🚨NEW: Iran just “closed” the Strait of Hormuz again. So nothing moves unless they say so, according to state media.
A military spokesperson is calling out the U.S. for not holding up its end after Trump refused to lift America’s own blockade of Iranian ports.
You always have to pay attention to what is actually happening, not what Trump says is happening. Because Trump lies about everything. Too often media serves as Trump’s daily stenographer, passing along his propaganda verbatim.
Among the many reasons for Viktor Orbán’s defeat were the rural clubs where citizens relearned democratic habits. @galbeckerman.bsky.social on the role of the "Tisza Islands" in the Hungary election:
The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.
Magyar's no mercy approach needs to be used in the US
Trump will pardon everyone for everything he can-including himself
But pardons don't cover state crimes. And despite the SCOTUS immunity decision, there are still ways to prosecute him
We cannot repeat the failures of the Biden administration
In the year of our Lord 2026,
On the second Sunday of Easter,
Also known as Divine Mercy Sunday,
A convicted felon accused His Holiness the Pope of being weak on crime.
Very good news from and for Europe.
The guy that Putin, Trump and Vance wanted to have as their puppet, has been ousted:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Dearest Viktor Orbán,
“The president loves you, and so do I.”
Yours always,
JD Vance 🌺
Good job, NYPD.
Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.
I’m just going to say it plain:
Donald Trump ruined lives, and MILLIONS of people in all 50 states hate what he’s doing to this country.
Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings
No Kings rally 👇
Note for those who missed this, which I posted atop the prior post, not threaded after it. —>
Shutdown record 3m ago The DHS funding lapse becomes the longest shutdown in U.S. history at 44 days as lawmakers remain at a stalemate on finding a resolution
This “lawmakers remain at a stalemate” framing is all over the place and is so bad.
While technically accurate, it’s misleading and a disservice to readers. If Senate Rs, Senate Ds, & House Ds agree to something, but House Rs keep that deal from getting to Trump, the framing should reflect that.
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New York City’s public hospital system announced that it would not be renewing its contract with Palantir as controversy mounts in the UK over the data analytics and AI firm’s government contract
Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election
apnews.com/article/hung...
It will be tough for America’s global reputation to recover after this absolutely shameful vote.
Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.
The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
These ICE agents are, clearly, lawless sociopaths—being enabled by a phalanx of congenital liars in the Trump administration.
Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word.
THE WOMAN WHO WAS DRAGGED OUT OF HER CAR AND ARRESTED BY ICE SPEAKS OUT…
We’ve all seen the videos, but it matters to hear Aliya Rahman say it herself.
📌 She says her treatment in custody was dehumanizing, and that officers completely failed to take her disability seriously.
A joke for the history buffs.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
Would be amazing if European leaders would also start throwing out truth bombs like this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
