foreign policy still meant to benefit Americans? Or peace? Or international prosperity? Those were the questions I asked after reading this article
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

💯letting the duck in.

Three, if you include Ivanka, the POTUS's daughter.
Allowing her to lurk in the media shadows is sexist.
Even if, as a feminist, I mildly appreciate seeing a woman reach the Mt. Olympus of corruption and depravity, as an American I want the whole bloody Trump-Kushner syndicate destroyed.

It’s a mark of how completely normalised the corruption & depravity have become that we barely bat an eyelid at the thought of two *property developers*, one Trump’s nepo baby son-in-law, being sent to represent the USA in peace negotiations with Iran. Sometimes it all hits you afresh.

We have the laws. We need to restore DOJ independence, and add serious Congressional and SCOTUS ethics rules. Then: unleash white collar prosecutors like an army of legal Roombas. They'll take care of the rest.

Sci Fi fans noticing how we've shot past dystopian classics. "Soylent Green--how cute to think they'd want to feed people."

in the 1970s Hillary Clinton made a hundred grand trading cattle futures and 15 years later the news media made a decade-long scandal out of it

Hall of Fame Hollywood moment

One reason to exclude Vance is that he is a terrible and disinterested negotiator. Another is that its bad to have another adult in the room to witness for Kushner's conversion of diplomacy into a wealth extraction machine.
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I'm confident that Ivanka & Jared have the United States' best interests in mind at all times. They're practically the nation's guardians. It's purely accidental that they're making $Billions by injecting themselves into US foreign affairs.

Phew, have to add this to the watchlist! It's my favorite kind of horror movie.

The Hunt for Red October (a cold war classic)

Saw that recently, and holy Jaw-drop Double-take!

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

Remember Ivanka's Just-a-Mom™️ persona in 2016?

"Mohamad Al-Khayyat was already a step ahead. He said he had planned to propose a Trump-branded resort.

At the same time, his two older brothers were negotiating an even bigger real estate partnership with Ivanka Trump...and Jared Kushner"

Is it fascination or amusement? And like everything else, this isn't a monolithic thing.

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...