I also describe the twin acute psychological dilemmas Trump is facing, which may be why he's crashing:
1) To actually win the Iran war he has to turn on Putin.
2) Any deal will require conceding Obama was superior to him.
As energy costs continue to rise, this administration is canceling previously approved and vetted power projects.
That’s not only bad for household budgets, but also, it’s incredibly difficult for energy companies that follow the rules and want to improve energy affordability.
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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
Eliminating access to care for children who have already endured so much trauma is profoundly inhumane. We should be expanding these services, not cutting them out of spite.
But Donald Trump only knows spite, not compassion.
Pope Leo advocated for an end to the war in Iran. How did Donald Trump respond? By calling him names and cancelling $11 million in funding for Catholic Charities to provide shelter and basic necessities to migrant children.
Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school.
Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear.
With @mlk50.com
Desperately trying to find a way out of the disaster he has created, Trump is once again threatening war crimes with attacks on civilian infrastructure. His war has already damaged or destroyed Iranian schools and health care centers. Deaths of more innocents will not stop a hardline Iranian regime.
These highly suspicious, perfectly-timed trades reek of insider trading from corrupt public officials.
The Justice Department must investigate, and Congress should hold hearings and pass reforms that work. If Republicans won’t root out this corruption, a Democratic majority Congress will.
The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar.
Apparently like every day.
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Israeli Defense Minister Katz said he wants to do in Lebanon what was done in Rafah. I've seen firsthand how the Netanyahu government razed Rafah to the ground. No American taxpayer dollars should be used to support this.
Hey, I think we found the judicial activism.
Abolish ICE.
Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.
I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.
On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.” Patel oversees an agency that employs roughly 38,000 people, including many who are trained to investigate and verify information that can be presented under oath in a court of law. News of his emotional outburst ricocheted through the bureau, prompting chatter among officials and, in some corners of the building, expressions of relief. The White House fielded calls from the bureau and from members of Congress asking who was now in charge of the FBI.
I hope when Kash is eventually fired they DO just lock him out of the FBI systems, bc that obviously is a deep fear of his and he deserves it.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
🚨BREAKING: After losing five straight cases attempting to access state voter rolls, the DOJ tried to patch a key legal flaw in its Minnesota lawsuit — only to attach the wrong document and rely on a single, disputed allegation as its new justification. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Someone who used every tool at his disposal to overthrow our democratically elected government is most emphatically not a "good man," and most emphatically does deserve to have his career destroyed.
With news of the new "Grazing Action Plan" created by the USDA to help the cattle industry, we wanted to remind everyone that wolves are not the problem. Wolves have killed 0.002% of cattle, yet hundreds of wolves were killed by government programs.
Read more on our blog: https://bit.ly/4sBHT3F
Was Hannity absent from theology class when they discussed not bearing false witness, not lying, not having false gods, not coveting the neighbor’s wife?
A small cohort of ("prominent"?) law professors are trying to portray John Eastman as some kind of innocent victim of viewpoint discrimination, and his disbarment as some kind of assault on the First Amendment.
That's complete and utter bollocks. As usual, @gabrielmalor.bsky.social brings receipts:
I'm a bit surprised to hear some folks claiming Dems will "never" do any of this. Dems have already impeached Trump twice, have made multiple criminal referrals, and are currently setting up a 25A commission. And House Dems have already introduced DOJ independence reforms that are quite good.
First, he tweeted "RIP CFPB," the agency responsible for policing consumer financial products.
Then he announced X Money, which is part of his plan to turn X into "the biggest financial institution in the world.”
oh wow you’re telling me that jd vance follows yet another nazi on twitter
India has exported more than 320 million unapproved synthetic opioid pills to West Africa in just three years. Trade data shows over 1,400 shipments of tapentadol — a potent painkiller — were sent to a region already facing an opioid crisis. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...
Yesterday: “This is someone who maybe had one speeding ticket in the last 30 years and [is] being treated like a notorious criminal.”
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu translator taken by ICE.
“National security is not a blank check to proceed with otherwise unlawful activity,” U.S. District Judge Richard Leon wrote, permitting construction underground the military says is necessary, but not in Trump’s fancy ballroom. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Photo of my desk with a boundary waters canoe area forest service sign next to the Minnesota state flag and a framed photo of my parents.
Since they’re abusing the Congressional Review Act to get around the filibuster, I am reserving some of my time so I can make closing remarks in the morning before the final vote. Maybe they’ll listen to reason after a night’s sleep.
Stay tuned.
Save the Boundary Waters.
