This is literally the hill we die on.

Interior Department crafted talking points for public lands sell-off agenda - High Country News The agency’s leadership distanced itself from the controversial proposal even though staff helped research public-land sales.

The Trump admin and Sen. Mike Lee are conspiring to destroy public lands for short term profit. Teddy Roosevelt is rolling in his grave.
www.hcn.org/articles/interior-depart...

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...

Reading Palantir: Why the defense tech giant’s manifesto may signal panic inside the company The war tech firm is suffering from a lethal combo of stock price superinflation and midterms anxiety

Palantir must be destroyed.

My interview with @cydhayes.bsky.social of the @sf.gazetteer.co

sf.gazetteer.co/reading-pala...

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

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.

This.

'It's disrespectful to come to Moscow and not Kyiv' — Zelensky voices doubts as meeting with Witkoff, Kushner expected President Volodymyr Zelensky voiced doubts about peace talks in an April 20 interview, as U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to meet with Ukrainian officials amid stalled negotia...

⚡️'It's disrespectful to come to Moscow and not Kyiv' — Zelensky voices doubts as meeting with Witkoff, Kushner expected.

North Carolina admits noncitizens on its rolls aren’t a widespread problem — as it gives voter data to DHS The board further acknowledged that many cases involving noncitizens ending up on voter rolls stem from confusion or misunderstanding, not intentional wrongdoing.

A day after the state election board greenlit sharing voter data with DHS, North Carolina election officials said they don’t have evidence that noncitizens on the rolls is a widespread problem.

The board also acknowledged that many of such cases stem from confusion, not intentional wrongdoing.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Rep. Stansbury: Defending our Communities and our Planet YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

It’s Earth Day this week and days after our astronauts returned from their mission around the moon—so it seems particularly ironic that the GOP is using this week to gut our bedrock environmental laws—including the ESA and NEPA.

We’re back at it defending our communities and our planet!

Of COURSE he's insider trading. He's a crook, he's ALWAYS been a crook, he's using the presidency to make billions.

He ran to stay out of jail, to make money and to feel powerful, because that's what a narcissist like him gets off on. It was never about helping people.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.

“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.

The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

(Published Jan. 2026)

Stunning photo.

Keep Walking The Walk,Mayor Mamdani.......

Opinion | The Trump Administration Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way

Title X, the 1st Fed. program dedicated to family planning has prevented ~20M unintended pregnancies, providing women with free/low-cost birth control. It significantly reduced child poverty. Now HHS tells Title X clinics to return to the "rhythm method."
#ProudBlue www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...

Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome A papal adviser calls Peter Thiel a heretic after his secret Rome lectures on the Antichrist draw global attention and a Vatican rebuke

Peter Thiel—who played a key role in JD Vance's conversion to Catholicism—just cannot stop talking about the Antichrist.

He just took his Antichrist circus to Rome, where an advisor to the Pope exposed the true meaning of Thiel’s bizarre religious delusions.

www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiels...

Enemies of Europe always target EU regulation first.

They know that without those collective rules, we have no defense against their influence.

We need to remember that the bureaucracy they criticize is often the only shield we have left

Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East.

KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS

New Political Group to Push Trump’s A.I. Agenda in Midterms

The main "use case" of AI and crypto is to kill democracy as quickly as possible.

Here's yet another AI group planning to spend zillions ($100 million) to buy elections and support the Trump agenda.

gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/b...

Pete Hegseth Just Revealed the Real Roots of His Sadism and Rage Does God want America to kill as many of our enemies as we can—in as violent a fashion as possible? We have a defense secretary who apparently thinks so.

Pete Hegseth just held a prayer service in which he appealed for God's help in killing our "enemies" with maximal violence and brutality. Hegseth's bloodlust and sadism are drawing sustenance from his particular brand of far-right Christianity. 1/

(new piece from me)
newrepublic.com/article/2083...

The Most Powerful People in the World Are Obsessed With Media Again Sam Altman is buying his favorite show, Larry Ellison is buying CNN to merge it with CBS News, Jamie Dimon is toying with launching a venture. It may mark a new era of vanity media owners.

This is the Network State cult in action.

It calls for tech moguls use their wealth to buy their own versions of media, political power, cities, countries, educational institutions, etc.

The stated goal is to create an entirely "parallel" system.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

$35 Million or Your Money Back: One Candidate’s Silicon Valley Lifeline

Some good news: Tech billionaires tried to run an empty suit for California governor.

They pledged to spend bazillions on him. They manipulated the "prediction casinos" to make him look like a contender.

They bought him a Super Bowl ad.

He flopped, and now this—

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war.

This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does.

It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

How the Trump family's business deals could open the door for future presidents to profit from office For the Trump family, business is booming. Whereas the Trump Organization didn’t do a single deal overseas in Donald Trump's first term as president, it did eight in the past year.

For decades, presidents avoided even the appearance of profiting from their office. President Donald Trump is taking a different approach. https://to.pbs.org/482NOaK

The Nerd Reich A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the inter...

When Silicon Valley says it is ‘‘moving fast and breaking things,’’ the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. But it's something far more sinister: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.

pre-order:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Far-right troll account followed by JD Vance on X unmasked “HowlingMutant,” who jokes about rape and the Holocaust, is Alexander Norden of New York City

NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.

What Regulators Should Do About The AI Industry's Hidden Financial Loop Antitrust enforcers should be asking how a self-referential financial circuit is manufacturing the demand that justifies investments, Hera Hyeonseo Lee writes.

The financial structure underwriting the global AI race deserves as much scrutiny as the technology itself, Hera Hyeonseo Lee writes.