JUST IN: Source says Trump admin agrees to pay $1.25M to energy consultant Carter Page over FISA surveillance of him during/after 2016 Trump campaign, which he briefly advised. Page's legal fight at #SCOTUS may continue v. ex-officials. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
The absolute corruption, incompetence, just straight sheer horror of this. Speechless.
In our book Calling Bullshit, we talked about some of the ways people create misleading narratives by judiciously choosing how to calculate percentages.
"Making up utterly nonsensical shit" was not among the methods we addressed.
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one of the things that's important about this milestone is that there is absolutely nothing in the immediate offing that could possibly reverse this sentiment; this is an administration that's physiologically incapable of fixing a problem
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...
a proportionate *and necessary* response, without which the current extremely illegitimate Republican Supreme Court will thwart other such responses.
The deal faces regulatory scrutiny both for influence on media landscape, but also for foreign investments to fund it.
The 'Greatest' Country on Earth WHAT AMERICA IS ACTUALLY #1 AT - Imprisoning people - Gun deaths - School shootings - Drug deaths - Medical bankruptcy - Wealth inequality (wealthy nations) - Maternal mortality (wealthy nations) - Child poverty (wealthy nations) - Believing it's #1 Sources: Commonwealth Fund, World Happiness Report, PISA/OECD, WHO, RSF, Yale EPI, World Economic Forum, UN, CDC. Data 2022-2025.
On Tuesday, Missouri led other GOP-led states — including Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota & Texas — in asking a federal judge to let them to help defend President Trump's executive order that calls for restricting voting by mail
RFK Jr.'s funding cuts tell a devastating story. Actions speak louder...
The prediction market platform Kalshi caught a Minnesota politician who traded on the outcome of his own election.
State Sen. Matt Klein is a co-sponsor of a bill moving through the Minnesota Legislature that would ban prediction markets.
Correct response
“Alligator Alcatraz will go down in history as a boondoggle to taxpayers and a flagrant assault on the Everglades."
Unbelievable. A GOP judge in VA just blocked certification of the congressional map referendum, calling the whole process unconstitutional. Apparently, the voters’ will is optional now. 🙄
Counting on a swift appeal to fix this mess. ⚖️
Sean Parnell, spokesman for Pete Hegseth: STATEMENT: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately. On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy. We wish him well in his future endeavors. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become Acting Secretary of the Navy.
Trump just fired the Secretary of the Navy and replaced him with Undersecretary Hung Cao, one of the biggest idiots Virginia politics has produced this century (really saying something here) in the middle of the Iran war
TRUMP'S QUICKLY LEARNING THAT IRAN PUTS UP A BIGGER FIGHT THANA 13-YEAR OLD GIRL
FBI investigators reportedly looked into whether NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson violated stalking laws www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
Trump is reportedly considering an Iran deal that includes:
- releasing billions (up to 20B) to Iran
- a sunset provision on enrichment (5-15 years)
- potentially not securing the highly enriched uranium
- nothing on Iran’s ballistic missiles
It’s the JCPOA but worse
HEDY LAMARR escaped from her Nazi husband by disguising herself as her own maid, became a Hollywood star, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today’s Bluetooth and GPS technology.
Hell of a lady.
This is the @ainowinstitute.bsky.social's North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit, a set of policy and action recommendations for fighting against "AI" data centers at the local, state, and federal level.
datacenters.ainowinstitute.org
Remarkable: 100% of the ads in Northern Virginia heavily featured Trump to turn out voters for the redistricting referendum in the closing days, a source tells me.
That's right, all of the ads were all about Trump. This backfired for him spectacularly.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2093...
"Smallpox was enough of a problem—and inoculation had become enough of a proven technique—that this was not just a matter for individual cities and individual clergy to debate but a matter of urgency for the war for independence." lnk.thebulwark.com/4vZJIum
“North Carolina has long expected imprisoned people to shoulder part of the cost of their incarceration,” says a law professor who studies prison labor and revenue.
Every single Republican voted against it.
"We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democrats list of fix-its when they take back House & Senate is long & most are urgent. But an important one would be a law that prohibits the sale of National forests or parks-ever.
These areas are supposed to be pristine. The forests here are old. One cannot replace tress that are hundreds of years old. This guy is a mad man. This must not be allowed to happen.
The Trump administration is removing protections for over 59 million acres of the National Forest System, opening untouched land to logging.
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