BREAKING NYT:
The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about Kash Patel using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter.
HASSAN: I agree all should have access to healthy foods, but Trump has made it harder to afford groceries. Do high prices make it easier or harder for families to eat healthy?
RFK Jr: I would say that beef has dropped by 1% last quarter
HASSAN: No. Beef prices are up 20% since Trump took office
“Mr. President, sir, are you napping?”
“Quiet, piggy. I’m negotiating with the Ayatollah.”
Fortunately, there’s nothing happening in the world that requires his attention.
The Trump administration has slashed green card approvals by about half, reports Cato’s David J. Bier.
The steepest cuts have fallen on humanitarian categories — asylees, refugees, Cubans, and other (mostly crime victims).
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Sen. Alsobrooks: "Can you admit today that you said every black kid can get reparented on a wellness farm?"
RFK: "I have no memory of saying anything like that…I do not believe that every black kid should be reparented on a wellness farm or whatever and I have never believed that."
The F.B.I. began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
Israel Is Continuing to Seize More of Gaza Beyond the So-Called Yellow Line #TruthOut
Nothing to worry about, just the Heritage Foundation publishing an article on how the Republican Congress can refuse to seat Democrats www.heritage.org/election-int...
A report showing the efficacy of the covid-19 vaccine that was previously delayed by the head of the CDC has been blocked from being published in the agency’s flagship scientific journal, according to people familiar with the decision.
He's very careful to insist that none of this is Trump's fault.
There’s hope. Authoritarianism scholar @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social shares what history tells us about how authoritarians fall. She’s seeing the early signs now. Check it out on Substack, then consider subscribing: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Multiple wildfires are burning in Georgia and Florida.
Republicans in Congress still haven't funded FEMA.
Trump's latest budget is the culmination of 40 years of increasing social control in America.
Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private contractors, like the drone manufacturers Trump's sons are now major investors in.
All of this is absurd.
The Trump administration just announced they are prosecuting civil rights groups for infiltrating and exposing the KKK and other white supremacist groups.
www.npr.org/2026/04/21/g...
Trump reduced Social Security staffing to a 60 year low. Now, over a dozen field offices are closed to the public.
It’s like an old car clanking down the highway as it leaks oil and gasoline.
Every day, it is getting harder for Americans to access their hard earned benefits.
FBI admits it investigated Cato employees. It previously denied records existed.
Cato suspects FBI's FOIA search hit only low-security tier records and ignored locations intel-derived surveillance records would sit, then used a legal shortcut so it could refuse to say which databases were checked.
Private credit is the bit of finance that’s not banks and not public bond markets, but is now big enough to matter for everyone else. Translation: a lot of business lending migrated somewhere less visible.
If you're in the mood for a bit of a deep dive explainer on the private credit boom (and its risks!), by jingo, I've got you covered.
Trying something new on my youtube page, and I'm interested in what you think: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa2E...
Thank goodness we got rid of those DEI hires.
RFK Jr: President Trump has invested more in trying to transition off glyphosate than any other president
HASSAN: When & how did he do that? He signed an order to increase production of it for weapons and herbicide, and he granted immunity to the huge corporation who produces it. You once sued them
"[Impeachment] is how you hold executive officials to account. This is what the Framers gave us to deal with a president who is failing at his job, not just because he's incompetent—which he is, not just because he's crazy—because he is, but because fundamentally he's a criminal who defies the law."
Since Kash Patel’s confirmation as FBI director, the agency has undergone a transformation that has upended its nonpartisan rules and norms. We spoke to current and former FBI employees about the changes they say are undermining the agency and making the U.S. less safe.
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At least 34 tankers linked to Iran, including vessels carrying crude oil, have successfully bypassed the U.S. blockade, per FT
Disturbing censorship of sceince:
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CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Another question reporters can ask Patel: Are new agents and analysts still going to the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial as part of their training? (My sources tell me no.) If they are so committed fighting antisemitism and racial extremism, why not?
To be clear: What is going on here is that THIS FBI, under Patel, is in fact helping these extremist groups by going after their "narcs." Remember that they are trying to dismiss the convictions against the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. They pardoned J6ers. Charlottesville Nazis were "fine people" 2/
