WARNOCK: What grade would you give the American economy?
WARSH: Well, if i gave a student anything other than an A, the dean would summon me because I would've hurt his self-image
WARNOCK: Consumer confidence is at a record low. That's Americans' grade on the economy
GALLEGO: Earlier today, you told Sec. Kennedy that Trump never demanded you to cut interest rates. Is that your sworn testimony?
WARSH: That is, senator.
GALLEGO: Okay. Well someone here is lying then. Because Trump confirmed he pressed you on interest rate cuts.
Not surprising and good riddance. Very grateful that she is also no longer my representative.
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.
Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
A reminder, as Obama and Mamdani come together for the first time in person, that Mamdani is everything the GOP said Obama was... but wasn't: an African-born socialist Muslim.
#justsayin
Child: I know your name. Mamdani.
Obama: What’s his first name?
Child: Mayor.
“For my friends everything; for my enemies the law.”
DOJ has become an instrument of authoritarianism. No more laments for what it was; or talk of “abuses”; or wishful thinking about how they can’t get away with it. They can, if not confronted across the board.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-l...
NEW from the NYT (gift link)
On the corruption of the Supreme Court:
Internal papers related to the 2016 creation of the modern “Shadow Docket"
Roberts & “other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered [Trump] through their shadow docket rulings"
Stunning:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
"Do you have an idea of how we could solve the Black maternal mortality crisis if we can't say 'Black?'"
I could watch Democratic House Rep. Summer Lee bat around RFK Jr. all day.
She's magnificent.
Rep. Josh Harder, D-Calif., sitting on a couch with his hand outstretched. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Rep Harder to RFK Jr: “What I don’t understand is how you can spend your entire career talking about an issue, & the first minute that you get power to do something about it, you take off the mask & become an apologist for an administration that is increasing mercury more than any other in history”
It's reverse Robin Hood.
If you’re ready to move beyond Trump and tackle what’s actually broken, let’s have the real conversation…
hartmannreport.com/p/dear-mtg-y...
Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.
I will be really, REALLY happy when John Fetterman leaves the Senate.
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.
This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.
Never doubt your power to change the system.
Here are the 7 senate democrats who voted to continue sending bombs to Netanyahu.
Richard Blumenthal (CT)
Chris Coons (DE)
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
John Fetterman (PA)
Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
Jackie Rosen (NV)
Chuck Schumer (NY)
Luigi Mangione murdered a rich CEO whose job was to deny coverage to Medicare Advantage patients. The DOJ is seeking the death penalty.
The gunman who massacred 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart was offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.
Killing 1 is worse than 23? WTF?
Stephen Miller claims the Democratic Party "controls its members through blackmail."
Methinks that Netanyahu and Putin control Donald Trump through blackmail in the Epstein files.
I hope dem presidential candidates are paying attention. 👀
Neguse: "Despite all of that, Speaker Johnson made the decision to gavel the House & send everyone home. Now we're back 2 weeks later & what has the majority decided is the most pressing issue to debate? Apparently it's a resolution commemorating a bill that the GOP passed last year. It's absurd."
Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono names the people who have been pardoned by Donald Trump after they have donated to support his campaign and PACs in the Senate hearing on fraud.
"I call it corruption."
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
From Hungary to Ukraine to America, one message wins: expose the rigged system and mobilize voters to defeat it…
hartmannreport.com/p/democrats-...
Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States
I will not be lectured about Swalwell — or anything, really — by anyone who still supports Donald Trump after he was found liable for sexual abuse.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin can afford to put 45 million into fighting higher taxes for billionaires - even going so far to pay $15 for EACH signature against the tax increase.
This suggests he could easily afford a higher tax rate.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
FOX NEWS: You have the authority to go ahead and release more Epstein files, do you not?
ACTING AG TODD BLANCHE: No. We have released everything. We are not sitting on a single piece of paper. If we didn't release it, it's because it was not responsive to the law.
@GOPoversight spox: "Garcia's outrage today is purely performative. "Last week, the Department of Justice indicated that Pam Bondi would not appear for the April 14 deposition because she is no longer Attorney General. We will work with her personal attorney to reschedule." Max Cohen @maxpcohen Top Oversight Dem, Robert Garcia, vows contempt effort targeting Bondi since she didn't show up for deposition today "She must appear before the Committee, and if she continues to ignore the law, Oversight Democrats will move forward with contempt proceedings ... Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement after former Attorney General Pam Bondi missed the scheduled date of her deposition before the Oversight Committee. Pam Bondi is attempting to evade a lawful bipartisan subpoena the Committee issued last month. The subpoena was issued following a bipartisan vote supporting a motion by Rep. Nancy Mace to subpoena, "the Honorable Pamela Jo Bondi," and not just the Attorney General. "Pam Bondi is evading a lawful congressional subpoena by failing to appear before the Oversight Committee for a deposition about the Epstein files and the White House cover-up. This subpoena applies to her regardless of her title. She must appear before the Committee, and if she continues to ignore the law, Oversight Democrats will move forward with contempt proceedings immediately. We will fight until there is true accountability and justice," said Ranking Member Robert Garcia.
Pam Bondi was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight Committee to answer questions about her role in the Epstein files fiasco.
She didn’t show up.
Republicans are letting it slide, saying any outrage is “purely performative.”
BULLSHIT.
Those contempt charges can’t come fast enough.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.
So if he posted an image of himself multiplying five loaves of bread and two fish into a feast for thousands, would he claim it was a depiction of himself as a caterer?
