Ossoff: "When you throw people off their health insurance and drive up their premiums and gut the Medicaid program in order to cut taxes for the wealthiest people in the country, that's also corruption. That's the corruption that's endemic in our political system and predates Trump."

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files.

Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas.

You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

Ossoff: "I have zero interest in running for president in 2028. I love serving the state of Georgia. Let's keep our eyes on the ball, folks. We need to win decisively in Georgia and every battleground state and every competitive US House district this fall."

GOP & billionaires lost at the ballot box in Virginia.They campaigned on “fairness” but voters rejected them, so they’re trying to overturn the result in court.
It's not about law — it’s about power. They couldn’t win, so they’ll try to overturn the will of the people.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Two Iranian Women in ICE Detention Are Not, In Fact, Related to Qasem Soleimani, Documents Show After Laura Loomer pointed to two women she claimed were connected to the late Iranian military commander, they were arrested and remain in immigration detention. One is now gravely ill.

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani.

Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

The new acting Secretary of the Navy, Hung Cao, who is replacing John Pelan, is a theocratic loony who thinks California is infested with witches. The only thing the Trump administration shows *any* aptitude for is filling its job openings with unqualified kooks.

Sam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn't Exist "To be clear, we were never approached ... nor were we in any discussions regarding a partnership or tour access," a spokesperson for the artist tells WIRED.

Sam Altman's orb company made a big deal last week about an orb partnership with Bruno Mars. It doesn't exist, they never even talked, yet another reason not put your faith in the orb. from @mzeff.bsky.social and @laurengoode.bsky.social

The US Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, a businessman and art collector who has never served in the military, flew at least twice on Epstein's plane with Jean-Luc Brunel, and got his job by donating millions to Trump's campaign is apparently stepping down. No word on why yet.

BREAKING: Secretary of the Navy John Phelan “is departing the administration, effective immediately.” In the middle of a war? WTH is going on?

Trump strips union rights from 1,400 Fort Drum and Rome defense workers Defense Department employees in Upstate New York lose workplace protections, right to collective bargaining.

North Coubtry has veterans at Ft Drum, DFAS in Rome and beyond. For Secretary Hegseth to strip the right to collectively bargain from defense-focused employees-many of them veterans-in the middle of a war is outrageous, illegal and a threat to our national pop. www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

Sean Parnell, spokesman for Pete Hegseth: STATEMENT: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately. On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy. We wish him well in his future endeavors. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become Acting Secretary of the Navy.

Trump just fired the Secretary of the Navy and replaced him with Undersecretary Hung Cao, one of the biggest idiots Virginia politics has produced this century (really saying something here) in the middle of the Iran war

F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend

BREAKING NYT:

The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about Kash Patel using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter.

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

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...

Bodycam Footage Shows Arrest of Zach Witkoff Outside Nightclub Zach Witkoff, the son of U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff was arrested in the early morning hours on New Year's Day 2022.

NEWS: Steve Witkoff's son Zach, who is a co-founder of the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial, was arrested after a New Year's Eve fight outside a Miami nightclub. When police searched his pockets, they found cocaine. Witkoff was charged but never prosecuted:

thenewsground.com/bodycam-foot...

🚨Our Republican colleagues would rather give $70 BILLION more to ICE than

Help Americans afford health care

Build 700,000 affordable homes

Provide childcare for 3.5 million children

Those are the choices

—@klobuchar.senate.gov

CBS is peddling the Pentagon's current count when they should be asking the same questions that we are @theintercept.com

I wonder why?

🤔

James Comer is under fire after a memo revealed Republicans are shifting away from traditional hearings on the Epstein Files.

Instead of formal proceedings, the committee is moving to “roundtables”—informal sessions with no authority.

Witnesses are not even required to be under oath.

Donald Trump is meeting with the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration followed by policy meetings.

Can’t be good.

TINA SMITH: Secretary Kennedy, a trillion dollars in cuts according to the CBO, 7 million people losing their health insurance because of the Trump administration. That's not debatable

RFK Jr: There is nobody legally enrolled in Medicaid who is losing coverage

SMITH: That is just not true!

Kash's kayfabe lawsuit His defamation claim makes a mockery of the law.

"Patel didn’t file this to win. He filed it to show Trump he’s not just a dilettante flying around on the FBI jet, but a loyal crony fighting back against the fake news ... come on, dude, we’ve all seen your little beer party with the hockey team. A sober, serious public servant you are not."

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.

less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up” The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties — inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count.

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up”

The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties — inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count.

theintercept.com/2026/04/22/i...

The guy who bankrupted Trump Shuttle airlines is going to take over Spirit with our tax dollars. What could go wrong?

LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America


SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours

Legacy media in context-free freakout over ‘Democratic power grab’ in Virginia The Washington Post is deeply concerned that Virginia’s “yes” vote Tuesday to allow a new congressional map is a “Democratic power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”

Democracy Docket’s coverage of Virginia has taken a different approach — making clear from the start the obvious and crucial point that the redraw is an effort to level the national playing field in response to Trump’s scheme.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

Trump's approval on economy falls in AP-NORC poll, showing new warning signs for president A new AP-NORC poll finds that President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has slumped over the past month as the Iran war drives prices higher.

BREAKING: Trump's approval rating drops to 33% in a new AP-NORC poll

32% approval on Iran
30% approval on the economy

apnews.com/article/trum...

Lawsuit: Blaze’s Crackpot Reporting Prompted a Wild, Unnecessary FBI Raid Quickly debunked reporting based on “gait analysis” was enough to get the feds to descend with a helicopter on a falsely accused J6 pipe-bomber’s home.

New: Kash Patel's FBI launched an unnecessary raid on the home of a former Capitol Police officer, based on Jan. 6 conspiracy theories from right-wing media outlet The Blaze.

This is what you get when you ally yourself with the U.S. military.

Afghans are now learning what abandoned Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians, Kurds, et al. also learned the hard way.