i know we're all anti-WH correspondents dinner, but man it seems like a missed opportunity if the atlantic doesn't invite director patel to some open-bar events

The Trump-appointed chairman of the panel approving his planned fascist arch turns out to be an architect who restores palaces in Russia, lectures in Russia, and publishes in Russia: Rodney Mims Cook Jr., son of a famous GA politician, now a cartoonishly pretentious monument builder. 1/

1) Influential right-wing figures say "they're the enemy, hate them" using lies, cherry-picks, and exaggerations

2) Followers believe them, get increasingly riled up

3) "The people don't trust the institutions, it's the institutions' fault"

4) Repeat 1

Worked on elections, higher ed, and more.

A stack of chinos in different colors.

Someone asked if I could tell them where to buy a pair of good chinos. In this thread, I will tell you, but my answer is not simple. On the upside, I think this is a better approach when shopping for clothes and you can apply it to any kind of item. 🧵

There is no justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth at the very top. It’s distorting our politics, rigging our markets and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.

This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win

All You Had to Do Was Pay Us Enough to Live The Kimberly-Clark warehouse fire isn’t just a crime story. It’s an economic injustice story. And corporate America wrote every word of it

Chamel Abdul-Karim allegedly burned $750M in property

Had Kimberly-Clark paid its 38K employees enough to live, it would've cost $750M—still leaving them with ~$2B profit

Abdul-Karim's violence is criminalized—but corporate economic violence is praised. Receipts
www.qasimrashid.com/p/all-you-ha...

Trump Chill Hits World Cup Demand as Panicked Hotels Slash Rates FIFA has canceled thousands of reserved rooms in host cities across the country.

FIFA canceled thousands of World Cup hotel rooms as panicked U.S. hotels slash rates, blaming a "Trump chill" from surging anti-American sentiment.

Holy shit. I don’t have words for how corrupt this is. Keep in mind, the Ukraine whistleblower is still anonymous. And Gabbard kept a whistleblower report from Congress about a call between foreign intel agents discussing someone close to Trump and Iran. @andrewbakaj.bsky.social

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC.

Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

Despite Israel’s genocide—these 7 Democratic Senators voted AGAINST a resolution to block sale of weapons to Israel
🔵Blumenthal (CT)
🔵Coons (DE)
🔵Cortez-Masto (NV)
🔵Fetterman (PA)
🔵Gillibrand (NY)
🔵Rosen (NV)
🔵Schumer (NY)
Vote these 7 fascists out. A record 40 Dems voted to block. Vote failed 59-40

Experts estimate that the IRS stands to lose up to $479 billion over the next decade as immigrants face deportation and disengage from the formal economy. https://wapo.st/4vvl1pj

The only bright side of the DOJ's disgusting effort to vacate the convictions of the Proud Boys who led the Jan 6 Capitol attack (they weren't pardoned, just commuted): now they can all be subpoenaed to testify and can't plead the 5th anymore. They'd have to talk. 1/

Live: Smith holding Senate floor to oppose measure opening mining near the Boundary Waters If passed, the legislation would head to President Donald Trump’s desk for a signature.

The Senate’s final vote on repealing the ban on mining near the Boundary Waters has been scheduled for Thursday morning. Sen. Tina Smith is expected to continue speaking then.

NEW: The Justice Department has moved to erase the seditious conspiracy convictions of the key Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders who played central roles in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — including Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, Joe Biggs, etc.

www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans, per MorePerfectUnion

Offshore Accounts For Me, TurboTax For Thee While shutting down free direct filing for everyday taxpayers, the IRS is letting the ultrawealthy hide billions of dollars in foreign accounts.

🚨YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: IRS data show 164 taxpayers with an average unreported foreign account balance of $1.3 billion were identified for examination - but only 12 were audited.

The agency didn't do more audits even after they discovered $39 million of taxes owed among the 12.

Keep fighting

This is good, but remember Jones has taken payment from Russia before. And Putin is pretty done with Trump and ready to move on to JD Vance. If you want to know if Alex Jones and MTG are authentic or paid here, watch for if they start praising Vance.

Jumping ship and getting ready to get behind JD?

JD is getting ready to take over

Trump wants $200 billion for bombs. Here's what that could buy instead. 7 years of free school lunches. 3 years of Medicare dental coverage. 2,000 Trump heads on Mt. Rushmore.

200 years of free New York City buses. Refund 70 percent of the tariffs the Treasury Department collected illegally. Restore Trump’s cuts to clean energy projects, 6 times over. 247 Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus. 1.4 billion pairs of Florsheim dress shoes.

Is it happening again?

It hasn't gotten enough attention that Trump, Homan, and Duffy have all confirmed there's a plan in the works to have armed ICE agents at airports *tomorrow.* Words fail to describe how stupid this is. Let's hope more people aren't disappeared or killed.

Democrats have offered to pay the salaries — fully fund, no conditions — for TSA.

It’s Republicans who keep blocking that.

“It’s not about stopping non-citizens from voting. It’s about stopping citizens from voting.” @merkley.senate.gov on the SAVE America Act as the Senate heads into a weekend session to vote on it.

In a plea deal in 2024, Smirnov admitted that he had not only completely fabricated the Biden-Burisma connection but that it was conjured with the assistance of at least four Russian officials.

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The Constitution protects the acts of naming federal law enforcement agents and documenting how they behave on the streets. Under no circumstances should Congress grant this administration new legal weapons to use against Americans who do either of those things.