Polymarket: 99-1 odds against the president praising Allah on Easter.

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How one Democratic senator is tackling Trump’s corruption Sen. Chris Murphy explains how blatant corruption is undermining faith in democracy.

Chris Murphy is doing what too many won’t—saying it out loud: Trump’s corruption isn’t a glitch, it’s the system. Corp mergers, media power, dark 💰—none of it gets this big without politicians looking the other way or cashing in.. It’s about the machine that protects him.
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For months I've been saying he'll be gone in May. Hope I'm wrong.

Trump’s Divine War: How Christian Nationalists Are Running U.S. Policy in Iran and at Home ScheerPost Staff As the Trump administration deepens U.S. military involvement in Iran alongside Israel, a new The Intercept briefing examines a dimension of the conflict often overlooked in mainst…

How apocalyptic theology, evangelical political networks, and religious-right power structures are shaping decisions from the Pentagon to the campaign trail.

The Quiet Fortune Of NYC’s Top Anti-Tax Democrat A New York City lawmaker standing in the way of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed wealth tax is exploiting a disclosure loophole to obscure her family’s multimillion-dollar fortune.

The speaker of the New York City Council Julie Menin is blocking Mayor Mamdani’s proposed tax increases on the ultra-rich, while hiding her multimillion-dollar fortune from public scrutiny. We can't reign in the oligarchs if we keep electing them. Demanding transparency would be a start.

Wealthy Donors Are Hiding Political Money in Secretive Nonprofits

More news from the party we think is going to save us.

This is important. No Kings proved that yelling at buildings is not enough. We must start inflicting pain on the administration. A one-day general strike is the right first step.

Been On The Job Too Long: workers, jobs, bosses & losses

Music to read the jobs report by

How to Stop the War Against Iran Tell Your Member of Congress, House and Senate, to “Vote NO $$$$$ for War!” Dennis Kucinich Substack Up to 15,000 of the 50,000 American troops in the Middle East region are being posit…

Former House member Dennis Kucinich reminds us to let our representatives know that we want an end to endless wars.

Donald J. Trump Presidential Library - Home Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library. Explore the legacy and achievements of the 45th and 47th President of the United States.

Let the ridicule begin.

Abdul El-Sayed on The Manufactured Smear Campaign Against Hasan Piker and Anti-Genocide Progressives Instead of focusing on criticizing Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the pro-Israel war hawks, corporate and centrist Dems are trying to silence progressive pro-Palestinian voices.

Democratic corporate donors, “centrist” groups like The Third Way, and pro-Israel hawks have spent the past week focused not on Trump, Netanyahu, Tucker Carlson, Peter Thiel, or Nick Fuentes but on one man, progressive influencer Hasan Piker.

Bagley Cartoon: The Dim Bulb at the Start of the Tunnel Check out Pat Bagley's latest cartoon: The Dim Bulb at the Start of the Tunnel

Check out Pat Bagley's latest cartoon: The Dim Bulb at the Start of the Tunnel

Repression in the Classroom - Monthly Review

"The saga of the Cold War years, once seemingly distant, now has lessons that we ignore to our peril."

Ultraleftism Has Never Ended a War How independent mass action — not posturing, purity, or Democratic deference — helped end the Vietnam War

"For too many American leftists today, practical anti-war activism doesn’t seem to expand far beyond performative radicalism, heated rhetoric, and deference politics." #mustread

Massive nationwide protests against Oligarchy and Tyranny in the US, hundreds of thousands took the streets across every major city and everywhere in between. #NoKings #3E #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide #EndOligarchy

The History of Iran and Winston Churchill Exposes How the Past Repeats Itself YouTube video by Novara Media

Some Iranian backstory.

Hope so.

With Everyone Looking for Iran War Off-Ramp, Experts Offer 'Exit Plan' | Common Dreams Experts outline plans to get the US and Iran from falling into a deadly escalation trap.

“The United States and Iran are trapped in a conflict in which each new escalation only deepens a shared, losing predicament... Sooner rather than later, both will confront the urgency of finding an off-ramp.”

U.S. Antitank Mines Discovered in Neighborhood in Iran

Not enough, the deliberate targeting if civilians, now we're dropping cluster bombs, banned by over 100 countries for being cruel and indiscriminate. There is no end to our inhumanity.

In what world are people like Harris, Walz, Klobuchar, Raimondo and Emanuel "next generation"? A gallery of centrist politicians and 1 token social democrat is going to create excitement? Not to undervalue Pritzker, Ossoff, Kelly, Newsom, et al, but it looks like MSNow is a new name for old politics

That’s an excellent question.

"For we went,...despairing/When there was injustice only and no rebellion."

Trump calls the Iran conflict a military operation During remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee, President Trump said that referring to Iran as a “war” is “maybe not a good thing to do,” explaining that “they don’t like the word w...

“Military operation“ is not the proper term for a war that has not been approved by Congress. The proper term is “illegal war.”

Opinion | It’s Not Trump. It’s America.

"The way out of the cycle of failure and betrayal is to shed our illusions, once and for all."