Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Trump Escalates the Iran War Crisis! With Robert Pape

Trump escalates his unwinnable war with Iran by attacking an Iranian Cargo ship crossing the Strait of Hormuz. With each passing day, the world and future generations will suffer due to his hubris.

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📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

I miss the days where I woke up and the President of the United States wasn’t threatening to bomb another country’s power plants and bridges.

“The Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken corruption to spectacular new heights.”

AUDIO: “The Strait is still closed. We will open it by the order of our leader, not by the tweets of some idiot.”

GROK tries to claim Iran’s Navy wasn’t talking about Trump here 🤔 🤥

Meanwhile ABC shares audio of Indian ships being fired on in the (Trump-caused) confusion👇🏽

Budget Hearing - United States Forest Service

Links:

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Here’s the thing. Congress already passed laws specifically designed to stop this. Section 716 of the appropriations law says you can’t create any new organizational entity with five or more employees without committee approval.

The Forest Service just told Congress to go pound sand. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz appeared before the House Appropriations Committee this week and made it clear the agency is moving forward with

“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least 3x… a pattern.”

The most corrupt regime ever.

Damn. 😕🇺🇸

Mike Waltz has a freudian slip and calls Operation Epic Fury "Operation Economic Fury"

STEFANIK: President Trump was not calling for genocide. Shame on CNN for saying that

TAPPER: I read the quote. Thank you so much.

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants.

“And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."

"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...

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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

15 dead 🇺🇸
≈ 500 wounded 🇺🇸
And we’re not even back to where we started

And our evil dictator wants credit for ending the war he started without our permission when it’s not even over

It’s stupifying
It’s absurd
It’s a tragedy and a national embarrassment

It ought to be his final transgression

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Attorneys for Rep Jamie Raskin are asking appeals court to halt Trump Admin effort to vacate convictions of Jan 6 seditious conspiracy defendants

Raskin is trying to serve as firewall as Justice Dept & defense join forces to vacate the cases

Over 40,000 people are currently incarcerated for Cannabis. Not a SINGLE Epstein files co-conspirator has been arrested.

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

Missouri's murder rate is 73% HIGHER than California’s.

No amount of right-wing spinning can change reality: our state is investing in prevention, enforcement, and is holding criminals accountable.

The U.S. Senator from Missouri should fix his own failed policies before lecturing us.

“Celebrating the First Amendment” my ass.

The NFL barely cares about violence against women. They definitely don’t care about extramarital activity.

Tell me if I’m wrong but if people can go to prison for lying to Congress, then shouldn’t members of Congress go to prison for lying to the people?

We should be learning from other countries...

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

If Hillary Clinton had to testify under oath to Congress about Epstein, why the hell hasn't Melania been brought in? Certainly far more connections to Jeffrey.