Trump had several gripes while speaking at his No Tax on Tips event in Las Vegas Thursday evening. Yet in an incredible mental lapse, one of Trump’s points of frustration was about who the president was in 2025. trib.al/WCaL9Bu
The image shows Trump in biblical-style scarlet-and-white robes, touching a sick man to heal him, with light emanating from both hands. Heavenly figures ascend in a burst of light behind the president, while a multitude looks up toward him hopefully.
Chile peppers are a traditional part of Indian cuisine — and a key crop for women farmers. They say it's too demanding for men. "In spite of the challenges," says one, "we've found freedom."
"I’m not a scientific pollster, and I only interviewed a handful of rural Catholics for this column, so take it for what it’s worth.
But when you get ardent Catholics who take the president’s side over the pope’s in an argument, it makes you realize how deeply Trump’s influence has penetrated."
Donald Trump is “the big, fat, naked emperor in the room”
On the Media Confidential podcast, Alan Rusbridger and @lionelbarber.bsky.social chat to New Yorker columnist Susan Glasser about how to hold Trump to account when his communications are so vast
DOJ civil rights chief Harmeet Dhillon has demanded that Wayne County turn over its 2024 ballots for yet another voter fraud probe. However, Michigan's attorney general and secretary of state have responded, telling her that's not going to happen.
Real estate investment trusts are landlords for thousands of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals. Some select the managers and keep close watch but deny blame for bad care.
“Without a local center, patients will be forced to travel more than 2 hours each way to Jackson, Mississippi, every single day,“ Dr. Maroun Hayek said in his letter. “For many in our community, this is simply not possible."
"I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me.” www.404media.co/thomson-reut...
In the throes of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, immigration enforcement embeds within colleges, with little to no community oversight, legal transparency, or guardrails, @julialuz.bsky.social reports. As more colleges enter into partnerships with ICE & CBP, students are fighting back.
In Steven Soderbergh's new dark comedy, Ian McKellen plays a famous painter, and Michaela Coel is an art restorer hired to infiltrate his home by his greedy grown-up children.
Some news that may have flown under your radar:
🎉A key architect in Trump’s plans to overturn the 2020 election was disbarred.
🎉A court blocked an Indiana ban on student IDs for voting.
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Since the 2018 reforms began requiring the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights to report awards and settlements related to formal complaints, there have been eight payments made by House members' offices, totaling just over $400,000.
Read the vowels in
"Celine Dion" out loud.
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have recently avoided President Trump's ire by adapting to his demands, an evolution that was on display this week during the annual spring meetings.
West Germany made Holocaust education mandatory after discovering widespread student ignorance in the 1950s and 1970s.
Via @timhenderson.bsky.social and Stateline: Some of the Trump administration’s controversial new warehouse immigration detention centers are getting scaled back and postponed as states and cities fight back and DHS reviews actions taken by ousted Secretary Kristi Noem. https://ow.ly/zefl50YLnOc
Top nutrition experts question the protein push, saying Americans already consume more protein than they need, and there's no new evidence that people need to drastically ramp up consumption. https://to.pbs.org/49xi92c
All Philz locations, including the six shops across the Chicago area, were told to take down their Pride flags in an announcement earlier this month. The company reversed course after the move sparked outrage, prompting the CEO to apologize.
According to the “Beef” creator Lee Sung Jin, “In 2026, you really can’t talk about anything—life, marriage, love, career—without the theme of class being the variable.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Today is a good day to release the Epstein files.
We shouldn’t let pedophiles start wars to hide their crimes.
Now the US is broke, Congress is useless and we still have an embezzling, child rapist as President.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. Photo credit: Keystone Pictures / Archive Photos / Getty Images.
#ResistanceRoots
“True community is based on equality, mutuality and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.”
— Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray
Breaking: We've sued the Trump administration over the mail voting executive order. It's illegal. Unworkable. And anti-democratic. It would block eligible voters from casting ballots. We're representing civic groups in this challenge, with other voting groups as co-counsel.
I saw these people literally mocking other people who were sobbing at losing family members to their faces in their replies and I'm supposed to feel bad because they're crying now?? nobody needs to pander to this level of main character syndrome, let them cry alone
To everyone celebrating Easter, Michelle and I wish you a joyful holiday filled with reminders of the enduring power of faith and hope.
Reminder: Trump said his decision to launch the Iran war was shaped by conversations with Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio. Not one active military commander. Not one.
Expect more of this, since Hegseth is firing the people who actually know better, the generals.
In the cesspool that is Trump’s second term, the defense secretary’s broker allegedly sought a stake in major defense companies in the weeks before the bombing began.
It's just latest example of potential insider trading on the war. trib.al/tp5dH6Z
