Phil gets it 👇🏽

So, the guy who thinks that witches have taken over California is now the acting Secretary of the Navy? Super.

He needs his supporters to be really REALLY angry when they lose. If he can't be a dictator then he wants a civil war.

THIS!

@editorialboard.bsky.social this is the energy we need to get us on track.

The US Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, a businessman and art collector who has never served in the military, flew at least twice on Epstein's plane with Jean-Luc Brunel, and got his job by donating millions to Trump's campaign is apparently stepping down. No word on why yet.

Virginia Judge Voids Redistricting Amendment, Invalidates All Votes from Tuesday's Special Election Judge Jack Hurley, a Republican appointee, declared the Democratic-backed measure unconstitutional on multiple grounds, permanently blocking the state from implementing new congressional maps. Attorne...

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The US Government used to be the strongest supporter of new therapeutics to save the lives of people battling metastatic melanoma or pancreatic cancer.

Tools exist. They need support, resources are smart regulation.

It’s no longer happening and patients will bear the burden.

White people know exactly what reparations are and how to give them to themselves 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡

🎯

Dave Whamond, Toronto Star

So Hegseth didn’t get along with the Navy Secretary and also doesn’t get along with the Army Secretary. He seems to be the common denominator.

Navy Secretary abruptly leaves job as US naval blockade of Iran continues | CNN Politics Secretary of the Navy John Phelan is leaving his position “effective immediately,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced on Wednesday evening.

Replacing the Secretary of the Navy during an active wartime blockade with someone whose résumé includes warning that witches were overrunning a California community is… certainly a choice.

Is there really a need to release vote count throughout the evening? Why not just release the final numbers at the end of the counting process?

NEW: DNI Tulsi Gabbard was reportedly not invited to a White House meeting on the Iran war. But, as I report in my OUR LAND newsletter, she's waging her own war on the truth to serve Trump's revenge fantasies—and it could affect the future of American democracy.

link.motherjones.com/public/45288...

Strategic Retirements Hurt the Supreme Court. Term Limits Would End Them. Justices timing their exits to happen under a particular president undermines trust in judicial impartiality.

Strategically timed retirements from the Supreme Court undermine the perception of justices’ impartiality. Congress should end the practice by establishing term limits for the justices. bit.ly/3HUt0YN

The most accurate indicator that something bad is about to happen.

The U.S. Military Is Running Out of Missiles The United States has expended approximately 45 percent of its Precision Strike Missile stockpile, 50 percent of its Lockheed Martin Patriot and THAAD interceptors, 30 percent of its Raytheon Tomahawk...

7 wks of fighting Iran just cost the US 45% of its Precision Strike Missile stockpile. 50% of Patriot and THAAD interceptors. 30% of Tomahawks. CSIS says it will take 1 to 4 years to replenish. All while failing to achieve a single strategic objective and turning the US into a global laughing stock.

Chip Roy’s Deportation Nation Banishing ideas, one immigrant at a time.

NEW: A horrific new bill introduced by Chip Roy would weaponize immigration law to target "socialism"—defined so loosely as to include even advocacy about economic equality—so that naturalized citizens could be stripped of their citizenship and deported.

www.thebulwark.com/p/chip-roy-d...

Trump Has Revealed MAGA’s Anti-Christian Nature It’s time for sincere believers to pull the wool from their eyes and see the truth about the president and his followers.

A few years ago, one might have wondered how these acts of contempt toward Christianity would go down with the religious right, but after 10 years of cultishness, it would be foolish to expect many defections. Still.

Ramaswamy spent 80% of the money he’s raised. Nothing came of all that spending but more rejection by Ohio voters.

Now he’s desperately bailing out his failing campaign with $25M.

But we won’t be bought.

House Democrats launch Patel probe, demand he submit to alcohol abuse screening If the beleaguered FBI director was hoping the allegations about his alleged drinking problem would be a one-day story, he has reason to be disappointed.

Rep. Jamie Raskin is demanding that Kash Patel submit to an alcohol abuse screening:

"For the sake of our own security, we need to know, for example, 'how many drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day when you are drinking'?"

Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math

Opinion | Graham Platner Went to Hell and Back. He Has a Simple Message for Democrats.

“the forever war has been destroying America from within, like an organism that must keep growing to survive, filling us with fear of outsiders and contempt for one another…Once you normalize taking human life abroad, you tend not to value it at home.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...

People, Sen. Kennedy isn't really bitching about paywalls (I don't think). That's his way of saying "I don't wanna know about Kash Patel and please don't ask me"

RFK Jr: "Why would I ever reject a drug that worked? What kind of perverse motive are you ascribing to me?"

WARREN: So those massive discounts--

RFK Jr: Massive. 600 percent

WARREN: 600 percent! They can pay hundreds of dollars on TrumpRx or they can get it for $12 as Costco

When you don’t know you’re being filmed:

It’s amazing how many bullies become deeply principled pacifists the first time they get punched back.