It's incredible that anyone can be as stupid as Hegseth. But it's either that or he's a mass murderer like RFK Jr.

Hegseth Ends Flu Vaccine Mandate—Ensuring Everyone’s About to Get Sick Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says a flu vaccine requirement is “absurd.”

Pete Hegseth doesn’t think soldiers living & fighting together in close quarters or aboard warships need to take the flu vaccine.

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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Chairman Comer and Republicans are canceling hearings because they are afraid we may force more subpoenas and advance the Epstein investigation. Oversight Democrats will not participate in these sham events where motions can’t be made and where we can’t call witnesses.

The Senate GOP budget: $70 billion for ICE. $0 to lower your costs.

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

We don't know which Cabinet secretary will be forced to resign next, but we know it'll be either Brooke Rollins or Linda McMahon because they're the last two women left.

Re-reading this classic. Not just a window into Oklahoma politics (which it absolutely is), but this book helps us understand the phenomenon of working class Americans pledging undying allegiance to a party that screws them over for corporate interests at every turn.

Did American voters really think it was cute to vote for someone whose thing is to call people names? It’s something we’re taught at an early age not to do.
Minor in the scheme of things, but such a telling characteristic.

TODAY: Virginia voters decide a referendum that would allow the redrawing of Congressional lines

It could swing four U.S. House seats in Virginia from red-to-blue next year

Impeachment, not the 25th. He is unfit for office, but his problems now are because he has surrounded himself with enablers and thinks he has no restrictions or consequences.

This, (from AP) … Listed under “Entertainment” is weird.
But this an indictment against America.
As if 90% of Americans aren’t already the most undereducated, insular, illiterate and dumbed down people on the planet they’re Still banning books FFS!
It’s no wonder you’ve got the dumbest President!

Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) * ... @magyarpeterMP Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then - on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office.

Hungary’s Péter Magyar issues an ultimatum.

“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”

—Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief American Prosecutor, Nuremberg, 1946

Wow:

More Corruption from the felon.

134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.

Judge schedules potentially pivotal hearing for April 28 in legal challenge against Trump’s plan to shutter & renovate Kennedy Center

Judge orders attorneys for plaintiff, Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) & Trump attorneys to be ready to tackle wide range of issues in the case by then

There’s something mentally wrong with the President of the United States.

Pastor was abducted:
This is the "worst of the worst" they are looking for in Portland, ME.
04/20/26

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?"

A reminder:

When you learned about the Iran hostage crisis, did they teach you this part?

In November 1979, during the crisis, Black hostages and women were released first.

Ruhollah Khomeini said they were oppressed in the United States and not part of the power structure, so they weren’t seen as spies.

We've all seen the videos of ICE pulling people out of their cars, shooting citizens with pepper balls, and even worse killing Americans in the streets.

This is not normal. And it cannot continue.

ICE needs commonsense guardrails NOW.

As Trump’s lies get more egregious (and repetitive) I have at least noticed fewer mouth-breathing bootlickers willing to defend him in my comments.

And the administration is leaking about how he’s hurting negotiations and how they’re keeping him on the sidelines.

I’ll call that progress.

Xavier Becerra @xavierbecerra.bsky.social has the MOMENTUM! He is trending #1 on ActBlue for donations, surging support across CA! This is a people powered campaign! Please consider giving a grassroots donation: secure.actblue.com/donate/mw_xb...!
This is a photo of me at #Becerra’s town hall!

I endorse Xavier Becerra for Governor of California

ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary

well... THAT's pretty eye opening, actually, Mike, to just say it out loud like that.

Did that sound different in your head?

51 Percent of Americans Think the War in Iran Has Not Been Worthwhile.

NEW POLL: Less than a quarter of Americans think Trump’s war in Iran has been worth the cost.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online