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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
Trump ordered Texas to redraw its maps mid-cycle — not because the census required it, but because they know they can't win a fair fight in 2026.
Virginia votes tomorrow. Matching the GOP isn't enough —
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Here's what a senior homeland official told me about their development of ICE smart glasses: "It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens...but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protesters."
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
Spain has recently outpaced the US in GDP growth, emerging as one of the fastest-growing major advanced economies. As of 2024–2025, Spain’s economy is growing at a rate over 3% annually, exceeding the US (~2%) and Eurozone (~1%) averages.
Donald is such an uninformed idiot.
This is good
"The hour is growing very late. Already the political damage is irreversible for Trump and his party." It's just a shame that the damage extends beyond the president and his party. lnk.thebulwark.com/4sMKN5T
"Pro Life" Republicans
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
Supreme Court ruled Trump tariffs were unlawful and struck them down, but not before the Trump tariffs triggered a new round of inflation.
Unfortunately, neither the court nor Trump created a mechanism to refund consumers who got screwed by Trump tariffs.
It's our money.
#InflationNation
The colors and pattern are beautiful!
The Onion is taking over Alex Jones's Infowars.
Yes, this is an Onion headline, but it's also real. Sandy Hook parents will now receive some compensation for what Jones did to them.
In 2024, The Onion won a court-mandated auction for Infowars’ parent company, backed by the Sandy Hook families.
This should be fun.
AP: FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic for article that alleged excessive drinking
"His behavior, including 'both conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences,' has alarmed officials at the FBI and Department of Justice..."
💯 🎯
(the midterms can't come soon enough)
With Farage making a shed load of money from bitcoin and an assortment of weird companies, we’ve launched a map and live tracker of his income 👇🏻👇🏻
Tehran vows retaliation after US seizes Iran-flagged vessel defying blockade
US negotiators are expected in Pakistan for talks, though Iran has not publicly confirmed it will send a delegation.
Updated 3:41 AM EDT, Mon April 20, 2026
www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/w...
"Cleaning...sponges..slowly break down as you use them—shedding tiny plastic fibers that wash into water systems... Globally, these sponges could release over a trillion microplastic fibers every month, potentially entering the food chain and affecting wildlife."
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
So I screwed up a prior post on this (props to @cahutch1990.bsky.social for catching it). But the latest NBC News poll shows that HALF of Americans (50%) STRONGLY disapprove of Trump’s job performance as President.
Only one-fifth (20%) strongly APPROVES of it.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
“For my friends everything; for my enemies the law.”
DOJ has become an instrument of authoritarianism. No more laments for what it was; or talk of “abuses”; or wishful thinking about how they can’t get away with it. They can, if not confronted across the board.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-l...
I have seriously lost track of how many times we've completely obliterated Iran's military and how many times Trump has reopened the Strait of Hormuz.
Is that bad? Seems bad
Peter Thiel, who thinks freedom & democracy are incompatible, and hates the social safety net & women voting, is trying to buy the outcome of VA’s redistricting vote to further his disgusting anti-democratic views.
Don’t let him!!!!! VOTE YES, Virginia, on 4/21, to stop Thiel.
WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"
Exclusive: Sweden has intelligence indicating Russia's systematically manipulating data to fool Ukraine’s western allies into believing its economy has withstood the strain of its war spending & western sanctions, Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden Military Intelligence, told me & @maxseddon.bsky.social
No, when you say “a whole generation will die,” that is the definition of a genocide. It’s not talking about just military leaders. Any attempt to say otherwise is patently disingenuous.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...
Barry McCaffrey: Trump muses on awarding himself the Medal of Honor. A truly vile insult to the US Armed Forces.
