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Oil spills from the Iran war are visible from space | CNN Satellite images show oil swirling in the water after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities and ships. Experts fear an environmental catastrophe

Satellite images offer insight into destruction in the region, including to the fragile biodiversity of the Persian Gulf. Oil spilt there has the potential to affect the lives and livelihoods of people along the Gulf coastlines, as well as the region’s rich marine life.

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Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’

Every American should understand what's happening, as Edsall points out. Here's a link for your followers to read and to share without a subscription: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

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We have a member who is being treated for Stage IV colorectal cancer. She had just qualified to enter a clinical trial that was going to be her last-chance effort to slow the spread of her cancer.

Her trial was about to start when N.I.H. funding was pulled overnight, and the trial was canceled.

One way to bring home the depth of Trump’s callousness is to look at a specific case. In May 2025, Anjee Davis, the chief executive of Fight Colorectal Cancer, a patient advocacy group, told CBS News:

It runs the gamut from public and private institutions to core democratic customs and traditions, from the legal system to universities, from innocent targets of fraud to those duped into believing vaccines do more harm than good.

The damage President Trump has inflicted on the United States and the world is so enormous and wide-ranging that it is hard to grasp.

Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’

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Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’

They don't know the half of it. 84-year-old Thomas Edsall lays it out for us on this free link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’

Thomas Edsall: Trump is "easily the worst president in history" and all of us are paying for it. You can read/share this without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Days before the March meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, the president said on Truth Social, “Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell … should be dropping Interest Rates, IMMEDIATELY, not waiting for the next meeting!” The committee voted 11 to 1 to hold rates unchanged.

With inflation persistently above the Fed’s 2 percent target and other policymakers reluctant to cut rates, Mr. Warsh is unlikely to deliver what President Trump so badly wants, which is lower rates.

The current Fed chair, Jerome Powell, has set a stiff precedent by defending the Fed’s independence — a principle that is essential to the central bank’s ability to control inflation — against endless rhetorical and legal attacks from the president of the United States.

A successful central banker, the adage goes, moves interest rates the right way at the right time and looks like he knows what he is doing.

If Kevin Warsh is confirmed by the Senate to chair the Federal Reserve, he will be judged by those tests and by one more: the Powell Standard.

Opinion | Jerome Powell Stood Up to Trump. Will the Next Guy?

Jerome Powell Stood Up to Trump. Will the Next Guy? Short answer: NOPE

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Dow rises 200 points as Trump predicts a deal with Iran before ceasefire expires: Live updates The Nasdaq Composite snapped a 13-day win streak on Monday, its longest positive run since 1992.

#CNBC is complicit in Trump's efforts to manipulate the markets:

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All of which points to one more indelible bequeathal: the stain on America left by the record.

Voters in this country twice elected a president with no ethics, no empathy and no end to his narcissism.

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If the court goes all in on unitary executive theory, it weakens the ability of Congress to bind the president from doing bad things.

By eroding America's government credibility and soft power, Moynihan concluded, “Trump can be both a hugely consequential president and a deeply damaging one.”

The Supreme Court has been complicit in the undermining of trust, Moynihan argued:

By allowing Trump to claim these powers, the Supreme Court is weakening the ability of a future president or Congress to repair the damage he is doing today.

For example, if the president says “My executive order allows me to fire civil servants for whatever reason I please,” how much does it matter if another president reverses it, because in the long-run potential civil servants know they no longer have job stability?

As Trump has created an environment where private businesses, universities or civil society can be threatened by the president, such organizations can assume that traditional norms of equal-handed application of the law, due process and fair treatment that they once took for granted no longer hold.

Trump might be an empowered executive, but the effect is to weaken American government in any situation where people are asked to place trust in the long-term credibility of U.S. government commitments. This applies to private businesses, government employees and international allies.

Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan‘s Ford School, addressed just this point in an email:

The problem created by norm violations is less that they will become permanently accepted and more that it will take time — years and years — to restore the trust in government that Trump squandered.

Even Republicans in Congress, who have been spineless under Trump, would rise in fury if a Democratic president followed Trump’s example.

That doesn’t, however, mean that all will be well.

In 2028, the Democratic presidential nominee and congressional candidates will run on repudiating Trump, and even if a Democratic president is tempted to resort to arbitrary, Trump-like exercises of power, Democratic members of the House and Senate will be under strong pressure to put a halt to it.

As a result, Lelkes wrote, “Trump’s most consequential legacy may be less any single policy than the lesson he taught politicians: Norms can be broken, repeatedly and openly, without necessarily paying much of a price.”

Norms take a long time to develop because they rest on habits of restraint and on the expectation that violations will be punished. But they can disappear quickly once it becomes clear that punishment is not coming.