#Maddow

Reality Check Break

Maddow: "Do we think our servicemen and women are in good hands? Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for?"

MS NOW - Rachel Maddow show 4.20.26 on screen: Operation Epic Fury listing our service members killed and wounded to date: Killed: 13 Wounded: 415 - 19 Marines - 62 Air Force - 63 Navy - 271 Army

Maddow "As thousands more US service members are being sent over there now, even as we speak, & as casualty numbers rise, do we think our servicemen & women are in good hands? Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for?
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Apparently business confidence has shattered by the US-Israel war on Iran - so it seems the mechanism towards some sort of recession is already in motion.

All this without the crisis in the Middle East being over yet and Britain still in its self-created Brexit financial straightjacket.

Walz rips Trump and Vance in Europe, says 'feeble-minded, trigger-happy president' has no exit plan for Iran Minnesota Gov Tim Walz spoke at the inaugural Global Progressive Mobilization conference in Barcelona Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz slammed President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance at a conferenc...

"We've got a feeble-minded, trigger-happy president who plunged us into a war where no threat was present, with no clear objectives and no exit plan. We need to call that what it is. That's fascism. Or at least it's fascist curious as they would be," Walz said.

#StopTrump #Iran #Walz

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!

TRUMP’S MEDIA TAKEOVER MUST BE STOPPED!

Corporations:

I don't care what your incompetent consultants tell you; none of us wants to answer scores of questions to evaluate your service.

Ask *one* question to score our experience 1 to 10. Then leave us alone.

I'm not paid to spend half an hour helping you to run your business.

The outrage was never about standards, it was about who.

Trump DOJ loses again, now 0 for 5 on voter roll cases, as court rejects Rhode Island lawsuit U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy, a Trump appointee, called the DOJ’s widespread voter roll demands a “fishing expedition.”

A win! The Trump DOJ is now 0 for 5 on voter roll cases. A federal court just rejected their lawsuit against Rhode Island, the latest in a string of losses as they try to force states to purge voter rolls.

Apparently, the quickest way to open the Strait of Hormuz if for Donald and his coconspirators in insider market manipulation to have just made large-volume oil futures trades.

Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say One attorney wrote in a sworn declaration that officers broke a detainee’s wrist and “pepper sprayed everyone.”

www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

The FBI Director's security detail requested a SWAT battering ram because he was passed out drunk and unresponsive behind locked doors.

How does this man still have a job???

Patel fired the FBI's Iran counterintelligence unit.
Then, we went to war with Iran.
He fired them because they'd worked on the Mar-a-Lago documents case.
Revenge. That's the whole answer.
Everyone's talking about the drinking.
Nobody's talking about this.
Until now ↓
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Trump voter: I know a lot of people like me who voted for Trump. And their opinion is now changing very fast. We voted for Trump to make our lives easier. But it turned out to be the other way around.

“Well, that was fast. The Strait of Hormuz is closed again. It looks like we're headed into a kind of Wayne's World style war on, war off situation.” - @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest update in Trump's Iran war

Attorney @normeisen.bsky.social says a merger between Time Warner and Paramount would be a Viktor "Orban-ization" of U.S. media

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Newsmakers: “To be told a city-run grocery store is implausible, but $500 million a day to kill people in Iran and Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

🔥😬 “because they’re crooks. And everybody knows it.”

(From @ossoff.senate.gov @acyn.bsky.social )

🔊 Iranian navy to ship attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz:

“The Strait of Hormuz is still closed. We will open it by the order of our leader Imam Khamenei, not by the tweets of some idiot.”

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia is demanding details from Oversight Republicans on how they're working to reschedule Pam Bondi's deposition on the Epstein files.

Garcia wants to know the precise steps taken to organize and any statements Bondi has given to James Comer.

TODAY: Folks in Texas are protesting the Dilley ICE detention center, demanding the Trump administration shut it down.

Signs read: NO KIDS IN CAGES.

He’s working hard to distract us. He thinks we’ll forget.
He’s wrong.

Keep talking about the #TrumpEpstein connection.
Keep talking about the #TrumpEpstein connection.
Keep talking about the #TrumpEpstein connection.
Keep talking.

The entire Epstein regime should be rotting in prison right now

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration expects banks to comply in collecting citizenship information from customers.

Undocumented immigrants contribute $97 billion yearly in federal, state, and local taxes. They paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022.

Bessent is galactically stupid.

www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/b...

“The Far Right and the Right are not shouting because they are winning. They shout because they know their time is coming to an end.”

Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain

Melania Trump’s past is facing new scrutiny after a key witness says she witnessed “highly compromising interactions” tied to Paolo Zampolli’s modeling network, where young women met wealthy figures like Donald Trump.

We’ve become uncivilized! The criminals are in charge and they are exceptionally evil and full of hate and greed.

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."

"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...

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