Horrifying.

...but it's also fruitless to expect any individual to thread through the distinctions when Israel HONORS this guy. I'm truly sorry for folks who get painted w his hatred. It's appalling that he's being honored.

...this is why there is rage against AIPAC in the US and, sadly, why there is a surge of threats toward synagogues. OF COURSE it is wrong to blame any particular Jewish person for what extremists is Israel say & do...

..." 'We’re destroying and advancing, destroying and advancing,' he added, calling for Israel to build new settlements in Gaza."...

"...In one video, he vowed that Israel would inflict “the Ninth of Av” on Gaza — the date when Jews recognize the destruction of both ancient biblical temples that preceded their exile from Israel....

"...Rabbi Zarbiv became a kind of wartime influencer who blended militarism and religious nationalism by frequently filming himself in his bulldozer in Gaza and posting clips on social media. Some of his fans turned his name into a verb — “to Zarbiv” — meaning to inflict destruction...

"...that there is no more Hamas,” Rabbi Zarbiv said in one interview last year, referring to the war. “And to do that, we apparently need to flatten the Gaza Strip.”...

"After becoming popular on social media, he was chosen to light a torch at Israel’s national independence day ceremony, one of the country’s highest honors.
The victory will be ...

"The Republican governor [of FL] defined DEI at a news conference as 'an ideological construct that is designed to promote a particular political agenda, particularly to the detriment of disfavored groups.'” Including everyone is a "construct" but White superiority is just natural, you see. /s

Ossoff: "When you throw people off their health insurance and drive up their premiums and gut the Medicaid program in order to cut taxes for the wealthiest people in the country, that's also corruption. That's the corruption that's endemic in our political system and predates Trump."

Peter Thiel's "Palantir," The Company That Owns The Trump Regime, Just Published Their 22 Point Manifesto For America And It's Terrifying. 22 Points · A Tolkien-Themed Surveillance Empire · A Chairman Who Loved Epstein · A Philosopher-King Blogger On Speed-Dial · And The IBM-Nazi Template Nobody Wants To Name

Well, that's alarming.
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

"The acting CDC Director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, withheld an invaluable report in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which showed that COVID vaccines reduced hospitalizations by 55% and emergency department visits by 50% among healthy adults between September 2025 and December 2025"

A deal to end the Iran war seemed close. Then Trump started posting on social media | CNN Politics As the weekend approached, the US and Iran appeared to be closing in on a deal to end the seven-week war.

www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/p...

x.com/joncoopertwe...

...The lack of awareness of what TRUMP is doing HERE is astonishing to me. Killing protesters, you say...?

“For the longest time as a young voter, I felt like Iran was a threat,” said Mr. Prunier, the president of the campus’s College Republicans group. “It’s the right thing to do. We have to shut down the Iranian regime. We have to take out the ayatollah. They are killing protesters.” ...

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

It's easy to let these numbers wash over you, but attend to them: this is a small record of wrongs we've suffered. This is only the beginning of the accounting.
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...but that is a POLITICAL theory that is outside the province of the Court's remit!

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

Wow.

How will we counter the rage of generations over what we allowed this one man to destroy??

"...that traditional norms of equal-handed application of the law, due process and fair treatment that they once took for granted no longer hold."DMoynihan It's impossible to count the cost of this loss.

"As Trump has created an environment where private businesses, universities or civil society can be threatened by the president, such organizations can assume ...

"Michael Bailey, a political scientist at Georgetown: he would rank Trump 'as easily the worst president in U.S. history. The corruption and damage to long-term U.S. institutions and reputation are far beyond anything we’ve seen before,' including Andrew Johnson,James Buchanan and Rutherford Hayes."

"He’s fundamentally undermined the idea of an annual budget process and the concept of a balanced federal budget. These ideas were teetering before his presidency, but the Trump administration gave up on any pretense of seeking balance or an annual spending plan."-DKettl

So freaking stupid. TRUMP is the worst "executive" ever.

listen to this response from John Thune and note how *even MAGA Republicans* are no longer pretending Trump isn't personally directing harassment investigations against his political foes

California’s Gun Safety Laws Work Overall firearm-related mortality rate California, rest of U.S.

CA has achieved something genuinely historic.

In recent years, CA became safer from gun violence than any other time on record.

This progress was not an accident. It was the result of a sustained commitment to gun violence prevention policies and investments.

We cannot lose momentum now.

Virginia, today is the day!

Our future depends on every single vote.

Make your voice heard and stand up for what matters most.

Let's build a stronger Commonwealth together.

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Trump's war in Iran has forced Americans to pay over $8 billion more at the pump.

So naturally, his priority is to bail out his family's business partners in a foreign country.