Tim Walz: "I was a 6th grade teacher for a while. I've been dealing with the Trump administration, so it's a flat thing."

Imagine hearing complaining about bar fights in response to losing one from someone whose track record is literally not just starting every single bar fight, but making starting bar fights their purpose in life.

This is what every Republican complaining about gerrymandering sounds like right now.

You know, it’s been an interesting day when a U.S. House committee sends FBI Director Kash Patel a formal inquiry asking if he’s ever blacked out from drinking, forgotten the night before, or needed morning drinks to recover.

Lawmakers are demanding answers by April 28.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

While he was detained at Dilley for over four months, 13-year-old Gustavo Santiago said he felt as if he would “never get out.”

“I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” he told ProPublica in a video call.

(Published Feb.)

Don Jr.’s BFF Told to 'Stop Dropping Names' in Wild Drug Bust Unearthed footage shows Steve Witkoff’s son’s arrest outside a Miami nightclub.

Unearthed footage shows Steve Witkoff’s son’s arrest outside a Miami nightclub.

You may have heard Republicans are pursuing something called a “reconciliation” bill.

Things can get a bit wonky, so let's simplify it.

Here's what Republicans want:

✅Billions upon billions more $ for ICE and CBP
❌Funding to help you afford health care, food, and housing

OBAMA’S DEAL WITH IRAN WAS AN ACTUAL DEAL AND DIDN’T COST ANYTHING

Trump official touts Southern California water district as potential buyer for Potter Valley Project President Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Tuesday that talks are underway with a Riverside County water district to take over pair of dams about 600 miles to the north.

I'm calling out Trump's corrupt water grab - a scheme to federalize the Potter Valley Project and sell off our North Coast water to southern California. I won't allow our water to be stolen and sold off this way. The fight is on, and we are going to win! www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/04/22/t...

So Republicans are anti-gerrymandering now? Interesting pivot from the party that perfected map-rigging, voter suppression, and choosing their voters before voters can choose them.

This GOP representative wants to take land away from Virginia in response to their redistricting vote

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners.

Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

Legacy media normalizes GOP anti-democratic behavior and punishes Democrats when they actually try to stop democratic backsliding.

Right now, in the middle of Trump's war with Iran, Senate Republicans are keeping us here all night to vote on the most pressing issue they can think of:

Giving $70 BILLION more to ICE and CBP.

I'm going to fight them every step of the way.

George Washington’s Woke Vaccines What the Founders would have thought about Pete Hegseth lifting the requirement that service members get the flu vaccine.

On the all-American vaccine mandate:

This Earth Day, along the San Joaquin River, we celebrated the largest expansion of state parks for the Golden State in decades!

With three new state parks announced in the Central Valley, California families will soon be able to explore even more of the healing power of the outdoors.

How Corruption Got Legalized in America (and What We Can Do About It) YouTube video by Robert Reich

For decades, rich and powerful interests and their right-wing political allies have been executing a secret plot to buy our political system — and it may get a whole lot worse.

@davidsirota.com reveals the full story of how we got here, and what we can do to get out of it.

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To be clear what happened the last couple of days:

Iran refused to hold a second round of talks Trump announced w/o telling him and then, because the ceasefire was set to expire today, Trump unilaterally extended it.

Absolute failure

This reveals something fundamental.

RFK doesn’t grasp he’s the medical establishment now.

It’s not his job to judge who caused this epidemic (though we all know who).

It’s his job to stop it.

He’s failing.

The cabinet secretary in charge of most biomedical science can’t do basic math. Nor can the President.

Both seem…bad 🤦🏻‍♂️

We are currently in the 3-5 day pause on the 14 day extension of the initial 48 hour hard deadline for the ceasefire.

Trump said the Iran war would be over in 24 hours.

It's been 8 weeks.

BIPARTISAN FORMER WHITE HOUSE ETHICS OFFICIALS CONDEMN RETALIATORY PROSECUTION OF SPLC

@democracydefendersfund.org statement 👇🏼

A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.

Former congressman Devin Nunes departs as CEO of Trump media company The onetime lawmaker is leaving Trump Media & Technology, which operates the social media platform Truth Social.

In 2021, Trump Media (Truth Social) told investors that by 2026 they could have 81 million users and $3.6 billion in revenue.

Instead:

2023: lost $58m

2024: lost $400m

2025: lost $712m

Who knows maybe this will be the year they turn it around! lololol

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

So, the guy who thinks that witches have taken over California is now the acting Secretary of the Navy? Super.

How 2 fringe groups and a friendly judge helped pull off Sheriff Chad Bianco’s ballot seizure Emails obtained by CalMatters trace the development of a years-long case that ultimately led to the unprecedented seizure of 650,000 ballots.

calmatters.org/investigatio...

That’s our money. Money that we paid into the treasury.

Virginia voters spoke. MAGA lost. And now a rogue Republican judge is trying to override the will of the people because they didn’t like the outcome.

That’s not democracy. That’s desperation.