Last year, the flu vaccine saved 12,000 lives and prevented over 100,000 hospitalizations according to the CDC.

Opinion | New Hungarian PM says government was funding CPAC but won’t anymore “I believe the state should never have financed them in the first place,” Péter Magyar said this week. “It was a crime.”

Not enough people are talking about this.

Hungary’s incoming PM has said that Viktor Orbán used Hungarian government funds to help finance CPAC, the flagship networking event for GOP candidates, members of Congress, and conservative media in this country.

Yikes! Always something…

We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI.

📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

Obama and Holder clarify their support for Virginia redistricting in new videos "Deceitful" and "racist" GOP ads untruthfully claimed that Obama opposed current redistricting efforts in Virginia.

Former president Barack Obama made perhaps his clearest case for supporting Virginia Democrats’ redistricting efforts in a video released Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

ICE has detained 6,200+ kids in Trump's second term, up 10x since Biden left office

Terrible damage to children is being done in our name.

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VOUGHT: This president has campaigned and led for peace, and against endless wars

BALINT: So it's peace through war? Is that where are right now? Peace through war?

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'

IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated

W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela.

It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps

Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe

But it never goes to help Americans

I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country. Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

Jack Szostak "All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again."

April 2026 The Israeli Defense Forces have issued an evacuation order for Beirut's Jnah area, which includes two major referral hospitals; the Rafik Hariri University Hospital and Al Zahraa Hospital. At this time, no alternative medical facilities are available to receive approximately 450 patients from the two hospitals including 40 patients in the ICU), rendering their evacuation operationally unfeasible. Both facilities are operating at full capacity, including treating the injured from the strikes of 8 April. This zone also encompasses the @mophleb complex, and hosts five shelters accommodating more than 5000 people. I urge Israel to reverse this order and ensure the protection of all health facilities, health workers, patients, and civilians.

IDF issued an evacuation order for Beirut’s Jnah area, which incl 2 major hospitals: Rafik Hariri Univ Hospital and Al Zahraa Hospital. WHO confirms “there are no medical facilities able to receive ~ 450 patients from the 2 hospitals (incl 40 ICU patients), evacuation is operationally unfeasible.“

Credit where credit is due: Congressional Democrats showed up during recess - they came back early - to introduce a war powers resolution. Republicans blocked it.

“Each Republican who refuses to join us in voting against this wanton war of choice owns every consequence of whatever the hell this is,” Schumer added.

There are a surprising number of people in politics + media who don't understand that nuclear launch authority rests solely with POTUS. Trump doesn't need clearance from Congress or the courts. Even preemptively. All that stands between him and nuclear war are military refusing to follow his orders.

“Economic Civil War”: States Push Laws to Shield Oil and Gas Companies From Accountability Most of the 15 bills being considered are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo.

NEW: Fifteen laws in 11 states that could immunize the fossil fuel industry from climate-related legal claims have either been passed or are being debated.

Many bills are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo.

They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

How Trump turmoil is driving more people to the therapist’s office: ‘This is all upside down’ As ‘political depression’ enters public discourse, therapists are encouraging people to engage with their communities

A label has been created to describe what many of us feel. “Political Depression” is the sense that customary forms of political response no longer work either to change the world or make us feel better. Don’t give up. Vote, protest peacefully, and encourage others.


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College Republicans Chapter Sues School for Right to Make Nazi Salute The student group has filed a lawsuit after its suspension from campus.

Young Republicans across the country seem to have a racism and antisemitism problem.

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Trump and Hegseth halted funding for research to get blood to wounded U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors:

"When someone is wounded and survival depends on the availability of blood, this software would have made that survival more likely. Now it will not."

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White House seeks $5.6 billion cut to NASA budget in 2027 The White ​House on ‌Friday proposed a $5.6 billion ​cut ​to NASA's budget ⁠for 2027, ​including a $3.4 ​billion cut to the space ​agency's ​science unit, a 23% ‌cut ⁠as NASA's new chief plans ​an ​array ⁠of new ​missions under ​the ⁠flagship U.S. moon ⁠program.

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The President's fiscal year 2027 Budget was released today.

Important---Important---Important

The President's Budget is always fundamentally a political document that Congress may or may not (usually not) take very seriously.

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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

BREAKING — Effort launches to remove Trump’s name from ALL federal property, monuments, and currency.

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‘Empty promises:’ Residents lament lack of protections as data center developments unfold across WV • West Virginia Watch State lawmakers took no substantial action this legislative session to mitigate the harms residents fear data centers could bring.

As people across West Virginia brace for how proposed data centers will alter their communities and their lives, state lawmakers took no substantial action this legislative session to mitigate the harms residents fear the developments could bring, reports @caitycoyne.bsky.social.

US military building 'massive complex' beneath White House ballroom project: Trump President Donald Trump said Sunday the US military was planning to construct a large complex beneath the new ballroom he is building at the White House.

It feels like Congress should be demanding answers on why Trump is building a massive military complex underneath his ballroom.

Let's not forget that Stephen Miller remains the architect of the monstrous deportation scheme.

A screenshot with a block of text: Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965. Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

Sanders pitches bill to block data centers as populists seize on AI fears The legislation would pause the construction of new facilities until Congress passes regulations on artificial intelligence.

Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce legislation today to block the construction of new data centers until lawmakers enact regulations on AI, laying down a marker on the populist left as Washington confronts public skepticism of the new technology.

Not one of them has ever stood in a line for 4 hours or more to vote in person.

Not one of them has been turned away at the polls because they are suddenly “not on the list.”

Not one has had their pay docked b/c they arrived late to work b/c they went to vote in the morning.

Robert S. Mueller III, 81, Dies; Rebuilt F.B.I. and Led Trump Inquiry

My obit of Robert S. Mueller III. We will not see his like again.
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