Uhhhh.
2 US officials killed in a car accident after a supposedly joint USA-Mexico anti-drug op (that President of Mexico denies knowing of or having approved)…
…were allegedly CIA.
Yes, I absolutely believe Trump regime prob. did do, & is doing, worse than what this looks like
Minority contractors sue Trump admin over anti-DEI order, claiming they're forced to "trade their First Amendment right to speak about race and discrimination for fair access to federal contracts." Sean Michael Newhouse explains here: buff.ly/AGjCYlX #DEI #firstamendment
“Taken to hospitals were six people from the U.S., three from Colombia, one from Russia, one from Brazil, one from the Netherlands and one from Canada, the local government said.” apnews.com/article/shoo... - @apnews.com
CW: Mass shooting & suicide
#CDNPoli #Mexico #Teotihuacan #USPoli
JD Vance has officially cancelled his planned trip to Pakistan.-AP
Middle East officials: Iran is refusing to send its negotiating team to Islamabad this week until President Trump lifts the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.-Politico
what an interesting future today's kids have to look forward to
The damage Trump has inflicted on the US & world is enormous & wide-ranging.
Michael Bailey (political scientist at Georgetown), would rank Trump “as easily the worst president in US history. The corruption & damage to long-term institutions are far beyond anything we’ve seen before.”
Gift article
Spoke with @WSJ.com about how China's cyber capabilities now rival the US, yet Europe continues to treat Beijing as an indirect threat while countries like Japan and Australia have spent years hardening their defenses.
www.wsj.com/world/chinas...
Yes, after DOGEing rom the Forest Service, then the shutdown its starting the 7 months mark. I am feeling the same stuff...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...
This is the most cockamamie, not to mention cruel, idea I've ever heard.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
Seizing old ballots on flimsy warrants is a way to do performative pandering to the crazies (incl. Trump). There are little to no legal protections for old ballots, which are usually destroyed fairly soon anyway. Finding a rubber-stamp judge is easy. It's very unlike the situation w/ live ballots.
Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.
For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.
We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.
NEW: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that key actions Trump took to delay solar and wind projects across the U.S. were illegal (me for @heatmap.news)
Kind of curious what other open secrets does every DC reporter just keep among themselves these days.
(2/14) One new disclosure in our @NewYorker investigation: there was no written report, and findings were kept deliberately out of writing.
Full story here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
And a thread below.
(🧵1/14) When OpenAI board members hired the law firm WilmerHale to investigate Sam Altman's firing over two years ago, many executives at the company expected to see extensive findings. Instead, OpenAI released a brief announcement with few details.
NEW STUDY: Media coverage of violence against women has reached an all-time low — at only 1.3% of total coverage.
This, at the height of the Epstein scandal.
www.akas.london/globalmisogy...
You need people who are “really competent,” says Chad Mizelle, who is so competent that today he asked Trump to combat Virginia’s redistricting effort by issuing an EO declaring the 1847 transfer of Arlington and Alexandria from DC to VA to be unconstitutional.
www.foxnews.com/opinion/trum...
Four Ukrainian minehunters docked in Portsmouth could form part of a British and French-led mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
www.thetimes.com/article/86fe...
lfg
1/ Russian companies are blocking foreign IP addresses en masse in a bid to block VPNs, stranding thousands of Russians abroad without access to money, flight details, or taxes. Major Russian apps are also being repurposed to scan users' phones for VPNs and secretly obtain user data. ⬇️
um wat
The two US embassy officials who died in a car accident in Mexico on Sunday worked for the CIA and had been collaborating with Mexican officials on expanded counternarcotics operations in the country.
www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/p...
The pro-genocide nation will celebrate a man who took part in the genocide for their national day
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
It’s been a few months since I wrote about how bad Kash Patel was at being FBI director, so let’s check in over at the FBI, shall we?
Wait ... what's that now? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-nation...
