Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge.
“They knew we were fishermen." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
He alleged that DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Julia Varvaro told him previous sugar daddies had paid for her college education and bought her $40,000 worth of jewelry.
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If it were ever to be built, future generations would dream of its demolition. Its injury to the democratic spirit is too large to contemplate, and would be too hard to look past, even from a distance. www.newyorker.com/culture/dept...
When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark.
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Whether the loot ends up in Trump’s pocket ... these are functionally extortion payments. They will continue to unfold in plain sight. They are already growing increasingly normalized. As for who can put a stop to this lunacy—well, only we can. newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Trump granted a pardon, raising the possibility that Zhao could recover court-ordered fines — $4.3 billion as punishment for allowing criminal actors to use Binance for a broad array of illicit transactions, including child sex abuse, illegal narcotics and terrorism. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...
Trump DOJ files fake charges against the SPLC because they were mean to the KKK and Nazis. Why not wait and see what the investigation reveals before charging? Perhaps Blanche is auditioning for the AG position and Patel is trying to hold onto his.
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Evil - also, no one will help us or trust us when we need them.
Trump Considers Bailing Out His Family’s Major Business Partner | The New Republic newrepublic.com/post/209273/...
Trump seems intent on killing Title X. Instead of getting highly effective contraception methods to the country’s poorest women so they may decide if /when to have children, Title X under Trump seems aimed at getting more women pregnant, whether they want it or not.
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Trump’s pardons cheat victims out of an astounding $1.3 billion in restitution and fines, allowing fraudsters, tax evaders, drug traffickers to keep ill-gotten gains. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
A 79-year-old man who long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are more frequent, good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum — he never had those — but any remaining sense of self-control. www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4533...
The white evangelical excuse for supporting somebody as irreligious and sinful as Donald has been to say that he’s an imperfect vessel. ...Now we are told saying no to Donald would be like saying no to God.
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Kushner was on the Saudi payroll as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the de facto ruler of the country, reportedly lobbied Trump both to initiate and continue the war. popular.info/p/the-media-...
Trump is scheduled to appear at a political rally hosted at Dream City Church in partnership with TPUSA and Erika Kirk. Dream City Church was previously named as a defendant in a lawsuit involving the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl.
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If you take an already grandiose man (whose commercial brand is his own name) and fill him with a sense of divine purpose, you can uncage a tyrant.
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To get almost anything done in the nation’s capital requires not alienating a vexed and vengeful president, and, ideally, bribing him. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
As an aide tried to silence the question, Trump made a brief, dismissive hand gesture, signaling he wanted the reporter, Olivia Rinaldi, gone.
Using his pointer finger, he made a circular gesture and then followed that up with a thumb to the side. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
Trump, 79, reportedly threw such a tantrum during a fraught rescue operation in Iran that his aides banished him from the room as they were briefed. www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-...
16 bets made $100,000 each predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February. Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli forces. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
The government wants to pretend the indictments didn’t occur and juries never convicted these defendants on some of the most serious charges that can be leveled against people in a democracy. Vacating a conviction means it never happened.
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There’s a fine line between a grandiose personality and a psychotic break, and according to Psychologist Dr. John Gartner, it seems Donald Trump has sprinted past it. joannacoles.substack.com/p/trump-is-r...
Way back in 2015 ... without firing a shot, or wasting billion$ per day bombing, including killing school children
JD Vance: "People don’t have any idea how bad the corruption is in Washington DC"
"We've got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt.” Promise kept!
Trump got rid of the $19 trillion dollar national debt we had in 2016 . . . and replaced it with the $39 trillion dollar national debt we have in 2026.
True story
The daughter of one Cuban detainee held in Alligator Alcatraz described incidents of guards beating detainees and deploying pepper spray: “whenever they do stuff to punish them it’s usually in the middle of the night. It’s usually when they’re asleep.”
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