It Is Time for Ruthless Aggression The national battle over gerrymandering should be just the first step. Next up: expanding SCOTUS.

Dems, if they're going to be smart, canny, and ruthless, following the Virginia redistricting win: "We have not yet begun to fight."

NEW | Chinese #solar exports hit a RECORD 68 GW in March 2026, DOUBLE the previous month.

The data provides the first insight into the global response to the US-Israel war with Iran, while changes to tax rebate rules give an additional boost before coming into force in April.

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I'm glad you heard about it. I ride with an older guy we started talking because we recognized each other from when we were walking out dogs

He's not so arrogant now. The GOP knows they're in trouble and we need to keep the pressure up and vote this November

For all of 2025 and the beginning of 2026, trump thought he was invincible.

He ripped through the government, attacked other countries.

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‘I Run the Country and the World’ Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.

‘I Run the Country and the World’

Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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How'd you find out about her passing?

WTF! Really?

Anyone else watching the CA gubernatorial debate? Xavier Becerra is doing really well.

I remember smog alerts in the late 80s and early 90s, when the skyline of downtown L.A. was often hidden by a thick, brown layer of smog. Then came tougher regulations and our air quality improved

The everything rocket

Soon they'll announce robo-rockets

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files.

Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas.

You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

Great to see them putting women right at the front of sport …

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

Can someone mute the f-ing mic?

HASSAN: I agree all should have access to healthy foods, but Trump has made it harder to afford groceries. Do high prices make it easier or harder for families to eat healthy?

RFK Jr: I would say that beef has dropped by 1% last quarter

HASSAN: No. Beef prices are up 20% since Trump took office

Lawsuit: Blaze’s Crackpot Reporting Prompted a Wild, Unnecessary FBI Raid Quickly debunked reporting based on “gait analysis” was enough to get the feds to descend with a helicopter on a falsely accused J6 pipe-bomber’s home.

New: Kash Patel's FBI launched an unnecessary raid on the home of a former Capitol Police officer, based on Jan. 6 conspiracy theories from right-wing media outlet The Blaze.

My goodness, look at these polling results, trump's disapproval in just about every category is OVER 67%.

That includes millions of trump supporters, sick of his bullshit.

Wow!

Thousands of passengers pay departure taxes every day, but most have no idea. While some countries still ask for cash in hand from tourists as they leave the airport, most of these fees are baked into the cost of airline tickets. https://cnn.it/4sTqROG

"From Trump’s declaration that unlike Erika Kirk, he doesn’t forgive his enemies, to his crude attacks on the pope as “weak on crime,” to his insane AI rendering of himself as Jesus, he seems to be deliberately testing Christians’ forbearance." lnk.thebulwark.com/4d3fhLd

Someone who lies in a hearing should be fired

RFK Jr: President Trump has invested more in trying to transition off glyphosate than any other president

HASSAN: When & how did he do that? He signed an order to increase production of it for weapons and herbicide, and he granted immunity to the huge corporation who produces it. You once sued them

You know, it doesn't have to be like this.

Oil spill continues in Gulf of Mexico vulnerable habitats, while Pemex admits fault MEXICO CITY — In Nautla, a municipality on the coast of the Mexican state of Veracruz, soft folds of sand await sea turtles as their annual nesting season begins between April and June. But instead…

Oil spill continues in Gulf of Mexico vulnerable habitats, while Pemex admits fault

Pentagon Pete Headlines Bonkers Event Rededicating America to God Church and State? Never heard of her.

Pete Hegseth is marking America’s 250th anniversary of signing the Declaration of Independence by further eroding the separation of church and state.

RFK jr 'There's two ways of calculating percentage and Trump's way is if you have a $600 drug and reduce it to $10 that is a 600% reduction.'

No there aren't two ways of calculating percentages and a 600% decrease would mean THEY are paying YOU $3000.

When ICE came to Minnesota, toddlers and teenagers were taken from their schools and their bus stops and brought to detention centers like the one in Dilley, Texas, where they endured horrifying conditions like spoiled food and measles outbreaks.

I'll take any hope I can get

An AI trained on 13,000 virtual worlds just projected our renewable energy future It beat the International Energy Agency's forecasts—and it says 2°C is still on the table

An AI trained on 13,000 virtual worlds just projected our renewable energy future It beat the International Energy Agency's forecasts—and it says 2°C is still on the table www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/04/an-a...