Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats. 

Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

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Just a sampling of the ratfucking spam Republicans backed by Peter Thiel have been blanketing Democratic voters in Virginia with on Election Day

(FT) - Lufthansa has cancelled 20,000 flights between May and October to save fuel, one of the largest cuts by global airlines as jet fuel prices double following the Iran war.

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* VANCE’S TRIP TO ISLAMABAD ON HOLD: NYT

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson says his country has no plans to go to Islamabad at the moment, adding, the reason for that is the contradictory messages, contradictory behaviors, and unacceptable actions of the American side.

Iran War Live Updates: Vance’s Trip to Peace Talks on Hold

Vance’s trip to Pakistan for a second round of negotiations with Iran has been put on hold after Tehran fails to respond to American positions. Iran, for its part, says it had not yet decided whether to resume talks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary

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.

A Florida county tried to quietly hand over a public warehouse for a massive ICE detention center at just $1,000 a year. What local residents did to stop them will give you chills. This is exactly how the resistance wins... 🛑👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-is-l...

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.

Warren: Did you invest with Donald Trump, the Chinese or Jeffrey Epstein?

Warsh: Those entities will all be sold if I am confirmed

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Warsh should NOT be confirmed as Fed Chair:

Sen. Warren calls out Trump for trying to tear down the Fed's independence — claiming he's doing so because "he wants the Fed to use monetary policies to artificially juice the economy in the short term" before the midterms.

She says Fed pick Kevin Warsh "is uniquely ill-suited for the job."

Warren: "Why try to end independence of the Fed? Bc Trump's economic failures are causing him political problems, he wants the Fed to artificially juice the economy Having a sock puppet in charge of the Fed would also give the president access to the Fed's powerful authorities to enrich himself"

WARREN: Name one aspect of President Trump's economic agenda with which you disagree

KEVIN WARSH: He said he thought I'm out of central casting. I think I'd look older, grayer, and maybe show up with a cigar

WARREN: Quite adorable

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?

KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

Warsh may be a reasonable guy and capable economist just playing a role here. But if integrity and independence are qualities we value in a Fed Chief, he does not have them.

Every nominee who dodges this question tells us that they have no meaningful commitment to American democracy.

ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve

WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question

WARSH: I believe this body certified the election

WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking

Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."

Retail sales up 1.7% in March from February driven by a spike in gas prices due to the Iran war Shoppers accelerated their spending in March from February, but they spent most of their money at the gas pump.

Shoppers accelerated their spending in March from February, but they spent most of their money at the gas pump.

Kernen asks Trump if he'd drop the investigation of Powell in order to get Kevin Warsh seated on the Fed. Trump responds by ranting and raving about the Fed building renovation project and suggests Powell is taking a cut of proceeds.

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@wsj.com #Florida

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

ALASKA AIR GROUP INC.: THE COMPANY SUSPENDED FULL-YEAR GUIDANCE DUE TO FUEL VOLATILITY, WARNING FUEL REMAINS THE BIGGEST UNCERTAINTY, WITH Q2 OUTLOOK WEAK—COST PRESSURES ADDING ROUGHLY $600 MILLION AND AN EXPECTED ADJUSTED LOSS OF ABOUT $1.00 PER SHARE.

Update: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

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A week ago, we marked our first 100 days.

We will work every day to honor the promises we made to New Yorkers — and to fulfill the mission of the movement that brought us here.

Trump Is dooming his party to a midterm blowout It's almost as though he wants Republicans to lose.

"Every Republican vote represents a voter saying 'I’m pretty happy with how things are going.' That anyone at all could say that right now is depressing, but Trump almost seems determined to make sure as few people as possible will say it in November." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Republican Tennessee-Israel caucus chair @scottcepicky defending Trump’s Iran war with an extremely weak attempt at deflection.

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