NEW: The Trump administration has cut more than 4,000 employees from some of the nation’s top law-enforcement agencies, even as it vowed to crack down on crime, according to ​records obtained by Reuters.

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'The Rich Don't Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?' Why petty theft might be the new political protest. April 22, 2026, 11:00 a.m. ET By Nadja Spiegelman, Hasan Piker and Jia Tolentino Produced by Vishakha Darbha OPINION 「y Ax 山

I think that we should simply run on prosecuting the rich for their crimes instead of creating a low trust society that will sow the seeds for further fascism

Two Iranian Women in ICE Detention Are Not, In Fact, Related to Qasem Soleimani, Documents Show After Laura Loomer pointed to two women she claimed were connected to the late Iranian military commander, they were arrested and remain in immigration detention. One is now gravely ill.

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani.

Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

People sleeping outside on benches and going to the bathroom on the sidewalk are problems of the social safety net failing and it is so much cheaper and easier to just expand the safety net than to punish people who fell through it.

Trump administration flies 10-year-old back from Cuba amid custody fight President Trump's Department of Justice sent a plane this week to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah who is at the center of a custody fight involving the child's gender identity.

President Trump's Department of Justice sent a plane this week to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah who is at the center of a custody fight involving the child's gender identity. n.pr/4vKe8jZ

America is witnessing firsthand how Trump bankrupted so many of his own companies.

Great new stat from @senatebudget.bsky.social: of the $140 billion that Trump & Republicans gave ICE & CBP in the Big Beautiful Bill, $103 billion is still unobligated as of the end of March.

Now they’re asking for another $70 billion even though about 75% of the OBBBA money still remains unused.

Trump‘s megabill gives billions to ICE — but hiring 10,000 new agents won't be easy The agency has historically struggled to fill open positions — and more money won't necessarily solve the problem.

This isn't some big mystery. I called this back in July 2025, right after the OBBB became law.

Not bc I was some sort of seer, bc but we already had evidence, under Trump 1.0, that ICE and CBP struggle to scale up quickly.

Too many ppl ignored that history in a panic.

Classic fascism failure mode.

Everyone is busy protecting their status/turf/projects that collective focus is lost, and competent people are undermined, or torpedoed.

Phelan’s firing comes after a rocky tenure under Hegseth and Feinberg, including tension over Phelan’s close relationship with President Trump, according to three people familiar with the internal discussions. Phelan regularly chats with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club, just down the street from his own Florida home, and told lawmakers last year that he texts with the president about shipbuilding in the middle of the night. The top Pentagon leaders were particularly annoyed last fall when Phelan pitched the idea for a modern battleship directly to Trump, bypassing Hegseth, the people said. 

According to the WSJ, Hegseth abruptly fired the Navy Secretary in the middle of a crucial wartime naval blockade because he was jelly of his closeness with Trump. These are the dumbest, most embarrassing, childish nitwits alive - and they are in charge of the world's most monumental military might.

You muppets, you can't convince Quebec to give back the apostrophe S's they stripped off every store in the 70's that they've got stored in a secret warehouse in Ville St. Laurent, they're certainly not going to give up a ban on US liquor because it hurt your fucking Yankee feelings.

Senate GOP is kickstarting budget reconciliation to fund ICE. Here's how that works. After a historic partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, Congressional Republicans are looking to a budgetary tool called reconciliation which could enable them to fund immigration enforcement agencies without any Democratic support.

After a historic partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, Congressional Republicans are looking to a budgetary tool called reconciliation which could enable them to fund immigration enforcement agencies without any Democratic support. n.pr/3QqQAk7

13k (announced) last night in Harrison
7k in the Bronx.

Woof.

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

Trump admin agrees to pay $1.25M to 2016 Trump adviser over surveillance DOJ OK'd the settlement with Carter Page, but he could still press claims against ex-officials.

A new wholly corrupt settlement handing your money to Trump cronies.

It’s notable for several reasons:

/1

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Meta is tracking employee keystrokes on Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia as part of AI training initiative As part of an AI initiative that tracks employee keystrokes and mouse clicks, Meta is monitoring use of popular sites like Google, LinkedIn and Wikipedia.

Meta is hoovering up data to train its AI agents by tracking employees' keystrokes and interactions w/ sites & apps including Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Atlassian's Jira and 100s more. Scoop w/ @jonathanvanian.bsky.social @cnbc.com - yes, ChatGPT was on the list. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/22/m...

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—

AOC: Wah wah wah.

We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.

What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Study of the Heads of Two Old Men, by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th c, 📸 by @adampantozzi

RFK Jr: This is not a problem that was created by the Trump administration or the big beautiful bill

KAINE: Not in Virginia. All three of the hospitals cited the reconciliation bill for the closures

Interior Department crafted talking points for public lands sell-off agenda - High Country News The agency’s leadership distanced itself from the controversial proposal even though staff helped research public-land sales.

The Trump admin and Sen. Mike Lee are conspiring to destroy public lands for short term profit. Teddy Roosevelt is rolling in his grave.
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What is May Day Strong, the ‘no work, no school, no shopping’ protests against Trump? Day of action to support workers set for 1 May – who is organizing May Day Strong, and how can people join?

A single-day protest on May 1 is taking its cue from the massive day of action that shut down Minneapolis in January by asking Americans not to shop, work or go to school

Clearing Strait of Hormuz of mines could take 6 months, Pentagon tells Congress The Pentagon assessment, shared in a classified briefing for lawmakers, suggests gasoline and oil prices could remain elevated through the midterm elections.

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More Socialism that MAGA voted for.👇

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

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

COONS: Why is it a good idea to relieve sanctions on Iranian and Russian oil?

BESSENT: The $14 billion number is a DNC talking point

COONS: I am not the DNC. I'm the senator from Delaware

setting aside the whole "putting all the men in front" thing, seven of the 11 women in this photo are from a foreign country here on a student visa, the very kind the Trump administration is trying to eliminate

VAN HOLLEN: What you've done is prove a windfall to very wealthy people who don't pay taxes

BESSENT: Why would I do that? What's your theory of the case?

VAN HOLLEN: Because this administration time after time has tiled the tax code in favor of very wealthy people

There's a very easy way to end all of this gerrymandering: Congress can pass a law outlawing it. And Democrats have repeatedly proposed exactly that. Republicans have uniformly rejected these proposals every single time.

LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America


SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours