Newsom Calls Out Leavitt’s Blunder as Stunt Backfires on Trump, 79 — The Daily Beast The 28-year-old press secretary’s latest PR push didn’t stick the landing.

“President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness,” Leavitt wrote”

Hegseth says flu vaccines are now optional across the active duty and reserve force Under new Defense Department guidance, annual influenza vaccines are now voluntary for all active duty and reserve service members.

Hegseth says flu vaccines are now optional across the active duty and reserve force trib.al/Abzgrtw

Ukraine’s Second Miracle Year The war isn’t won, but for the first time in years, outright victory seems possible.

"Ukraine has a theory of victory that looks plausible, while russia’s is crumbling. There is a path to Ukraine achieving drone dominance...russia bet that meat waves would overwhelm Ukraine while the US and Hungary blocked Western support, and failed."

www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraines-s...

Influencers Are Spinning Nicotine as a ‘Natural’ Health Hack

"Nicotine, unto itself, is not toxic."

Oh my fucking G*d, what?!?!

It's a fucking neurotoxin that nature created that's so good at killing shit we cribbed the notes to make our own insecticides!

STUBB: I would prefer, in the long run, to see Ukraine in NATO. I mean, what are the biggest conventional militaries in Europe right now? They're Turkey, Ukraine, Poland, and Finland. Should we not use this? And we have to understand that the Russian threat is not going away.

Two months before the first GOP primary in 2016, Donald Trump granted a long, friendly interview to Alex Jones. Any semblance of a reality-based GOP died that day. youtu.be/upo2zsqpEM4?...

Bellingcat researcher @conplnk.bsky.social spoke to the Newstalk Daily team about our research into the Kinahan cartel and the impact the arrest of Daniel Kinahan may have: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/new...

As a Boomer, everyone who died of AIDS.

Billionaires owners in pro sports are surveilling us with impunity.

Watch Pablo Torre’s full breakdown: www.contrariannews.org/p/madison-sq...

Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...

Thrilled, honored, and so proud of @wired.com for winning the 2026 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism:

"WIRED’s stories were not only groundbreaking; they were singular."

Many covers of #agathachristie books are purposeful pastiches of famous artworks. My new articles provide insights as to why these images were likely chosen & how they enrich the covers. Full details at: www.collectingchristie.com/post/cover-p...

I’ve lost track of how many times something just like this has happened. The rules seem to be that you can say Congress certified the election, but not that Joe Biden won it

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

This was never about the worst of the worst.

We have continually demanded answers about how many of our children were taken into federal detention. Trump’s DHS has continually refused to give us information.

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Cortez Masto to Warsh: In 2007, you said 'subprime mortgages have gotten a bad name.' You said you have no regrets. How can we trust that you're accurate now when you were wrong then?

“The Iranians won the war by surviving, inflicting damage on its neighbors with cheap drones, and capturing the Strait of Hormuz. They are not about to forfeit their victory to feckless, deluded Americans led by a compulsive liar."

'I know everything': Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro, Paolo Zampolli, and how the Epstein Network Brought Them Both to Trump's White House Flown to New York on Epstein's jet at 17, partnered for two decades with the man who brought Melania to the US, deported before she could post bail after a single phone call to a federal official, Ama...

In 2002 a 17 year old from Londrina, Brazil boarded Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet in Paris and was trafficked to New York. Around 30 girls were on that flight. Ghislaine Maxwell prowled the cabin. Some girls sat on Epstein’s lap. The teenager was Amanda Ungaro.

www.yacnews.com/amanda-ungar...

EU court finds Hungary's anti-LGBTQ legislation violates bloc's rules The European Court of Justice on Tuesday found that Hungary's 2021 anti-LGBTQ law breached EU rules. The judgment provides a test for Hungary's new leader Peter Magyar, who ended Prime Minister Viktor...

www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Trump’s Secret War Fears Leak Out as GOP Grows Unnerved: “Alarm Bells” As Trump stews over the war, a journalist who focuses on the imperial presidency observes that Trump seems to fear events are slipping away from him—and explains why that gives Democrats an opening.

Crucial from @davidsirota.com: If Dems win House, they must use power of the purse to stop Trump. Dems can't fear the politics of defunding. Trump is weak and this is an opening to reassert "congressional authority in a real way."

On the pod David explains this well:
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Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

The Unraveling of Donald Trump Donald Trump has seemingly permanently fractured the fragile coalition that brought him into power. Is MAGA effectively dead?

Are we witnessing the final unraveling of Donald Trump and the fragile coalition that brought him to power? His choice to pursue war in Iran has all but sealed his fate. My latest.
america2.news/the-unraveli...

Its hard for legislators to arrest themselves......

Ukrainian drone "sanctions" on Ru oil continue to achieve success. This is Ukraine's path to victory.

Trump boasted this morning ‘I would have won Vietnam very quickly’ unfortunately for U.S, he was too busy catching STD’s & discriminating against African American tenants in NYC and helping family biz cheat on paying taxes while less privileged souls fought in his place. Bummer.

The SPLC has long monitored and exposed white nationalist and Christian nationalist hate groups, so it makes sense that an administration staffed by many people sympathetic to one or both of those movements would use the DOJ to go after them.

Secretary of War Pete Hegs... # © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

Make this make sense.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces criminal investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants.

Musk, Thiel, Karp, and other techno-fascists never tell their devotees that when they say "freedom," it means "my freedom."

In their ideal world, "free speech" would consist solely in being able to make agreeable variations on the oligarchs' propaganda.