You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Powerful picture depicting the unabashedly Constitution-defending Representative AOC standing in the face of a misogynistic, disfunctional failure of a human being that is RFKJr. (BYDHTTMWFI: ask any number of his family)

This is no picture of a fail, and I am framing it!
TY 👏 ☮️ & 🩷

A poster that reads, “Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.”

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.

Tomorrow, I’ll post a reminder to the GOP about book bans and censorship :-)}

Before tonight ends

I love great photography & love AOC @aoc.bsky.social

Brilliance today as AOC nailed RFKJR on fraud and incompetence during today's Congressional hearing
AOC...we should clone her
This great photograph taken WSJ reporter Liz Essley

RFKJR , SO INCOMPETENT
SO VILE

Warren questions Warsh on his finances and potential Epstein connections YouTube video by MS NOW

ICYMI
youtu.be/anN9ARZfsdc?...

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today:

Active Voting Rights Cases: 158
Active Redistricting Cases: 44
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 85
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 71
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 30

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Medicare for All: "Who's going to pay for it?" | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Brilliant!

youtube.com/shorts/24B4z...

3/3. It’s hard for Trump to end a war when Putin is making so much money from it.

2/3. The biggest example of profiteering is of course the person Trump openly adores — Putin, from oil prices and the lifting of sanctions.

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

1/3. And this is one more reason the war goes on in some form — people close to Trump are making money from it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

On just one night this week, Russia sent nearly 700 drones & dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the 5th year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense & more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help save lives.

A step away from asking the Russians to investigate their own influence operations in the US. The guiding principle of Trump policy is that Russian ops are good because they support him personally. The guiding principle of Russian policy is that Trump is good because he wrecks the US & helps Russia.

'This is not rewarding Russia' — US official defends extension of sanctions waiver on Russian oil "This is not rewarding Russia. That's ridiculous," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told NBC's "Meet the Press" with Kristen Welker on April 19.

Sure, Russia hasn’t done anything good, so the oil bonanza billions from the US can’t be a reward. It’s just an expression of Trump’s general policy to make life easier for Putin. It serves no US interest whatsoever.
kyivindependent.com/this-is-not-...

Sky Defense A New Way to Save Lives in Ukraine

Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has fired wave after wave of missiles, bombs, and drones at Ukrainian civilians—at their homes, businesses, water supply, & energy infrastructure.
Please join me in raising funds for defense equipment
snyder.substack.com/p/sky-defense

Very serious point here — media vastly overreport what Trump says rather than clarifying for the reader the actual strategic situation.

Thinking Live with Phillips O'Brien on War in Iran and Ukraine A recording from my conversation with Phillips O'Brien

What does the Iran war have to do with sustaining the Russian economy? Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine. I spoke with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social about Iran and Russia.
snyder.substack.com/p/thinking-l...

theonion.info

ICYMI

Please
@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social use this Brennan investigation to reveal interference in the 2016 and 2024 elections.
The successful 2016 manipulations failed in 2020. Computer success in 2024.
trump has made it taboo to question election results but facts are needed.

Our Rigged Tax System in One Chart YouTube video by Robert Reich

ICYMI

youtube.com/shorts/mL796...

Active Measures, 2018: Putin, Trump, Ukraine, Georgia, ... YouTube video by And-Life-Coach

Trump became president with help from Russia. Hillary Clinton was robbed of the presidency www.youtube.com/watch?v=5umi...

And DiGenova is the guy who tried to bribe Ukrainians into manufacturing dirt on Biden.

Mueller report!
www.justice.gov/archives/sco...

Leaving out that crucial fact allows the reader to miss the way this echoes prior authoritarian "investigate the investigator" moves as well as the fundamentally Orwellian character of this. (3/3)

including a Senate investigation, the Mueller report, multiple intelligence investigations, multiple reportorial investigations in the US and elsewhere, and multiple books. (2/3)

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms (🧵 1/3)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise.

In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival.

This is why sustained investment in science & research matters.

tinyurl.com/f4n4anhk

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

Good morning and happy Monday to everyone. Fat Satan would hate if you shared this.