Election Live Updates: Virginia Passes New Map, Lifting Democrats’ Midterm Chances

Virginia Passes Gerrymandered House Map, Lifting Democrats’ Midterm Chances www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Reports indicate Elon Musk controls a secretive network of over 90 companies and entities so he can hide how he spends his money.

No wonder he wanted the Trump admin to “look into” the Corporate Transparency Act, which would have regulated those companies.

Fed Pick Faces Skepticism Over Claim of Independence From Trump

NOPE, another compromised choice: Fed Pick Faces Skepticism Over Claim of Independence From Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Won’t Commit to Backing C.D.C. Director’s Vaccine Guidance

Dangerous lunatic: Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Won’t Commit to Backing C.D.C. Director’s Vaccine Guidance www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Superpower Suicide The geopolitics of our moment

“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda.
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Simple answer. No.
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Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

👆 This is the review article. And this 👉 is the paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Biology beats chemistry. 🧬🤜⚗️ Small molecule drugs are yesterday's technology according to new @citeline which shows that biotech drugs now 50.1% of the pipeline after three-decade march.

14m by *2030* is the forecast.

Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”

And .. here come the Freedom of Information Act requests for Kash Patel records

DC watchdog group Democracy Forward has formally requested Patel's calendars & any messages from security detail that include words "drinking", "hungover", "inebriated"

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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

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Gallego: "You said…Trump never demanded you cut interest rates in your job interview. Is that your sworn testimony?"

Warsh: "That is."

Gallego: "Someone here is lying then, it's either you or President Trump."

And the do nothing GOP Congress continues to enable their clearly mentally ill leader to the detriment of not only the US, but the world!

ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve

WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question

WARSH: I believe this body certified the election

WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking

Trump Fed pick grilled for hiding $100 million in holdings and Epstein ties Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) pressed President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Reserve on his financial holdings and ties to Jeffrey Epstein.Fed nominee Kevin Warsh faced questions Tuesday ...

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WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?

KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

Virginia! Today is the last day to vote in the redistricting referendum.

Make sure to vote YES.

You can find your polling location at IWillVote.com/VA.

TODAY: Virginia voters decide a referendum that would allow the redrawing of Congressional lines

It could swing four U.S. House seats in Virginia from red-to-blue next year

Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

trump and republicans making america great again by... cutting cancer research:

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FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic claiming false reporting about drinking, absences FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and its ​reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick following the publication of an article on Friday alleging the director had a drinking probl...

If I represented the Atlantic, I’d lock in the earliest deposition date on the calendar. Call Patel’s bluff. He has zero interest in putting any of this under oath.

April Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker

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

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I am in Barcelona today to help unite progressive parties from around the world in a defense of democracy and a war against corruption. A first of its kind event. Necessary to beat back the forces of fascism.

Opinion | My Wife Is 85. She Takes My Breath Away.

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Opinion | My Wife Is 85. She Takes My Breath Away.

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Effect of ‘gamechanger’ Alzheimer’s drugs ‘trivial’, review concludes Data assessed from 17 clinical trials of anti-amyloid drugs found no ‘meaningful effect’ on cognitive decline

“Drugs..hailed as gamechanger for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease make no noticeable difference to patients, according to an extensive review.. analysis.:found the effects of anti-amyloid drugs on cognition & dementia severity over 18 months were “trivial”

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MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol?

These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes

WOW: Elizabeth Warren exposes INSANE billionaire tax breaks under Trump YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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I'm helping to lead a group of Senate Democrats who are planning to force a vote - every single week the Senate is in session - to end the war in Iran. We have that right under the Senate rules, and we are going to keep putting Republicans on record supporting this insane war.