The first ever happy hour press conference

“It (FIFA choosing US, Canada and Mexico) was a vision of a North America that you can’t even get your head around now. It was a vision that the three countries, as allies, with cross-border collaboration, would host as a unified front.” I spoke to @npr.org about geopolitics, safety and sports.

There are now public polls taken in the last few weeks showing Dems ahead in Senate races in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, and Ohio - more than enough to flip the Senate - and competitive in Florida and Texas too.

U.S. Personnel Who Died in Mexico Were Working For the CIA, Sources Say Two Americans killed in Mexico, previously identified only as embassy staff but working for the CIA, participated in a raid on a drug lab.

Two U.S. government officials who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity said the CIA has been running covert operations in Mexico, working alongside vetted Mexican state-level police forces and other government agencies.

A dozen red states want to help defend Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order Democratic plaintiffs argue that the executive order would unduly restrict mail voting access and insert federal agencies into election administration — a role the Constitution explicitly reserves for...

🚨BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from a dozen states moved to help the White House defend President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump Urges Judge Not to Let Dimon ‘Escape’ JPMorgan Lawsuit Donald Trump’s lawyer said JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon can’t “escape liability” for allegedly blacklisting the president after Jan. 6, 2021.

Donald Trump’s lawyer said JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon can’t “escape liability” for allegedly blacklisting the president after Jan. 6, 2021

Iran War Drains ‘Finite’ Munitions As China Threat Looms, Commander Says At a Senate hearing, lawmakers pressed for answers on the war's effects on military stockpiles for the U.S. and its allies.

Pentagon leaders told lawmakers in a Senate hearing that the U.S. needs to “supercharge” the defense industrial base to replenish “finite” munitions used in the war with Iran.
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Trump Encourages Companies Not to Seek Tariff Refunds President Donald Trump said he’d remember companies that decline to seek refunds on duties paid after the Supreme Court struck down a large swath of his tariffs.

President Donald Trump said he’d remember companies that decline to seek refunds on duties paid after the Supreme Court struck down a large swath of his tariffs

Uhh….

King Charles Remembers His “Darling Mama” on What Would Have Been Queen Elizabeth’s 100th Birthday On Tuesday, the royal family observed the day with tributes, engagements, and a reception, which author Hugo Vickers described as “an appropriate way to remember the queen.”

King Charles delivered a moving tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday, marking what would have been the late monarch’s 100th birthday

And .. here come the Freedom of Information Act requests for Kash Patel records

DC watchdog group Democracy Forward has formally requested Patel's calendars & any messages from security detail that include words "drinking", "hungover", "inebriated"

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A photo of a police officer holding his baton standing at the ready outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, overlaid with the headline, "LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest," and the DEK, "Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally."

A heat map by John Wiseman shows LAPD drone flights concentrated above No Kings protests on March 28, 2026

The LAPD insists the “Drone as First Responder” program presents no threat to personal privacy or civil liberties. We'll let you be the judge of that. theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

Trump Wants to See Buyer for Spirit, Pans United-American Merger President Donald Trump said he would like to see a buyer emerge for Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc. and was open to the government coming to the aid of the airline, while opposing a merger between American Airlines Group Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc.

President Donald Trump said he would like to see a buyer emerge for Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc.

Oklahoma’s Governor Appointed Alan Armstrong to the Senate as a Permitting Reform Hail Mary Gov. Kevin Stitt told NOTUS that he picked Armstrong after talking with Majority Leader John Thune about what it would take to finally accomplish permitting reform.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt told NOTUS that he chose Alan Armstrong to fill the state’s vacated Senate seat because he thought it was his best shot at accelerating major energy and infrastructure projects.
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A criminal charge of.... what?

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Leslie Wexner Leslie Wexner, a billionaire retail executive, faces scrutiny for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, with allegations he facilitated Epstein’s rape trafficking. Legal issues include a civil lawsuit and…

Zampolli’s ID Model Management’s biggest client was Les Wexner, Epstein’s primary sponsor who is tied to the Genovese-LaRocca crime family in Pittsburgh which may consider him a friend. spookyconnections.com/2026/04/20/l...

