Live Updates: Fed Chair Nominee Asserts at Hearing He Won’t Do Trump’s Bidding

Ummmm.... Jerome Powell is literally being FIRED for NOT DOING TRUMP'S BIDDING!

Give me a fucking break!!!

Fed Chair Nominee Asserts at Hearing He Won’t Do Trump’s Bidding www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Yes is winning on 58%

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.

Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Perfect front page.

‘Israeli PM running cover for Hitler’ is the timeline we deserve

Why an Orbán loss would be a huge win for the EU - and disastrous for Putin and MAGA It's hard to understate how much vast geopolitics hinges on an election in a country with a population of only 9.6M

🔥 I took a couple of days to compile this long analysis.

The elections in Hungary tomorrow are seismic, globally. So I cover:

- The rise of Orbán
- Orbán’s weakening
- The emergence of Péter Magyar
- The election battle
- The JD Vance visit
- What it all means for Hungary, the EU, Putin & Trump

Starmer says he is ‘fed up’ with Trump and Putin’s impact on UK energy costs PM appears to draw comparison between Russian and US leaders’ actions and calls for plan to restore Hormuz strait shippi

Trump has become a danger to the world and the economic order.

We must position ourselves closer to Europe and prioritise our closest and largest allies.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/10/sta...

Long analysis of how Magyar rose ahead of Orbán - and what’s at stake for Putin & Trump if Magyar wins.

👉 mikegalsworthy.substack.com/p/why-an-orb...

The ‘Money Launderers Dream’: Who Is Really Bankrolling Nigel Farage? Why are crypto billionaires, tax-avoiding media organisations and the employees of foreign oligarchs really putting their money into Reform UK?

“Not only is Reform taking large amounts of money from an industry with a big interest in changing UK Govt policy, but that industry is also one with major links to organised crime, terrorism and foreign dictatorships.”

The corrupt stink of Reform is overwhelming.
open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

Anyone else remember this prat from the Iraq War? Thant was satisfying. 😌

Macron: Trump is weakening NATO The French leader says the U.S. president is undermining the alliance by sowing doubt about Washington’s commitment to i

Donald Trump’s latest threat to leave NATO demonstrates what we’ve known for a long time: we can’t rely on Trump.

It’s time for closer relations with the EU.🇪🇺

www.politico.eu/article/france-emmanuel-...

By that logic so are hospitals, schools, orphanages.

The Cost of Brexit Change Minds → Change Politics

This week, the Prime Minister has once again called out the damage Brexit has done to our economy.

He's right - Brexit has been catastrophic. We've been collecting key stats that show the impact of Brexit:

https://www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact

Fears over price rises as twice as many haulage companies going bust since Brexit Exclusive: 2,051 haulage companies went bust between 2021-2025 - almost double the 1,068 that went bust in the five years prior

Brexit continues to trash British businesses and utter halfwits like Priti Patel and Robert Jenrick are having EU-phobic wetties over an idiotic non-story about marmalade.
That’s what you couldn’t make up, Robert. Just how imbecilic our politics has become.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Brexit remains unforgivable in the damage it’s done to our country, our democracy and to people’s lives. Ruinous stupidity, vengeful prejudice and political dishonesty. And Farage wants more of that. Threatening to tear up improvements to our Brexit deal and leave the ECHR.
Jeezus, UK. Wake TF up.

Trump is incapable of imagining any kind of relationship that is not coercive. The idea of a mutually beneficial alliance is incomprehensible to him. If NATO is not about screwing over Europeans then it must necessarily in his world view be about screwing over the US.

I like the idea that there are experts in teleportation

Wow!

Ladies and gentlemen, your paper of record

Just reminding the Pope that he has the opportunity to do the funniest thing the day JD Vance’s book comes out #excommunication

From the CWS ARCHIVE. Good Friday 2024.

You just know that if Trump orders a nuclear holocaust the last thing we’ll all see is this dumb motherfucker with his shit-eating grin announcing it on TV

I wonder if screaming NO QUARTER was altogether wise now that the US military may have POWs of its own in Iran

Pam bondi ignoring Epstein survivors

may this define her for the rest of her life.

she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired.

girl, bye.

🇪🇺 As the EU keep expanding, Britain's place on the outside looks more and more foolish...

www.economist.com/europe/2026/04/01/will-t...

“21st Century America: A Short History” has its cover page anyway.

“Sometimes I Rolled My Eyes When He Wasn’t Looking: My Life as a Resistor Inside the White House” (HarperCollins, 2029)

OTOH Truss has all the lack of self-awareness needed to be a MAGA influencer.

OTOH she is probably the least charismatic contender ever and that’s in a competitive field.

MAGA is lurching headlong into truly mad "end of days" stuff and there seems to be nothing we can do.

Listen to a grieving mother and have no doubts: water privatisation has been a lethal scandal | Clive Lewis Progressives must wage a battle against a rotten capitalist system that milks our resources – and destroys lives. Let th

"Or when you hear her sobbing as the room watches the TV clip of her daughter dying; her voice breaking as she speaks of the impact this unspeakable tragedy had on her and her family. It’s something I will not forget."

Given a Congress of GOP invertebrates and a press corps of stenographers, I can’t exactly blame Trump from just saying out loud “I’m doing impeachable offenses I barely understand.”