‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facility A hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th.

www.pennlive.com/news/2026/04...

Putin must be so proud of himself for the impact he has had on the U.S.

A demonstration at the Dilley Concentration Camp in Texas. Children and families have been imprisoned in the concentration camp in Texas for months, and all they’ve experienced is abuse, neglect, mistreatment, undrinkable water and moldy food. #SHUTDOWNDILLEY

Credit: @mommmaliz.bsky.social

It’s remarkable how many commenters don’t get that fighting fascism is a global issue, not just a local one.

Hungary under Orban was funding fascism in the US via CPAC. Do you see how this works?

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

Kash Patel's erratic behavior at the FBI could cost him his job.

His colleagues describe unexplained absences and excessive drinking, which have alarmed colleagues and his security detail.

Sources describe Patel's tenure as a management failure and his behavior a national security vulnerability.

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

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

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

Toyota's new luxury EV in China receives over 3,000 orders in 1 hour after launching for $22,000 The bZ7, Toyota’s new flagship EV in China, may be its most advanced vehicle yet. After launching for under $22,000,...

Meanwhile in China...

Unfortunately, he can. ICE already has enough funding to do that.

Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.

Let’s talk about who’s WEAK on crime.👇

Dozens of Jan 6 defendants pardoned by *TRUMP had prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking. -NPR

The President wants to illegally take over America’s central bank. YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

The President wants to illegally take over America’s central bank.

There should be no Senate hearing on his Fed Chair nominee.

ICE Concentration camps; though privately owned; are still under Congressional Oversight.
Now, after DOZENS of Deaths, Congressman are showing up unannounced to inspect.
One congressperson found conditions that he described as Squalid and Filthy.
Worse than MAX Prisons.

Less than three hours after the polls closed, Viktor Orban conceded that he lost. Five years after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he still falsely claims that he won.

Tomorrow, I offer my analysis of what this means for the midterms. Subscribe now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera . ALT: an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera .

I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

“Hi, I’m one of Congressmember X’s constituents. Trump has threatened to commit war crimes. X has a constitutional responsibility to impeach him and to call for the 25th amendment to be invoked. I’m calling on him/her to do his/her job and publicly demand this madman be removed from office.”

If I lived in Lebanon, this would make me very nervous. Netanyahu has a clear incentive to provoke Iran to pull out of the ceasefire by attacking Lebanon again. Netanyahu always prioritizes himself over the lives of innocent civilians.

This is so well done. 👌

It’s not all about age. Hakeem Jeffries is pretty young and he’s ineffective. Nancy Pelosi on the other hand was extremely effective, even when she got old.

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

I don’t particularly like him but I like lying (as in the OP) even less.

You’re completely intellectually dishonest. He didn’t dismiss anything. He’s saying it goes BEYOND being illegal to being immoral and wrong.

They are sheep.

Complete mischaracterization of what he said. But you probably know that.

I call them Reichmobiles.

“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young representative named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Devastating.

Normalizing corruption. Yet another reason, I’m glad I no longer subscribe to the @nytimes.com

We need to know how much energy data centers use – and if YOU are subsidizing the costs of Big Tech companies.

Making this data public is the bare minimum.