'I know everything': Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro, Paolo Zampolli, and how the Epstein Network Brought Them Both to Trump's White House Flown to New York on Epstein's jet at 17, partnered for two decades with the man who brought Melania to the US, deported before she could post bail after a single phone call to a federal official, Ama...

In 2002 a 17 year old from Londrina, Brazil boarded Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet in Paris and was trafficked to New York. Around 30 girls were on that flight. Ghislaine Maxwell prowled the cabin. Some girls sat on Epstein’s lap. The teenager was Amanda Ungaro.

www.yacnews.com/amanda-ungar...

The Shadow Docket Is John Roberts’ Disappointing Legacy Chief Justice John Roberts was the driving force behind the rise of the Supreme Court’s emergency docket as a powerful tool to empower the activist conservative majority — that’s the main takeaway of ...

“History will see the emergency docket and MQD as twin drivers of the Roberts court’s conservative activism. That’s a surprising legacy for a chief justice who came to the court as an advocate of judicial restraint.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

‘My diplomatic work was just a façade’: how Epstein corrupted the International Peace Institute in Geneva - Geneva Solutions Testimony from a former intern sheds light on how Jeffrey Epstein used the International Peace Institute to attract, move, and control young women under the guise of diplomatic opportunities –includin...

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She keeps getting dumber.

I think "A Death In The Family" was required reading when I was a youngster.

X post by Xavier Becerra: "Steve Hilton appears in the Epstein files. I'm sure he'll explain himself." Screen shot of email from July 24, 2011 from Jeffrey Epstein to Ian Osborne, asking if David Cameron could be at a meeting - the email quotes Osborne who asks if Woody Allen could be present at a meeting with Epstein and Rohan Silva, head of then Prime Minister Cameron's policy unit and Steve Hilton, Director of Strategy.

🧵With @becerraforca.bsky.social surging in the polls, & @realtomsteyer.bsky.social doing well also, this is a good time to remind Californians that Brit Steve Hilton, Brexit fan, Fox News personality, & Trump endorsed, also appears in the Epstein files! No MAGA Gov for CA!

"Nice book you got here, McQuade . . . be a shame if anything happened to it."
- Robert De Niro, on "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government"

Trump, GOP Stockpile $1 Billion in Cash Ahead of Midterms President Donald Trump’s super political action committee raised $35.6 million in March, part of a $1 billion war chest he and his party have amassed as they try to defy history by hanging onto congressional Republican majorities in an increasingly difficult midterm election environment.

Trump’s super political action committee raised $35.6 million in March, bolstering his war chest to $550 million as he tries to hang onto congressional Republican majorities in an increasingly difficult midterm election environment.

Gunman shoots several tourists at historic pyramids in Mexico A man standing atop one of the historic Teotihuacan pyramids opened fire on tourists Monday, killing one Canadian and leaving at least 13 people, authorities said.

A man standing atop one of the historic Teotihuacan pyramids opened fire on tourists Monday, killing one Canadian and leaving at least 13 people, authorities said. n.pr/4comA0Q

Trump Signals No Truce Extension on Eve of Scheduled Peace Talks President Donald Trump signaled he is unlikely to extend a two-week ceasefire with Iran that’s set to expire in two days, while Iran has yet to confirm it will participate in talks to end a war that’s engulfed the Middle East and upended global trade.

Trump signals he is unlikely to extend the ceasefire with Iran that’s set to expire in two days, while Iran has yet to confirm it will participate in talks to end the war.

Cuba confirms meeting with US officials on island, wants energy blockade lifted Cuba's government confirmed that it had recently met with U.S. officials on the island as tensions between the two sides remain high over the U.S. energy blockade of the Caribbean country.

Cuba's government confirmed that it had recently met with U.S. officials on the island as tensions between the two sides remain high over the U.S. energy blockade of the Caribbean country. n.pr/3Qm6UCC