‘Donnyland’? Ukraine Proposes Naming Part of the Donbas in Trump’s Honor.

Officials have suggested renaming part of Ukraine's embattled Donbas region “Donnyland” to get Trump’s attention.

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Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court (full documentary) | FRONTLINE YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

“Clarence Thomas, on the Supreme Court for 34 years, is a bitter, angry, severe hard-right, intellectually dishonest ideologue... the worst justice in modern Supreme Court history” – Robert Reich. Please watch the horrifying documentary (link below).

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Trump says currency swap with UAE is under consideration President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States was considering ​helping the United Arab Emirates financially and a currency swap ‌with the Middle East nation was under consideration.

More than just kleptocracy 8 : Trump said the US was considering ​using money from the US Treasury to shore up the finances of the oil-rich UAE. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan has directed hundreds of millions to Trump, buying 49% of his World Liberty Financial.

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1964 : “Senator Goldwater appeals to the unconscious sadism and hostility in the average human being.” A magazine published criticisms of a presidential candidate's mental health. This was banned via the "Goldwater Rule," which today has an increasing cost.

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Enough votes to win ? 🤔 "16% of 2024 election voters called the assassination attempts against Trump the single most important factor to their vote. Of these, 81% supported him."
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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

More than just kleptocracy 7 : "The BBC found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public. Some analysts say it bears the hallmarks of illegal insider trading."

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As someone said, 30% is the MAGA "noise floor", representing a bloc of people who have been sufficiently brainwashed that they support Trump in any and all cases. To have figures of 68% "against" literally means that ALL people in the US who are STILL CAPABLE OF THINKING INDEPENDENTLY are against.

Poll: Trump's approval rating hits second-term low as Americans sour on the economy and Iran war Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of inflation, according to an NBC News Decision Desk Poll, with some cracks emerging in his GOP support.

67% of the public “somewhat” or “strongly” disapprove of the way Trump is handling the war in Iran. 68% disapprove of his handling of “inflation and the cost of living” domestically.
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Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

More than just kleptocracy 6 : “I know how to get the president’s attention. Make it a Trump National Golf Course in Syria,” suggested Rep. Wilson (R-SC) But Mohamad Al-Khayyat was already a step ahead. He said he had planned to propose a Trump-branded resort.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN Business Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag...

Deported the immigrants ? Let children work ! The Florida legislature is seeking to loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts on school days.
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Celeste Dupuy-Spencer “Don’t You See That I Am Burning” (2021)

Street art, LA, 2018

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

Sixteen bets made $100,000 each accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February. On 7 April, right before Donald Trump announced a temporary ceasefire with Iran, traders bet $950m that oil prices would come down. They did...

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“I think it’s very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology,” said future president Vance. “If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, you’ve got to be careful.” Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019.

‘Popesplaining’ Vance out of depth in argument over whether Iran is a just war Trump administration has riled head of Catholic church over use of theology to justify conflict in Iran

Small man big mouth JD Vance took it upon himself to correct the pope on Saint Augustine's ideas of "just war". But Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the Augustinian order, wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine’s ideas after a lifelong intellectual interest.

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Trump claims Mamdani is ‘destroying New York’ with proposed second-home tax President Trump claimed that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is “destroying” the city with his new proposed tax on second homes — perhaps his most direct criticism of the Big Apple’s l…

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Trump and the future of the Democratic Party NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Mayor Zohran Mamdani about New York City, President Trump and the future of the Democratic Party.

Q : “Now that you’ve spoken with [Trump] multiple times, do you still think he’s a fascist?”
Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”
Question: “And do you tell him that?”
Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”
PS Trump de-funded NPR.

www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

Who is behind hundreds of AI generated (sexy) MAGA influencers ? TikTok found “zero indication of covert influence operations.” 😅😅
Each post featuring the pro-Trump avatars probably costs around $1 to $3 to generate.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

House Democrats attempt anti-corruption message to gain traction against Trump Days after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was ousted by an opposition campaign with an anti-corruption message, Democrats want to try the same playbook against President Donald Trump before the...

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Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

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Democrats seek to bar presidents from collecting settlement money from the government Lawmakers drafted the bill after President Donald Trump sued the IRS and the Treasury Department for $10 billion over a leak of his tax records to news outlets.

More than kleptocracy 5 : Raskin warned of an “emerging MAGA grift of suing the government as a ‘plaintiff’ on bogus grounds and then settling the suit as a ‘defendant’ for big bucks” and introduced a bill to stop it.

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Magyar’s first target: Hungary’s state-controlled media Hungary’s prime minister-elect is vows to shut down Orbán-affiliated broadcasters until they can guarantee “objective, impartial reporting.”

The challenge of dismantling the machinery of an autocratic state. Will there be a post-MAGA ? 🤔 "Magyar labeled the state media a “factory of lies”.” Over his 16-year reign, outgoing Prime Minister Orbán gradually took over 80 percent of the Hungarian media.

www.politico.eu/article/pete...

Yet another danger to US democracy is the reluctance of Congress to challenge and vote against presidents' nominees, even in the light of obvious, enormous problems, which gave us Clarence Thomas, not to mention Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, RFK Jr., etc. etc.

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A journalist filmed an ICE protest at a Minnesota church. Then federal agents showed up at her door After Georgia Fort and Don Lemon reported from a church whose pastor reportedly works for ICE, agents arrested Fort in front of her children

Slide into autocracy 66 : After reporting from a church whose pastor allegedly works for ICE, a journalist was arrested in front of her children.
The two Black, independent journalists, and the protesters, were charged with unusual violations of law.

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Republican floats Samuel Alito replacement nominees for Supreme Court Chuck Grassley floated Ted Cruz and Mike Lee as preferred replacements for a potential Supreme Court vacancy.

So Grassley wants "Lyin'" Ted Cruz on the Supreme Court ? Someone whom even Trump calls a liar ? 🤔 PS that points to potential resignations on SCOTUS before the midterms so Trump can install more (and younger) losers, learning from the sad Ruth Bader Ginsburg saga.
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4/4
He has an agressive drive, he explodes, who cares ? Tomorrow, if he gets another conflicting idea, it doesn't matter, he lives in the moment."

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"You mean the president of the US is a psychopath ?"
"I would make that diagnosis. It's not a mental illness, it's a developmental problem... When he has a drive, he passes to the act. He lives in the present. When he has a sexual drive, he passes to the act, who cares ?

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So he is not crazy, and his strange acts are those of a psychopath. He probably learned that as he grew up, when it was put in his head that the sole human values are money and individual success.... He is a slave to his drives, like all psychopaths."

"Quand une société est désorganisée, les gens sont anxieux", affirme le neuropsychiatre Boris Cyrulnik | France Inter Dans son nouveau livre

"Boris Cyrulnik, speaking as a psychiatrist, is Trump crazy ?"
"He's not mentally ill, and we should not use the word crazy. In that case, someone who is crazy is not responsible for his acts. Trump is responsible.

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US DoJ files for overturning January 6 convictions for far-right groups’ members Filing seeks to overturn seditious conspiracy charges of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members who laid siege to US Capitol in 2021

Slide into autocracy 65 : The Department of "Justice", working hard to help the leaders of extreme-right groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers (previously found guilty of seditious conspiracy in connection with the January 6 riots, and then pardoned by Trump).

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