Insane corruption.

And if Lutnick is profiting from the end of tariffs you can bet Trump is getting a taste.

The person negotiating in the Middle East on behalf of the United States does not technically work for the United States.

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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My waking thought this morning was why in the world are we still subsiding fossil fuel companies & why on earth aren't we windfall-taxing the absolute crap out of them? This world is so messed up and there's no planet B. Our leaders are failing us all now & for generations to come #ClimateActionNow

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Wow. SCOTUS’s “shadow docket” was first established to stop the Clean Power Plan.

It’s remarkable how many assaults on democracy, or at least on established process, over the last decade have served to protect fossil-fuel interests from the energy transition.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

If you empower a state enforcement agency to bypass due process, inevitably scumbags will use it for their private beefs. In this case, to persecute their stepmother. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

Textbook authoritarian persecution of political opponents.

Caught in the Crackdown: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled ProPublica and FRONTLINE found more than 300 protesters and bystanders who were arrested on charges like assaulting an immigration agent or interfering with law enforcement. Over and over, the accusat...

NEW: “Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to," Gregory Bovino told Border Patrol officers in 2025.

But a review of hundreds of such arrests shows that charges brought against protesters and bystanders repeatedly fell apart under scrutiny.

w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

Out: Democrat Swalwell drops bid for California governor Rep. Eric Swalwell faced intense pressure to drop his bid for California governor after news outlets reported allegations that he sexually assaulted a former staffer

Breaking: Rep. Eric Swalwell has suspended his campaign for California governor days after two news outlets published explosive allegations of sexual assault and misconduct from four women, including a former staff member. He continued to deny the allegations in an announcement on social media.

The mood has shifted significantly at the appearance of feds below and cops overheard. Five minutes ago, folks were dancing together and getting ice cream from a street vendor

Now everyone’s donning masks and helmets, sharing legal contacts, checking in with each other, prepping for whatever’s next

Melania's statement should seem to make the following fair game for Oversight:
1) How she got an Einstein visa and whether she worked unlawfully
2) Whether DOJ has withheld entire docs or redacted Melania's name, bc Melania assures us she is not covered as a victim

Flea-borne typhus surges across LA County with 90% of cases requiring hospitalization

Los Angeles County is experiencing a record number of flea-borne typhus cases, and nearly 90% of patients have had to be hospitalized.

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Bangladesh conducts emergency measles vaccinations as outbreak kills more than 100 children Bangladesh is conducting emergency measles-rubella vaccinations while trying to contain an ongoing outbreak that has killed more than 100 children.

Bangladesh is conducting emergency measles vaccinations while trying to contain an ongoing outbreak that has killed more than 100 children in less than a month.
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NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.

Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

Elon Musk still sucks at Twitter. But no one has ever made more from fascism. The worst business decision in history turned out to be the world's best investment in fascism.

I don't think it gets talked about enough, but Musk has proven that the most profitable investment a fascist can make is in fascism. So we have to assume he, and other billionaires, will only go bigger next time.

Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca In B.C., Indigenous nations are reclaiming power and wealth for their own citizens—no matter what the neighbours think

This is the best piece I’ve read about it: macleans.ca/society/sena...

So Pam Bondi was pushed out for not dismantling the US justice system fast enough... by the Russian-born Boris Epshteyn, who used to help New Yorkers invest in Moscow, was part of Trump's Russia-linked inner circle in 2016, then was a central Jan 6 figure, indicted for the fake elector scheme. 1/

The Republican regime destroys Iran with bombs & destroys America with budgets.

Republican celebrate kicking 100,000 veterans out of their homes is on brand.

A major U.S. accreditation group — the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) - has removed language from its standards that had urged medical schools to teach about health inequities. The change affects standards for the 2027-2028 academic year.

What this shows is that a staggering 63%(!) of people arrested by ICE in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge (from December through February) had no criminal record at all.

wurman, basically: “just because you can find a bunch of ideological white supremacists trying to redefine the 14th amendment to write ideological racism into its substance doesn’t mean you can’t rely in their arguments to, uh, advance the interests of ideological racists”

Graph of snow water equivalent in the state of Colorado for 2026 relative to climatological statistics since the 1980s. 2026 is current a record low around peak conditions typically in March and April.

When we should be approaching the peak accumulation in snowpack across the West, conditions have instead further rapidly deteriorated.

Another way to look at it: Colorado’s snow water equivalent has already reached a level that wasn’t seen until about a MONTH later in the previous worst record.

US Presidential Party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortality In this observational study, we provide estimates of the impact on the maternal mortality ratio of swings in US aid for family planning and reproductive health driven by changes in the implementation ...

"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births."

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The ppl who deliberately did this to him should be tried for murder.

“Here’s how we can address the price of gasoline…”

“Forget that, when are they gonna build a statue of me?”

And the sycophants laugh and clap like this is the most witty thing they’ve ever heard and not a demented narcissist whose brain is failing in front of them 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Dems Prepare for Trump to Seize Ballots and Interfere in the Midterms ‘Our highest risk in 2026 and potentially in 2028 is the federal government trying to disrupt and undermine our elections,’ says Colorado’s secretary of state.

"Dems Prepare for Trump to Seize Ballots and Interfere in the Midterms"

‘Our highest risk in 2026 and potentially in 2028 is the federal government trying to disrupt and undermine our elections,’ says Colorado’s secretary of state.