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...

Supreme Court hands win to Chevron, Big Oil in environmental damage case The decision puts into question a $745 million judgment against Chevron to help restore coastal wetlands in Louisiana that were damaged as long ago as World War II.

Supreme Court hands win to Chevron, Big Oil in environmental damage case

Stevens to RFK Jr: "To top it off, Mr Secretary, I got a copy of HR-944. You know what it is? It's your impeachment articles, sir. You have abused your office, you have gutted America's public health! You should be ashamed."

posted without comment*

*many thanks to @johnfugelsang.bsky.social

Vought needs to get the attention that he deserves. He’s been hiding behind the curtain implementing his hateful agenda for too long.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'

IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated

W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

"What happened in Hungary is that Magyar, who's now going to be the prime minister, went out in the country and basically explained how the corruption and criminality affected people in their everyday lives. And that's what's happening here."

Lecture

This was my keynote lecture

an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera . ALT: an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera .

I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

Whew!

Hillary Clinton this morning on the US-Iran talks that fell apart:

“This is hard, disciplined effort that has to go into diplomacy to reach any results. And I don’t see this administration either wanting to do it or, frankly, being capable of doing it…”

So glad to see someone so beautifully articulate what I think about almost every day….

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a decree establishing Universal Healthcare for all Mexican citizens.

The United States could’ve had this, but people chose economic collapse, cruelty and death instead. I’ll never regret voting for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

"When you have a president who's running the country like a mob boss instead of a government, who's running the government for himself, of himself, and by himself, & for his cronies, instead of the people, by the people, and for the people, there's only one solution, & that's impeachment & removal."

Same!

Please don’t be mad, I’m not intending to be rude, but did you check your tire pressure before you left? I am always astonished at little pressure loss it takes for me to feel like I’m having a heart attack.

I just finished a book set here. “A Day of Judgment” by Charles Todd.

Turns out Russia, Russia, Russia was worse than we thought

Quesadillas with corn tortillas!!! 😍

One good use of the supposed two-week ceasefire is to get back to talking about the Epstein files

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Kurt Russell as Snake Plisken dropping the line "Get a new president."

Once again, Snake Plisken is on point.

I was interrupted while listening to the second installment of #onpoint today (as well as yesterday’s, for that matter). They were discussing what happens when religious fundamentalists takes over a country. I plan to go back and re listen.

The President of the United States is a madman.

F***

We won't last 33 more months of this.

This must stop.

We must make it stop.

I agree, although my rep is a dem. But, I refuse to go down without at least speaking my mind. I also want to remove any excuse they could make that they haven’t heard anything from their constituents. #5calls makes it easy. Download the app, put in your zip code, and they even provide a script.

Cornyn, Cruz, and V Gonzalez called!

TEXANS:

Call you U.S. Senators and your Congressional representatives TODAY and demand that #Congress invokes the #25thAmendment over #DonaldTrumps treat to inflict GENOCIDE on 91 million in #Iran👇

John Cornyn: 972-239-1310
Ted Cruz: 214-599-8749
Beth Van Duyne: 972-966-5500
(My rep in TX-24)