The Trump administration just announced they are prosecuting civil rights groups for infiltrating and exposing the KKK and other white supremacist groups.
www.npr.org/2026/04/21/g...
JUST IN: The Trump administraiton tells SCOTUS that it has reached a settlement with CARTER PAGE over misuse of FISA surveillance in his case. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF.
Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it.
The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.
Nothing to worry about, just the Heritage Foundation publishing an article on how the Republican Congress can refuse to seat Democrats www.heritage.org/election-int...
News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering.
It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules:
newrepublic.com/article/2093...
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is out with a new (very bad) decision, and it's a doozy.
The Fifth Circuit says that Texas can require the Ten Commandments in classrooms. But somehow it gets worse.
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The Legislative Branch used to have the purse strings for American taxpayers' money. Now, the Executive Branch is the open wallet for Donald and his friends.
Midterms punish an unpopular party in power, but only if the opposition executes. Unpopularity only creates an opening. Someone still has to walk through it. If we stay this course, we’ll win the house. But Impeaching won’t be enough. He must be removed. We have to win the senate. By A LOT!
Reporting is not a crime. Also, the reporter Patel apparently went after here is Elizabeth Williamson, who went up against the entire Sandy Hook conspiracy theory apparatus to write a book about the worst response to the saddest event I can think of. She is pretty fearless, but this is 100% BS
Remarkable: 100% of the ads in Northern Virginia heavily featured Trump to turn out voters for the redistricting referendum in the closing days, a source tells me.
That's right, all of the ads were all about Trump. This backfired for him spectacularly.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2093...
This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.
As the conservatives freak out over VA, a reminder:
BEFORE the 2022 midterms, federal courts found that multiple once-covered-by-the-VRA states likely illegally diluted Black votes. But because of Purcell, these illegal maps were used that fall.
So miss me with the pearl clutching.
And also just happen to be a major business partner of the Trump family. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Jamie Raskin has filed briefs supporting his motions for the court to appoint an amici to contest vacating the convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Here's the Proud Boys version ...
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trump and republicans making america great again by... cutting cancer research:
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
The mighty @gilduran.com, one of the great modern chroniclers of the broligarchy, was suspended from Twitter for the tweet below against Palantir!
He joins The Left Hook at 530 pm ET
@tparsi.bsky.social joins us at 6 pm ET to discuss the Iran War debacle.
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Listen, every single one of us deserves a fair shot. 👋
TOMORROW, April 21, 6am–7pm, we make sure that’s real. Vote YES to end the map games.
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This month alone, the Trump admin has voted unanimously to exempt the oil and gas industry from Endangered Species Act requirements in the Gulf of Mexico, canceled a program helping farmers pursue conservation efforts, announced an Arctic drilling lease sale, and more. We're tracking these harms ⬇
Expelling Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell from Congress could have a chilling effect on future Congressmen's ability to sexually harass their staff members.
There should be no place in Congress for people like Nancy Mace.
by Cory Mills
Somewhere out there, in a law firm office far, far away, an associate on the defense team for John Brennan just started updating the exhibit list for his draft selective or vindictive prosecution motion
Journalists might've once had the excuse that the didn’t realize how bad MAGA extremism would be. But they can't plead cluelessness now. What’s left are cowardice, complicity and courage. Pick one.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
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.
russia deliberately targets and murders civilians. Ukraine, categorically, does not. The UN has found that in 2025, for every three russian civilians killed, ninety-seven Ukrainians were.
www.realclearworld.com/articles/202...
At tomorrow's confirmation hearing for Kevin Warsh, Trump's nominee for Fed chair, expect Democrats to ask questions about any interactions between Warsh and Jeffrey Epstein
This excerpt is from a just-released report on Warsh from Senate Banking Cmte Democrats
Trump allegedly broke the law building his billionaire ballroom by beginning construction without filing plans with the National Capital Planning Commission.
Now he's building an underground bunker also sponsored by billionaires.
Tax the rich.
Washington can only pay attention to a scandal or two at a time, which means in the Trump age there are all sorts of should-be-big-deal scandals that don’t get the oxygen or media focus that they should.
I'll bet you've missed at least three of these: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-trump...
